General William Hull

(noun)

William Hull (June 24, 1753 – November 29, 1825) was an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution, was Governor of Michigan Territory, and was a general in the War of 1812, for which he is best remembered for surrendering Fort Detroit to the British.

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  • The British Strategy

    • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
    • By August, Hull and his troops, numbering 2,500 with the addition of 500 Canadians, retreated to Detroit, where they surrendered to a force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native Americans led by British Major General Isaac Brock and Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
    • On October 13, United States forces were again defeated at the Battle of Queenston Heights, where General Brock was killed.
    • The early disasters were brought about chiefly by American unpreparedness, and a lack of leadership drove United States Secretary of War William Eustis from office.
    • They were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat towards Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.

  • The War in the North

    • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
    • Hull's army was too weak in artillery, however, and by August, Hull and his troops retreated to Detroit.
    • Secretary of War William Eustis from office.
    • The British also were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat toward Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.
    • This 1865 painting by William H.

  • The Social Problem

    • This shift in the bargaining balance between resource owners and laborers would raise the general level of wages and ensure no one need suffer involuntary poverty.
    • This new concept justified the stratification of the wealthy and poor and coined the term "survival of the fittest. " Joining Spencer was Yale University professor William Graham Sumner, whose book What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (which was first published in 1884) argued that assistance to the poor actually weakens their ability to survive in society.
    • Followers of the new Awakening promoted the idea of the Social Gospel ,which gave rise to organizations such as the YMCA, the American branch of the Salvation Army, and settlement houses such as Hull House, founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.

  • Social Justice

    • Historians debate the exact contours of the "Progressive Era", but this term generally refers to the period from the 1890s to the period after World War I.
    • Many educational reforms and innovations generated during this period continued to influence debates and initiatives in American education for the remainder of the twentieth century.
    • For example, Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by professionalized social workers and volunteers and located in inner city slums.
    • In Dynamic Sociology (1883), Lester Frank Ward laid out the philosophical foundations of the Progressive movement and attacked the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner, while Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) attacked the "conspicuous consumption" of the wealthy.
    • In general, it targeted privilege, unfair wealth gaps, poverty, irresponsible administration, and all forms of social and political corruption, which Progressives believed were retarding the expansion and growth of a more egalitarian, democratic nation.

  • The Sixth Amendment

    • Trial started November 1, 1917, Brigadier General George K.
    • Hull, Judge Advocate, Council for Defense, Major Harvy S.

  • Drive-Reduction Theory of Motivation

    • While your body automatically responds to these survival drives, you also become motivated to correct these disturbances by eating, drinking water, resting, or actively seeking or generating warmth by moving.
    • Drive-reduction theory was first developed by Clark Hull in 1943.
    • According to Hull, drive reduction is a major aspect of learning.
    • Clark Leonard Hull developed drive-reduction theory, one of the earliest theories of motivation.

  • Arts and Sciences

    • The logic studies by William of Ockham led him to postulate a specific formulation of the principle of parsimony, known today as Ockham's Razor.
    • The period saw major technological advances, including the adoption of gunpowder, the invention of vertical windmills, spectacles, mechanical clocks, and greatly improved water mills, building techniques (Gothic architecture, medieval castles), and agriculture in general (three-field crop rotation).
    • Advances in shipbuilding included the multi-masted ships with lateen sails, the sternpost-mounted rudder, and the skeleton-first hull construction.
    • William of Ockham, from stained glass window at a church in Surrey.

  • From Protectionism to Liberalized Trade

    • "Nations cannot produce on a level to sustain their people and well-being unless they have reasonable opportunities to trade with one another," explained then-Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
    • The United States supported trade liberalization and was instrumental in the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an international code of tariff and trade rules that was signed by 23 countries in 1947.

  • Tenements and Overcrowding

    • In parts of the Lower East Side, buildings were older and had courtyards, which were generally occupied by machine shops, stables, and other businesses.
    • The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after Addams visited Toynbee Hall within the previous two years.
    • Hull House became, at its inception in 1889, "a community of university women," whose main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working-class people (many of them recent European immigrants) in the surrounding neighborhood.
    • The "residents" (volunteers at Hull were given this title) held classes in literature, history, art, domestic activities (such as sewing), and many other subjects.
    • Hull House also held concerts that were free to everyone, offered free lectures on current issues, and operated clubs for both children and adults.

  • Development of Fruit and Fruit Types

    • Fruits are generally associated with having a sweet taste; however, not all fruits are sweet.
    • The sweet tissue of the blackberry, the red flesh of the tomato, the shell of the peanut, and the hull of corn (the tough, thin part that gets stuck in your teeth when you eat popcorn) are all fruits.
    • Fruits generally have three parts: the exocarp (the outermost skin or covering), the mesocarp (middle part of the fruit), and the endocarp (the inner part of the fruit).