James G. Blaine

Examples of James G. Blaine in the following topics:

• Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

  • The Republican Party nominated James G.
  • Blaine for president in 1884, even though he had been implicated in a financial scandal.
  • Theodore Roosevelt stunned his upper class New York City friends by supporting Blaine in 1884; by rejecting the Mugwumps, he kept alive his Republican party leadership, clearing the way for his own political aspirations.
  • New England and the Northeastern United States had been a stronghold of the Republican Party since the Civil War era, but the Mugwumps considered Blaine to be an untrustworthy and fraudulent candidate.

• The Scurrilous Campaign

  • Former Speaker of the House James G.
  • In 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses.
  • Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result.
  • Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did.
  • This 1884 cartoon in Puck magazine ridicules Blaine as the tattooed man, with many indelible scandals.

• Politics in the Gilded Age

  • The scandal divided the Republican party into two different factions: the Stalwarts, led by Roscoe Conkling, and the Half-Breeds, led by James G.
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• The Election of 1920

  • In the 1920 presidential election, Republican Senator Warren G.
  • Harding soundly defeated Democratic Governor James M.
  • The Republicans chose Senator Warren G.
  • This was four times the amount spent by his Democratic opponent, James M.
  • This set up a hard road for the next Democratic presidential hopeful, James M.

• Grant's Pursuit of Lee

  • Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G.
  • Maneuvering a final time, Grant surprised Lee by stealthily crossing the James River, threatening to capture the city of Petersburg, the loss of which would doom the Confederate capital.
  • After Lee learned that Grant had crossed the James, he realized that he would be forced into a siege of the capital city.
  • Petersburg, a prosperous city of 18,000, was a supply center for Richmond, given its location just south of the capital, its site on the Appomattox River providing navigable access to the James River, and its role as a major junction for five railroads.
  • This map shows the Overland Campaign, from the Battle of the Wilderness to crossing the James River.

• Evolutionary Theory of Motivation

  • James theorized that behavior was driven by a number of survival instincts.
  • There was, however, considerable controversy between James and his contemporaries over the exact definition of instinct.
  • James proposed several dozen special human instincts, but many of his contemporaries created different lists.
  • A mother’s protection of her baby, fondness for sugar, and hunting prey were among the human behaviors proposed as true instincts during James’ era.
  • Optimization theory states that individuals would be motivated to adopt strategies that allow them to consume the most energy (e.g., to maximize their food intake) while expending the least amount of energy (e.g., to minimize their exercise output).

• References

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• The Plantation Economy and the Planter Class

  • The production of tobacco spread down the James, York, Rappahannock, and the Potomac rivers .
  • The largest and wealthiest planter families, for instance, those with estates fronting on the James River in Virginia, constructed mansions in brick and Georgian style, e.g.
  • The wealthiest planters, such as the Virginia elite with plantations on the James River, had more land and slaves.

• History of DNA Research

  • Timofeeff-Ressovsky, and Karl G.
  • Another group was located in Cambridge and included Francis Crick and James D.
  • Such questions motivated the modeling efforts of Francis Watson and James Crick.
  • James Watson and Francis Crick are credited with the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

• Introduction and Importance

  • Although Kirchhoff's Laws can be derived from the equations of James Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell did not publish his set of differential equations (which form the foundation of classical electrodynamics, optics, and electric circuits) until 1861 and 1862.
  • Also of importance in this example is that the values E1 and E2 represent sources of voltage (e.g., batteries).