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- 1921: President Millard Fillmore
- ... made little progress during the spring and early summer of 1850, but on July 9, Taylor died, and Fillmore became president of the United States. His choice of Daniel Webster as secretary of state and John J. Crittenden as attorney general indicated his pro-Compromise stand, and his message to Congress proposed “indemnification of Texas for surrendering its claim to New Mexican territory.” The support Fillmore and his cabinet gave to ... with the swift rise of the nativist know-nothing party, kept his presidential hopes alive. He received the know-nothing presidential nomination in 1856, but ran a poor third to Democrat James Buchanan and Republican John C. Frémont, carrying only the state of Maryland. This catastrophic defeat ended his pretensions to a further political career. Fillmore was distrustful of the new Republican Party and its leaders and had little hope of ...
- 1922: Democracy
- ... over certain colonies, but no unified system. Many of the laws and freedoms that we possess in America today were established based on the trials and the statutes that were created because of them. The John Peter Zenger trial is a prime example of how a trial established a well-known statute of freedom of the press. The General School Act of 1647 was the origin of modern education laws and ... government also guarantees many rights and freedoms, which had their origins in colonial America. Some first amendment rights such as freedom of the press and freedom of religion were first established during colonial America. The John Peter Zenger trial in the 1730’s helped foster the idea of freedom of the press. Zenger was the publisher of a New York Newspaper, in which he published articles criticizing the governor of New ...
- 1923: Ohio
- ... Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DECO), where he is best known for developing self-starters for cars which put ladies in the drivers seat by eliminating cranking. There were several entrepreneurs in the period as well. John D. Rockefeller organized a ôtrustö from his large and diverse company. By the age of 40, he controlled 80 percent of the worlds known oil. Another entrepreneur was Andrew Carnegie. these men had power not ... people who opposed the war from Ohio and they were called peace Democrats, or Copperheads. The most popular Copperhead was Clement Laird Vallandigham. Vallandigham even ran in the 1863 Ohios Governors Campaign. He lost to John Brough by a vote of 187,492 to 288,374. This is partly because the soldiers were allowed to vote, and they voted mainly for Brough, not wanting to vote for a man who thought ...
- 1924: Cold War
- ... Elizabeth Israels Perry, and Allan M. Winkler. America Pathways to the Present . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,1995. Dudley, William. ed. The Cold War Opposing View Points. San Diego: Greenburg Press Inc., 1992. Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know Rethinking the Cold War. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997. Glynn, Patricia. Closing Pandora’s Box.. New York : Harper Collins, 1992. Snyder, Alvin A. Warriors of Disinformation . New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995. Yoder ... Prentice Hall,1995.) p.717 2 William Dudley, ed. The Cold War Opposing View Points, (San Diego: Greenburg Press Inc., 1992.) p14 3 Dudley 14 4 Dudley 125 5 Dudley 125 6 Cayton 720 7 John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: REthinking the Cold War,(Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.) p.119 8 Cayton 721 9 Dudley 17 10 Cayton 724 11 Cayton 724 12 Dudley 18 13 Cayton 724 14 Cayton ...
- 1925: Beer
- ... this reason, the use of hops was often simply and forcibly forbidden. Among other things, juniper berries, sweet gale , blackthorn, oak bark, wormwood, caraway seed, aniseed, bay leaves, yarrow, thorn apple, gentian, rosemary, tansy, Saint-John's-wort, spruce chips, pine roots, and henbane found their way into these Grut mixtures. Some of these herbs were poisonous, and others induced hallucinations. As we know today, the hallucinogen Alkaloid, for example, is ... many brewers that come in at different hours of the day, which would be good while going to school. Works Cited Aging of Beer. Jackson, Paul. 29 October 1999. http://Alabev.com/beeraging.html Alabev. John Fife. 20 October 1999. http://www.Alabev.com Bowman, Fredrick L. Personal Interview. 1 October 1999. Buhner, Steven H. Sacred and Healing Beers. Brewers Publications. Chicago, Illinois, October, 1998. Carter, Rachelle. Consumption of Beer and ...
- 1926: Brave New World
- ... was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate" ( Huxley, p.46 ) He quickly becomes an outcast and does not get along with the opposite sex. Bernard criticizes the utopian civilization until he discovers John the Savage in the savage reservation and introduces him to society. Bernard then becomes somewhat of a celebrity and quite popular among the ladies. At that point, Bernard is always bragging about how many girls ... in Utopia. Once again, if his conditioning had been done right and his intelligence had been controlled, he would not have had a problem with his world. Finally, the third character unhappy in Utopia is John or better known as the savage. As a matter of fact, he should not even be considered as an unhappy civilian because he was not raised in the utopian civilization but in the savage reservation ...
- 1927: Jane Eyre - Miss Temple's Influence on Jane
- ... throughout the novel uses weather to set the mood of a character. Jane’s time at Gateshead Hall was one of misery and anguish. She was subjected to domestic tyranny, and abused by her cousin John Reed continually. Jane, from her “very first recollections of existence” had been told that she had better not think herself “on an equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed” and that it was her ... of her nature and much of her habits”. It is through Miss Temple’s influence that Jane deals successfully with situations that occur later in her life, including leaving Gateshead and refusing to marry St John.
- 1928: The Yellow Wallpaper: Women In Society
- ... they need to hide in the shadows; they try to move without being seen. The window is no longer a gateway for her; she can not enter to the other side of it, literally, because John will not let her, (there are bars holding her in), but also because that world will not belong to her. She will still be controlled and be forced to stifle her self-expression. She will ... tries to follow them to an end. In this process she has begun her transformation, allowing herself to be completely drawn in to her fantasies and not being afraid of what is happening to her. John, her husband, tells her to resist them, but she does not. Her awareness of the changes in her and her efforts to foster them and see them through to an end demonstrate a bravery that ...
- 1929: A Critical Look At The Foster
- ... in far too many of these group homes was minimal at best, because the money was being skimmed off for personal gain.[5] "In the 1970s, real estate speculators bought up entire downtown blocks," write John Hubner and Jill Wolfson. "After a few coats of paint and some wallboard were slapped up, the houses were given bucolic- or inspirational-sounding names like 'Green Pastures' or 'Excell Center' and found new life ... Issues in Foster Care, Audit, Reference: LAC/94-2, Chapter 2. January, 1995 Index. 4. Testimony of Kenneth Wooden. 5. Uri Berliner, "Mining Riches from Troubled Kids," San Diego Union-Tribune, (June 5, 1994). 6. John Hubner and Jill Wolfson, Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, the Kids, And the Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families, (New York: Crown, 1996). p. 213 7. Uri Berliner, "Care Group is Overpaid, State ...
- 1930: Creationism and Darwinism
- ... and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. The Scopes Monkey Trials The Scopes "Monkey Trial" makes headlines in July as Dayton, Tenn., schoolteacher John T. Scopes, 25, goes on trial for violating a March 13 law against teaching evolution in the state’s public schools. Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Scopes has tested the law by acquainting ... to join the battle in Dayton. Darrow was not the first choice of the ACLU, who was concerned that Darrow's zealous agnosticism might turn the trial into a broadside attack on religion. Scopes (skops), John Thomas 1900-1970 American teacher who violated a state law by teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee high school. His trial (July 1925) was a highly publicized confrontation between defense attorney Clarence Darrow ...
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