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4 days ago · In the history books, Brown is most associated with the armed raid on the U.S. Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in 1859, for which he was convicted as a traitor and hung, but a visit to his...
1 day ago · John Brown became an advocate and militia leader in attempting to end slavery by force of arms. In the Civil War, immediate emancipation became a war goal for the Union in 1861 and was fully achieved in 1865.
1 day ago · Near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger political conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the federal government.
5 days ago · John Brown ( Torrington, 9 maggio 1800 – Charles Town, 2 dicembre 1859) è stato un attivista statunitense, fautore dell' abolizionismo e dedito alla causa della Ferrovia Sotterranea, che sosteneva l' insurrezione armata come l'unico modo per eliminare la schiavitù .
1 day ago · Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 ...
3 days ago · 52. A Republican state senator has called for “civil war” if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November. George Lang, an Ohio politician, made the comment as he introduced JD ...
4 days ago · In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas), the court overturned the “ separate but equal ” ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson case and outlawed segregation in the country’s public school systems. White citizens’ councils in the South fought back with legal maneuvers, economic pressure, and even violence.
