... Salem. This caused the people of Salem to believe that the devil surrounded them. They believed that the devil was a living entity. When Abigail and her friends are caught dancing in the forest they are immediately accused of witchery Proctor at first believes that Abigail is lying to him about what was being done in the forest. Abigail denies any accusation of witchery, but Proctor believes that they were practicing witchery. “Now then, in the midst of such disruption, my own household is discovered to be the very center of some obscene practice. Abominations are done in the forest-“ Due to their belief that the devil is a living entity, Proctor accu ...

... goal of making America a biracial democracy where, "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave holders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." Even though both movements, were borne of high hopes they failed in bringing about their goals. Born in hope, they died in despair, as both movements saw many of their gains washed away. I propose to examine why they failed in realizing their goals. My thesis is that failure to incorporate economic justice for Blacks in both movements led to the failure of the First and Second Reconstruction. The First Reconstruction came after the Civil War and lasted till 1877. The political, socia ...

... Emma Evelyn Edmonds is another example. At the age of twenty, she enlisted in the volunteer infantry company as Frank Thompson. Her disguise was successful for nearly a year. She fought in the Battle of Blackburn's Ford, the First Battle of Bull Run, and the Peninsular campaign of May-July 1862. She undertook at least two intelligence missions behind Confederate lines “disguised” as a woman. She deserted in 1863. After leaving the army, she worked as a nurse for the United States Christian Commission. A short time before her death, she petitioned for a veteran's pension. Two years later the pension was granted to her by Congress. Some women did n ...

... victory, but will be modeled for its qualities of leadership, initiative, unit cohesion, and gallantry. The Role of the 20th Maine The History The Twentieth Maine, perhaps one of the most famous Infantry units in the American Civil War, was organized at Portland, Maine, during August, 1862, and was officially mustered into Federal military service there on August 29, 1862. The 20th Maine consisted of whalers, merchants, loggers, farmers and city dwellers who made up the raw material that transformed fresh recruits into soldiers of valor. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was the regiment's original Lt. Colonel and upon the promotion of Ames, he was made Colone ...

... mining, railroads, and textiles. Throughout the 1920s, U. S. banks had failed--an average of 600 per year--as had thousands of other business firms. By 1928 the construction boom was over. The spectacular rise in prices on the STOCK MARKET from 1924 to 1929 bore little relation to actual economic conditions. In fact, the boom in the stock market and in real estate, along with the expansion in credit (created, in part, by low-paid workers buying on credit) and high profits for a few industries, concealed basic problems. Thus the U. S. stock market crash that occurred in October 1929, with huge losses, was not the fundamental cause of the Great Depression, althoug ...

... came to Virginia in hope of owning land. This hope could not have been fulfilled without violent clashes amongst themselves or with the Indians. Berkley, tired of holding office and fed up[ with the problems of Virginia’s politics states How miserable that Man is that Governs a people where six parts of seaven at least are poore Endebted Discontented and Armed”. He states that of all the people in Virginia the majority of people are poor and has no land that is sufficient. They have no money not to consider that most of them owe people money, for example in the case of indentured servants that are poor and owe work to there masters and freed indentured ...

... it was agreed that the United states stay neutral in these affairs. One of the reasons given was that unless America was directly threatened they had no reason to be involved. This reason was a valid one because it was the American policy to stay neutral in any affairs not having to with them unless American soil was threatened directly. Thus the provisional neutrality act passed the senate by seventy-nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosevelt signed it into law. In 1936 the law was renewed, and in 1937 a “comprehensive and permanent” neutrality act was passed (Overy 259). The desire to avoid “foreign entanglements” of all kinds had been an America ...

... on the Native Americans included treaties, such as, the Fort Laramie and Medicine Lodge treaties, and the legislative action called the Dawes Act. All of these impacted the Native Americans lifestyle. The Fort Laramie Treaty was put into affect in 1868 which was enacted to reduce conflict between the pioneers and the Native Americans. The government forced the Native Americans to reside on reservations in which they could not leave without the permission of the government agency created to oversee their safety. They had to live, hunt, and survive living in a fixed boundary. The Medicine Lodge Treaty stated that the plains tribes were confined on two rese ...

... English colonists to Massachusetts Bay. "The Church of England had been established a century before John Winthrop and the other colonists arrived at Massachusetts Bay. In 1531, King Henry VIII had the English Parliament declare that the king, not the Pope, was the head of the church in England."1 With that statement, the religious movement called "The Reformation" began to spread across northern Europe. The Reformation led to the formation of a religious group called Protestants. In the decade that followed, many other reforms took place in the Church of England. The Puritans, who had originally been part of the Church of England, greatly encouraged the reforms ...

... away and asked to be admitted to enter the Union as a free state(Maine). This made the Missouri Compromise possible. The Missouri compromise said that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state, it also said that any state in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border would be a free state. This action delayed a deadly confrontation between the North and the South, at least for awhile. Then in 1828 congress raised the tariff on imported goods. In the south they didn't have very much industry so they had to import most of their good, so the tariffs were unpopular their. One state that protested this ac ...