He defended slavery, and defended the positive good. Calhoun died March 31, 1850 in Washington, D.C. Henry Clay was born in Hanover County Virginia, on April 12 in 1777. He started off as a lawyer and moved to Lexington, Kentucky. His political career started in 1803, when he was elected into the Kentucky General Assembly. Clay pushed for liberalization of the states constitution, and he opposed the Alien and sedition Acts strongly.
This is one of the ways Jefferson knows his family. In 1801 Jefferson asks Lewis to be his personal secretary, which Lewis accepts and moves to the President’s residence. Jefferson has been President of the United States for over a year anticipating the westward expansion of America. Jefferson finally gets his wish when the United Stated buys the Louisiana territory from France. This purchase doubles the geographic size of America.
He had a whole list of relatives, and lawyers in the county that would actually guide and tutor him to success. Lincoln would practice with all the judges and lawyers of Coles County, but was actual partners with Orlando Bell Ficklin and Usher Ferguson Linder. Both of these men were of the Whig party, and then later would join the Democrat party, after the Whigs dissolved. Lincoln, of course was a Whig and then helped start the Republican Party of Illinois. Ficklin was a year older than Lincoln, while Linder was born the same year as Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln Born near Hodgenville, Kentucky. on February 12, 1809, Lincoln was the central figure of the Civil War, and is regarded by many historians and laymen as not only the foremost of our presidents but also the greatest American of all time. With scant formal education, from a poor family, this frontier lawyer held the nation together through the worst crisis in its history. A leader of weaker will or fainter vision might well have failed either to win the Civil War or end the institution of slavery. With good reason, he is viewed as the savior of the American union and the "Great Emancipator."
He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, musician, farmer, and writer. As an architect, he was known for designing Washington DC, the Virginia Capitol, his Monticello estate, and the University of Virginia, which he founded. Jefferson served as Vice President under John Adams. He took the oath of office on March 4, 1801. One of Jefferson’s achievements was allowing the Alien and Sedition Acts to end with out renewal.
These figures are the folk hero Johnny Appleseed, the aristocrat frontier Margaret Blennerhasset, Lewis and Clark explorer York, Iroquois Chief John Logan, and Oliver Hazard Perry. Perry will be featured on June 27, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at Urbana University. Oliver Hazard Perry was born on August 23, 1785 in South Kingston, Rhode Island to United States Naval officer and wife. At a young age, Perry would sail with his father all over the world. He soon became a commissioned lieutenant in the United States Army.
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. His mother was Jane Randolph and his father was Peter Jefferson. He was a planter and surveyor. Jefferson was multi-talented. He was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author, architect, inventor, and statesman.
He also has several major compositionsto hiscredit, is activeasan adjudicator, and is a clinician for the Slingerland Drum Company. It was over 200 years ago in the early dawn of April 19, 1775, that teenage drummer William Diamond and fifer Jonathan Herrington led their unit into battle at Lexington with a lively tune named for an emblem of the revolution, The White Cockade. One militiaman noted in his diary, "We marched before them with our d rums and fifes agoing...We had grand music. ''I From this famous morning until today the drum has been an important element in American military life and it is from this heritage that the p h e n o m e n o n of the American drum and bugle corps eventually evolved. 116 The use of drums to signal troops did not, of course, originate in the American colonies but can be traced back at least as far as the eleventh century.
Because his audiences had a wide range of political views, Lincoln calculated his words very carefully. Lincoln’s greatest tests of oratorical power took place at Gettysburg in July 1863, and at his Second Inaugural Address in March 1865 (1-3,308). Wynton Hall writes that when Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven Southern states seceded from the United States. They formed the Confederate States of America. The other 25 states that supported the United States Federal government were mostly northern states.
In my opinion, the Gettysburg Address is such a great speech because of its power opening, brevity, and a perusable ending. First of all, Abraham Lincoln started his speech with a powerful opening, which impressed people of different diversities. For example, the quote “Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” shows his favor for an equal society. In the quote, Lincoln mean that a long time ago, people fought for the liberty of the United States, and they believed that all men are equal. Lincoln ensured that all people including the black and white people, are created equally.