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Chapter 4 How the US Obtained the Panama Canal
the California Gold Rush of 1849 that this dream began to become a reality. In six torturous years, Americans built a railroad across Colombia's isthmus of Panama to connect with two steamship lines — one on the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific. With several thousand railroad workers dying from their
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Chapter 6 Martin Luther King & Malcolm X on …
www.digitalhistory.uh.eduMartin Luther King & Malcolm X on Violence and Integration artin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are probably the two best known African-American leaders of the last century. Since their deaths in the 1960's no one has replaced them. Both men were ministers and victims of assassination. They became famous about the same time.
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Chapter 9 The Boston Massacre S - Digital History
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Chapter 5 Methods of Controlling Slaves - UH
www.digitalhistory.uh.eduMethods of Controlling Slaves frican-Americans were not naturally born slaves In their native land, they had been proud, free, and independent people. As slaves, many rebelled, more ran away, and most often slowed down on the job, avoided work, deliberately broke tools, or pretended not to understand commands.
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