Electoral College Essays and Term Papers

Burr, Aaron

Although Aaron Burr, b. Newark, N.J., Feb. 6, 1756, fought in the American Revolution and became an important political figure, serving a term (1801-05) as vice-president of the United States, he is best remembered today for having killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. The son of a president of ...

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Thomas Jefferson

******************* I really didn't have any problems finding information about Thomas Jefferson. On the Internet, I just did a search for , and I got all kinds of information, from the Thomas Jefferson University to his autobiography. If I was the teacher, I would have allowed the students to ...

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Thomas Jefferson

I really didn't have any problems finding information about Thomas Jefferson. On the Internet, I just did a search for , and I got all kinds of information, from the University to his autobiography. If I was the teacher, I would have allowed the students to print off of the web pages. It ...

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Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson was born at Shadwell, his father\'s home in Albemarle county, Va., on April 13, 1743. His father, Peter Jefferson, a man of legendary strength, was a successful planter and surveyor who gained minor title to fame as an explorer and mapmaker. His prominence in his own locality is attested ...

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Rutherford B. Hayes

(19th president) Rutherford Bichard Hayes was not a well know president. He was not president that had the opportunity to lead us through a war. He was not a president that would draw much attention to the public eye. He was however one of the presidents that had a great triumph over a major ...

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Shadow And Custodial President

s Grant (1868) – Cleveland (1892) Throughout the history of the world there have been many people remembered for their actions and a great deal more forgotten for no real reason. This does not exempt more recent history. After the American Civil War, six lesser-known Presidents, Grant, Hayes, ...

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Baby Boomers Are Jealous

Professor Shockley Generation X'ers have been described as "fanatically independent individuals pathologically ambivalent about the future, and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for material possessions." (Lauren, p.64) This less-than-flattering description of our ...

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Boris Yeltsin

\"We don\'t appreciate what we have until it\'s gone. Freedom is like that. It\'s like air. When you have it you don\'t notice.\" Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, president of Russia, elected shortly before the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991. Yeltsin, who was elected to a ...

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Civil Rights

Intro In a Democracy the majority does not need any protection, because it is the majority which has control. However, as seen through history, even majorities can be tyrannical, and the minority needs protection from them. “” is the term used when speaking of the privileges, immunities, and ...

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Segregation And The Civil Rights Movement

Segregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old, crippled, black slave who embodied negative ...

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Jimmy Carter

was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to be born in the hospital (the Wise Clinic in Plains). His parents were James Earl Carter (born 1894, died 1953), and Lillian Gordy Carter (born 1898, died 1983). Jimmy had 3 siblings, Ruth Carter (Stapleton), Gloria ...

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Japan

Geographical Setting is an island country in the North Pacific Ocean. It lies off the northeast coast of mainland Asia and faces Russia,Korea, and China. Four large islands and thousands of smaller ones make up . The four major islands- Hokkaido,Honshu,Kyushu and Shikoku form a curve that extends ...

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Franklin D Roosevelt

Weston Parker World Civilization Extra Credit April 10, 2012 Franklin D Roosevelt Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed "FDR," guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign ...

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Richard Milhous Nixon

, 37th president of the United States (1969-1972), was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians of the twentieth century. He built his political career on the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties, but as president he ...

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Thomas Jefferson

The third president of the United States, a diplomat, statesman, architect, scientist, and philosopher, is one of the most eminent figures in American history. No leader in the period of the American Enlightenment was as articulate, wise, or conscious of the implications and consequences of a ...

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Finland

official name is Republic of , Finnish Suomi or Suomen Tasa Valta, Swedish , or Republiken , European country. It is one of the world's most northern and geographically remote countries and is subject to a severe climate. It is bordered on the north by Norway, on the northwest by Sweden, on the ...

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Thomas Jefferson

The third president of the United States, a diplomat, statesman, architect, scientist, and philosopher, is one of the most eminent figures in American history. No leader in the period of the American Enlightenment was as articulate, wise, or conscious of the implications and consequences of a ...

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Malcolm X 3

The road to equal rights for African Americans has been a long, hard, treacherous road that still continues today. Several prominent African American's have become strong leaders in the fight to bridge the racial gap. Malcolm X was one of the most celebrated of these leaders, some considered to ...

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Andrew Jackson

was born in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His parents (father) and Elizabeth Hutchington (mother) had three children together. They were Hugh Jackson, , and another name that is unknown (Gale Research, 1997) In Jackson's childhood, he had a bad reputation because he had a ...

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Andrew Jackson 3

Andrew Jackson was born in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His parents Andrew Jackson (father) and Elizabeth Hutchington (mother) had three children together. They were Hugh Jackson, Andrew Jackson, and another name that is unknown (Gale Research, 1997) In Jackson's childhood, ...

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