The United States introduced its own nuclear program under the Army Corps of Engineers in June 1942. The U.S. needed to build an atomic weapon before Germany or Japan did. On May 12, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an order creating a secret project to develop the nuclear weapon.
Frederick Douglass was born on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. His mother was a slave and when Frederick was born, he became a slave, too. His birth name was Frederick Bailey. He did not know who his father was or the exact date of his birth.
Frederick Douglassâa former slave who had been known as Frederick Bailey while in slavery and who was the most famous black man among the abolitionistsâbroke with William Lloyd Garrisonâs newspaper, The Liberator, after returning from a visit to Great Britain, and founded a black abolitionist paper, The North Star.he Constitution prohibited importation of slaves, to begin in 1808, but again managed to do so without using the words slave or slavery.. Slave trading became a capital offense in 1819. There existed a general feeling that slavery would gradually pass away.