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    History Of Bureaucracy

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    The original bureaucracy of the federal government consisted only of employees from three small departments, State, Treasury, and War. The executive branch employs today almost three million people. Not only have the numbers of bureaucrats grown, but also the methods and standards for hiring and promoting people have changed dramatically. Given the size of the bureaucracy, it is difficult to imagine a statistically typical bureaucrat. As a whole, however, the permanent bureaucracy is more…

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    Indian Removal

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    natives were not given time to gather supplies for the journey. Instead the troops would come into their villages and hurriedly gather them so the soldiers could steal everything that remained in the villages. This also meant that in the camps natives had little access to food or water. In addition to this, the natives were not allowed to leave the camp for any reason. This made for very unsanitary conditions. All of these factors combined to greatly weaken the natives health and spirit. (Boggs…

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    unlimited ruling power. This, of course, was their core value, that is opposing the rule of the president Andrew Jackson. Their hatred for him originates from his victories in 1828 and 1832 in which he shattered their own sibling party, The National Republic Party.…

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    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States (March 4th , 1861-April 14th , 1865). He was president during the Civil War. Lincoln was watching the play Our American Cousin in Ford’s Theater when he got assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was an Actor. He was also part of the Know Nothing Party who wanted to limit immigration to the United States. During the Civil war he joined the Virginia militia, and was a Confederate spy. According to biography.com Booth was…

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    As great as Abraham Lincoln was, he never went to college and did not earn a degree. He was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1809. Lincoln suffered from depression many times as a child, but he went on to become the 16th president after winning the 1860 election. During that election, President Lincoln did not win a single southern state. He also did not win the popular vote during the election. President Lincoln’s legacy has a positive impact on American society. Everything did not come easy…

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    Killing Lincoln

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    Prepared, Booth had both two extra guns loaded and evidence linking all of his conspirators to the murder. Booth waits behind the presidential box, with Lincoln’s box guard nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, George Azerdot would knock on Vice President Andrew Johnson’s door and shoot him when he answered. Also, Lewis Powell would attempt to stab Secretary Steward, only to end up injuring Seward and his family severely. O’Reilly transfers back to the theatre to describe Lincoln’s downfall. Booth shot…

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    Throughout history, humans have invaded and conquered the lands of other human beings, with only the interest of themselves in mind. Invasions ranging from the time of the Persian Empire to the settling of the New World exemplify the maltreatment of other humans for personal gain as a recurring process. At the beginning of the cycle is the Persian Empire, a prime example of how humans invaded and conquered previously owned land for self-interest. In order to have the largest empire and increase…

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    Life Lesson Analysis

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    connect with my lessons, because this is something that we find very wrong today. However in that time period, this was considered normal. This might be because it wasn’t viewed as wrong in that time period, or nobody told them it was wrong. In 1830, Andrew Jackson passed a law referred to as the indian removal act of 1830. This law made a lot of natives leave their homes and move west. A lot of them died during the process (webquest 6).This ties into my…

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    you ever wonder Why andrew jackson was an important person in history? The battle of new Orleans was a battle between America and Great Britain. The British though it would give them control of the vast majority if the newly acquired Louisiana purchase. It was an important event even though the treaty of ghent was signed after they battled. During the battle America had no trained soldiers Great britain had lots of soldiers who were trained. Despite the number difference Andrew jackson still…

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    Through the people's eyes Andrew Jackson was a representative figure of that era.The people of this era were intrigued by his leadership and his huge roll in political power. Jackson had a huge influence on the American society in this era. Washington McCartney in his document , Eulogy stated that he was “ he was embodiment of the true spirit of the nation in which he lived.” With that being said Jackson was the man of his time. He established a democratic party and he was its own leader. Also…

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