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    The pesticide control act on 1972 was introduced to the House of Representatives on Sept. 16 1971. They define protection of health and environment as control over any “substantial adverse effects on environmental value while taking into account the public interest, including benefits from the use of the pesticide.” William Poage introduced the bill and it was reported to the agriculture committee in the house, which Representative Poage was Chairman of. The committee searched for a balance…

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    Abraham Lincoln’s face is possibly one of the most famous in the world, and his beard is probably the most famous. It appears on pennies, five dollar bills, and countless Presidents’ Day sale advertisements. In fact, there are more representations of this famous face, and beard, than there are individuals who have ever lived on the face of the planet. Yet, it is a little known fact that our sixteenth president didn’t even grow a beard until the last five years of his life! Abraham Lincoln was…

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    another, picking u schooling in Indiana and Illinois as opportunities arose. Lincoln acknowledged that slavery was evil but contended that it was the unavoidable consequence of black racial inferiority. The only way to get rid of evil, he believed, was to prevent its expansion into the territories, forcing it to die out naturally. Douglas’s position favoring popular sovereignty flew in the face of Lincoln’s designs as so, at a debate In Freeport Illinois Lincoln asked Douglas to explain how the…

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    little motivation when it came to my schoolwork. After my first report card of first semester, I knew that I had to work much harder to reach my goals of going to college. By senior year, I graduated as an honors student. When starting college at Illinois State University, this freshman year was going to be different, I took initiative to work hard and made the grade that made it possible for me to apply for the Honors Program. The Honors Program supports campus and community involvement and my…

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    change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose." His source of power came from being president of the United States of America. Lincoln was born in Kentucky and later as a adult, moved to Illinois and became a lawyer. He was active in politics and elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He would make speech's about how slavery is wrong and he was apart of the Antislavery Society. Lincoln adamantly opposed slavery and joined the antislavery Republican Party, and eventually he…

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    Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Kentucky. When he was a boy, his family was very poor. He had a brother and a sister, but his brother died in childhood. They grew up in a small log cabin house, with just one room inside. When Lincoln was 7 years old, his family moved to Indiana and later to Illinois. So, Lincoln didn’t get much formal education. In his early years, he was influenced by his father who refused to own slaves even though it was legal at the time. Even though he didn’t go…

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    slave-holding states. A congressman from New York called James Talmadge created a bill to have Missouri restrict slavery with having slaves being freed at the age of twenty-five. Ultimately, he wanted Missouri to be a free state. The bill passed the House of Representatives but did not pass the Senate. Henry Clay from Virginia coordinated the Missouri Compromise, stating that Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would join the Union as a free state. The Missouri Compromise was…

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    Abraham Lincoln, from the backwoods of Hodgenville Bluegrass State, rose to become one among the best presidents of the us. throughout his conceive to keep the Union within the warfare, he gained a lot of power and authority than any president before him. He was a superb politician, and was perpetually looked upon for leadership as a result of he place reason and thoughtful choices behind his word. Abraham Lincoln was born on day, 1809. He was planned during a cabin designed by his father,…

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    Life of Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln on February 12, 1809 (Zall 7). He was born in Hardin County, Kentucky. He has two siblings: Sarah, born in 1807, and Thomas, born in 1812 and died three days after birth (Brookhiser 15). His father was a respectable and prosperous farmer and a carpenter. He did not own any slaves nor did he drink. He was a good father and he trained, taught, and shaped Abraham into the man he would become. We do not know very much about…

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    area situates in Illinois. Abraham Lincoln served a solitary term in the U.S. Place of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. At the point when Abraham Lincoln reported his backing for the privilege of African Americans to vote, John Wilkes Booth, a devotee for the Southern reason, chose to assassinate him. Lincoln was killed on April 14, 1865 by a Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford 's Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln was taken from the theater to a Petersen House over the road…

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