Individual: 1850- 1860 Harriet Tubman was an African American abolitionist, who led over 300 escaped slaves out of the South through the Underground Railroad during the 1850s. Tubman was the Moses of her people. She was also a spy for the Union army in the Civil War. Besides Eli Whitney, there was Cyrus McCormick, who transformed farming with his own invention. After his father started on the invention of the reaper, he finished it. The reaper was a machine that gathered the crops, instead of people doing it by hand. It cut, separated the grains from plants, and gathered them altogether. When it was first made and shown to people, no one really bought it. Then, he changed it up a little and by 1851, it was being sold. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and the author of the book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. Since she didn’t like …show more content…
Tilden became the Governor of New York. During the elections of 1876, he ran up against Rutherford B. Hayes and lost. The amount of popular votes he had were more than his opponents, but Hayes had more electoral votes. In 1857, for the Dred Scott Case, Roger B. Taney was the judge, and he ruled that Dred Scott wasn’t allowed to vote because slaves weren’t citizens of the U.S, they were property. They also don’t have the right to sue. From 1857 to 1861, James Buchanan served as the fifteenth President of the U.S. He disapproved of free trade and extremely increased tariffs. During the Panic of 1857, the Union lost most of its specie, so banks bumped up the prices of credits, up to $7 and more for gold or silver. Buchanan suggested to lower the price of credits to $3 or $1. George B. McClellan was the general of the Union Army and was very careful when he arranged and prepared the way he wanted his army. He also built a trained and orderly Union Army. Then, Abraham Lincoln took away McClellan’s position as being the general and from the Potomac Army. He ruined his career by insulting President