Andrew Simmons

John Wilkes Booth was a noted actor and Confederate sympathizer. He had planned initially to kidnap President Lincoln, hoping to exchange him for Confederate prisoners. Plans were made among a small group of conspirators to carry out the kidnapping in March 1865, on a day when Lincoln was scheduled to attend a function at a Washington hospital. At the last moment, the president’s plans were changed and Booth’s plot was neutralized. On April 11, two days after Lee`s surrender, Lincoln spoke to a…

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 and died in 1845. As he grew up he was living in poverty. But later in his life he became wealthy as a very good Tennessee lawyer. And from that practice of being a lawyer, he started getting interested in the government and became a young politician in 1812. But he started being a politician when war broke with the US and Britain. He earned a lot of national fame because of his leadership in the conflict of the war and became a military hero. He is also soon to…

Imagine being forced out of a home and forced to march to new land. That is exactly what the Cherokee tribe had to go through. The Cherokee Tribe wanted peace with the United States and wanted to live peacefully without battles, however Andrew Jackson, who was currently president, wanted the Cherokee Tribe out. The Cherokee Tribe even went to Supreme Court so they would not be forced out of their land, but it was the president’s orders to force the tribe out. So, they packed what they had and…

River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. The Indian removal act was passed by congress and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The law was approved by the president to negotiate with the Indian tribes in the southern united states for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. In 1814 President Andrew Jackson commanded the United States military forces to defeat the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creek…

If tasked with the development of a new colony on an uninhabited planet, I would bring Ben Carson, Les Stroud, and my best friend, Ben Roberts, with me. Each person would have a specific job, and Ben Carson’s is one of the most important. Ben Carson is one of the most brilliant men on earth. Rising up from poverty, Carson worked excruciatingly hard to turn his dreams of being a doctor into a reality. Furthermore, he accomplished the impossible when he separated Siamese twins joined at the head…

Although most people see them as “robber barons”, the things they did was to some point for their personal wealth as well as for the good of this country. What most people don’t see is that what they did played an enormous role in developing America. Andrew Carnegie is the perfect example of a “rags to riches” type of person. He was born on 1835 in Scotland. Due to financial problems and instability, he and his family moved to the United States in hope of a better future. One of his many jobs…

Treaty six was introduced in September 1876 and it lasted until 1898 with the addition of its’ last adhesions. It was signed by Crown representatives and Cree, Assiniboine and Ojibwa leaders on August 23, 1876 at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan and Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan. The treaty boundaries extend across central portions of present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1876, the Medicine Chest was offered within Treaty 6. It had promised medicine chests on every reserve for those bands that sign…

Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is amongst one of the most famous apparitions experienced in The White House. After Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, many American’s mourn in the president’s death. Around this time Lincoln’s ghost began to appear to the public. “Chief of a Nation of Ghosts: Images of Abraham Lincoln's Spirit in the Immediate Post-Civil War Period” by Kimberly Kutz provides the idea that a president’s ghost is long lasting, which may be a reason as to why the president’s spirit is still…

In 18, 1814 he joined a man named Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in waxhaws. Also, he was the 7th president of the United States. His nickname was called “Hickory’’, he was the president on March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837. Davy did his best work to oppose much of what Andrew Jackson was working, and especially in the Indian Removal act. But then Davy got defeated in the Indian Removal…

“The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell are two poems classified as carpe diem. Carpe diem is Latin phrase for “Seize the day”. Both speakers use the ideals of carpe diem to persuade the auditor to live in the moment. They do this by saying that the auditor is young and beautiful and that they are meant to be. Although both speakers try their best to persuade the auditor to have sex with them, the speaker in “To his coy mistress” impresses the auditor the best. In…