Tough times challenged a boy like Jesse James growing up in Missouri. Internal conflicts during the Civil War devastated the state. Missouri, a border state, tried to stay neutral, but it seemed that the people of Missouri held different ideas. Violence broke out between southern sympathizers who wanted to secede and those loyal to the Union. Jesse James, best known as a dangerous and ruthless thief, murdered many innocent people, but many in the deep south continued to regard him as a hero. Some compared James to Robin Hood and admired him for his daring deeds. Jesse James, like many of his contemporaries, experienced an innocent early childhood, until the atrocities of the Civil War transformed him into the marauder that history portrayed.
Born in Clay County Missouri on September 5, 1847 to Zerelda and Robert James, Jesse Woodson James entered his life in innocence. Only three years after the birth of Jesse, Robert James contracted cholera and died shortly after leaving the family in debt. To keep the family afloat Zerelda married a wealthy farmer Benjamin Simms, but the marriage proved to be an unhappy union. In 1854, after Zerelda left Simms, Simms died from the injuries related to being thrown from his horse. Jesse, yet again, became fatherless. Zerelda’s final marriage took place in 1855 when she married Dr. Ruben Samuel.
Conflicts between Secessionists and Loyalists erupted throughout Missouri. Unlike in other states where neighbors joined together in arms to fight for the Union or the Confederacy, in Missouri neighbors and lifelong family friends eyed each other with suspicion as they enlisted in regiments on opposites sides. Missouri also possessed a strong unionist influence from the German immigrants in St. Louis he...
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..., the author of the letter is not verified but is assumed to be written by Jesse James. The letter showed the mindset of the robbers or was written to give support to the idea that the “bold-robbers” were not thieves and indeed resembled robin hood. In the letter, Jesse James apologized for the tragic accident of wounding the young girl, and said that he would personally pay for the medical treatment which helps his image with the public. He later compares himself with other great leaders such as Ceasar, Napoleon, and Alexander the Great, as they were all bold-robbers. Lastly he contrasts his actions with that of the president, trying to prove his resemblance to robin hood. He says that he is stealing from the rich, and giving back to the poor, while the Grant Party is stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. (Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War [Online])
The archives show how Augusta, Virginia and Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the South and North, shared many characteristics before the war, which Ayers points out well. One main point he makes when writing about their similarities is noting that both counties had people who supported slavery. Augusta, in the South, had slavery as their main economic system, and Franklin, in the North, had whites who believed in and supported slavery. There was also an abundance of racial discrimination still in the Franklin. These similarities didn’t matter much when it came to the issue of secession.
with the Guerrillas through many battles until they surrender at the end of the Civil War. He was wounded more than once while riding with the Guerrillas. Jesse rode with many different outlaws while with the Guerrillas, such as Bloody Bill Anderson, his cousins the Younger brothers, and many other men. (O’Brien)
Jesse James married Zerelda Mimms in 1874 she was born on July 21, 1845 in Logan Kentucky. She is also Jesse’s first cousin her and Jesse had one child he had a son. His name was Jesse E. James named after his dad was born on august 31, 1951 in Nashville, TN. He was born at the height of Jesse’s
Andrew jackson had to face many obstacles in his life. Obstacles like South Carolina's nullification of the tariff, the United States Bank and how they were stealing money from the country, and the struggles of relocating the Native American Indians. But just like every other problem he faced he succeeded in overcoming all of these obstacles.
Lowell H. Harrison's argued in his book that for the Union to be successful it had to keep Kentucky was crucial to federal strategy, both military and psychological. He made it very clear, for Kentucky it was truly a "brother's war," where loyalties to section or nation ran deep, where issues of states' rights, secession, slavery, abolition, and federal centralization roused strong passions.
" Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865. The Kansas City Public Library. Accessed May 18, 2017. Trout, Carlynn, and Elizabeth Engel. " William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson."
The Missouri Compromise acted as a balancing act among the anti-slave states and the slave states. Since states generally entered the union in pairs, it stat...
As the country began to grow and expand we continued to see disagreements between the North and South; the Missouri Territory applied for statehood the South wanted them admitted as a slave state and the North as a free state. Henry Clay eventually came up with the Missouri Compromise, making Missouri a slave state and making Maine it’s own state entering the union as a free state. After this compromise any state admitted to the union south of the 36° 30’ latitude would be a slave state and a state north of it would be free. The country was very much sectionalized during this time. Thomas Jefferson felt this was a threat to the Union. In 1821, he wrote, ”All, I fear, do not see the speck on our horizon which is to burst on us as a tornado, sooner or later. The line of division lately marked out between the different portions of our confederacy is such...
Jackie Robinson overcame many struggles in life such as being included in the civil rights movement, facing discrimination, and he achieved being the first black man in major league baseball. He was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia on Hadley Ferry Road. It is a blue-collar town of about 10,000 people. Jackie Robinson became the first black player in the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Even though he achieved this major goal he still had trouble getting there. He and his siblings were raised by his single mother. Jackie attended Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College. He was a great athlete and played many sports. He played football, basketball, track, and of course baseball. He left school in 1941, worked as an athletic director and played semiprofessional football for the Honolulu Bears before being drafted to the Army in 1942. While he was in the army he became close friends with Joe Louis. The heavyweight used his popularity to protest about the delayed entry of black soldiers. Two years later he got the honor to be second lieutenant in 1943. After an accident where he refused to sit in the back of an unsegregated bus, military police arrested Robinson. A duty officer requested this and then later he requested that Jackie should be court martialed. Since this happened Jackie was not allowed to be deployed overseas to the World War II. He never saw combat during the war. Jackie left the Army with an honorable discharge.
Today I will be discussing about an African American activist a minister a civil rights leader whom has made many contributions to the African American culture Rev. Al Sharpton. Who was born Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr. Al Sharpton was born in Brooklyn, NY to his father Alfred Sharpton Sr. and his mother Ada Richards when his family moved he was then raised in Queens, NY. In 1954 He soon began to start developing a speaking style as a child he then started preached his first sermon at the age of four called, “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled” at Washington Temple Church of God with an audience of over 800 people. Soon after that he then toured with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson who took interested in his unique speaking skills. At the age of 7 Al Sharpton first heard of the struggles with racial issues through the stories that his grandfather would tell him of how he was beaten by white men for simply standing in there way and not walking on the other side of the street.
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on the road to secession. Dred Scott was a slave who was taken to Missouri from Virginia
Andrew Jackson was a controversial man. He was greatly admired by many, but despised by others. Andrew Jackson was raised by his father and also lived along with his brother. His mother died shortly after giving birth. He grew up poor and right in the mist of the American Revolution. He fought in the Revolutionary War at thirteen years of age. He went on to become a lawyer and then moved to Tennessee where in met his wife. Later in life he became a delegate or the Tennessee Constitutional Convention, then a United States representative, followed by serving as a Tennessee senator. He later became a judge of Tennessee superior court. He then became a major general for Tennessee militia where he wins over many of the colonist at the victory of the New Orleans war. He becomes a great conqueror in the eyes of Americans people. However, high class people do not appreciate his unruly attitudes. Then it all comes down to the presidency. How he received the honor, what he did with it, and what people thought about his actions.
As a son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, Jesse Owens created History in 1936 when he achieved what no athlete had done before: four Olympic Gold Medals. (jesseowens.com). During this era, the United States had limited civil rights and was approaching a World War with Hitler rising into power in Germany. Although Owens was victorious on the track, because of the color of his skin, He was looked down upon and unrecognized by even his own country. Through the excessive racism, one may ask how Owens moved forward and dealt with such negativity in a situation that should have been celebrated.
The methodically use of discriminating against and segregating Black people, particularly as practiced in the South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century. Jim Crow is a name given to a group of laws to keep Blacks and Whites separate after the American Civil War. Lynching was the method of execution during Jim Crow era; it is now similar to death a penalty.