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The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
October 2 – Nat Turner, leader of slave rebellion (died 1831) October 3 – George Bancroft, historian (died 1891) October 27 – Benjamin Wade, United States Senator from Ohio (died 1878) October 30 – David Meriwether, United States Senator from Kentucky in 1852. (died 1893) December 29 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (died 1860)
The Age of Revolution is a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. [2] The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies to representative governments with a written constitution, and the creation of nation states.
About 305,326 slaves were transported to America, or less than 2% of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa. The great majority went to sugarcane-growing colonies in the Caribbean and Brazil, where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be continually replenished. Life expectancy was much greater in the American colonies because of ...
1790. The Naturalization Act of 1790 allows free White persons born outside of the United States to become citizens. However, since each state set its own requirements for voting, this Act (and its successor Naturalization Act of 1795) did not automatically grant these naturalized citizens the right to vote.
The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Kidd, Thomas. God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2010. Kidd, Thomas. The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Marini, Stephen.
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...
The disputed land had generally been administered by Delaware, even electing a member of the Delaware legislature in the mid-19th century, [379] but federal maps had included the land as part of Pennsylvania at least as late as 1900. [380] The states had agreed on a resolution, and it was affirmed by an act of Congress on this date.