Examples of Brigham Young in the following topics:
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- The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois, which was the principal settlement of the Latter-Day Saints from 1839 to 1846, to Salt Lake City, Utah, which was settled by Brigham Young and his followers beginning in 1847.
- The Mormon exodus began in 1846 when, in the face of these conflicts, Brigham Young (Joseph Smith's successor as President of the Church) decided to abandon Nauvoo and to establish a new home for the church in the Great Basin .
- That year Young's followers crossed Iowa.
- During the first few years, the emigrants were mostly former occupants of Nauvoo who were following Young to Utah.
- For his role in the migration, Brigham Young is sometimes referred to as the "American Moses. "
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- After Smith's death, a succession crisis ensued, and a majority voted to accept the Quorum of the Twelve, led by Brigham Young, as the church's leading body.
- The Mormon exodus began in 1846 when, in the face of these conflicts, Young decided to abandon Nauvoo and establish a new home for the church in the Great Basin.
- Young led his followers along the Mormon Trail, a 1,300-mile route that Mormon pioneers traveled from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah.
- In the spring of 1847, Young led the vanguard company to the Salt Lake Valley, which was then outside the boundaries of the United States and which later became Utah.
- Mormons dedicate large amounts of time and resources to serving in their church, and many young Mormons choose to serve a full-time proselytizing mission.
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- On December 23, 1954, Joseph Murray performed the world's first successful renal transplant between the identical Herrick twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, an operation that lasted five and a half hours.
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- During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as four were employed in factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions.
- During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions.
- As the US industrialized, factory owners hired young workers for a variety of tasks.
- By publishing information on the lives and working conditions of young workers, it helped to mobilize popular support for state-level child labor laws.
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- It was a system that provided jobs and—most important—transportation for poor young people from the overcrowded labor markets (such as Europe) who wanted to come to labor-short areas (such as America and other colonies), but had no money to pay for it.
- Consequently, the more common solution was to pay the passage of a young worker from England or Germany, who would work for several years to pay off his or her travel costs.
- Most white immigrants arrived in Colonial America as indentured servants, usually as young men and women from Britain or Germany.
- At the end of the indenture, the young person was given a new suit of clothes and was free to leave.
- Displaced from their land and unable to find work in the cities, many young people signed contracts of indenture and took passage to the Americas.
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- When a young mechanic failed to repair the car to her
satisfaction, the garage owner told Stein that while young men were easy to
train, he considered those in their mid-twenties to thirties, the men who had
been through World War I, to be a lost generation, or "une génération
perdue."
- That's what you all are... all of you young people who served in the war.
- Joyce was an Irishman best known for A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and his milestone work published in
1922, Ulysses, which reflected the
episodes in Homer’s Odyssey.
- Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's young son, Jack, in Paris, 1924.
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- The 1840s and 1850s were the heyday of a new faction of young Democrats called "Young America."
- In economic policy, Young America saw the necessity of a modern infrastructure with railroads, canals, telegraphs, turnpikes, and harbors; they endorsed the "market revolution" and promoted capitalism.
- Young America claimed that modernization would perpetuate the agrarian vision of Jeffersonian Democracy by allowing yeomen farmers to sell their products and therefore prosper.
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- Public office attracted many talented young men of ambition to civil service, and colonial North American suffrage was the most widespread in the world at that time; every free white man who owned a certain amount of property was allowed to vote.
- Attendance on election days also served as a means of civic education and communal reinforcement of the appropriate, expected behavior of young males.
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- Flappers popularized short skirts and hairstyles, heavy use of makeup, and a young and boyish look for women in the 1920s.
- The 1920s were marked by the rise of the flapper, a new breed of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, danced to jazz music, and flouted social and sexual norms.
- Called garçonne in French ("boy" with a feminine suffix), flapper style aimed to make girls appear young and boyish: short hair, flattened breasts, and straight waists were some common features of this look.
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- Unconventional appearance, music, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture, most of whose members were white, middle-class, young Americans.
- The counterculture reached its peak in the 1967 "Summer of Love," when thousands of young people flocked to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
- Musicians who exemplified this era include The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Pink Floyd.
- The counterculture in the 1960s was characterized by young people breaking away from the traditional culture of the 1950s.