President: William McKinley Political Party: Republican Years as President: 4 Years Defeated Party: Benjamin Harrison Political Background: When the Civil War ended, McKinley returned to Ohio to begin his career in law and politics. He studied law at Albany Law School and, after passing the bar exam in 1867, began his legal practice in Canton, Ohio. At a Canton picnic in 1869—the year he entered politics—McKinley met and began courting his future wife, Ida Saxton, marrying her two years later. He was twenty-seven and she was twenty-three at the time. Although practicing law was his profession, being involved with the Republican organization secured his future.
War Veteran Interview My name is Ernesto Contreras, and out of my own curiosity have; decided to interview my grandfather and tell his story on his war experiences from the beginning of boot camp, until his last day of service. Arthur Cameron was born in phoenix, Arizona, in 1946. He is a Native American and had been very athletic in high school, playing on sports teams like basketball, track and field and cross-country. In the year 1963, the United States had been drawn into the war in Southeast Asia that would be later known as the Vietnam War. Arthur came from an era where there was a military obligation (draft).
Over the next few months, Lewis and Jefferson had many different meetings with all political figures trying to get this new form of fur trade to happen. In addition, Lewis traveled across the east coast, to Philadelphia, Virginia, and St. Louis, where each city insisted on throwing him a ball or feast in his honor. Over the course of almost two years, Lewis and Clark with the Corps of Discovery explored the Louisiana Territory, and returned with both good and bad news. While there wasn’t a direct water route to the Pacific Ocean, there were numerous animal species that could be used to benefit the fur
George Washington’s Early Life Today, George Washington is mostly known for being a war hero, leading the continental army to victory against the British as commander in chief, and also being known to be our first president of the United States. Most people don’t realize that Washington’s earlier life is what got him to be what we know him as today, war hero and our first president. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22nd, 1732, Washington was the oldest son out of six children by Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington, which was Augustine’s second wife. George Washington’s father died in 1743 when he was eleven (sc94.ameslab.gov). After Washington’s father died, He went to live with Lawrence Washington, his half brother.
Proclamation CELERATION of SALVADOR VALLEJO 200th Birthday, Napa Co Founder, to inspire learning. WHEREAS, the question, Are you USA PROUD? is the call-to-national duty to fix the tragedy of people not knowing the story of your town and the building of our nation, WHEREAS, January 1, 2013-14 marks the 200th birthday year of Jose Manuel Salvador Vallejo (1 January 1813 – February 18, 1876), the Californio founder of Napa County in US history, and WHEREAS, Salvador lived as a military commander and pioneer rancher, under the four flags of Spain, Mexico, the revolutionary Bear Flag Republic and the United States of America, and, WHEREAS, born a subject of Spain at Monterey, Alta California Province, Salvador was the eleventh child of thirteen children of Ignacio Vallejo from Jalisco-Mexico, and Marie Antonia Lugo of San Luis
We were found by a Cheyenne warrior who took us to his tribe. I grew up there; I was a strong man. The leader of the tribe Old Lodge Skins gave me the name “Little Big Man” because I was short but very brave. Years later I started living with the Pendrake, a white family; but then I left and got married with a Swedish woman called Olga. Trying to start a new life, we went further west suggested by the famous cavalry officer George Armstrong Custer.
Sometime in the early 16th century a letter was written to King Charles I of Spain. This had not been an ordinary letter; it was the letter that at the time defined, a declaration of achievement, a symbol of superiority, and a prize of expansion. The letter had addressed the King about, the successful expedition, the gullible settlers, and the wide array of land ready to be colonized. Hernán Cortés had written this important letter. Originally a poor Spaniard, Cortés was born in Medellin, Spain.
This brought on concern, now people thought that they would buy them for ten dollars then turn around and sell them to the slaughter houses. President Bush is in control of this issue and he is getting rid of all the wild horses that we have left. “Wild horses and burros merit man’s protection historically,” Nixon said, “for they are a living link with the days of the conquistadors, through the heroic times of the western Indians and pioneers, to our own day when the tonic of wilderness seems all too scarce. More than that, they merit it as a matter of ecological right – as anyone knows who has ever stood awed at the indomitable spirit and sheer energy of a mustang. “ President Bush should really pay attention to the views that President Nixon had on this matter and also the way that other people view this matter.
Democrats at the national level were battling Republicans' attempts to assure that black citizens could exercise their rights, including the right to vote. So, in order to promote settlement, bring an "uplifting" element to Wyoming politics, and coincidentally offset black men's votes William Bright passed the woman suffrage’s bill. In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act and many farmers took the opportunity to farm in the west. Farming in the west proved to be difficult, machines like the McCormick reaper were revolutionizing farming, making it not only possible, but virtually mandatory for farmers to plow and plant and harvest more acres. Drought years became more and more common where crops withered in the fields and cattle died of thirst.
This fulfilled his life and gave him great satisfaction. Peyton Rous was born on October 5, 1879 in Baltimore, MD to Charles Rous, a grain exporter, and Frances Wood, the daughter of a Texas judge. According to The Journal of Experimental Medicine, “His mother’s ancestors were Huguenots who settled in Virginia after the Edict of Nantes. Just before the Civil War in the 1860’s her father, foreseeing disaster, bought land in Texas, moving his big family there after it ended. There he became a judge «riding three counties» and the family throve” (page 1).