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Fremont. Sounds familiar right? John Charles Fremont was an outrageous mountain man. He built traps, he caught his food, killed his food, and got skins from the animals that he killed. He was amazing! John C. Fremont, to me, was a very amazing mountain man and I think he was a very brave person. One thing that is cool about him is that he helped produce the scientific map of the American West. He was also a Republican Candidate for the president of the United States. When he was a Republican…

By the 1850s, the two parties system was in crisis because moderate compromises such as the Missouri Compromise in 1820s by the “great pacificator,” Henry Clay of Kentucky could no longer appease both sides’ extreme radicals, as the territories kept getting westward expanded and ordained by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. (Brands, p.295) The next generation of Congressmen such as Wilmot Proviso’s argument and Lewis Cass’s “Popular Sovereignty” failed to forge compromises over the Republican’s…

Writing used to be so simple. In elementary school, writing was the easiest thing. It all began with the basics, identifying alphabet letters and their sounds, learning that letters and their sounds go together to form words, and writing our names. Some examples include learning how to cross T’s and dot I’s, or even forming simple sentences such as, the cat ran. In middle and high school, those simple sentences became complex sentences. In college, those complex sentences now become…

that position for eleven years. He gave up his spot so John C. Calhoun could take over and run in the senate for a little bit. After he left the senate he was the governor in Charleston and then was the mayor for one year. After he was the mayor he took his focus on the railroad company and which was set to link Charleston to major…

Are guns to easy to access in America? I believe so. No other developed country suffers from as much massacres as the States. One of the main reasons for this is the laws on guns. In most countries around the world, guns are banded and the laws preventing people from having the guns are very strict and have huge consequences if you are caught in possession of one. However, many believe gun control in America isn’t tight enough, through history we have seen many mass shootings and sadly these…

From the Articles of Confederation to the ratification of the Constitution in June, 21 1788, the concept of the power that is held between the state and the federal government in the United States was that of a blur. An example of this blur was the Nullification Crisis in which it was strongly supported by South Carolinian and vice President John Caldwell Calhoun and took place from 1832 to 1833 under the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Influenced heavily by constitutional philosophies such as the…

the last decade was implementation of the Incident Management System. Failure to implement and train to industry standards can be very costly to both the organization as well as all that are involved. An example of this is the tragic loss of 9 Charleston, S.C. firefighters whose lives were lost in a structure fire in 2007. The Center for Disease Control summarized a report from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that examined the disaster and of 43 recommendations…

Antebellum and Civil War America (1793-1865) William Dedman Eastern Kentucky University African/African-American Studies Program GE Essay Assignment Dr. Norma Threadgill-Goldson Margaret Walker said, “Handicapped as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from our African past are still intact.” By making this statement, Mrs. Walker was reflecting on…

It is not often that a slave owner and her African American slave become companions in Charleston, South Caroline during the 17th century. In the excellent novel, The Invention of Wings, Sarah Grimké, daughter of a white, wealthy jurist befriends her slave, Handful at the young age of eleven. Knowing their peculiar friendship may spark a dangerous situation in their conservative family and hometown, they continue to remain closely bonded with great respect towards own another. Although the girls…

The British military began focusing their efforts southward in America. The new commander of the British army in America was General Sir Henry Clinton. There was less Loyalists in the south than originally thought by General Sir Henry Clinton. The British efforts forced some undecided colonists the support and join the Patriots. The British and Loyalist soldiers acted harshly and allowed some Loyalists to switch and support the Patriots as well. In November of 1778, the British attacked…