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 Ernest Shackleton- Serina Weathers Edit 

= Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17 = '''Shackleton published details of his new expedition, grandly titled the "Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition", early in 1914. Two ships would be employed; Endurance would carry the main party into the Weddell Sea, aiming for Vahsel Bay from where a team of six, led by Shackleton, would begin the crossing of the continent. Meanwhile, a second ship, the Aurora, would take a supporting party under Captain Aeneas Mackintosh to McMurdo Sound on the opposite side of the continent.'''

edit: Shackleton published the details of his newest expedition, titled as the "Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition", in early 1914. There were two ships employed the; Endurance which would carry the main party into the Weddell Sea, aiming for Vahsel Bay, where a team of six being led by Shackleton, would disembark and begin crossing the continent, Then the Second ship, the Aurora, took the supporting party led by Captain Aeneas Mackintosh to McMurdo Sound on the opposite side of Antarctica.

 Abraham Lincoln- Serina Weathers Edit 

= Secession and Inauguration = '''Lincoln did tacitly support the proposed Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln came into office and was then awaiting ratification by the states. That proposed amendment would have protected slavery in states where it already existed.'''

edit: Lincoln did implicitly support the Corwin Amendment, which would have protected slavery in states where it was already present, to the constitution, which had passed in congress prior to Lincoln coming into office and was awaiting ratification by the states.

 Frederick Douglass- Serina Weathers Edit 

= Reconstruction Era = '''Starting 10 years after the end of the war, Democrats regained political power in every state of the former Confederacy and began to reassert white supremacy. They enforced this by a combination of violence, late 19th-century laws imposing segregation and a concerted effort to disfranchiseAfrican Americans. New labor and criminal laws also limited their freedom.'''

edit: 10 years post-civil war, the Democrats regained political power in all states of former Confederacy and began to reassert white supremacy, they enforced this with a combination of violence, late 19th century laws imposing segregation, an effort to disenfranchise African Americans, and the new labor and criminal laws limiting their freedom.

 Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Serina Weathers Edit 

= Underground Seminaries = In 1935, Bonhoeffer was presented with a much-sought-after opportunity to study non-violent resistance under Gandhi in his ashram, but, perhaps remembering Barth's rebuke, decided to return to Germany in order to head an underground seminary in Finkenwalde for training Confessing Church pastors.

Edit: In 1935, Bonhoeffer was offered a well-sought-after opportunity to study non-violent resistance under Gandhi in is ashram, remembering Barth's rebuke, Bonhoeffer decided to return to Germany where he was the head at an underground seminary in Finkenwalde for training confessing church pastors.

 Rachel Carson- Serina Weathers Edit 

= The Edge of the Sea and Transition to Conservation Work = '''Early in 1957, family tragedy struck a third time when one of the nieces she had cared for in the 1940s died at the age of 31, leaving a five-year-old orphan son, Roger Christie. Carson took on that responsibility, adopting the boy, alongside caring for her aging mother. This took a considerable toll on Carson. She moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, to care for Roger, and much of 1957 was spent putting their new living situation in order and focusing on specific environmental threats.'''

Edit: in Early 1957, a family tragedy struck for a third time when one of her nieces she had cared for the 1940s passed away at the age of 31, leaving her 5 year old son, Roger Christie an orphan. Carson took on the responsibility of Roger Christie when she adopted him, alongside caring for her aging mother. Carson moved to Silver Spring, Maryland to care for Roger, and much of 1957 was spent putting together a new living situation and studying on specific environmental threats.