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1850s
Worldwide, it was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far …

1850s

Worldwide, it was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War. In the meantime, the United States saw its peak on mass migration to the American West, that particularly made the nation experience an economic boom, as well as a rapidly increasing population.

John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry to obtain arms for a slave insurrection. Charles Darwin Published “Origin of Species”. The US Supreme Court rules on the Dred Scott Case, a slave seeking freedom, and the Court found that slaves were property, not citizens, thus had no rights. In the meantime, abolitionists such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass give inspirational speeches and fight to free slaves. At the “Under the Oaks Convention” in Jackson, Michigan the first statewide candidates were selected for what would become the Republican Party.

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First Republican Party meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin.

First Republican Party meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin.

This simple frame schoolhouse, built in 1853, holds a powerful history. In the Little White Schoolhouse a decision made by a small group of Ripon citizens changed the course of our nation’s history. A meeting in this simple, one story clapboard and frame schoolhouse on March 20, 1854, and another in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which permitted the ...
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Communist Defector and Christian Convert Orestes Brownson: "The Great Object was to get Rid of Christianity, and to Convert our Churches into Halls of Science"

Communist Defector and Christian Convert Orestes Brownson: “The Great Object was to get Rid of Christianity, and to Convert our Churches into Halls of Science”

It has taken more than a century and a half for the government schools to degenerate into the militantly anti-Christian, nightmarish system that it is today. However, the socialist propagandists of the 1830s did indeed intend that their proposed system would take us to our present predicament. One of the architects of the public-school movement during that period was co-founder with Robert Dale Owen and Frances ...
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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Gives Iconic "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" Speech

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Gives Iconic “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” Speech

Frederick Douglass (1818-95) was a prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. His three autobiographies are considered important works of the slave narrative tradition as well as classics of American autobiography. Douglass’ work as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist activities in the early 1840s to his attacks on Jim ...
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Daniel Webster: The Dignity and Importance of History Speech: "The First Element in History is Truthfulness."

Daniel Webster: The Dignity and Importance of History Speech: “The First Element in History is Truthfulness.”

The Dignity and Importance of History February 23, 1852 Source: Shewmaker, 130-137 The object of your association [the Historical Society of New York], gentlemen, like that of others of similar character, is highly important. Historical societies are auxiliary to historical compositions. They collect the materials from which the great narrative of events is, in due time, to be framed. The transactions of public bodies, local histories, ...
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Abolitionist, Sojourner Truth, Delivers “Ain’t I a Woman?” Speech at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio

Abolitionist, Sojourner Truth, Delivers “Ain’t I a Woman?” Speech at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio

Sojourner Truth was a slave-turned abolitionist. She became a Methodist and was called to ministry. Truth delivered a speech entitled “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851 that demanded equality for women and African Americans. As a preacher, she said that Jesus overcame her hatred of white people. Her faith gave her the ability to love everyone. The speech was briefly reported in two contemporary newspapers, and ...
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