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2 giorni fa · Powerful industrialists, such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould, known collectively by their critics as "robber barons", held great wealth and power, so much so that in 1888 Rutherford B. Hayes noted in his diary that the United States ceased being a government for the people and had been replaced by a "government ...
19 apr 2024 · Abolitionism, movement between about 1783 and 1888 that was chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. Between the 16th and 19th centuries an estimated total of 12 million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
20 apr 2024 · Immigration from Italy and the rest of Europe began in the 1950s, continued for 50 years, and is known as the second wave of European immigration. America was not even 100 years old yet in 1850!
1 mag 2024 · Benz’s journey and legacy. In August 1888 Bertha Benz and her sons, Eugen, age 15, and Richard, age 13, set out in Karl’s motorized vehicle without his knowledge. She left a note for him on the dining table, stating that she and their sons were going to visit her mother in Pforzheim.
22 apr 2024 · Henry Ford was one of eight children of William and Mary Ford. He was born on the family farm near Dearborn, Michigan, then a town eight miles west of Detroit. Abraham Lincoln was president of the 24 states of the Union, and Jefferson Davis was president of the 11 states of the Confederacy. Ford attended a one-room school for eight years when ...
28 apr 2024 · Index. v. t. e. The civil rights movement (1865–1896) aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities, and establish their electoral power, just after the abolition of slavery in the United States.
2 giorni fa · The American Revolution (1775–1783) inaugurated the inalienable rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", which emphasize individual freedom and economic entrepreneurship, and simultaneously a commitment to the political values of liberalism and republicanism, which emphasize natural rights, equality under the law for all ...
