… on February 12, l809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. Lincoln was named after his grandfather. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. He had one sister, Sara. ________________________________________________________ 1834 - Lincoln, age 24,…

… just received all the information about my mission to spy on John Brown. Brown's plan was to establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains were they would assist slaves and attack slaveholders. He had the men and the money to proceed but one of…

… tariffs. This was one of the biggest sectional issues because the different regions of the United States were so different in commercial issues. For example, the south was really big in agriculture while the north was really big in manufacturing. …

… Riis, an emigrant from Scandinavia, experienced firsthand the poverty in New York slums. After moving from odd job to odd job he found himself begging for food on the street and immersed in the peasantry of "The Bend", the nickname for the slum neighborh…

… late fifteenth century, when Christopher Columbus set sail for the Indies.However, he discovered a "new world", the Americas. This phenomenal breakthrough would forever change the complextion of the world. European prominence in the Americas…

… to become an independent nation has been a hot topic in the country for several years now. It dates back to the abortive rebellions of 1837-38. In 1980, a referendum to secede was rejected by a 60-40 margin. Since then though, the numbers of…

… continents were slow to yield their virginity. The all-conquering Romans, a half century after the birth of Christ, expanded their empire northwestward as far as Britain. America was to be a child of Europe, not of a specific country, such as England.…

… of predestination was a distinguishing feature of Calvinism. Calvinists were a peculiar lot, partly because no believers could be completely sure that they were of the "elect." The Puritans of Old England, even before 1620, were unhappy over the…

… latecomer in the scramble for New World real estate, like England and Holland, and for basically the same reasons. A new era dawned in 1598 when the Edict of Nantes, issued by the Crown, was granted to allow limited toleration to the French Protestant…

… colonies" is misleading. There were thirty-two colonies, but only thirteen of them unfurled the standard of revolt. White and black inhabitants of the thirteen colonies by 1760 numbered about 1.6 million; by 1775 they had pulled themselves up, largely…