John Smith

Examples of John Smith in the following topics:

• Jamestown, Virginia

  • The work of two men helped the colony to survive: John Smith and John Rolfe.
  • John Smith, who arrived in Virginia in 1608, introduced an ultimatum: those who did not work would not receive food or pay.
  • In 1612, John Rolfe, an English businessman, discovered that Virginia had ideal conditions for growing tobacco.
  • John Smith, A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion (1612)
  • Smith's map of Virginia from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 1624

• Classical Liberalism

  • Classical liberalism developed over the course of the 1800s in the United States and Britain and drew upon Enlightenment sources (particularly the works of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Adam Smith) from the 1700s and 1800s.
  • Classical liberals agreed with Adam Smith that government had only three essential functions: protection against foreign invaders, protection of citizens from wrongs committed against them by other citizens, and the building and maintaining of public institutions and public works that the private sector could not profitably provide.
  • Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenmentwas a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment

• Al Smith and the Election of 1928

  • He first sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination at the 1924 election but was one of a number of candidates eventually defeated by John W.
  • Hoover was the first of two presidents to redistribute his entire salary; John F.
  • Hoover even triumphed in Smith's home state of New York by a narrow margin.
  • In all, Smith carried only six of the 11 states of the former Confederacy.
  • Shades of red are for Hoover (Republican) and shades of blue are for Smith (Democratic).

• Black Power

  • Tommie Smith and John Carlos, while being awarded the gold and bronze medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics, donned human rights badges and each raised a black-gloved Black Power salute during their podium ceremony.
  • Smith and Carlos were immediately ejected from the games by the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee would later issue a permanent lifetime ban for the two.
  • African American abolitionist John S.
  • African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed their Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City while receiving their medals and were subsequently ejected from the games.

• The Rights of Englishmen

  • The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 by King John after coercion from an assembly of his barons, is an English charter that limited the power of the king by guaranteeing certain rights, liberties, and privileges to the English aristocracy .
  • Adam Smith, a Scottish political economist, extended on some of Locke's arguments by theorizing a relationship between government and trade.
  • According to Smith, government should be limited to defense, public works, and the administration of justice, financed by taxes based on income.
  • Smith saw self-interest, rather than altruism, as the motivation for the production of goods and services.
  • John Locke, often credited for the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.

• The American Enlightenment

  • Historians have considered how the ideas of John Locke and republican ideas merged together to form republicanism in the United States.
  • Deism greatly influenced intellectuals and several noteworthy 18th-century Americans, such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.
  • For example, the English political theorist John Locke was a significant source of influence and inspiration to the American intellectual elite.
  • Drawing on Locke, Smith, and Paine, the Declaration of Independence thus asserted to Britain and to other contemporary observers that both George III and Parliament were violating colonial rights and freedoms and the American colonies intended to sever ties with Britain.
  • John Locke is often credited with the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.

• Bleeding Kansas

  • Violence between the two groups escalated with pro-slavery groups attacking the town of Lawrence, while John Brown, a radical abolitionist led an attack on pro-slavery settlers nearby.
  • On the afternoon of May 22, 1856, Preston Smith Brooks physically attacked Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate chambers , hitting him on the head with his cane.
  • Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry, illustrating John Brown and the clash of forces in Bleeding Kansas.

• Laissez-Faire and the Supreme Court

  • Justice Rufus Peckham wrote for the majority, while Justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. filed dissents.
  • In a similar vein, Adam Smith viewed the economy as a natural system and the market as an organic part of that system.
  • Smith saw laissez-faire as a moral program, and the market its instrument to ensure men the rights of natural law.

• The Confederacy's Defeat

  • John Richardson Liddell's troops some six hours later.
  • Thompson's Brigade surrendered on May 11; Confederate forces of North Georgia surrendered on May 12; and Kirby Smith surrendered on May 26 (officially signed June 2).

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • John Brown was the only abolitionist known to have actually planned a violent insurrection, though David Walker promoted the idea.
  • Another camp, led by Lysander Spooner, Gerrit Smith, and eventually Douglass, considered the Constitution to be an antislavery document.