Reproduced from the June 2001 United States History and Government Regents Exam Permission to use this resource is granted only for educational, non-profit use. THEMATIC ESSAY GENERIC SCORING RUBRIC Score of 5: ·Shows a thorough understanding of the theme
Sir Titus Salt was born on the 20th of September 1803. He was the first of 7 children and aspired to be a doctor. In 1822 he moved with his family to Bradford to concentrate on the booming textiles business. In 1833, after Titus married his wife Caroline in 1830, Titus’ father passed away leaving Titus to inherit the family business. Throughout the next two centuries Titus continued his rise to fame becoming Mayor of Bradford in 1848 and working towards making conditions in factories better for workers.
Clarissa "Clara" Harlow Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Her father was a veteran, a prosperous farmer, and a sawmill operator. Her mother was a homemaker. Much of Barton’s education was provided by her older brothers and sisters, and while still a teenager she started to teach in Massachusetts.
I am doing my paper on Jeffrey Dahmer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960 to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. His father was an analytical chemist. He had a brother that was 7 years younger than him named David. Some people say that his childhood was normal up until he had a hernia surgery at the age of 6 and some say that is when he started to become distant and withdrawn from everything.
The family decided to move to Boston, Massachusetts in 1834 where he began his own school in which he would put his teaching methods in practice. Even though her father had a school she never attended school and was taught by his father. She was also taught by her father’s friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Theodore Parker. She lived both in
General Dwight David Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was a General, U.S. President And a Journalist. He had a nickname and it was Ike, He was born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. His parents were: David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, He was the third of his parents seven sons they had. Dwight was a year and a half old; his family moved back to Abilene so David could take a better job at his brother-in-law's creamery, His younger brother had currently died when they were in Abilene from. Although his younger brother might have died when he was only 6-years-old, He still had happy memories from baseball and football in Abilene High School.
Biography of Laura Secord [pic] (from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online at Libraries and Archives Canada) INGERSOLL, LAURA (Secord), heroine; b. 13 Sept. 1775 in Great Barrington, Mass., eldest daughter of Thomas Ingersoll and Elizabeth Dewey; d. 17 Oct. 1868, at Chippawa (Niagara Falls, Ont.). When Laura Ingersoll was eight, her mother died, leaving four little girls. Her father remarried twice and had a large family by his third wife. In the American War of Independence, Ingersoll fought on the rebel side, but in 1795 he immigrated to Upper Canada where he had obtained a township grant for settlement.
Robert Montgomery Knight was born on October 25, 1940, in the small Ohio town of Orrville. His father was a railroad man, and died when Bobby was 29. His mother taught elementary school across the street from his boyhood home. It was a small railroad town, but not isolated, with little more than 5,000 people. Knight grew up closest to his maternal grandmother, who lived with the family.
Avery Brundage (/ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɨdʒ/; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism, and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family; when he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, he attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe.
Ben Franklin the person who discovered electricity will be remembered in American History. His discovery made an impact. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts to Mr. Josiah and Mrs. Abiah Franklin. Ben was the eighth child of ten from the same birth parents. From his father’s first marriage, he had seven siblings.