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What are some facts about cowboys of the West?

Cowboy culture began to flourish as large ranches in Texas in 1866, also known as the era of the open range. The Union Army had depleted the nation's beef supply and ranches owners were eager to move their cattle and beef to the large urban centers of the North.\nSedalia, Missouri was one of the first primary destinations for cattle drives. Other destinations include rail stations in Kansas and North Texas. However, when attack by natives and bandits threatened the herds, new destinations in Cattle towns such as Abilene and Dodge City became better options.\nCowboys were young men from ma..

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What treaty ended World War I?

After the armistice, six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference worked out the terms of the treaty. Although Germany objected to many of the terms, the threat of an Allied invasion of the country compelled them to sign. The treaty forced Germany to admit fault in starting the war, stripped the country of 25,000 square miles of territory and forced it to make reparations for losses and damages of the war.

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What were some of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s beliefs?

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. was the forerunner in the movement towards equal rights for all. He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and he led many boycotts, marches and rallies.\nKing was a Baptist minister who helped to found the Southern Christian Leadership conference. He helped organize nonviolent struggles against segregation and the 1962 March on Washington, where he delivered his most well-known "I Have a Dream Speech."\nWith this speech, he became known as one of the greatest speakers in American history. In 1964..

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What caused migration during the Dust Bowl?

In all, 2.5 million people fled their homes. While some headed for cities where there was factory work, more than 200,000 went to California. Those who chose to continue seeking farm work lived as drifters, picking up migrant farm work. The amount of homeless migrants arriving in California became so great in 1936 that police began denying access to anyone who was broke and homeless. Those who made it into the state faced a great deal of animosity. They were often attacked and beaten. The shanty towns that they build became known as Okievilles. As president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created g..

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What are some science events that have occurred in 2015?

The United Kingdom's banks released a technology called VeinID for corporate clients in their personal homes and offices. This technology uses an infrared LED and a special camera to see the blood-flow in a finger's veins, allowing it to create an image of a unique vein pattern. This pattern is unique to every person and allows a system to authenticate someone without a password or PIN.\nAlthough prototypes of the self-regulating artificial hearts have been around since 2013, the final model made available to the market was released in the European Union in 2015. Unlike earlier artif..

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Why isn't Nikola Tesla more famous?

One of Tesla's final contributions to the world was a tower near New York City that would have provided free wireless energy to the planet given consumption rates at the time. The investor who financed the construction of the tower shut the project down, however, when he realized he wouldn't be able to regulate the energy and therefore wouldn't be able to make money from it.\nEdison, in the interest of his own profits, tried regularly to discredit Tesla's inventions as dangerous. Edison was practical and profit minded, and he was a good salesman who knew how to develop and ..

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What are some of the most important events in the history of Liberia?

Free black settlers, pushed by colonization societies such as the American Colonization Society, started to colonize the area that would become Liberia during the early 19th century near British-controlled Sierra Leone. The American Colonization Society started the first major settlement in Cape Mesurado in 1822.\nColonization societies hopped that free American blacks would fair better in Africa than in the United States and become leaders of African society. American slave states saw African colonization as a convenient way to rid themselves of free black populations. Liberia declared indepe..

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Who sponsored Samuel de Champlain?

Champlain's work for Henry IV took him to Spain and the West Indies. Champlain then accompanied François Gravé Du Pont for a Canadian expedition in 1603 and then did more geography work for Lieutenant-General Pierre Du Gua de Monts. The rest of Champlain's travels were of his own accord. Champlain was one of the founders of Quebec City, and after years of battling natives and the British, he became the governor of Quebec in 1632. He died three years later.

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What is the Reconquista?

Beginning in 711, Muslims from North Africa began invading the Iberian Peninsula. By 719, they had conquered almost all of it, but the Christian kingdoms regrouped and fought back. Their progress was slow initially, but the Crusades gave them additional support and they were able to slowly drive the Moors out of the Iberian Peninsula. The last Muslim kingdom to fall was Granada in 1492.

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Why did SNCC organize sit-ins?

The first sit-in took place in February 1960 in Greensboro, N.C. Four black students sat down at a lunch counter in a Woolworth's store and requested service. When the manager refused to serve them and asked them to leave, they waited patiently until the store closed. The following day, over 20 additional black students joined the sit-in. Newspaper and TV reporters took up the story, and the sit-ins spread to nearby stores. Students in other North Carolina towns and neighboring states soon adopted the tactic. Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped set up the SNC..

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