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John Adams America Second President
1,576 wordsAdams was born in the village of Braintree (Quincy), Massachusetts, on Oct. 30, 1735. His father, also named John Adams, was a farmer, a deacon of the First Parish of Braintree, and a militia officer. His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, came from a family of Brookline and Boston merchants and physicians. Adams attended dame and Latin school. Besides wanting to become a farmer, his school prepared him for college and a career in the ministry. With some tutoring in Latin from Joseph Marsh, John pa...
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Thousands Of Years Town Meeting
1,593 wordsOnce upon a time, there was a town called D-town. IT was the home of all the gods of the ATL, the leading state in Fruitoria, the land of milk and homes. The people in Fruitoria enjoyed a higher standard of living than any other group of people in the world because the Atlien, the god of the whole world, originated from Fruitoria, the D-Town to be exact, and showed extreme favoritism upon these people. The Atlien had personally assigned his favorite cousin, Supacris, to look over and protect D-t...
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Presidential Election Registered Voters
1,501 wordsDifferent Kinds of Ballots The debate over the Florida ballots in the presidential election in 2000 began a nationwide interest in the kinds of ballots that have been used in the United States throughout the years. There have been many different tools utilized in voting, with varied efficiency and reliability. This paper will cover what some of these ballots are, as well as discuss some of their strengths and shortcomings. We will look at the history of the use of these different voting methods,...
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English Civil War Church Of England
1,685 words... The Parliament refused to hand them over. Charles planned to go personally to arrest the five Knights. But they received information of this in advance and fled. In 1637 Charles attempt to impose the Anglican liturgy in Scotland led to rioting by Presbyterian Scots. Charles was unable to quell the revolt, and in 1640 he convoked the so-called Short Parliament to raise an army and necessary funds. This body, which sat for one month (April-May), refused his demands, drew up a statement of publ...
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Boston Tea Party East India Company
1,525 wordsBoston Harbor, a teapot tonight. The Mohawks come (The Coming of the Revolution). On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place. This act was one of the causes for the start of the Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party came about because the Patriots of the Colonies would not stand for the unjust taxations brought upon them by the British. The Patriots decided to take action. The American Revolution was brought upon by many unjust taxations handed upon the colonists by the Br...
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Bill Of Rights Samuel Adams
1,164 wordsBen Crack Samuel Adams (17221803 Samuel Adams, American statesman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 27 th of September 1722. He was a second cousin to the John Adams. His father, whose Christian name was also Samuel, was a wealthy and prominent citizen of Boston, who took an active part in the politics of the town, and was a member of the Caucus (or Caulkers) Club, with which the political term caucus is said to have originated; his mother was Mary Field. Young Adams graduated from Harv...
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