Rebellion, Annexation, Industry, and War

Jon Hale

College of Charleston

Stono Rebellion, 9 September 1739

Denmark Vesey Uprising (1822)

35 local African Americans tried, convicted, and executed Two died in custody

40 African Americans were tried and deported

The Citadel “Act to Establish a Competent Force to Act as a

Municipal Guard for the Protection of the City of Charleston and its vicinity." (1822) The act provided that a suitable building be erected

for the deposit of the arms of the State, and a guard house.

Thomas Jefferson’s “Farm Book” (1818-1819)

Industrial Revolution Thomas Edison and

the Light Bulb (1880)

Industrial Revolution Samuel Morse “What hath God

wrought?” Washington to

Baltimore on May 24, 1844

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Isaiah 4:

  It is claimed by many observers that a two-horse wagon has never

gone where the Bible did not go first. It is certainly a significant fact that international commerce has everywhere followed in the wake of the gospel. The intrepid missionary invaded the wilds of China, India, Madagascar and the islands of the southern sea long before the trading ships of the merchants dared to enter their ports. Everywhere the foul and ravenous beasts of tyranny, ignorance and superstition have retired at the introduction of the glorious light of the cross. Christianity has blazed the pathway and civilization has followed. Now the rainbow arch of the gospel spans the continents and seas, from Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strands, and we seem to hear the glad should of ten million ransomed souls who sing with the ancient Psalmist, "The entrance of thy word giveth Eight."

Spanish American War (1898) Yellow Journalism

William Randolph Hurst

The First World War: Alliances The Allied Powers

Great Britain France United States Russia

The Central Powers Germany Austria Hungary Italy Ottoman Empire