Robert H. Jackson

Examples of Robert H. Jackson in the following topics:

• The Nuremberg Trials

  • One of the defendants, Martin Bormann, was tried in absentia, while another, Robert Ley, committed suicide within a week of the trial's commencement.
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  • Jackson played an important role not only in the trial itself, but also in the creation of the International Military Tribunal.
  • According to Airey Neave, Jackson was also the one behind the prosecution's decision to include membership in any of the six criminal organizations in the indictments at the trial, though the IMT rejected this on the grounds that it was wholly without precedent in either international law or the domestic laws of any of the Allies.

• The Jackson Presidency

  • Jackson's policies followed Jeffersonian democracy, which had dominated the previous political era.
  • The relationship between Jackson and Calhoun was further strained by the Petticoat Affair, when the vice president's wife and several Cabinet members socially ostracized Secretary of War John H.
  • Following the Petticoat Affair, Calhoun and Jackson broke apart politically from one another and Van Buren replaced Calhoun as Jackson's running mate in the 1832 presidential election.
  • Later, Lawrence told doctors that he blamed Jackson for the loss of his job.
  • This 1835 etching depicts Richard Lawrence's assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson.

• The Election of 1824

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  • Andrew Jackson, the famed “hero of New Orleans,” rounded out the field.
  • Of the 261 electoral votes, Jackson needed 131 or more to win but secured only 99.
  • Jackson and his followers accused Adams and Clay of striking a corrupt bargain.
  • The Jacksonians would campaign on this claim for the next four years, ultimately attaining Jackson's victory in the Adams-Jackson rematch of 1828.

• Conclusion: The Development of Democracy

  • One of the most notable political development in the early nineteenth century was the rise of American democracy, especially in the Age of Jackson.
  • Characteristics of modern American democracy, including the turbulent nature of majority rule, first appeared during the Age of Jackson.
  • Supporters of Jackson called themselves "Democrats" or the "Democracy," giving birth to the Democratic Party.
  • Jackson understood the views of the majority, and he skillfully used the popular will to his advantage.
  • In President’s Levee, or all Creation going to the White House, Washington (1841), by Robert Cruikshank, the artist depicts Andrew Jackson’s inauguration in 1829, with crowds surging into the White House to join the celebrations.

• Canadian Painting in the 20th Century

  • Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.
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  • The group's members included Alexander Bercovitch, Goodridge Roberts, Eric Goldberg, Jack Weldon Humphrey, John Goodwin Lyman, and Jori Smith.
  • Jackson, Lawren Harris, Fairley, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, and J.
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• Jackson Pollock and Action Painting

  • Action painting, created by Jackson Pollock, is a style in which paint is spontaneously splattered, smeared or dripped onto the canvas.
  • Major artists associated with this movement are Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline and Mark Rothko, among others.
  • The painter would sometimes let the paint drip onto the canvas while rhythmically dancing or even while standing on top of the unstretched canvas laying on the floor—both techniques invented by one of the most important abstract expressionists: Jackson Pollock.
  • Born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, Jackson Pollock moved to New York City in 1930, where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York.

• Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

  • The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
  • The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.
  • Since Jackson won the popular vote in the full election, such straw votes gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually city-wide, phenomena.

• Further Reading

  • ~H. & Fesen, R.A. 2006, "Faint X-Ray Structure in the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula,'' ApJ, 652, 1277

• The Second Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam

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  • Withdrawing a few miles to the northwest, Jackson took up defensive positions on Stony Ridge.
  • Pope became convinced that he had trapped Jackson and concentrated the bulk of his army against him.
  • At noon, Longstreet arrived on the field from Thoroughfare Gap and took position on Jackson's right flank.
  • After pursuing Confederate General Robert E.

• The Battle of Chancellorsville

  • The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E.
  • "Stonewall" Jackson by friendly fire, a devastation that Lee likened to, "losing [his] right arm."
  • After this string of defeats, President Abraham Lincoln became convinced that the Union’s real strategy should lie with defeating General Robert E.
  • Just as seriously, he lost his most aggressive field commander, Stonewall Jackson.
  • Stonewall Jackson on May 2, 1863.