The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous time in the United States. The contestation over slavery's expansion in the 1850s was characterized by the Compromise of 1850 , the Kansas Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott Decision in 1857 and the formal secession of South Carolina from the union with the bombing of Fort Sumter in 1861. The Civil War (1861-1865) led to the defeat of the Confederacy and the emancipation of over four (4) million enslaved people. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the desire of Radical Republicans to incorporate enslaved people into the Republic as citizens served as the catalyst for the 14th Amendment, which gave African Americans citizenship.
Dorothea Dix promoted and established the Asylum Movement, where mental institutions where created and health and hygiene in prisons was improved. This came after Dorothea visited and documented the treatment of prisoners and the living conditions within the prisons, both public and private. When she released her findings it shocked the general public, which lead to old hospitals being redesigned and repurposed for the use of mental facilities. The hospitals were built according to Dorothea's designs and with her guidance, there is now a widespread movement to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.
America has a sense of destiny and has had incredibly good fortune.
It has unprecedented wealth.
It expanded its territory in the early days at a relentless pace: Native Indians, Spanish, British, Russians - all were overrun with pace and confidence.
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Historians see Marston Moor as a ‘turning point’ in the civil war because this was the largest battle regarding the number of troops, to be fought in England during the English Civil War (1642-1651). Historians think that according to some sources, the Parliamentarian and Scots troops killed approximately 4,000 Royalists soldiers.
The victory of the Parliamentarian and Scots meant one thing but an important one in the Civil War: the Royalists had lost total control of the North part of the English territory.
Historians also consider that the victory impulsed the career of military official Oliver Cromwell.
Kenneth J Dunkley was born in Karsalona, In New Mexico, December 29th, 1966.
