The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian

Examples of The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in the following topics:

• 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.
  • The Literary Digest was ignorant of this new bias.
  • Louis Harris had been in the field of public opinion since 1947 when he joined the Elmo Roper firm, then later became partner.
  • Identify the historical origins of public opinion research in the United States

• The Holy Experiment

  • William Penn and his fellow Quakers imprinted their religious values on the early Pennsylvanian government.
  • Among the first groups were the Mennonites, who founded Germantown in 1683, and the Amish, who established the Northkill Amish Settlement in 1740.
  • In 1751, Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the British American colonies, and The Academy and College of Pennsylvania, the predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, both opened.
  • The Lenape tribe fought for the next 19 years to annul the treaty, but to no avail.
  • This proclamation affected Pennsylvanians and Virginians the most, as they had been racing towards the poor lands surrounding Fort Pitt (modern-day Pittsburgh).

• Pennsylvania and Delaware

  • Delawareans would meet in New Castle and Pennsylvanians would gather in Philadelphia.
  • William Penn and his fellow Quakers imprinted their religious values on the early Pennsylvanian government; the Charter of Privileges extended religious freedom to all monotheists, and the government was initially open to all Christians.
  • Among the first settlers were the Mennonites, who founded Germantown in 1683, and the Amish, who established the Northkill Amish Settlement in 1740.
  • The Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 was the first attempt to abolish slavery in the colonies.
  • Examine the religious and social factors that shaped the establishment of the Pennsylvania and Delaware colony

• Wilmot Proviso

  • The Wilmot Proviso would have banned slavery in any territory acquired from the Mexican War.
  • The Wilmot Proviso, proposed in August 1846, rapidly brought the issue to the political forefront.
  • David Wilmot, a Pennsylvanian Democrat, drafted legislation that decreed, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any of the new territory acquired from Mexico, including Texas and California.
  • For many Southerners, the Wilmot Proviso forced the issue of slavery as a central component of the Mexican War.
  • A cartoon depicting the ideological split within the Whig Party in the lead up to the June 1848 convention; the Wilmot Proviso was the ultimate obstacle to presidential hopeful Zachary Taylor as he attempted to court Southern support for his campaign.

• Evolution of Gymnosperms

  • The fossil plant Elkinsia polymorpha, a "seed fern" from the Devonian period (about 400 million years ago) is considered the earliest seed plant known to date.
  • Following the wet Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods, which were dominated by giant fern trees, the Permian period was dry.
  • The Ginkgoales, a group of gymnosperms with only one surviving species, the Gingko biloba, were the first gymnosperms to appear during the lower Jurassic.
  • The Jurassic period was as much the age of the cycads (palm-tree-like gymnosperms) as the age of the dinosaurs.
  • Gingkoales and the more familiar conifers also dotted the landscape.

• The Battle of Gettysburg

  • The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in the Confederate Army's retreat and the war turning in favor of the Union.
  • As the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point.
  • With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia.
  • The news of the Union victory electrified the North, with enthusiasm dissipating as the public realized that Lee's army had escaped destruction and the war would continue.
  • The battle was part of the American Civil War and was won by the North.

• Pontiac's Uprising

  • While the French had long cultivated alliances among certain of the American Indian tribes, the British post-war approach was to subordinate the tribes, and tensions quickly rose between the American Indians and the British.
  • The first group included the tribes of the Great Lakes region: the Ottawas, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, and Hurons.
  • The second group was made up of the tribes of the eastern Illinois Country, which included the Miamis, Weas, Kickapoos, Mascoutens, and Piankashaws.
  • The members of the third group were the tribes of the Ohio Country: the Delawares (Lenape), Shawnees, Wyandots, and Mingos.
  • The war compelled approximately 4,000 Pennsylvanian and Virginian settler-invaders to flee their homes.

• Higher Education

  • The resulting management of this scrip by the university yielded one third of the total grant revenues generated by all the states, even though New York received only one-tenth of the 1862 land grant.
  • The state of Iowa was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act, which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling Ames College (now Iowa State University).
  • In the early years, the agricultural curriculum was not well developed, and politicians in Harrisburg often considered it a costly and useless experiment.
  • At the beginning of the 20th century, fewer than one thousand colleges with 160,000 students existed in the United States.
  • Explosive growth in the number of colleges occurred at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Higher Education

  • During the nineteenth century, the nation's many small colleges helped young men make the transition from rural farms to complex urban occupations.
  • In 1861, Morrill resubmitted the act with the amendment that the proposed institutions would teach military tactics as well as engineering and agriculture.
  • In reference to the recent secession of several Southern states and the currently raging American Civil War, the Act stipulated that, "No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act."
  • The state of Iowa was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act, which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling Ames College (now Iowa State University).
  • In the early years, the agricultural curriculum was not well developed, and politicians in Harrisburg often considered it a costly and useless experiment.

• The Election of 1840

  • In the wake of the Panic of 1837, William Henry Harrison won the Election of 1840 with his "log cabin campaign" appeal to ordinary people.
  • It opened in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on December 4, 1839, almost a full year before the general election.
  • The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election; Winfield Scott, another general and a hero of the War of 1812 who was active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838; and Henry Clay, the Whigs' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.
  • Clay led on the first ballot, but circumstances conspired to deny him the nomination.
  • The convention came on the heels of a string of Whig electoral losses.