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Immigration
U.S. Immigration Made Easy provides detailed descriptions of application processes. There’s also an immigration eligibility "self-quiz, which helps you match your background and skills to a likely category of visa or green card—and avoid traps that might destroy your chances." -
Slavery
"Slavery can be traced back to the earliest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BC), which refers to it as an established institution. Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, as it is developed as a system of social stratification. Slavery was known in civilizations as old as Sumer, as well as almost every other ancient civilization. The Byzantine-Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars in Europe resulted in the taking of large numbers of Christian slaves. Similarly, Christian -
Cottongin
the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794. -
John Brown
John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. During the 1856 conflict in Kansas, Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie.Brown's followers also killed five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie.in 1859, Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with his capture. Brown's trial resulted in his conviction and -
Frederick Douglass
rederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818[3] – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory[4] and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.[5][ -
roller gin
the roller gin was hard to use because people could get their fingers stucjk in the roller gin -
Lowell mill girls
New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. (There also could be "little girls" who worked there about the age of 13.) By 1840 -
legsilative Actions
City officials are actively involved with the League in a variety of advocacy efforts throughout the year. And while it might seem that things would slow down during the summer, in fact the opposite is true. Momentum builds in the Capitol from late spring through the summer, with the brief exception of the Legislature’s July recess. The legislative session officially ends Sept. 30, the final day Gov. Jerry Brown can sign or veto bills. -
elevator
An elevator (lift in British English) is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure. Elevators are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables or counterweight systems like a hoist, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston like a jack. In agriculture and manufacturing, an elevator is any type of conveyor device used to lift materials in a continuous -
Women rights
Women's Equality Day is a day proclaimed each year by the United States President to commemorate the granting of the "vote to women throughout the country. Women in the United States were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as law. The amendment was first introduced many years earlier in 1878" -
train
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, rope or wire, gravity, pneumatics, batter -
Dynamite
Dynamite help because if miners had to go deep in the ground they could use Dynamite and in time of war. -
Abolitionist
American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratoryand incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave.
