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2006-09-17 13:38:06 · 23 answers · asked by Sammi 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
also if u can name places in history i.e. jamestown or dates like dec 4 or 9/11
2006-09-17 13:39:47 · update #1
oh and um who was the famale who led the blacks out of slavery through the underground railroad?
2006-09-17 13:42:05 · update #2
Rosa Parks
M.L.K.(Martin Luther King Jr.)
Susan B. Anthony
Helen Keller
Amelia Earhart
Harriet Tubman ( The lady who led slaves to freedom.)
1504 New World named America for Vespucci
1587 August 18 Virginia Dare born, 1st English-born in Am
1607 May 14 Jamestown founded by Capt.Christopher Newport. 1st permanent UK in Am
1692 Salem witch trials, 20 people killed
1783 April 11 Congress declares a formal end to the Revolutionary War
1789 September 25 12 ammendments are proposed by James Madison
1791 December 15 Bill of Rights passed and ammended to Constitution
1808 US bans the slave trade
1812 June 18 US declares war on UK
1917 – Jeannette Rankin first woman to be elected to the US Congress
1920 – United States women win the right to vote
July 20,1969 -Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon.
1972 – Shirley Chisholm is first African American woman to serve in Congress
Adams, John(1735-1826) defended UK troops in Boston Masacre. helped draft Declaration of Independence. Wartime envoy to Holland & Fr. Negotiated Peace in 1783. 1st US minister to UK. Then GW’s VP. 2nd President of the US. Died July 4, 1826
Adams, Samuel(1722-1803) Beer. adamant revolutionist. organized Boston Tea Party
Franklin, Benjamin(1706-1790) A "renaissance man" of many trades. internationaly respected. negotiated peace for US after Rev. War.
Hancock, John(1736-1793) richest man in New England. Bankrolled the Am cause. Signed his name really big.
Hamilton, Alexander(1757-1804) Help author the Federalist Papers. Sec. of Treasury for GW, industrial, rthern, federalist. killed by Aaron Burr in a duel
Jefferson, Thomas(1743-1826) Authored Declaration.Member VA House of Burgesses, Governor of Va, member Continental Congress, ambassador to Fr, Sec. of State for Washington, Vice President to Adams, President 2 terms, founder UVA. Republican, agrarian, anti-federalist.
Washington, George(1732-1799) early surveyor. became famous for his victorious, strategic retreats. Help start French & Indian War by attacking Fr in PA. United dedmoralized men.Was the 1st larger- than-life national hero. Head continental Army, 1st President, despised political parties.
Click on the site below there is a list of important people and dates.
2006-09-17 13:41:33 · answer #1 · answered by larrys_babygurl_4life 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great
Ghengis Khan
Atilla the Hun
Charlemagne
Henry VIII
Jesus
Mohammed
Confusius
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
DeValera
Christopher Columbus
Magellan
Pizarro
George Washington
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Gandhi
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ivan the Terrible
Hitler
Lenin
Stalin
Karl Marx
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
Guttenberg
Galen
Hippocrates
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Charles Babbage
Robert E Lee
Mao Zedong
Pol Pot
Louis Pasteur
Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
among others
2006-09-17 13:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by finaldx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam Noah Ceasar Anthony Alexander Cleopatra Atilla Alaric Charles Martel Jusef Ibn Teshufin Rodrigo Diaz William of Orange Canute William Wallace Michael Collins Adolf Hitler
Harriet Tubman Abraham Lincoln John Seward Eli Whitney August Duryea Tallayrand Pope Leo III Torquemada Thomas A Becket Henry VIII Elizabeth I Woodrow Wilson Clemenceau Haille Salasi Franz Ferdinand Princip Richard Nixon Elizabeth II
Golda Mier Margaret Thatcher My Grandfather.
2006-09-17 13:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosa Parks
Eleanor Smeal
Harriet Tubman
Soujourner Truth
Ruby Bridges
Gloria Steinman
Billie Jean King
Dorothy Hamill
Olga Korbut
Kathy Rigby
Mary Lou Retton
Barbara Jordan
Erin Brockovich
2006-09-17 13:44:27 · answer #4 · answered by Malika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister Disraeli
Henry VIII
Elizabeth - the Virgin Queen
Sir Francis Drake
Walter Raleigh
Sir Adrien Bolt
2006-09-17 13:55:35 · answer #5 · answered by fatsausage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosa Parks, Jimmy Carter, Eli Whitney, Steve Irwin, Harriet Tubman
2006-09-17 13:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by elmo76570 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Underground Railroad developed its own jargon, which continued the railway metaphor:
People who helped slaves find the railroad were "agents"
Guides were known as "conductors"
Hiding places were "stations"
"Stationmasters" would hide slaves in their homes.
Escaped slaves were referred to as "passengers" or "cargo"
Slaves would obtain a "ticket"
The secret password for the Underground Railroad was "A friend of a friend". It is commonly confused with "A friend with friends".
William Still, often called "The Father of the Underground Railroad," helped hundreds of slaves to escape (as many as 60 slaves a month), sometimes hiding them in his Philadelphia home. He kept careful records, including short biographies of the people, that contained frequent railway metaphors. Still maintained correspondence with many of them, often acting as a middleman in communications between escaped slaves and those left behind. He then published these accounts in the book The Underground Railroad in 1872.
According to Still, messages were often encoded so that only those active in the railroad would fully understand their meanings. For example, the following message, "I have sent via at two o'clock four large and two small hams," indicated that four adults and two children were sent by train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. However, the addition of the word via indicated that they were not sent on the regular train, but rather via Reading. In this case, the authorities went to the regular train station in an attempt to intercept the runaways, while Still was able to meet them at the correct station and guide them to safety, where they eventually escaped to Canada.
Notable people
John Brown (abolitionist)
Freedom Channing
Levi Coffin
Calvin Fairbank
Thomas Garrett
William Lloyd Garrison
Josiah Henson
Isaac Hopper
John Parker (abolitionist)
John Wesley Posey
Samuel Seawell
William Still
Harriet Tubman
Charles Augustus Wheaton
Notable locations
Cyrus Gates Farmstead
Westfield, Indiana
Contemporary literature
1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World by David Walker (a call for resistance to slavery in Georgia)
1832 The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Related events
1776 – Declaration of Independence
1820 – Missouri Compromise
1850 – Compromise of 1850
1850 – Fugitive Slave Act
1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857 – Dred Scott Decision
1858 – Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
1860 – Abraham Lincoln of Illinois becomes the first Republican U.S. President
1861 through 1865 – American Civil War
1863 – Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln
1865 – Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
2006-09-17 13:50:22 · answer #7 · answered by mysticideas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harriet Tubman was the black woman who led the blacks out of the south through the under ground railroad.
2006-09-17 13:49:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Wilkes Boothe
2006-09-17 13:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by J Ride 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ
Martin Luther
Benjamin Franklin
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Aristotle
Galileo Galilee
Isaac Newton
John Elliot
and many other ppl...
2006-09-17 15:30:39 · answer #10 · answered by aznflipgurl808 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋