Without Native Americans, John Sutter—owner of the mill where gold was discovered and the area’s most influential landowners—would never have become so powerful. Sutter, a shrewd businessman, enslaved hundreds of Native Americans and used them as a free source of labor and a makeshift militia...
A、They were enslaved by foreign invaders.B、They were more warlike than other Indians.C、They were the most short-lived of all the civilizations.D、They were buried deep in the dirt or oxygen-poor water.4、What does the italicized word "ignoble" (in the last sentence) probably mean?A、...
While York's status as an enslaved man was taken for granted by the other participants in the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the view of York has changed over the course of future generations. In the early 20th century, at the time of the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, writers...
The legislation protected abolitionists, and he used his position to intervene in cases of freed black people who were enslaved in the South. After many years of practicing law in Auburn, he was elected by the state legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1849. Seward's strong stances and ...
It’s an emotional journey to watch the horrors of slavery in such vivid detail at any time, and despite years of study in American history and reading numerous well-documented scholary works devoted to the enslaved people who built much of what became America, it never gets easier. And nev...
Bass Reeves was born into slavery in Arkansas and grew up enslaved in Texas. During the Civil War, Reeves allegedly got into a fight with his owner and fled to Native American Territory where he hid until freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Once free, Reeve...
It’s an emotional journey to watch the horrors of slavery in such vivid detail at any time, and despite years of study in American history and reading numerous well-documented scholary works devoted to the enslaved people who built much of what became America, it never gets easier. And nev...
By 1870, Newton and her daughter Clara, about age 6, had crossed the state line into Kansas, a free state that became a refuge for thousands of enslaved African Americans in the 1860s. According to census records, they lived in Grant Township with James A. Cole, a farme...
Colonial period (1521–1821) Colonial Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire and was administered by the Viceroyalty of New Spain. New Spain became the largest
When Europeans first appeared in North America, the Native American population was decimated by war and disease. The enslaved Africans who helped build this country were dehumanized, beaten, raped, and murdered. Some may say it’s unfair to associate these horrific events with Thanksgiving because...