James A. Garfield

Conversational Joggers Paper Since my confinement to my home because of my illness, I was not able to go out to my favorite place in Garfield Park where I have my morning devotion and engage people walking and some jogging. However, I was able to call my neighbor, James, and ask him if he would be receptive to helping me with this assignment and he said he had the time. So, I briefly explained what the assignment consisted of and he was in agreement with answering the five questions survey. My

After that Meucci sued Alexander saying that he stole his idea. He didn’t win the case because he died before it was over and Alexander kept the patent. Another thing that he invented was the metal detector and he used it to try and save President James Garfield in eighteen eighty-one after he got shot in an assassination. Sadly he could not save his life and the President died. Alexander Graham Bell also experimented with kites and flying machines throughout his life. Alexander got ten thousand dollars

“Arcana imperii” “Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.” (Thomas Paine). Thomas Paine was an American philosopher, political activist, and revolutionary who encouraged the rebels to fight against the British during the time of the American Revolution. He believed that in order for one to experience the benefits of a powerful and secure nation, one must be willing and able to support the nation that supplies those benefits. In order for a

president, his wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, sadly died of pneumonia at the age of 42. After she died, he asked his sister, Mary Arthur McElroy, to be the first lady. He did not have a vice-president because he was the vice-president before President James A. Garfield’s assassination. His political party affiliation was Republican. During his presidency, he signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act on January 16, 1883 which was known as one of his greatest achievements. The Pendleton Civil Service Act protected

The Spanish-American War signified a turning point in American history. For the first time, the United States, which had once broken free from its colonial oppressor, became an imperialist power. The Treaty of Paris of 1898 allowed the United States to acquire Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from Spain, extending its landholdings into the Far East. Moreover, Americans questioned whether it was in the United States’ best interests to become an empire rivaling Great Britain. While some felt

industrialization, railroads and organized labor. Politics during 1877-1897 were intense, there was fighting between Stalwart and Half-Breed fractions in the Republican Party. The candidates that ran during this election was Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison also known as the “forgotten president”. Thought-out the years in the late 19th centuries

The Gilded Age will be remembered for the accomplishments of thousands of American thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, writers, and promoters of social justice. The Gilded Age and the first years of the twentieth century were a time of great social change and economic growth in the United States. Roughly spanning the years between Reconstruction and the dawn of the new century, the Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was born into an interesting family. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a noted speech specialist and taught elocution. As a young boy, Alexander studied under his grandfather, who was a speech teacher as well. So as Alex grew up, he got a job at a school for the deaf, and taught using his father’s methods. Alexander’s spark for invention was due to his deaf mother, and he wanted to be able to communicate with

The Gilded Age (1869-1896), cynically named so by Mark Twain, was a time of industrial growth and underwhelming political movement. After Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, the Union’s top general, was elected President of the United States during the 1868 election. Grant himself really wasn’t cut out to be a politician, however, with the support of the Republicans and the campaign slogan “let us have peace” that resonated with the still war scarred nation he won. Other one liners such as “vote as

forty-five presidents over two-hundred and thirty years. These forty-five presidents as history and the United States continues, will be the subject of analysts throughout history, who will try to rank them from the best to the worst. The book written by James Taranto and Leonard Leo, ‘Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House’ is one of these analytical books shoving the presidents into a ranking by using a survey of professors of history, law and political science to rate