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James Monroe General Washington
491 wordsThe following is about the fifth president of the U. S. A. James Monroe was born in 1758 in Westmoreland county, Virginia. In 1776 he served as an officer in the continental army, and saved the Battle of Trenton against the British. During the battle he was standing at his post and a farmer came out and told them to get of his property. The battle was on Christmas day. Monroe and the other soldiers with him identified themselves as American soldiers and the farmer apologized. Later the man who w...
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James Monroe Foreign Minister
652 wordsJames Monroe was born in Westmoreland county Virginia, on April 28 th, 1758. His father was Spence Monroe. He came from a Scottish family, but settled in Virginia in the mid sixteen hundreds. James was the eldest of four boys and one girl. In 1786, Monroe married a seventeen-year-old girl named Elizabeth Kort right on June 30, 1768. Together they had two daughters named Eliza and Maria, and a son but he died at the age of two. James Monroe had a good education. He studied at home with a tutor un...
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Monroe Doctrine Western Hemisphere
1,110 wordsThe Monroe Doctrine came in the response to the belief that Europe may take steps to restore certain colonies to Spain. Also, Britian was opposed to the idea of Spanish intervention. Its foreign secretary, George Canning, proposed an ad hoc alliance with U. S. minister Richard Rush. The Monroe Doctrine was a decision which greatly influenced the world and the was it has developed to today. James Monroe initiated this policy which was aimed to limit European expansion into the Western Hemisphere....
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20 Th Century Carnegie Hall
1,701 wordsBillie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz singers of the 20 th century. Billie Holidays innovative phrasing about her life experiences in her music makes her one of the most influential jazz lyricists of the 20 th century. The emotional intensity that she brought into the words she sang was always very memorable and sometimes almost scary; she often lived the words she sang. Billie Holiday was born Eleanor Harris in Baltimore, Maryland on April 7, 1915. She did not have a stable life. Her f...
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Monroe Doctrine Western Hemisphere
519 wordsThe proclamation, known as the Monroe Doctrine, was issued by American President James Monroe, and on December 2, 1823 it was presented to American Congress during the Presidents annual address. By this doctrine America expressed its requirement to stop any European colonization and interference into the affairs of American countries. This doctrine started a new epoch in American diplomatic foreign policy and had considerable influence on future political development of the society of the whole ...
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Franklin D Roosevelt Supreme Court Justice
4,242 wordsThe US Government U. S. Government (History) The United States Government A collection of short reports all dealing with the United States Government. William Jefferson Clinton William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William J. Blythe III was killed in an automobile collision just two months before William? s birth. At age four, William Jefferson Blythe IV was legally adopted by his mothers second husband, Roger Clinton, making him William Jefferson ...
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Secretary Of State James Monroe
498 wordsHe James Monroe James Monroe He was the fifth president of the United States (1817 - 1825) and the last of the so-called Virginia dynasty of U. S. presidents. Monroe was president during the Era of Good Feelings. James Monroe was one of five children born to Spence Monroe, a carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones Monroe. In 1775 Monroe left college to go to war. Monroe served in Congress for three years. In 1784, during a congressional recess, Monroe journeyed through the Western territories. After the ...
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