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24 de jun. de 2024 · Primary Documents in American History: Homestead Act more... less... Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
25 de jun. de 2024 · In the dead of night on Jan. 28, 1918, a group of white Texas Rangers, U.S. military men and local ranchers burst into the homes of Mexican and Mexican American families in Porvenir, Texas, a small border town west of Marfa.
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24 de jun. de 2024 · ... provides concisely edited primary sources that cover the Jackson period from March 1829 through the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. Manifest Destiny (Greenwood guides to historic event) by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. Call Number: E179.5 .H45 2003. ISBN: 0313323089.
Hace 4 días · Digital collection exploring attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors throughout the twentieth century. Includes the unpublished papers of prominent sexologists, sex researchers, societies, advocacy groups and campaigners working across America and beyond during the twentieth century.
Hace 2 días · The woman's suffrage movement, led in the nineteenth century by stalwart women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had its genesis in the abolitionist movement, but by the dawn of the twentieth century, Anthony's goal of universal suffrage was eclipsed by a near-universal racism in the United States.
Hace 6 días · Authors, female and male, have always relished telling women what to do. This plentiful advice literature prescribes proper behavior for women at every stage of their lives. Nineteenth-century books on girlhood stress obedience and filial devotion as they point the way to the adult “woman's sphere” where.
1 de jul. de 2024 · By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the Virgin Mary was his godmother.
