Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Top 10 Most Painful Topics

1. Northwest Ordinance -The banning of slavery in the territory had the effect of establishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
2. James Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817) and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
3. Fugitive Slave Act was laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. In an effort to dislodge them, the US government waged the Seminole Wars, in which a total of about 1,500 U.S. soldiers died.
4. Volta invents electric battery was an Italian physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in 1800.
5. War of 1812 there was many immediate stated causes for the declaration of war.
6. Louisiana purchase there population is estimated to be 97,00 an the 1810 census
7. John Adams with his one term as president he was very frustrated with all the battles in his own federalist party which Alexander Hamilton had the bi-partisan disagreements with Jeffersonian republicans.
8. Cherokee “Trail of Tears a lot of the natives suffered from disease and died.
9. Library of Congress After much of the original collection had been destroyed during the War of 1812; Thomas Jefferson sold 6487 books to the library, his entire personal library, in 1815.
10. Alien and Sedition Act to seditious attacks from weakening the government.

1 comment:

  1. Some of these are positive and not negative. Please read back over the instructions for this assignment, or go over it with me. You need to explain what the event or thing involved and explain how it was painful. All of this needs to be in YOUR words-not copied and pasted. Please re-do. As is for this list 5/30 points.

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