The Caning of Charles Sumner involved Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner and it affected the North, South, and Washington, D.C. The Caning of Charles Sumner was the barbarous beating of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks after he denounced the South in his ardent speech called “The Crime Against Kansas”. The attack was bewildering to Northerners; Charles Sumner was a senator from Massachusetts, which fueled tension from the North. Northerners believed that Brooks should have been sent to prison after the gruesome beating Sumner received. Yet, he was only charged a fine, which furthered the North’s denouncing of the South. Similarly to the North, the beating was quite a baffling offence to Southerners. Yet, it was rightful accepted since Sumner
After the Civil War, Rutherford B. Hayes was president and he promised to remove the last federal soldiers from the south. This act lead to the KKK (Ku-Klux-Klan) outbreak of violence. In Document B, Colby,a former slave who was elected to the Georgia State Legislature during Reconstruction, was kidnapped and whipped for three hours or more and left him for dead. This states that the South killed Reconstruction because of the outbreak of the KKK. Another piece of evidence is in Document A, Tourgee, served as a judge during Reconstruction and wrote this letter to the Northern Carolina Republican Senator, Joseph Carter Abbott. He informs him that their friend John W. Stephens, state senator from casswell, is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux-Klan in the Grand Jury room of the Courthouse, he was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room. This also
In the Story “The Rise of Silas Lapham,” written by William Dean Howells, Silas’s desire to conform to the standards of society is the root of his company’s downfall but the rise of his understanding and morals. The society Silas is trying to feel accepted by is very judgmental and vain and do not care about others therefore making it very tough for the Laphams to be accepted or even feel somewhat normal where they are living. Persis is a significant character in the novel because in the end she is why Silas does the things he does because she bestowed good morals in him. The last attempts to fit in with the community is the building and destruction of the house. These are all very significant events to the story leading up to Silas last decisions.
The American Revolutionary War was the time in which the thirteen colonies finally declared their independence from Britain and were ready to fight for that independence. Joseph Plum Martin was a soldier for the Continental Army for eight years during the American Revolutionary War which spanned from 1775-1783. These years did not treat the lower class of the colonies, including Joseph Plumb Martin, very well. However, unlike many other colonists during this time period, Martin knew what he was fighting for in that long and rigorous war. He started in the army with a certain perspective of what it would be like and reason for being present there. However throughout the course of the war many things changed, and no longer did Martin fight for
Colin G. Calloway’s The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America is a well researched, effective, and a creative story of North America during the year 1763. Calloway narrates his way through the year 1763 and talks about the effects on American History as a result of the Treaty of Paris 1763. The story illuminates the themes of racism, gender, and republicanism. Calloway has interesting techniques to approach important topics to show the topics significance. His book is very well researched and he cites a lot of different reliable sources to help make understanding the time period easier.
During the early to the mid-19th century, politics had become barbarian like, as it can be seen as a war zone. The arguments between the North and the south had grew, which would continue to separate them farther, and even farther apart. The Civil war was beginning to take shape, and every time a compromise was drawn, the war came closer to the present. For the longest time, slaves would run to the north to seek freedom from their masters, but it also came with a cost that, if they were caught they would have to deal with the punishments, and the wrath of their master. Though as the war grew closer, by the 1850, running away through the underground rail road would no longer be a very viable option due to the fugitive slave law that was put out in the 1850’s. Though the government issued the personal liberty laws that stated that they would not have to report any runaway slaves that they have seen. This made tensions between the North and the South even greater than before which would then bring us to the Civil war.
middle of paper ... ... Violence also erupted in Congress. The abolitionist senator Charles Sumner delivered a fiery speech called "The Crime Against Kansas," in which he accused proslavery senators, particularly Atchison and Andrew Butler of South Carolina, of [cavorting with the] "harlot, Slavery."
Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." Franklin, Wayne, Phillip F. Gura and Arnold Krupat. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007. 147-158.
In the novel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, the salad bar prank was mean spirited and an embarrassing to the Alabaster. The salad bar prank was a prank planned by Frankie, but executed by the Basset Hounds, a secret all male society on campus. However, the Basset Hounds are under the impression their leader, Alpha, is planning the pranks, when in reality Frankie is. Before the salad bar prank, she was the mastermind behind the library lady prank, doggies in the window prank, and night of a thousand dogs prank. The salad bar prank consisted of convincing all of the students to support a healthy eating day, to raise awareness of their gross salad bar. ** The prank was mean spirited because in the process, they embarrassed an
The Compromise of 1850 was successful in the sense that it solved some crises and delayed the outbreak of war. On the surface, the admission of California was the incident that sparked the conflict. Admitting California as a free state would destroy the delicate sectional balance that was crucial to the South. The compromise solved this problem by allowing California to come into the Union as a free state, but the people of New Mexico and Utah would have the right to decide by popular sovereignty whether they would be free or in slavery. Since this idea seemed to go along with democratic idealism, people were able to accept it. The compromise also solved some other problems. “The Untied States paid Texas $10 million in compensation for the
The original trials of the Scottsboro Boys, presided by Judge Hawkins, were unfair. Haywood Patterson wrote that as he and the Boys were herded into the Scottsboro courthouse by the National Guard, a horde of white men, women, and children had gathered outside, ready to lynch them. He “heard a thousand times… ‘We are going to kill you niggers!’” (Patterson 21). The atmosphere around the courthouse on the day of the trials was like Barnum and Bailey’s and the Ringling Brother’s...
In Puritan led Massachusetts Bay Colony during the days of Anne Hutchinson was an intriguing place to have lived. It was designed ideally as a holy mission in the New World called the “city upon a hill,” a mission to provide a prime example of how protestant lives should have subsisted of. A key ingredient to the success of the Puritan community was the cohesion of the community as a whole, which was created by a high level of conformity in the colony. Puritan leaders provided leadership for all facets of life; socially, economically, religiously, and even politically. A certain hierarchy was very apparent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in which ministers always seemed to have gotten their way. Governor Winthrop got his way in 1637 by banishing a woman, Anne Hutchinson, whom he thought posed a threat to the structure of the colony. I believe that there is a legit rationale for her banishment, this being her religious ideas that were very close to that of the Antinomians who Governor Winthrop was not too fond of. I also think that this was not the primal reason. In my mind, Anne’s gender played a large role in determining whether or not she actually posed a serious threat to the solidarity of Massachusetts.
In chapter 5 of The other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, both protagonist are encountered with being taken out of their environment. In the 5th chapter the author Wes was sent to military school and the other Wes is arrested after shooting a “jump off's cousin”(105-106). For Wes being taken out of his loose Bronx environment and being put into a strict military environment drove him crazy. The insanity Wes faced can be attributed to the apparent structure the military school had, unlike the Bronx. Like the title of chapter 5 both Wes and the other Wes are lost beyond belief, although they are both lost they both have an opportunity to grow from an change in environment.
Whitehouse goes on to saying that a soldier got knocked down by a chunk of wood that a man got it from under his coat. Based on most against Preston and some for Preston testimonies like the Benjamin Burdick against testimony, he said that he saw” stick thrown at the Soldiers” not a big chunk of wood that would knock a soldier out. Whitehouse testimony was most likely to distract the jury from the other strong testimonies that were made against Preston, so they might think that there is something that they are misinterpreted from the other testimonies. These testimonies show evidence that Preston ordered his soldiers to fire at people who some of them were innocents who were just there to fulfill their curiosity of the situation to murder them. The Boston Massacre created a new attitude in people that was not there before. It created more hatred toward the British forces living with them and taking their money from them. It also made us understand that the American Revolution is coming because the people will not wait until another massacre to happen to kill more people of their own, they want the British to
...ers mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states. In 1857, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ended the Congressional compromise for Popular Sovereignty in Kansas. According to the court, slavery in the territories was a property right of any settler, regardless of the majority there. Chief Justice Taney's decision said that slaves were, "...so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." The decision overturned the Missouri Compromise, which banned slavery in territory north of the 36°30' parallel.
In this letter, written by Lord Chesterfield to his traveling son, Lord Chesterfield shows his son the values he holds and the expectations he has for him. Lord Chesterfield clearly shows he values working hard, being superior to others, and doing what is right and noble. He informs his son these values are what are expected of him and anything less would be considered shameful. Lord Chesterfield organizes his letter by beginning with words that portray him as a friend and as show him to be comprehensive. He even relates his own youth with that of his son to show understanding. He later transforms his tone to be more assertive and describes to his son his expectations and the consequences of failure.