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Uses the life of Sitting Bull as a reference to examine the history of the United States during the intial settlement by the Europeans. Europeans pushed the natives further and further west during the claiming of land, the frontier towns being built, and the Battle at Little Bighorn from 1840 to 1890.
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Written by American author and dedicated abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Toms Cabin" is a poignant novel which shows the harsh reality of a slaves life in the 1800s. Uncle Tom, an African-American slave who believes in the power of Christian faith. The book would be a major contributor to the Civil War because its compelling portrayal of slaves as fellow human beings left little room for compromise: if slaves were indeed...