Mar 14, 2022 · Becoming a lawyer moved young men of varied origins into a professional middle class that was quite small in the 1800s. It was considered improper and inappropriate for a woman to become a lawyer ...
books: “A Journey through Texas”, by Frederick Law Olmsted. If the authors’ name sounds familiar, it should, he went on to design Central Park in New York City and to be considered America’s foremost landscape architect. He traveled thorough Texas on horseback in 1856 and 1857, from the Sabine to Nacogdoches to San Antonio, to the
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The process, called “reading law,” was composed of only two steps. First, the would-be lawyer would need to find an experienced, practicing lawyer who was willing to apprentice or mentor him. Second, under the tutelage of a willing teacher, the new apprentice would begin a period of study.Feb 25, 2015
Becoming a lawyer. In the 18th and 19th centuries, most young people became lawyers by apprenticing in the office of an established lawyer, where they would engage in clerical duties such as drawing up routine contracts and wills, while studying standard treatises.
The origins of lawyers and the first founders of law make their appearance in Ancient Greece and Rome. In ancient Athens “orators” would often plead the case of a “friend” because at the time it was required that an individual plead their own case or have an ordinary citizen or friend plead their case on their behalf.May 8, 2018
The Texas economy of the late nineteenth century experienced tremendous growth, mixed with serious problems and major changes. Agriculture continued to dominate the state economy, with a majority of Texans engaged in farming or ranching.Nov 1, 1995
In the beginning, law schools were uncommon in the United States until the 19th century. Those who wanted to study law were of elite status, educated in England, and moved to America.Feb 26, 2014
United States. Lawyers became powerful local and colony-wide leaders by 1700 in the American colonies. They grew increasingly powerful in the colonial era as experts in the English common law, which was adopted by all the colonies.
Although people were actively studying the written law since the BC era, it was the English King, Edward I in the late 1200s AD who spawned the earliest form of modern lawyers through legal reforms in England.
Macon Bolling AllenMacon Bolling AllenResting placeCharleston, South CarolinaOther namesAllen Macon BollingOccupationLawyer, judgeKnown forFirst African-American lawyer and Justice of the Peace4 more rows
lawyer (n.) late 14c. lauier, lawer, lawere (mid-14c. as a surname), "one versed in law, one whose profession is suits in court or client advice on legal rights," from Middle English lawe "law" (see law) + -iere.
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The Lone Star StateTexas / NicknameTexas is nicknamed the Lone Star State because in 1836, when the Republic of Texas declared itself an independent nation, it flew a flag with a single star on it.
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Late Nineteenth-Century Texas. Between the end of Reconstruction (1876) and the beginning of the Progressive era (1900) Texas hardly shared the ostentatious wealth that gave the period the title Gilded Age in America. Yet the state did reflect a mixture of changes common to the developing western frontier and the New South. Population, economic production, and cities expanded, while society and culture began to mature. Partially separate Black and Hispanic communities emerged in the face of discrimination. Third parties challenged the political dominance of Democrats who struggled with issues of land policy, prohibition, and railroad regulation. New economic, social, and political organizations appeared as Texas joined other Americans in seeking more orderly approaches to major concerns.
The population of Texas grew rapidly from 1,591,749 in 1880 to 2,235,527 by 1890 and reached 3,048,710 in 1900.
The state also entered the field of higher education by opening the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) in 1876 and the University of Texas in 1883. These institutions received students from a public-education system that expanded from 176,245 students in 1880 to 515,544 in 1900.
The Knights of Labor attracted perhaps 30,000 members in the late 1880s but declined after the Great Southwest Strike of railroad workers failed in 1886. Local craft union representatives met in state conventions during the 1890s, and some groups joined the American Federation of Labor. ( see LABOR ORGANIZATIONS ).
This classic domestic guide by sisters Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Sto we is dedicated to “the women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the Republic.”It includes chapters on healthful cookery, home decoration, exercise, cleanliness, good air ventilation and heat, etiquette, sewing, gardening, and care of children, the sick, the aged, and domestic animals. Intended to elevate the “woman’s sphere”of household management to a respectable profession based on scientific principles, it became the standard domestic handbook.
Catharine E. Beecher (1800–1878) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). The American Woman’s Home; or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes. New York: J. B. Ford, 1869.
The main character, Hester Prynne, is condemned to wear a scarlet “A” (for “adultery”) on her chest because of an affair that resulted in an illegitimate child. Meanwhile, her child’s father, a Puritan pastor who has kept their affair secret, holds a high place in the community.
The publication of the first slim edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1855 was the debut of a masterpiece that shifted the course of American literary history. Refreshing and bold in both theme and style, the book underwent many revisions during Whitman’s lifetime. Over almost forty years Whitman produced multiple editions of Leaves of Grass, shaping the book into an ever-transforming kaleidoscope of poems. By his death in 1892, Leaves was a thick compendium that represented Whitman’s vision of America over nearly the entire last half of the nineteenth century. Among the collection’s best-known poems are “I Sing the Body Electric,”“Song of Myself,”and “O Captain! My Captain!,”a metaphorical tribute to the slain Abraham Lincoln.
These “dime novels” were aimed at youthful, working-class audiences and distributed in massive editions at newsstands and dry goods stores. In addition to Wild West adventures that appealed to adolescent males, dime novels featured urban detective stories, working-girl narratives, and costume romances that promoted the values of patriotism, bravery, self-reliance, and American nationalism. This dime novel was written by Louisa May Alcott, best known for her novel Little Women (1868) and is one of only two known copies. Through copyright deposit the Library of Congress has accumulated a dime novel collection of nearly 40,000 titles.
An early example of photojournalism as vehicle for social change, Riis’s book demonstrated to the middle and upper classes of New York City the slum-like conditions of the tenements of the Lower East Side. Following the book’s publication (and the public’s uproar), proper sewers, plumbing, and trash collection eventually came to the neighborhood.
Like many of his works, the novel is set in Puritan New England and examines guilt, sin, and evil as inherent human traits. The main character, Hester Prynne, is condemned to wear a scarlet “A” (for “adultery”) on her chest because of an affair that resulted in an illegitimate child. Meanwhile, her child’s father, a Puritan pastor who has kept their affair secret, holds a high place in the community. Similar themes are found in later literature as well as in current events.
In Worcester v. Georgia the Supreme Court finds for missionaries Samuel Worcester and Elizur Butler, establishing the doctrine of Indian sovereignty by recognizing that state laws had no force in Indian country. Furious, President Andrew Jackson refuses to enforce the verdict and decides to proceed with Indian removal.
After the opening of the Santa Fe Trail the booming market in horse and mules encourages theft. Ute Indians and white mountain men are the primary participants of the illegal trade.
1804. In reaction to Spanish expansion into their grazing land, Navajo warriors attack the town of Cebolleta in the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest (where the boundaries of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet). In turn the Spanish massacre Navajo women, children, and old men at Canyon de Chelly.
The United States and Mexico ratify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War. The harsh provisions of the treaty, in particular the federal courts ’ subsequent and widely varying interpretations of controversial Articles 8 and 10, cause considerable confusion and injustice in preserving native Mexicans ’ property rights.
29 Mar. Congress authorizes the federally financed Cumberland Road. It will extend from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia, and provide a better route for pioneers heading west.
24 Feb. In Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall rules that under the doctrine of judicial review the Supreme Court has the authority to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
Peck Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall declares that Georgia violated the contract clause of the Constitution in ceding disputed lands along the Yazoo River to the United States. This land grant conflict is one of many problems that arise from unrestrained speculation in Western lands.
The population in Texas grew fast during this time – from over one and a half million in 1880 to over three million by 1900. People came in from other states, especially from the South, and immigrants from Mexico and Germany added numbers too.
In 1901, petroleum was found near Beaumont, Texas and became, at that time, the most productive oil well in the world. Oil discoveries continued after that, heralding in the oil boom, which permanently transformed and grew the economy of Texas. Black and Latino communities emerged during the late 19th century too, ...
Paulette Jiles' News of the World takes place in late 19th century Texas. Much of the state's land was untamed and rugged, but in this time between the end of the Reconstruction and the beginning of the Progressive Era, Texas changed and grew, as did much of the western frontier and the New South.
His best-known work, Imperium in Imperio (State Within A State), was a utopian story that imagined a separate African-American state within the United States. This "beyond the book article" relates to News of the World. It originally ran in October 2016 and has been updated for the June 2017 paperback edition.
Along with Benjamin Johnson, a Loyola University Chicago history professor, González co-founded Refusing to Forget, an organization that hopes to educate people about state-sanctioned violence against Tejanos in the early 20th century.
As a law enforcement agency, the Rangers were unofficially founded in 1823 for the purpose of a “punitive expedition against a band of Indians,” according to the Texas State Historical Association.
The Porvenir massacre is one of many past acts of violence committed by the Texas Rangers against people of color in the state, including indigenous Texans, Black Texans and Tejanos, or Mexican Americans from the South Texas region, from the 19th century through the 20th century. As a law enforcement agency, the Rangers were unofficially founded in ...
The modern Texas Rangers, an investigative agency within the state’s Department of Public Safety, evolved from the historical police force but no longer carries out the same duties . Today, Rangers focus on investigations as a unit within DPS.
And ahead of the DPS investigative unit Texas Rangers’ bicentennial celebration in 2023, historians and activists are advocating for a more comprehensive portrayal of the law enforcement entity in the public eye.
Longino Flores was among the 15 men and boys killed in the 1918 Porvenir massacre. Juana Bonilla Flores would later take her own life two years after the massacre following a battle with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Arlinda Valencia. Credit: Joel Angel Juarez for The Texas Tribune.
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