1838 15,000 Cherokees are forcibly removed from Georgia. 4,000 die on the way to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears. 1836, Texas asked to be admitted to the United States, but since it was a slave state, Van Buren rejected the offer since it would upset the balance of slave and free ...
While Washington’s Birthday was an unofficial observance for most of the 1800s, it was not until the late 1870s that it became a federal holiday. Senator Stephen Wallace Dorsey ofArkansaswas the first to propose the measure, and in 1879 PresidentRutherford B. Hayessigned it into law. The...
Old ties from a new(s) perspective: diversity in the Dutch press coverage of the 2006 general election campaign This study examines the extent to which the highly diverse and volatile Dutch electorate received a diverse offer of political newspaper coverage during th... JANET TAKENS,NEL RUIGROK,...
aThe relationship has grown stronger over the years. We are at no better time than today, with a democratic Indonesia and two presidents with direct experience in each other’s country. 关系多年来增长更强。 我们比今天是在没有更好的时刻,与民主印度尼西亚和二位总统以直接经验在彼此的国家。[tran...
TheMissouri Compromise(1820), theCompromise of 1850, and theKansas-Nebraska Act(1854) were all about the distribution of States or Territories open to slavery, although it may not have been clear until the Missouri Compromise itself (Jefferson's "fire bell in the night") just how polarizing ...
In addition to his controversial military career, we know that Jackson killed a man in a duel to defend the honor of Jackson’s wife. Jackson fought more than one duel. He was definitely not a man to make mad! Additionally, Jackson was in numerous close-range battles as a soldier. His...
For perhaps no other country do we have so much 'evidence of the politician's belief in the importance of electoral systems as political weapons鈥 Between 1870 and 1940 the parliamentary electoral system was changed seven times, and betw... G Alexander - Palgrave Macmillan UK 被引量: 22发表...