But also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. Until then this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. But suddenly now the White Settlement catches up very quickly. Here is the governor, george gilmore, describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flocked into georgia from every point of the compass whose pe
Good morning, weve been talking about the effects of the American Revolution and framing that around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kind of changes could it negotiate in american society, american law . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than a war for independence . And we talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure, and the last time we met were talking about the impact of the revolutionary on African Americans and on the institution of slavery. We saw in that case, the legacy was quite mixed. The revolution said the institution of slavery on the path of destruction in the northern states but was instrumental and trying to deepening and strengthening institutions in the southern states. Today, i would like to talk about two topics that are closely interrelated. And that our two sides of the same coin, i want to talk today about how the revolution aff
A small scale coronavirus outbreak amongst children is becoming a big concern for doctors in peru. And expressing deep remorse japan pledges never to repeat the tragedy of conflict as it marks 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war. Im joining us roscoe with the sports including. Barcelona big after the biggest loss in europe as by munich thrash them 82 in the Champions League quarterfinals. A day of mourning and memorial in belarus is turning into a day of mass protest and even louder demands for political change thouse. Have come out in the capital minsk as the funeral is held for a man who was killed during election protests earlier this week and just in the past hour president lukashenko has made it very clear that he does not intend to step down well it has just gone 1 pm in minsk and take a look at this is the scene in the center of the city large crowds have gathered at the spot where alexander tartakovsky was killed his funeral is being held just a short distance away regu
Amendments ratification. The final section examines both the Immediate Impact and the struggles that went into modern day. And we have the curator of that exhibit. [ applause ] one of the goals is to recognize the broad diversity of suffrage activists and the many b bases which american women have been barred for voting. The exhibit looks beyond the familiar names such as susan b. Anthony and others and brings to our attention activists from a variety of backgrounds showing that the cause of suffrage was advanced by american women across race, ethnicity and class. Susan ware, a pioneer and a leading feminist biographer is the author and editor of numerous books including american womens history, still missing, Amelia Earheart and letter to the world, seven women who shaped the american century. Educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University shes taught at New York University and harvard where she served as editor of the biographical dictionary, notable american women. Since 2012,
On Katherine Floyd and the messiah is out in south in kenya and lives of thousands would have been on making the annual migration of the new tourist to see them ill be telling you why. Thank you for joining us we begin in hong kong where an ongoing political crisis is deepening further the territorys leader has invoked emergency loss to postpone Septembers Legislative Council election by a full year kerry lamb cited coronavirus size of reason for the d. N. A. This comes after beijing imposed a Controversial National security law on hong kong and is a major blow to the citys prodemocracy movement the opposition had said such a move would amount to a power grab so youre gonna get your thing the announcement i have to make today is the most difficult decision ive made in the past 7 months the Legislative Council general election is held every 4 years which is really a tough decision to deliberate but we want to ensure fairness we want to ensure Public Safety and health. As for individual