James I

Examples of James I in the following topics:

• Virginia

  • Following the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, King James I ascended to the throne.
  • James granted a proprietary charter to two competing branches of the Virginia Company: the Plymouth Company and the London Company.
  • On the morning of March 22, 1622, they attacked outlying plantations and communities up and down the James River.
  • In 1624, King James revoked the Virginia Company's charter, and Virginia became a royal colony.
  • Governor Berkeley was a royal insider from an early age, and his governorship reflected the royal interests of Charles I and Charles II.

• The Legal Ramifications for Slavery

  • Section 9 of Article I allowed the continued "importation" of slaves.
  • In a section negotiated by James Madison of Virginia, Section 2 of Article I designated "other persons" (slaves) to be added to the total of the state's free population, at the rate of three-fifths of their total number, to establish the state's official population for the purposes of apportionment of Congressional representation and federal taxation.
  • James Madison proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise, which was eventually adopted as a Constitutional provision.

• The Election of 1920

  • Harding soundly defeated Democratic Governor James M.
  • The United States presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I.
  • 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.
  • He was serving a sentence for encouraging people to avoid the draft in World War I.

• Madison and the Pressure for War

  • In the early nineteenth century, President James Madison faced pressure from Democratic-Republican "war hawks" to go to war with Britain.
  • President James Madison, who was elected as Thomas Jefferson's successor in 1808, was pressured by a faction of young Democratic-Republican congressmen from the South and West of the United States to go to war with Great Britain.
  • The American West then consisted of the trans-Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, as well as territories in the Old Northwest (i.e., the Great Lakes states that did not yet have votes in Congress).
  • The older members of the Democratic-Republican Party, led by President James Madison and Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, also tried unsuccessfully to defeat the war hawks movement, believing that the United States was not prepared for war—which in the end turned out to be true.

• The Lost Generation

  • In a more general sense the term identified the generation that came of age during and shortly after World War I, leading to the name, "the World War I Generation."
  • At the same time, Jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the horrors of World War I.
  • In addition to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the movement of writers and artists also loosely includes John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Alan Seeger, John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson, Aldous Huxley, Malcolm Crowley, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Henry Miller, and T.S.
  • James Joyce was a friend of Hemingway during the years both lived in Paris.
  • Scott Fitgerald used to epitomize the Jazz era and the attitude of post-World War I America.

• Dolley Madison and Washington City

  • One of the few bright spots was Dolley Madison, the wife of Secretary of State James Madison .
  • In the approach to the 1808 presidential election, with Thomas Jefferson ready to retire, the Democratic-Republican caucus nominated James Madison to succeed him.
  • James Madison's personal servant, the slave Paul Jennings, was an eyewitness at the age of 15.
  • When the British did arrive, they ate up the very dinner, and drank the wines, etc., that I had prepared for the President's party.

• Literature

  • At the same time, jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the specter of World War I.
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque recounts the horrors of World War I and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front.
  • Scott Fitzgerald portrays the lives and morality of post–World War I youth.
  • The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature," as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, was placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression).

• The Peace Accords and the Legacy of Defeat

  • During his confirmation hearings in June 1973, Secretary of Defense James R.
  • Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...
  • But even at these odds you will lose and I will win. "
  • James E.

• Populism and Religion

  • I choose to believe that love rather than hatred is the law of development. " Bryan threw himself into the work of the Social Gospel.
  • Before World War I, Bryan believed moral progress could achieve equality at home and, in the international field, peace between all the world's nations.
  • The major study which seemed to convince Bryan of this was James H.
  • The campaign kicked off in October 1921, when the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia invited Bryan to deliver the James Sprunt Lectures.

• Federal Intervention

  • I happen to believe that the 1954 [Supreme Court school desegregation] decision was right.
  • In September of 1962, a student named James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi but was prevented from entering.
  • He was blocked by Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, who said, "[N]o school will be integrated in Mississippi while I am your Governor."
  • Similarly, on June 11, 1963, President Kennedy intervened when Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the doorway to the University of Alabama to stop two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending.