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During the 20th century, the industrial revolution had three positive effects on the economy. the three important reasons are new technology, transportation, and the assembly line. During the 20th century many things changed for better. Some improvements and inventions changed the way people live and work, others just made things more efficient such as the assembly line invented in 1913 by Henry Ford. Other new technology such as the maxim gun invented by Hiram Maxim in 1884. This invention was…

Anne Hutchinson- she disagreed with most ministers in New England that thought that good deeds were how to reach salvation. her idea was that one has to ignore the fake prophets of someone’s behavior to see the inside of them and to find salvation. with only two from all the colonies ministers being saved, she influenced people to question the qualifications of them. these followers were called Antinomians, taking up half of people in Massachusetts Bay. her and all her followers were…

New war machines devised to kill men in the most gruesome ways. Men ignorantly joined believing war was a light hearted affair with good intentions but in fact they were barbaric. War was no longer rows of men firing muskets that took a long time to load. War was in fact now a machines, a world of twisted metal gears grinding, mortars that splintered men and made them into earth, and toxic gas that fell to the bottom of melting lungs, machine guns that ripped apart ignorance…

Submarines also played an instrumental part in the Civil War. The need for them predominantly came about because Union warships would patrol the seas and formed a blockade of Confederate ships, which were coming with guns, gunpowder and shipbuilding materials for the Confederate soldiers. One of these ports was Charlestown, which was a major hub of trade (Walker 6). The Confederate soldiers needed to open up Charleston but they didn't have ships to go head on with the stronger and better-made…

until 1793. In 2013 a developer by the name of Harvey Booth, after purchasing a lot on which the fort stood, started to try and uncover myths about some treasure Fort Crawford may have had at the time it collapsed in 1793. Booth found nothing but musket balls and dozens of arrowheads. The land is currently vacant but has the potential to be developed if someone wishes to do so. In that area there is a small monument to the old fort giving and explanation of what it was (see picture 1). There was…

Theresa Mossholder Ainesworth Clark AAST/HIST 263 February 11, 2017 America: Home of the Oppressed Martin R. Delany and Frederick Douglass are both abolitionists born in the early 1800s. They were colored men raised during a time when the Negro had to fight for his freedom. While Delany was born a free man in Charlestown West Virginia (Virginia at the time), Douglass was born a slave, however he escaped to Massachusetts in 1838. Delany moved to Pittsburgh at the age of 19 where he attended high…

When one hears the name “Ethan Allen”, several images may come to mind. Perhaps the most common, although a little disappointing, is of course the furniture company. Ask a Vermonter, or a scholar of American history, and they might respond with “forts, patriots, green mountain boys” - all allusions to this man’s illustrious past. A past wrought with gunpowder and bloodshed, and a lifetime spent questioning just about every semblance of authority that Allen encountered. Perhaps what is most…

The Ineffective Gun Control Laws in The United States Compared to other economically similar countries, the United States has one of the highest firearm assault ratings in the world. The longer the US keeps things the way they are the more people 's lives are at risk. Thousands of people die every year due to gun violence, this should be reason enough to change the on going problem. A common argument is “guns don 't kill people, people kill people”. Admittedly people do bear some…

his freedom by force. On August 21, 1831, Turner and his accomplices killed his master’s family as they lay sleeping. From there, the small band of about 70 slaves moved from house to house, eventually killing over 50 whites with clubs, knives and muskets. It took a militia force to put down the rebellion, and Turner and 55 other slaves were captured and executed by the state. It Impacted the whole region, after Nat Turner’s revolt, around 200 slaves were eventually killed by white mobs and…

On the night of December 16, 1773, one of America’s biggest acts of rebellion took place: The Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is one of those topics that’s been heard in just about every history class. It’s mainly seen as a story in which a group of colonists decide to gather together and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. But really, it 's much more significant than that. It was the event that unified Americans against British taxation and made them realize the true oppression…