Harriet Beecher Stowe

Even when she was overcome with private responsibilities, Anthony read, developed feminist reasoning, and composed impressive addresses for the women’s movement (Kendall, n.d.). When she was at death’s door, Anthony stated that she had endeavored for over sixty years for just a little bit of fairness, yet never retrieved it. Anthony would often display her logic when debating or speaking to people. When an abolitionist clergyman told Anthony that because she had never been in matrimony, she had…

The civil war was one of the most intense and destructive wars the U.S have ever experienced, the war left over 640,000 soldiers dead, 476,000 wounded and 400,000 missing, this resulting in about 2% of the population dead. Whilst the war brought violence and destruction it also resolved two important questions that were unable to be resolved by the revolution these include; weather the United States was going to be made up of many independent states or a united nation with an independent…

school system continued to grow in popularity over the time period. It established different departments for ethnic groups, such as the German Department. These were added to help educate the immigrants that came to the city. In 1914, the Harriet Beecher Stowe School was established. This school was organized by an African American school teacher. It was a segregated school for African Americans (The Early History,…

Franklin Pierce, a Democrat, took office. Another event that took place in 1852 was the publishing of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is a 19th century novel about anti-slavery. It is said that this novel “helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War”, claims Will Kaufman. The production of this novel also further strained the sectional tensions. Two years later, the…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” defines her own life through nineteenth century psychology and women’s rights. In the works of many authors, we can see a reflection of their character or hobbies. The heroine Jane embodies the writer herself through different stages of her life. Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses a collection of literary techniques to convey the critical state of the protagonist. Firstly, the setting and the symbols in the novelle help create a rather creepy mood.…

The Compromise of 1850 & Turbulent 50's The Compromise of 1850 started with Henry Clay. Henry Clay presented a compromise to Congress on January 29, 1850. The issue and subsequent compromise were debated over this issue for 8 months prior by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the assistance of Stephen Douglas, several bills were passed to get the compromise through Congress. There were several issues…

John Brown devised a plan to incite a slave rebellion in the Appalachian Mountains, arming slaves as they were freed and pushing on to free more men, the army of former slaves growing drastically as it rolled along (Stoddard and Murphy, 15). Slave rebellions had failed miserably in the past, but Brown's idea of properly arming the slaves gave some abolitionists the idea that it could work. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a group of twenty-two men into Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, to…

Land, the vast expanse of rocks and dirt that humans have fought and killed over since the first man claimed a cave of his own. Throughout the ages land has held the keys to the survival of the human race within its soil, water, and other essential elements. During the romantic era the American Dream was to own land. This is proved by looking through the historical lens in Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell in which the Civil War has destroyed the southern way of life, forcing the…

Tensions grew even higher than before after the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published in 1852. A woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of the book and was against slavery. Her book was and was about the life of a slave. The book showed the cruelty of slavery and the mistreatment of slaves in the south. The South was enraged about how the book described…

As Foote says, the “cotton capitalists” of the South at first believed that their interests were the same as “capitalists in general”; however, “anti-slavery and pro-tariff agitation was beginning to teach them otherwise” (10). In 1832, Southern protests over the tariff issue caused the state of South Carolina to threaten to secede from the Union. The state government instituted an “Ordinance of Nullification,” which was based on the view that an individual state has the right to refuse to…