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- 2061: Amelia Earhart
- ... around them. In 1914 Amy and the girls left Edwin after he was fired from The Rock Island RR, and went to live with friends in Chicago. After visiting her sister in 1917 at a college preparatory school in Canada, Amelia decided to train as a nurses aid in Toronto and served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at a military hospital until the Armistice in November 1918. In the fall ...
- 2062: Andrew Jackson
- ... started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone to college. He got married to Mrs. Rachael Donelson Robards, a dark eyed, dark haired woman. They did not have any children together. So they adopted a nephew of Rachaels and named him Andrew Jr. As ...
- 2063: Was Andrew Jackson A Good Pres
- ... and chronically unstable banking system that plagued the economy for many years (Brinkley, 251). Jackson also wanted to make changes in the government. In his first Annual Message to Congress, he recommended eliminating the Electoral College, and tried to democratize Federal officeholding. He believed that the duties in government could be plain and simple that offices should rotate among deserving applicants (Jackson, Seventh President 1829-1837). During his eight years of ...
- 2064: Rosa Parks
- ... an era during which segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery, where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State College. She married her husband, Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932. She worked as a clerk, an insurance salesperson, and a tailors assistant at a department store. She was also employed as a seamstress by ...
- 2065: Richard Nixon
- ... running mate. Vice-president Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, was placed under stress by Nixon from the unsuccessful war in Vietnams effects. Nearly thirty-two million votes gave him a clear majority in the electoral college. The most important issue Nixon faced when he became president was the Vietnam war. The conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam began in 1959, and in 1964 there were reports that North Vietnam had ...
- 2066: Federal Govt. Vs. States
- ... made several rulings reducing state power. In Sturges v. Crownshield, he decided that a state could pass bankruptcy laws but could not be applied to debts incurred before the ratification of the law. During Dartmouth College v. Woodward, he ruled that a state (or any party) could not cancel a contract without the consent of the other side. He struck again, in 1815, this time at the New York ferry monopoly ...
- 2067: American Studies
- ... everyone to be equal. I have been treated differently because I am a Jewish girl. I have been treated differently by students and most of all by teachers in high school and even some in college. It is something that is very difficult and frustrating to deal with. I know that what I experienced does not even compare, but I do know what it feels like to be picked on. It ...
- 2068: Columbine
- ... to Christ, and turned her life around. Another student, Isaiah Shoels, 18, senior, was the only black student shot. Suffered health problems as a child and had heart surgery twice. Wanted to attend an arts college and become a music executive. Small in stature, but lifted weights and played football and wrestled. Bench-pressed twice his weight. "He was the nicest person I knew," remembers classmate Justin Norman. "He would always ...
- 2069: Woodrow Wilson Overview
- The Life, duties and term of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow (Thomas) Wilson. Wilson went to private schools his whole adolescent life. When Wilson went to college, he studied to be a politician. Later Wilson decided he wanted to become a lawyer, this failed so he enrolled in school to study history. Over time, Wilson gained a lot of respect and rose ...
- 2070: The Contenders
- ... throughout the territory. This new territory, born of such dubious beginnings, became known as "Bleeding Kansas". Pierce and Douglas, from that moment forward, would be scarred politically. Buchanan ultimately won the election in the electoral college, although he did not garner a popular majority. It was an uneasy victory, with sectionalism clearly present in the vote tallies. Normally, a period of relative calm follows a presidential election, but the political rhetoric ...
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