The Battle of the Alamo took place between February 23 and March 6, 1836. The battle consisted of a thirteen day siege proceeding an all out attack from the Alamo Mission near what is now San Antonio, Texas. The battle left an estimated 300 of the Mexican forces killed or wounded and just two of the Republic of Texas surviving. I believe that this battle really helped to cement the idea of secession into the minds of the Texians and pushed them to revolt. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico at the time, started to move the governmental system of Mexico towards a dictatorship.
The first Archaic Native Americans were hunter-gatherers. They followed huge animals such as the mammoth across the land bridge from Asia to the Americas. They lived in bands of about two dozen people. The men hunted while the women gathered nuts and berries. Men would go to other bands to find a wife.
Crazy refused to be imprisoned and the Crow Creek tribal police fatally wounded Crazy Horse in the back with a bayonet. No one knows the exact details of Crazy Horse’s death. Some people say he was stabbed once, some say he was stabbed twice. There are no photographs of Crazy Horse. Sketches have been created as a result of interviewing Lakota Sioux members.
After 18 months and 4,000 miles they headed back. Both explorers took separately routes. They finally returned September 1806 they had collected people, plants, animals, and the geography to inspire the nation to move westward. -Pikes expedition, This paragraph explains how even though Jefferson sent out Lewis and Clark for an exploration, Jefferson sent out more explorers and one of them was named Zebulon Pike led by 2 expeditions between 1805 and 1807, when traveling through what is now the state of Colorado he found a snow caped mountain and he called it Grand Peak. Today this mountain is known as Pikes Peak.
Battle of Little Big Horn Thinking on Indian Reservation only exposed a form of discrimination, an instrument of control and grown limitation. June 25 and 26 of 1876 a submission plan for the Lakota Sioux, the Arapaho tribes and Northern Cheyenne was release to 7th Calvary troops and Infantry Soldiers of General Terry and Lieutenant General Custer to obligated the Indians to return to the Reservations. It seems that more than take the Indians back to reservations the intentions of the military troops was exterminated this clans of the Native American. The strategic decisions and coordination of each execution plan prove an upcoming hostile confrontation that Americans thought to have victory over. (Fox 1993).
The Battle of Wounded Knee The most tragic sequel to the end of the Indian wars is the Battle of Wounded Knee. A religious movement, known as the Ghost Dance, had gained a Sioux following. A Paiute medicine man called Wovoka had a vision that the old way of life could return if Indian people wore holy shirts, lived pure lives and performed the Dance of the Ghosts. The US government feared another uprising and so, in 1890, police came to the Sioux reservation to arrest Chief Sitting Bull. During the attempt to arrest him, shots were fired and he was killed.
Alexander Graham Bell His invention of the telephone at the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of life in the United States . Crazy Horse Native American Sioux leader who defeated George Custer in battle. George Armstrong Custer Colonel famous for his battle at Little Big Horn against the Sioux Indians. Horace Greeley Grant's opponent in the 1872 election. Seen as a political oddball in the eyes of many Americans, the 61-year-old editor favored the protective tariff and was indifferent to civil service reform.
DBQ: What Cause The Civil War Hell breaks loose, and in the space of sound in the western woods along bloody lane 600,000 bodies lay dead. In the early morning of September 17, 1862 dawn is breaking a troops are squaring off against each other. Antietam is just one day in war that by 1865 over 600,000 yankee and rebel’s lives are taken away. The north and south both feared that one would over power another. Who is the person or event responsible for a war between regions of the same country?
The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers. The men and supplies would be stockpiled in the reserve trenches. German trenches would be bombarded solidly for 7 days. The British fired over 1,500,000 shells at the German lines, which should have destroyed the German dug-outs (which were 9 metres deep), tear up their barbed wire and kill most of the Germans. Also 10 mines would be dug under the German strong points.
“A force of some 50 French soldiers and 200 Abnaki and Caughnawaga Indians from Canada, under the command of Major Hertel de Rouville, attacked the stockaded village of Deerfield on the northern frontier of Massachusetts” (Howstuffworks.com, 1998-2014). Based on the towns results, there were an estimate of 50 killed and 111 has been confined, but the reminder few was able to escape. The attackers had burned majority of the town. The troops of British was placed in Deerfield and the village was restructured after the raid. Anti-slavery is known to be as old as slavery.