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Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War Ii
564 wordsAbout 60 years ago one of the most important monuments in history was completed. This famous monument is Mount Rushmore. The big rock where 4 faces are carved. This big rock is located in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Gutzon Borglum and 400 other workers spend 15 years carving the four presidents into history. For the past 60 years the same faces are still there. What if we carved 4 new faces into the monument? Whom should we select? The four people I have selected have played an important ro...
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Fugitive Slave Law Harriet Tubman
1,275 wordsThe Underground Railroad was a secret pathway organized by abolitionists -- many of them free blacks and Quakers. Its purpose was to help runaway slaves escape to freedom in the North or in Canada. Often, the passage to freedom followed natural boundaries, such as a river. Usually, slaves relied on secret helpers in towns scattered along the route to freedom. These "conductors" would help a slave move from one safe house to another, usually under cover of darkness. One daring conductor, Harriet ...
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731 wordsDramatic Firsthand Accounts of Daring Escapes to Freedom Knowing very few details concerning the Underground Railroad I felt compelled to read The Underground Railroad. Blinded by the misconceptions of many history books that my teachers reinforced through their lectures, I was determined to find out the "entire truth" of my ancestor's rigorous route to freedom. What I recall from my high school history courses is that for the most part only Quakers& white abolitionist aided the "helpless fugiti...
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Harriet Tubman Fugitive Slave
1,497 wordsIn the 1840 s and 1850 s American abolitionists were a small minority in every part of the country. Harriet Tubman was one of the women who joined the attack on slavery. She stood out from most of the other abolitionists. The evidence that I will present to you shows how she wasnt satisfied merely to be free or even to give speeches against slavery. Harriet Tubman was important to the abolition movement because she put her ideas to action. Harriet was born a slave in Bucktown, Maryland 1. From t...
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United States Army Harriet Tubman
1,137 wordsHarriet Ross Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery and then showed runaway slaves the way to freedom in the North for longer than a decade before the American Civil War. During the war she was as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that she kept working for rights for blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. She later t...
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1,120 wordsHarriet Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland Plantation in 1820. Her parents were from the Ashanti tribe of West Africa, and they worked as slaves on the Brodas plantation. Their master was very abusive at nights she had to sleep on the kitchen floor, to keep warm she would put her feet in the fireplace ashes. Harriet was hired out as a laborer by the age of 5. Harriet did not like to work indoors, and her masters routinely beat her. By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to w...
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Civil War Began Harriet Tubman
1,406 wordsHarriet Tubman Even before Harriet Tubman was born she had a powerful enemy. Her enemy wasn't a person or even a country; it was the system known as slavery. It is known that at least two grandparents were captured by slave traders and brought to North America from the Slave Coast of Africa during the 18 th century. Because slaves were not allowed to read and write, Tubman grew up illiterate. She left no letters or diaries that would later allow historians to piece together all the parts of her ...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
847 wordsThe Accomplishments of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a black woman born into slavery. Harriet was an abolitionist and strongly believed that all slaves should be free. Harriet learned that her master had died and that she would be sold if she did not run away. At the age of twenty-five, Harriet left her plantation and was on the run to a free state (Harriet par 1). Harriet made her way ninety miles from Maryland to Philadelphia. There she began to work and make a living for herself. She deci...
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Harriet And Rosa Parks
812 wordsHarriet Tubman and Rosa Parks Playing undoubtedly a most prominent part in the civil rights movement in the United States, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks have got much in common in their aspiration to make this world a better and fairer place to live. Their commitment to the cause they pursued was above and beyond ordinary dedication. Both Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks came from the lowest class of the American society where people used to suffer untold hardship and misery. On the one hand, confo...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B Anthony
982 wordsWomen in Politics Abigail Adams 1744 - 1818 Abigail Adams was the wife of one president and wife of another. She was not just a mother and a wife, she was also very concerned with politics. Abigail often corresponded with her husband through letters, as they were often separated. The most famous of these letters was entitled? Remember the Ladies? . In this letter, Abigail advocated womens rights to her husband. She urged him to push the removal of legal codes which discriminated against women, l...
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Hundreds Of Slaves Harriet Tubman South
410 wordsMany slaves tried to escape from the South to the freedom that awaited them in the North. One woman who made it to the North, however, repeatedly risked her precious freedom and returned to the South to smuggle out hundreds of slaves. To rid themselves of this thorn in their sides, the slave owners offered a huge reward forty thousand dollars for her capture! But they never captured Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in the eighteen twenties. Hired out ...
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1,112 wordsAbout 40 years before the Civil War began, a slave child, Araminta. Like others born into slavery, Araminta, who later become known as Harriet Ross Tubman, was never to know her birth date. Her parents, Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross, couldnt read or write. They didnt even know the months of the year. They simply kept track by the seasons: summer, winter, harvest time, and planting time. They had no family records beyond their own memories to document the births of their 11 children. Also, Har...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
450 wordsHARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGOUND RAILROAD Harriet Tubman was a black American who helped many slaves escape to freedom. She lived from 1820 to 1813. Tubman became the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a bunch of routes that slaves used to escape to the free states. Some of these states were Ohio, Indiana, and Philadelphia. Some routes led into Canada. The way the Underground Railroad received it? s name was not from being underground or from being a ra...
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Harriet Tubman Fugitive Slaves
1,080 wordsHarriet Tubman was an African American who fled slavery and then guided runaway slaves to freedom in the North for more than a decade before the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). During the war she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. In later years she continued to work for the rights of blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to slaves. She later adopted her mothers first name. Harriet was put to work at the ...
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Women Rights Food And Shelter
1,427 wordsHarriet Tubman was one of the greatest American women of the nineteenth century. Though she was a descendant of African origin a group highly discriminated against in that time period she achieved many accomplishments. Some of these accomplishments included aiding the women? s rights movement, raising money for public education, opening a nursing home for aged blacks, and even having a high school named in her honor. She even worked as a spy and a nurse for the Union army in the Civil War. Yet, ...
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Encyclopedia Web 2000 Harriet Tubman Encyclopedia Web 2000 Harriet Worked
234 wordsHarriet Tubman was an escaped slave. She helped so many of her black people that she became known as " Moses of Her People. " During the civil war she served the union army as a nurse, spy, cook, and scout. She was also conductor on the Underground Railroad. She was a very heroic woman. Harriet Tubman was born on plantation near Bucktown about 1820. She was one of eleven children of a slave couple. At seven years old she was hired out to do housework and care for white children on near...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
2,694 wordsHarriet Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Ross Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County Maryland, in 1820 (or 1821 depending on the source. ) There were no records kept about the date of birth of children born into slavery, so there are many guesses that have been listed. She was born with the name Arabia Ross, but her mother s name, Harriet, became her name as she got older. Before the age of five she was put to work in the house on a plantation, but when she got older she was hired out...
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1,633 wordsHarriet Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a poor slave girl who ran away from her plantation at the age of 28. Throughout the course of her life many people and many things challenged her. Each situation she was faced with tested either her mental or physical strength, usually both. She persevered through all of her trials stronger and wiser, and was willing to always help others through their own. Not one to instigate unless extremely necessary, Harriet was known for her quick th...
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1,724 wordsSarah H. Bradford describes as being: the future deliverer of hundreds of her people; the spy and scout of the Union Armies; the devoted hospital nurse; the protector of hunted fugitives; the eloquent speaker in public meetings; the cunning eluder of pursuing man-hunters; the heaven guided pioneer through dangers seen and unseen; and The Moses of her People. Harriet Tubman was an African American woman who escaped from slavery and repeatedly made about 19 trips back to the South. Her brave actio...
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Commission On Human Rights Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
2,829 wordsRunning Head: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN Influential Women Delmy E Gooch Sociology and Philosophy of Gender Summer Evening Introduction There have been many women that have changed and shaped the role of women today. They opened the doors of opportunity for future women and made many contributions to our society. Some of these accomplishments have gone unnoticed. The reason that I chose to discuss the influential women of the past and present was because they are the ones that have given me a future. The...
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