Governor of New Jersey

Benjamin Franklin is the first American citizen that is recognized by the people of the United States with excellent writing and very self-educated. He used to be involved with printing business, electrical experiment, and political interest. Benjamin Franklin and the Women, edited by Larry Tise, talks about women point-of-view that are related to Franklin; however this mainly explains that Franklin is the first person who enjoys flirting with women in many aspects such as love letters,…

The 1960’s is marked as the “Era of Civil Right Movement”, but it was much more than that. It was the Era where race became a person’s face value. You could be intelligent and respectable, you were outcasted because of darker skin. As explained by dsfsdf, Blacks were viewed in the 1960s as horrible people, if someone saw a black person on TV or walking around their first impression would be what 's he or she doing here or there.” Despite how hard many African Americans worked to demolish such…

On September 4, 1957, African American students stepped foot into an all-white high school for their first day of classes for the first time in United States history. These courageous students, known as the Little Rock Nine, put the court case Brown v. Board of Education (1954) into action when they arrived at Central High School. Under the case decision, segregation in public schools would be considered illegal; this resulted in disbelief and upheaval within the white communities. However, for…

claim that an increase in the minimum wage will negatively affect their business. They claim that in order to pay their employees higher wages they will have to lay off other workers or not hire new workers. The question of raising the federal minimum wage is being raised once again because of California and New York passing a bill to increase the minimum wage to $15 within their respected states. In the U.S. an increase in the minimum wage is necessary because it is no longer able to support…

John F Kennedy: (HIGH) Kennedy used the power appointed to him as president in an active way, he believed in an approach similar to the New Deal, only he brought creativity and imagination with his New Frontier idea for the government. He offered the American people his youth and his wit, he had new ideas he wanted to turn into government programs but decided to focus on issues that needed to be addressed first. One of those issues was the economy, it wasn’t expanding at a desirable rate.…

January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, discovered gold in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Although it was not the first time gold was found in California, this event caused the most migrations of people to California because it had the most substantial evidence that it was real. This was because Sam Brannan brought three wagon loads of gold to the nearby town of Coloma, which resulted in the news of gold being spread through the state, the country, and…

When asked about legalization, Bud Selig, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball, posed a weak rebuttal by citing Arnold Rothstein as a reason against legalization. Selig’s ideology is flawed in several ways. First of all, sports gambling has always been illegal in America, for all intents and purposes. Therefore, when Selig mentioned Rothstein it was a poor example because sports betting wasn’t legal when he fixed the World Series. Furthermore, it was easier to pull off such a caper…

his trip where he left spain with Santa Maria, Pinta and Nińa in 1492. He participated in several other expeditions to Africa as well. Made atlantic slave trade with his search for gold. He is important because he is credited with discovering the New World, which is now known as the Americas (even though this has been proven false, a large amount of people were not…

execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608” (“Part I: History of the Death Penalty”). He was executed for being a spy for Spain. The death penalty varied and each colony had different laws regarding it during colonial times. In Virginia, Governor Sir Thomas Dale enacted the Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws. Under these laws, one could be executed for very minor offenses. In Massachusetts Bay, the Capital Laws of New England went…

Warren, Joseph Carey, Dr, Elwood Mead, and Thomas Reid. Francis E. Warren was important to the convention as he was the second territorial governor. Warren was strong supporter of the territory seeking statehood. He was so passionate about the statehood he acted against Congress and set a date for the election of delegates for the convention. Joseph Carey was Warrens right hand man during the…