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Parsons and Matthew Maury. Meriwether went to Washington and Lee university where

Institution: Personal Responsibility The Purchase of Louisiana posed several important moral dilemmas for American President Thomas Jefferson; among these were the means of achieving Republican government states’ rights and strict constructionism which he relented. Constructionist and a strong supporter of states ' rights and, therefore, the action of purchasing Louisiana presented a moral dilemma, he was either to stick to his principle or compromise and save the Republican government. President Jefferson

work with them enables one to understand the technology that makes it all possible. Understanding this, I chose to do my undergraduate study in Information Technology. While reasoning my intentions to pursue MS in Computer Science at your esteemed university, I would like to throw some light on my career till now. From my schooling, I

Parents—the time has come again; summer is ending. As with all things, the end of one thing triggers the beginning of something else; in this case, school season. Many of you have children either in or entering high school. Given both this and the impending school year, there is an issue I feel should be discussed: college credit in high school. While there are many different programs that vary slightly in their exact method, they all work along the same basic premise: a student takes a class while

Grant’s family had limited money for college. The United States Military Academy at West Point offered Grant a deal: free education in return for Grant’s Army service after graduating. Grant’s father applied for an appointment at the Academy for his son, without telliing Grant. Grant was accepted. When Grant was

should continue to exist in the nation. The Declaration promised life, liberty and property to all those who lived in the United States, however politicians knew that plantations and the agriculture business would not thrive without a source of cheap labor. During the late part of the eighteenth century as well as early part of the nineteenth century, the United States drastically grew geographically. Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio were all admitted into the union between 1791-1803. However, the

The Mississippi River system was the highway of the western part of the Confederate and United States. At the beginning of the war, the South controlled the Mississippi from the meeting of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers at Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana. There were several important rebel strongholds along the Mississippi, including Memphis, Island Number Ten, on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Union realized that controlling the Mississippi River was essential

On their way there, it was said that they killed sixty whites before being overwhelmed by local whites and a militia and lost their lives. After the capture, trial, and death by hanging of Nat Turner, many southern states started to increase and stricter their slave laws to prevent this from happening again (Black History Milestones). This is just a small spark to a fight for abolition and the Underground Railroad to freedom. An early abolition movement in the North

gold miners in California formed the first ski clubs in the United States. On June 2nd, a series of fires destroyed several million dollars worth of property in San Francisco. In 1851, Cornelius Vanderbilt established a steam ship route from New York to California. In 1852, Congress established the Oregon territory. A year later, a San Francisco club introduced the Irish sport of hurling into the United States. That same year a yellow fever epidemic killed 5,000 people in New

Clay in passing the Missouri Compromise of 1850. After four years and continuous rise in political standing, Douglas devised the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. The Bill opened further territory in the West for expansion. Able to benefit from expanding railroad transportation, he devised the Bill in a way that promoted Popular Sovereignty. He argued that slavery should be decided by local territory or state, and congress did not possess the right to mandate what is right for individual states. Within the Kansas-Nebraska