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As the Civil War entered its final stages John Wilkes Booth and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond, the confederate capital. On March 20,1865 the day of the planned kidnapping, Lincoln failed to show. Booth then plotted the assassination of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and William Seward. Booth believed that killing the president and two of his possible successors would throw the Us government into disarray. On April 14, 1865 Lincoln was to attend…

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. At birth, Poe had been cursed. “He was the son of itinerant actors, and his father abandoned his english-born mother when Poe was 18 months old. His mother died on tour in Richmond, Virginia (Amper).…

The sit-in participants, Ezell Blair, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, NC. (History.com Staff). Even though the participants were only college students they still made a huge difference in the civil rights movement. The Greensboro Sit-In participants…

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts to actors Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins and David Poe. Wealthy merchant Frances and John Allan took in Poe to Richmond, Virginia after his parents' death. He traveled with them to England where Poe attended school in Chelsea, but then went back to Richmond and attended the University of Virginia and studied Latin and poetry. Poe started writing poetry and short stories that were thrilling and reflected his own tragedy life. He…

In August of 1861, President Lincoln signed the 1st Confiscation Act formalizing to some degree Butler’s contraband argument by authorizing the United States army to seize any slave used to aid the Confederate military. This however did not resolve the ambiguity of the status of the majority of enslaved people who now numbered in the thousands in and around Union army camps. The decision as to whether these people were free, property of the army, or to be returned to their masters was…

Attraction of immigrants can be understood by push and pull factors. Push factors are factors that are forcing them away from their home country. This could be war, political, poverty, no educational/employment opportunities. And the pull factors are the attraction of immigration city. The attraction could be policies, family, lifestyle, education/employment that pulls immigrants towards country and city could have. Usually these pull factors allow the immigrant to have a better life. Countries…

assistant surgeon in the army. A year later dressed in full uniform, she accidentally walked into a group of Rebel soldiers south of the Georgia-Tennessee border. The Rebels commanding officer, General Daniel Harvey Hill, ordered her to be sent to Richmond as a prisoner. After several months she was released, and she quickly returned to Washington. In fall of 1864, she received a contract as an acting assistant surgeon with the Ohio 52nd Infantry (Walker, 2001). Mary began supervising a…

After listening to “Contested Landscape” podcast by Backstory, my view of the Confederate flag has changed. I used to view it as a harmless symbol of the South’s past. Movies from Hollywood such as, Gone with the Wind, contributed to this naive and innocent ideology. I did not realize the negative impact it has had over time. This paper will address three reasons why I would vote to remove a Confederate monument in my town’s museum. These three reasons are: it promotes racial hatred, it…

By ending legal segregation and robbing it of its moral legitimacy, the case of Brown v. Board showed Black Americans that the law was on their side, encouraging future progress for the civil rights movement. The first political cartoon offered by the module is from the Chronicle and it connects the case of Brown v. Board to Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the confederate states during the civil war. Remarking similarly, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights…

devoted to improving air quality and public health to all Bay Area citizens. Communities in the SF Bay Area that have the highest health risk from air pollution are Concord, Eastern San Francisco, Western Alameda County, Redwood City/East Palo Alto, Richmond/San Pablo, and San Jose. Several pollutant types and sources are harmful to health in the Bay Area. Toxic air contaminants (TAC) contribute to many short-term and long-term health effects including eye and throat irritation, neurological…