He offered bread to the poor little hungry children, "who, in return, would give me the more valuable bread of knowledge" (Douglass 34). ... New York City's privately owned streetcar lines discriminated against blacks, requiring them to ride on the outside platforms of the cars, or restricting them to specially designated carriages that ran less frequently. ...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually...
It was this book in particular that helped me to realize that scope of my research must be wider. ... There were others like the conservative Republican who felt that that would be stepping to far outside of their power. ... McClellan seemed to feel that he was in the good favor of the president, "Although McClellan told his wife that the President was "very affable & I really think he does feel very kindly towards me personally" the two would never meet again." ...
