History Take Home Exam (Coursework Sample)

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Part 1.
Andrew Jackson was the seventh U.S. President who played as a prevailing actor in American politics between the year 1826 and 1861 (Ray, 2014). He was born to an obscure parent and orphaned during his younger years. Jackson was not only known to be strong-willed and a fierce soldier but also as controversial, both as a military and politician.
The Indian Removal Act on 30th of May 1830 was the first major legislative departure from the U.S. policy that officially respects the American Indians’ legal and political rights (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018). This act has given the president an authorization to grant Indian tribes with unsettled western prairie land as a replacement for the state borders territories.
Henry Clay was an appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams on 7th of March 1825 (Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, 2018). He assumed his duties on the same day and worked in service until the 3rd of March 1829. Clay became famous being the “great pacificator” and contributed to the domestic policy.
The United States’ conflict between Mexico from 1846 until 1848 was caused by the annexation of Texas and the American settlers’ westward thrust (National Archives, 2018). Upon the assumption of the American presidency in 1845, there was an attempt by James K. Polk to secure Mexican agreement.
In between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the Civil War of 1861, the California Gold Rush is the most impactful event during the first half of the 19th century (PBS, 2018). The discovery of gold on the 24th of January 1848 at Sutter's Mill has exposed the biggest migration in the history of United States.
The biggest persons named as Calhoun, Webster, and Clay (U.S. History, 2018) had discussed even when the Congress still debated the contentious concerns during the summer. Every time Clay's Compromise was summoned for a vote, the majority was not in for a total support.
Named as “the Little Giant” due to his political status that exceeded his stature of five-foot-four, senator of Illinois Stephen A. Douglas continued as an important national symbol during his first Senate election in 1847 until his death in 1861 (United States Senate, 2018).
Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th U.S. President in 1861, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared a lifetime freedom for those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863 (The White House, 2018). He was the captain on the Black Hawk War, and served eight years in the legislature of Illinois.
Robert E. Lee was born on the 19th of January 1807 in Stratford, Virginia, U.S.A. (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018). He was considered as a confederate general of Northern Virginia’s Army, and the most successful southern military during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865.
On the 18th of December 1865, State Secretary William Seward had announced that slavery was constitutionally abolished in the U.S., also known as the ratification of the 13th Amendment (National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2018). The ratification of the 13th Amendment was the real start of the end of one the country’s unwanted eras.
Part 2.
After Andrew Jackson had found success in the Creek War, the U.S. War Department awarded him with a grant to perform as the U.S. Army Major General over the seventh Military District.
On the 6th of February 1837, John C. Calhoun made his opinions open to public by discussing about slavery and the Nation to the United States Senate’s future (Calhoun, 1837). When he pointed out that slavery was a positive good, there was a separate claim for slavery’s disassociated moral goodness.
A phrase created in the 1845 called Manifest Destiny had represented the philosophy that has driven the 19th-century expansion of U.S. territory. As the phrase also appeared in a July 1845 article of the New York Morning News, the origin was from the editor of both the Democratic Review and the Morning News, John O’Sullivan, during the time.
“What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” was posed by Frederick Douglass to a meeting of more than 500 abolitionists in New York of 1852. Entrance to the speech cost 12 cents, and the enthusiasm from the audiences of Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society has led to a unanimous voting of the speech endorsement at its end.
The series of formal political debates was known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates between Abraham Lincoln as the challenger, and Stephen A. Douglas as the incumbent. These debates had caused Abraham Lincoln to become a national prominence that directed him to be elected as U.S. President.
Sullivan Ballou's letter was known to have never mailed. Although the wife had received other now-famous letter from the battle, the questioned letter may be seen among Sullivan's effects when Governor William Sprague travel to take the remains of his state's sons who failed in battle.
William Sherman’s campaign in November 1864 was recalled as the March to the Sea, the optimum representation of the war’s engagement with agriculture. While historians have a continuous discussion on the effects of the campaign to the collective sociology of the South, the mantra of damage surfaces over agriculture in such cases.
Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural speech has been widely accepted as one of the most remarkable files in the history of America. It is said that the speech may not be read apart from a renewed conviction that it is the most impressive