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George Washington

(Born February 22 [February 11, Old Style], 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States ...

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The Tale of Two Presidencies: Herbert Hoover & FDR

John Szczsponik April 12, 2012 The Tale of Two Presidencies: Herbert Hoover & FDR 1.) Herbert Hoover and Frederick D. Roosevelt were bipolar to one another's ideologies on what needed to be executed in rehabilitating the economy. When comparing their backgrounds and political attachment, you ...

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The Great Depression

"First came the dramatic drop of stock prices. The years 1930 and 1931 were marked by serious declines in industrial production and exports. By 1932, these consequences were reflected in massive unemployment" (3, 3). Hoover's tactics basically stunk, and the depression gradually worsened during ...

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (rough draft) Born in Kentucky, Jefferson Davis lived from June 3, 1808 to December 6, 1889. He attended Transylvania University, graduated West Point, and became an American statesman and leader of the confederacy during the civil war, which he served between 1861-1865. He ...

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Reconstruction

President Lincoln wanted a quick and easy way for former states to rejoin the union and establish a new government without those who led the civil war for the South in leadership positions. Lincoln came up with the plan that at least ten percent of those who cast ballots in the 1860 election would ...

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Causes of The Civil War

Causes of The Civil War It is commonly believed that the Civil War was caused by slavery. The belief goes something like this: the evil Southerners wanted to enslave black people, while the righteous Northerners wanted to free them and give them equal rights, so they went to war over it and ...

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Neoinsitutionlism

Outline I. Introduction II. The Historical Roots of the New Institutionalism A. The Traditionalists B. The Behavioral Revolution III. The New Institutionalism Emerges A. A Return to the Law and Legal Analysis B. The New Institutionalism in Comparative Politics IV. Is There One Definition ...

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Communist Containment In Asia

An in-depth look at the success of the . I. Introduction. II. What is Communism. a. Ideas b. Policies III. Who was involved. a. History IV. How did communism get there. a. Soviet Union b. China c. Spread V. Events leading up. VI. Why the United States decided to attempt to contain it. ...

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was born into a poverty stricken family on January 8, 1935. He and his twin brother (Jessie Garon who died at birth) were the sons of Vernon and Gladys Love Smith Presley. Gladys Smith gave birth in two-room house built by her husband and her brother - in -law. His way of life ...

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Silent Cal: An American President

Fun Fact: Calvin Coolidge, a president of few words, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose." At 2:30 on the morning of August 3, 1923, ...

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Argument For Caesar To Be The King

Proposed: “Caesar is to be our king, with all rights and privileges of the title; A hereditary position, the final word on all laws and social censorship to be his.” Caesar is a great general and he has the support of maybe the whole city. Many people in the city would even like him to become ...

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Franklin Roosevelt And The Holocaust

Six million Jews and another six million non-Jews were killed during the European Holocaust by a German dictator named Adolph Hitler. Hitler and the SS-Secret Service were prejudice against the Jews and anyone else that threatened the Aryan race. They humiliated and exterminated millions of ...

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre

On February 12, 1809 a boy was born unto Thomas and Nancy Lincoln in a one room log cabin on Nolin Creek near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Who would know that this son of a farmer and a boy with not much education would grow up to be not only the 16th President of the United States but also one of the ...

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Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson is one of America's foremost political figures. Over the past three decades he has played a major role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" ...

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Nelson Manndela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African resistance leader who received a life sentence on Robben Island for opposing apartheid. Nelson Mandela personified struggle throughout his life. He is still leading the fight against apartheid after spending nearly three decades of his life behind ...

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A Country's Actions And The Most Important Factor From A Domestic Perspective

In analyzing and evaluating a country's actions in tense international situations, what is the most important factor (or set of factors) to evaluate from the domestic perspective? Foreign policy decision making is very complex in the American government. There are three models that the United ...

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Bilingual Education

was first initiated in 1968. It was a new means to educate the children who spoke a minority language. thirty-one years later the same problems exist for those children who speak a language other then English. The experiment of has been a failure and now it’s time to move on. The first English ...

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Lee De Forest

was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father\'s ...

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States and the only president to have resigned from office. He was on his was to success after receiving his law degree from Duke University Law School in 1937. California Republicans persuaded Nixon in 1946 to be their ...

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