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[60] [61] Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the widely-published letter "A Protest Against the Removal of the Cherokee Indians from the State of Georgia" in 1838, shortly before the Cherokee removal. Emerson criticizes the government and its removal policy, saying that the removal treaty was illegitimate; it was a "sham treaty", which the US government ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 March 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands were given independence in October 1994 ...
Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole, et al., but American-born or naturalized smugglers, Indigenous slave traders, and any American buyers of ...
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.The massacre is also referred to as a "mass shooting" by many sources and is often termed the deadliest mass shooting in American history, though other more recent shootings may be referred to as the "deadliest" in "modern" U.S. history.
Immigrants from Southern Europe, namely Sicily, Campania, Lazio, and Calabria, appeared between 1880 and 1960 in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Eastern Maryland hoping to escape the extreme poverty and corruption endemic to Italy.
west of Bedford, Pennsylvania: Powell's wife Nancy was driving at night in the rain on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, she lost control of the car and it went off the road. [70] All three people in the car were killed in the resulting crash. Jerome Brown: 1965 1992 27 years American American football player car Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: Brooksville ...
The most significant damage from this tornado occurred at an industrial facility in West Alexandria, where an old masonry building lost part of its roof and suffered the collapse of most of its east-facing wall. A modern industrial building saw minor roof and facade damage, and a dumpster was lofted about 100 ft (30 m) from its original location.