Background on Twain - Gaby Pidoux
- Born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, MIssouri
- Born with the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Sixth child of John and Jane Clemens
- Moved to Hannibal, Missouri at age 4
- Witnessed a white slaveowner hit and killed one of his slaves at the age of 10
- Hannibal resembles St. Petersburg in Huckleberry Finn
- Married Olivia Langdon
- His daughter Susy died at 24 of spinal meningitis
- Their youngest daughter Jean died of a heart attack at the age of 29
- Along with writing the American classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor
- Died April 21st, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut
- Source: biography.com
What was really happening during the 1830s - 1840s? - Gaby Pidoux
1830: Andrew Jackson approves the Indian Removal Act
1831: Nat Turner leads the largest slave revolt in the United States
1833: Jackson’s second inauguration
1836: Texas declares independence from Mexico as a slave zone
1837: Martin Van Buren is president for one term
1838: Trail of Tears occurs
1845: James Polk becomes president and makes Texas a state
1846: Wilmot Proviso is created and causes controversy
1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, causing dispute over if the new territory show allow slaves or not
1849: Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery via Underground Railroad
Source: Give Me Liberty! Apush Edition by Eric Forner
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