ANDERSONVILLE TAKES OVER ANDERSONVILLE Near Andersonville is located the preserves of the former camp Andersonville Prison, also known as the Camp Sumter. The Andersonville prison is the camp of a Confederate prison of war camp,during the time of the American Civil War. The prison was started by a land of 16 ½ of acres in January 1864. Pine logs over 20 feet of length was built in the camp sumter to create an wooden stockade.20 feet line of the stockade was called the “Deadline”. The reason it was called the deadline was because,if any prisoner wanted to cross or climb that line was shot by a guard.…
Poet Bruce Dawe wrote the Poem Homecoming, in 1968, depicting the returning of deceased soldiers from the Vietnam War to their homes. The poem was written to convey the common theme of the horror and destruction of war, it’s main message being the last line, “They’re bringing them home, now, too late, too early.” Meaning that they are returning too late, too early in their lives, as these soldiers were most likely in their early twenties or late teens. This poem has a subtle suggestion, or connotation of disgust with those in power and who caused and initiated the war.…
Sweetwater Jayteens fill up 3 trucks and trailers fills with donations from the community for Harvey victims. The trucks with filled donations will leave for Houston to meet up with other Jaycee forces as they know where the help is needed. Rob McCann, Joanna McCann, Amy and John Castillo, Dee Thomas, and Heath Cornutt, will be driving the items down south this Saturday at 3a.m. Sweetwater Jayteens felt like it was their obligation to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey and show the state that Sweetwater is strong and Sweetwater cares. The teens asked the community for donations of bottled water, cash, baby wipes and diapers, but the donations went beyond what they asked for and got more items that were appreciated.…
Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old boy who lives in the neighborhood of Meadowbrook, with his mom and dad. Johnny’s parents are abusive, and he takes his parents’ abuse to him personally. On top of that, he doesn't quite get enough to eat, and he often sleeps outdoors. According to Ponyboy Curtis, one of his close friends, he says he “looks like a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers”. To make things even worse, Johnny was brutally beaten by the “Socs” last spring and now lives in a constant state of fear.…
The Sonora Wildcats continued its Mother Lode League dominance Monday evening at Bud Castle Gym, defeating Amador 25-15, 25-8, 15-12. With the sweep, Sonora has still not lost a set since joining the Mother Lode League in 2014. Sophomore Riley Patterson led the Wildcats with 12 kills. She also finished the night with nine digs and three aces. Kelsie Evans had five kills, while Adrianna Albanes and Riley Carpenter had four.…
The United States enjoyed a steady expansion through its acquisition of land in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Louisiana Purchase, Treaty of Ghent, and treaties with the kingdoms of Spain and Russia. By the 1830s, the American people populated a third of the North American continent, but alas it was still not enough. A nationalistic belief coined by John Sullivan as Manifest Destiny revived American interest in westward expansion under the pretense that the United States was predestined for continental domination. Manifest Destiny painted westward expansion as an opportunity to spread American democracy to lands still wretched with tyranny, while carving out greater living space for the nation’s skyrocketing population. The issue of westward expansion…
Alex Auer 2017 World History Period 6 Katina Robalino Historical Context: Manifest Destiny Conflict and compromise is something that has been happening in our world for generations. One example in history is the dream of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was destined to extend its territory west to the Pacific Ocean and also had a considerable impact on American policy in the 1800s. Manifest destiny was the main influence for the huge expansion of the United States in the 1840s. All Americans supported the idea of Manifest Destiny, but it led to the American politics being even more separated between the north and the south.…
The now growing trend of western settlement in the United States was due to many reasons. Land was cheap, and plentiful. It was abundant with resources, and easily attainable. After the War of 1812, more European immigrants began to flow into America once more, settling the new lands along with the growing American population. Stories of the unsettled lands inspired many throughout America, especially those in the agriculture business.…
To begin with, Weeksville is a neighborhood that resided in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1838, but was originally located on Native American trial. It was named after a man called James Weeks who purchased some land. James Weeks were once a slave but was freed because slavery had ended in 1827 due to the fact gradual emancipation in New York on July 4th, 1827. This land was settled by African Americans after slavery abolished in New York in 1827 and grew during and after the civil war. I will introduce the history, present and source of Weeksville because it is a community of self-determined people.…
Every nation to ever exist had some sense of a national destiny or purpose. “Manifest Destiny” is a phrase used by politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion in the United States. Americans felt that it was their destiny and their God given right to expand the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In order to understand Manifest Destiny, it is important to understand the need and desire of the United States to expand and advance. Due to a high birth rate, immigration, and economic depression, America had to expand.…
In the 1840s, the rise of western expansion was imminent which led to the term “Manifest Destiny” to be coined by John O’Sullivan in 1839. The purpose of ‘Manifest Destiny’ was to feed the minds of the American people who were hungry for land and sell the idea that it was manifest that the United States was destined by God to expand ‘from sea to shining sea’. Though John O’sullivan was the first to use the term ‘Manifest Destiny’, it was President John Tyler who was the first to start the westward expansion process by signing off on the annexation of Texas. President Tyler was first to enact on the hunger for land, but it would ultimately be President James Polk who would finish the job. It was Polk who brought the ideology of ‘Manifest Destiny’ to reality and it was Polk who won the United States the lands that Americans prosper in today.…
Manifest Destiny is a 19th Century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American Continents was both justified and inevitable. Several people in the 1800s and 1850s believed in Manifest Destiny. During Westward Expansion vast amounts of land was open the further west the Americans traveled no one knew where it ended. Americans had fought hard for America and were not going to give up on their country. Expanding west was no doubt America's fate.…
The Legacy of Manifest Destiny In the age of reform, America became engulfed in the spirit of Manifest destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that the people of the United States were destined with the mission of expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was a common believe that America was chosen by God as a superior nation to expand “from sea to shining sea.” A journalist for the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, John L. O'Sullivan, wrote about the movement in 1839.…
Throughout history, humans has shown how they love to own things as much as they love to take things. Ownership seems be synonymous to power. The more you own, the more power you, and if lack in this area you will take. in. One would go to great measures to protect what they think is their’s.…
Tyler Rivera Ms. Gioia U.S History 1 2.6.14 History was made by chronological records of specific events, each of them having a following effect on another occasion. Historical events are set to a fixed date or an exact occurrence. The Manifest Destiny originated in the 1840s. What is the Manifest Destiny you say, it is a vague idea that created American history.…