Monthly Archives: March 2011
Schedule for 3/14 and 3/16
I am cancelling class Monday, 3/14. Class will be held 3/16, although it may be a guest professor. You are still responsible for the assignments posted to the blog. If there is a guest, he will be aware of your … Continue reading
All Aboard!!! ^.^
*toot-toot* The instigation of the railroad in the 1840s was an prominent upgrade to the city’s earlier means of transportation, which was by horse. The horse generally took an average of four to six days to travel the same distance … Continue reading
Release What you Know & Explore What you Don’t!
How intense does slavery and African American hardships during the 17th and 18th Centuries have to be described for people to grasp the true meaning of making a human into chattel? Slavery has been explained in many ways and underplayed … Continue reading
Beyond the Civil War…
“Slavery in New York” is gallery of a sequence of events that followed slavery and its root dated with some statistical focuses. the New York city in particular was different from other cities in the south in terms of … Continue reading
choo choo… steam railroads
During the middle of the nineteenth century steam railroads were introduced. Steam engines had the ability to do the work of a hundred horses, which was a huge advancement for them. The first railroads were designed for long distances, unlike … Continue reading
Death toll = 119
The website and reading from Bernstein both had useful information. I like the website because it focused on main points and gave you like a brief summary on what occured. The reading however had alot more detail which i found … Continue reading
1,2 Their Coming for You…3,4 You Better Lock Your Door…
The appraised North- the place where freedom and opportunity looked so promising, the place to escape from the dehumanization of slavery and the place to have a chance of becoming a citizen, all was a misconception. The reaction the war … Continue reading
What a Riot
The website starts off by introducing the hope and promise for African-Americans. The very first sentence reads “On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states.” The website then goes on … Continue reading
What A Riottt ???!!! Im Innnn !!!
The riots in Nyc in the mid 1800s were a huge concern to everyone. They were disastrous and caused tons of damage. On the website they speak about riots in four different categories to represent different topics. It shows the violent draft riots of … Continue reading
And there were riot!!!!
According to Bernstein, the New York Draft Riots started on July 13 to July 17, 1863. The riot which started as a protest soon degenerated into a violent disturbance. The people initially angry about the National Conscription Act were attacking … Continue reading