Why was the Election of 1800 Significant? Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions Why did Thomas Jefferson win the election of 1800? Because the initial Electoral College vote resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the members of the House of Representatives voted as states...
aIn the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republican victory in that election resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even...
President Bush’s re-election already has resulted in more funds for one of the election’s pivotal "moral values" issues--abstinence education. Congress last weekend included more than ＄131 million for abstinence programs in its ＄ 388 billion spending bill. This represents an increase of ＄ ...
It could also become a problem for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is up for re-election in October. The TPP will govern foreign exports, imports, and investment implicating several major sectors of the U.S. economy, including manufacturing, intellectual property, textiles and apparel...
What seems to be specific to Islam, however, is primarily the nature of this violence such as the civil wars that have resulted in the death of a considerable number of its most important historical figures, and secondly, the centuries-long duration of the bloody conflicts which very often ...
In the hour or so it took Mark Herron to walk his dogs on election night in 2000, the outcome of the U.S. presidential race plunged into uncertainty. As Herron, a Tallahassee attorney and legal analyst for the Democratic Party, left his house, the TV networks announced that Vice President...
Ahead of any meaningful traction on its foreign policy agenda, the Iranian government had to re-engage its electorate, something it has accomplished with this election. Tellingly, aside from current nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, seven of the eight candidates approved to run in this election camp...
The Republican Party platform in the presidential election of 1896 called for the annexation of Hawaii. Petitions for a popular vote in Hawaii were ignored. Fearing that he lacked two-thirds support for annexation in the Senate, the new Republican president, William McKinley, called for a joint...
aThe recent presidential election of November, 28th 2010 in Republic of Cote d’Ivoire which resulted in civil war that just ended last month caused a lot of people to be homeless, parentless and many more. 2010年11月的最近总统选举,第28在导致内战正义结束的上个月导致的很多人民无家可归, ...
After the election of President Abraham Lincoln, Virginia became the eighth state to secede from the Union, on April 17, 1861. In the following days, Union Army forces crossed the Potomac River to seize Alexandria, a slave port at the time, to prevent the Confederate Army from havin...