John Adams was a man who believed in the law‚ and in fair play. If the soldiers could not get a fair trial‚ were we any better than the British and their high handed ways. John Adams knew he had to be the one‚ only a known radical could defend the soldiers. In the end‚ John Adams got most of the soldiers acquitted and the rest reduced to minor charges. The right by trial by jury was one of the rights the radicals were defending. The British were trying to limit trial by jury because too many smugglers
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1. Youth and Education Douglas Adams was a classic case of genius growing up‚ from taking longer than usual to develop basic skills to quickly morphing into an incredible writer. Born in 1952 in Cambridge‚ he was reportedly slow to develop‚ “I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside‚ because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on on the outside!” (__________). However
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After a hard fought battle in the election of 1800‚ John Adams and the Federalists lost to Thomas Jefferson‚ a Republican. After this defeat‚ the Federalists wanted to retain as much power as they could. So‚ before Jefferson and the other Republicans entered office‚ Adams passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. The act made a series of specific changes to the Judiciary system‚ that would leave it dominated by Federalists. It reduced the amount of Supreme Court justices from six to five and removed their
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Mark Puls’ Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution brought to light one of the most undervalued yet highly influential founding fathers of the American revolutionary era. Adams is widely regarded as one of the first fervent idealists of American independence. one of the most outspoken‚ persistent‚ agitators of that time Puls biography details the life of Samuel Adams in a chronological order of events starting with his upbringing in the Adams’ family. His father was a well respected brewer
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local British tea sellers out of business due to no customers. This led the Sons of Liberty to overthrow 342 crates of tea from the East India Company into the Boston Harbor. Samuel Adams is the key leader in this protest because he was against the Tea Act which was pushing “taxation without representation”. Adams organized the Sons of Liberty and the Boston Committee of
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John Quincy Adams was a great man but didn’t accomplish much in his presidential years. He was born on July 11‚ 1767‚ in Braintree Massachusetts‚ but is now called Quincy in honor of him. He became president from a close race that the House of Representatives had to decide. Sadly‚ he died in 1848 at the age of 80. Before John Quincy Adams became the sixth president of the united states‚ he did some weird things as a child. He saw the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hill close to his farm with his mom
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Ansel Adams was born February 20‚ 1902‚ in San Francisco‚ California. Ansel took an interest in music at an early age. He taught himself how to play the piano and enjoyed the surroundings of nature. In 1916‚ he and his parents went on a trip to Yosemite National Park where he received his first camera‚ the Kodak Box Brownie. His first photographs recorded their vacation. Ansel fell in love with Yosemite National Park and would return every summer. He worked four summers as the caretaker of the park’s
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Jackson and John Quincy Adams‚ the presidential election of 1828 was highlighted by the split of electoral votes in New York and Maryland. Andrew Jackson had swept through the west‚ gaining every single state‚ and even got Pennsylvania. The winner from the election of 1824 by the ‘corrupt’ bargain‚ John Q. Adams‚ had gained the support of all the northeast states. However‚ the real surprise was the split electoral votes in Maryland and New York. The northern states loved Adams because he favored elites
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Rio Hondo College Speech to Captain John Smith William Ashby 10-14-13 Powhatan‚ “Speech to Captain John Smith‚” The World Turned Upside Down. Boston: Bedford‚ 1994. The message that Powhatan delivered to John Smith in his speech was one of peace. Powhatan told John Smith that he has seen three generations of his people die. The Chief told John Smith that he has seen many years of war and peace. Powhatan explained that he was getting old and tired. He was concerned that his
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Andrew Jackson Prior to winning the presidential election in 1828‚ Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams shared deep hatred for each other. When Jackson won the presidential election‚ his popularity created the age of Jacksonian democracy. It replaced the Jeffersonian democracy‚ where Jefferson had created a nation governed by middle and upper-class educated property holders. Jackson was a symbol of an age because he represented the common man‚ was a beloved hero and was a leader who shared similar
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