American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional 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 as of January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared ..
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Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music, and is sometimes referred to as a game. It was developed in Brazil mainly by African descendants with native Brazilian influences, probably beginning in the 16th century. The early history of capoeira is still controversial, especially the period between the 16th ..
Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s economy. By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion, along with a growing abolition ..
Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or “competition law”) passed by Congress in 1890. The Act’s reference to “trusts” and to “antitrust” law in general, is sometimes misunderstood by modern readers. In 19th century America, the term “trust” was synonymous with monopolistic practice, because the ..
Semmering railway was constructed between 1848 and 1854 by some 20,000 workers under the project’s designer and director Carl von Ghega born in Venice as Carlo Ghega in an Albanian family. The construction features 14 tunnels (among them the 1,431 m vertex tunnel), 16 viaducts (several two-story) and over 100 curved stone bridges as well ..
Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 was part of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and led to the passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. On February 26, activist and Deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson died after being mortally shot several days earlier by ..
California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The gold-seekers, called “forty-niners”, traveled by sailing ship and covered wagon and often faced substantial hardships on the trip. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush attracted tens ..
Boyana Church was built in three stages, namely; in the late 10th to early 11th, the mid-13th, and the mid-19th centuries. The oldest section (the Eastern Church) is a small one-apse cross-vaulted church with inbuilt cruciform supports. This building belongs to the two-floor tomb-church type. It consists of a ground-floor family sepulchre with a semi-cylindrical ..
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery “Border Ruffian” elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 called for “popular sovereignty”—that is, the decision about slavery ..
Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to Lakota as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred June 25–26, ..