Guerre de Sécession

and it was the Battle of Appomattox that ended the war at Secession. The Civil War was born an opposition between north and south, which dates from the time of the birth of the country. During the war, this country is unable to manage taxes and shops. That is why it is an alliance between the 13 founding states wich will unite against the british metropolis . Despite the pronunciation of the Southern States of a possible secession if Lincoln was elected, the Republican candidate: Abraham Lincoln

Ce western est extrêmement chargé en événements : honnête fermier, actions de guerre, partisans, soldats réguliers, politiciens pourris, trappeurs, attaques de bandits, duels, bagarres, chasseurs de primes, indiens déchus ou insoumis, colporteurs, trafiquants, civils froussards, opportunistes ou inconscients, joueur et entraîneuse de saloon, bac de rivière, convoi de colons, mexicains, forêts du nord, prairies de l'est, déserts du sud, ville fantôme, mine d'argent, tous les ingrédients classiques

à avoir essayé de photographier une guerre, on se rend compte des pas de géant que la photographie a parcourus depuis. C'est en février 1855 que Fenton s'embarque pour photographier la guerre de Crimée, II est accompagné par quatre assistants et amène avec lui une grosse voiture qui doit être tirée par trois chevaux. (...) Après trois mois de travail acharné, il rapporte environ 360 plaques à Londres. Ces images ne donnent qu'une idée très fausse de la guerre, car elles ne représentent que des soldats

From Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 to Brown vs Board of Education 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court : the highest court in the american land. Their job: to decide the constitutionality of cases. But is that what they are really doing? Can we trust that their decisions are just? Two important cases in history can help answer this question. A 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, made facilities and schools separate based on race. In another case in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, the

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déclaration marque le début d’une nouvelle ère pleine de promesses pour les droits des noirs et leur émancipation face aux inégalités raciales. Ce travail a pour but d’analyser les différents enjeux et événements touchant les droits des noirs suite à la guerre civile américaine, pour déterminer s’il est juste de dire que cette période que l’on nomme la reconstruction, s’échelonnant entre les années 1863 et 1877, est une révolution inachevée1. Nous pensons qu’au début de cette période, les conditions sociales

a bit further, the American Civil War. He managed the republican party. This last one was set against the expansion of the slavery in territories detained by the United States, and its victory in the presidential election of 1860 pulled a first secession of seven States of the South, even before Lincoln took his functions. Lincoln drafts the proclamation emancipating the slaves and signs the 13th amendment abolishing the slavery. In his speech of nomination at the beginning of his second money mandate

Introduction Before beginning this statement, let me present a sample of the laws Jim crow laws which started in the American life, in 1876: "Any marriage between a white person and a person Negro or between a white person and a person of ancestry Negro in the fourth generation was forbidden." "Schools for white children and for children Negros were separated. " "It was illegal to have blacks and whites in any restaurant or other food establishments if it there weren’t separate rooms

ROSA PARK Une femmes battante Introduction En 1865, le Président Lincoln abolit l’esclavage. C’est la fin de la guerre civile américaine,  et le début d’une nouvelle ère pour les afro-américains.  En 1870, grâce au XVIe amendement,  ces derniers obtiennent enfin le droit de vote. Cependant, les mentalités n’évoluent pas rapidement : une nouvelle série de lois votées dans les États du Sud (les lois Jim Crow), limitent leurs droits dans de nombreux domaines.  Même si les esclaves sont dorénavant

Grant was born in 1822, he was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under Gen. Zachary Taylor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's store. He was appointed by the Governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. He sought to win control of the Mississippi