Nebraska

The LIncoln Memorial Abraham's LIfe Boom! the sound of a gunshot echoed through the theatre. The next morning Abraham LIncoln was dead. Abraham was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. When young Abraham was nine years old, tremetol (milk sickness) at the age of 34. The event was devastating on him He walked away from his father and resented the hard work placed on him at a young age. A few months later abraham's dad married Sarah Bush Johnston, a Kentucky…

Mindy Phan 278716 August 25, 2014 Civil War Journal Based on Seth Graham-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter People of the Civil War 1. Sec. of State William Seward Because of his prominence and support in the Republican Party, William Seward earned his position as the nation’s Secretary of State from 1861-1869, under Abraham Lincoln. William possessed the trait as an active abolitionist and contributed to the abolishment of slavery. In Maryland, he gave his overt suggestion to Abraham…

How does latitude affect where people live? Latitude affects climate and climate can affect where you live and how much food grows, water, weather and much more.The farther you live north and the farther you live south it gets colder. The closer to the equator you are the warmer your climate will be. That can affect where you live by how much food you grow. If you live closer to the equator you will most likely be able to grow more food than people that live farther away from the equator. In…

Before cotton, there was hemp Hemp was first planted in Kentucky in 1775. Then in 1790, after it was advertised for the first time in local papers, the hemp industry in Kentucky flourished, making it the hemp capital for the next 100 years. In 1835, Missouri also began cultivating hemp, and by 1840, the state produced over 12,000 tons. Missouri State Guardsmen even wore mobile breastworks made of hemp, and went on to defeat the Union troops during the Civil War. Growth continued until the…

This picture illustrates blacks and their hardship to get into the war. Dr. Suess shows a maze with an entrance for the black and unemployed with the enlisting site in the center, UC San Diego Library on June 26, 1942. African American men tried to enter the second world war, while they had their own problems with racism and freedom against discrimination. They sought to escape their usual ways of poverty and struggles of everyday life. Richard Dalfiume wrote in his 1968 book about the…

Becoming a Melting Pot is a story about the civil war of USA, the North (Union) against the South (Confederacy). There was a time when immigrants from other countries enter to the USA, but not all of the new American people were treated equally because there were Americans who don’t treated people fairly because if there were black people they don’t were treated as white people, some people, or they were treated bad because the country in which they were from like were from Asia and Europe. So…

Arapaho Indians The Arapaho Indians were established in the 1850s.Since 1878, the Eastern Shoshone, people lived there.The Arapaho Indians lived in the Eastern Shoshone.The Eastern Shoshone was by the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.The Arapaho Tribe spoke in the Algonquian language. The Arapaho Indians ate every animal they saw to stay alive.The weapons they used were bows,arrows,stone ball clubs,jaw bone…

Political parties formed, disbanded and evolved into something more following the Constitutional Convention. Every couple of years there is an emergence of new political parties as well as the downfall of other political parties. In Washington 's Farewell Address, he advised not to split up into political parties because he believed it would cause an irreparable divide in the county (Washington 's Farewell Address). Due to the fact that no one heeded his advice and allowed a political agenda to…

When the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, it was already understood that slavery was an issue with the potential to tear the new republic apart. At the convention, with the three-fifths compromise a precedent of compromise was established. Over the next half century, every time the nation was faced with controversy over the “peculiar institution” the proverbial can was kicked down the road by Congressional compromises between the northern states where…

permanent…”(Flannigan) forced readers to make a choice. The story is about the choices that were made and the impact it had on the characters. Aunt Georgiana had a love for music, but when she fell in love with a man that lived on the frontier of Nebraska, she was forced to choose between leading a life in the city with music and culture, or leaving to marry and create a new life with a small town farmer. She chose to leave her life and start a new one, knowing that the life she would now…