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The Introductory Notice in the first printed volume of the American State Papers cites legislation on its development. Further legislation concerning this title may be found in other documents in A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation. Some examples include: H.R. 639, 35th Cong., 1st Sess. (1858) H.R. 436, 22nd Cong., 1st Sess. (1832)

17th century 1670s 1670. First African-American to own land in Boston: Zipporah Potter Atkins [citation needed] 18th century 1730s–1770s 1738. First free African-American community: Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (later named Fort Mose) in Spanish Florida [citation needed]; 1746. First known African-American (and slave) to compose a work of literature: Lucy Terry …

Apr 27, 2004 · In the court case Worcester v.Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast.

A Free and Online, Collaboratively Built American History Textbook. THE AMERICAN YAWP READER. A Documentary Companion to the American Yawp *Return to The American Yawp* Introduction. VOLUME I: BEFORE 1877. Indigenous America 1; Colliding Cultures 2; British North America 3; Colonial Society 4;

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose from the vaquero traditions of northern Mexico and became a figure of special significance and legend. A subtype, called a wrangler, specifically tends the …

Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Sauk: Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa) (1767 – October 3, 1838), was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States.Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief. Black Hawk earned his status as a war chief or captain by his actions: …

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African Americans with syphilis. The purpose of the …

Oct 29, 2009 · Abraham Lincoln's Childhood and Early Life. Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky.His family moved to southern ...

Sep 15, 2014 · Travel back in time with us as we explore the history of the electric car. The birth of the electric vehicle. ... and the American Motor Company produced electric delivery jeeps that the United States Postal Service used in a 1975 test program. Even NASA helped raise the profile of the electric vehicle when its electric Lunar rover became the ...