Joshua John Ward
(noun)
The largest American slaveholder, dubbed "King of the Rice Planters."
Examples of Joshua John Ward in the following topics:
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Slavery in the Rice Kingdom
- By 1850, a South Carolinian rice planter, Joshua John Ward, was the largest American slaveholder, with an estate that held 1,130 slaves and gave him the title, "King of the Rice Planters."
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Burgoyne's Army and the Battle of Saratoga
- General John Burgoyne, in an attempt to isolate the northern colonies, was defeated by Patriot troops in the Battle of Saratoga.
- In the summer of 1777, British General John Burgoyne planned an attack from Quebec on the Continental Army.
- One thousand Native Americans, led by John Butler and several Iroquois war chiefs, joined them as well.
- Portrait of British General John Burgoyne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1766
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Social Justice
- Early progressive thinkers such as John Dewey and Lester Ward placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy was to be successful, its leaders, the general public, needed education .
- In Dynamic Sociology (1883), Lester Frank Ward laid out the philosophical foundations of the Progressive movement and attacked the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner, while Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) attacked the "conspicuous consumption" of the wealthy.
- This is John Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902.
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The Varieties of Progressivism
- City governments were also reorganized to reduce the power of local ward bosses and to increase the powers of the city council.
- Early progressive thinkers such as John Dewey and Lester Ward placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy was to be successful the general public needed to be educated.
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The War in the Chesapeake
- On July 4, 1813, Joshua Barney, a Revolutionary War naval hero, convinced the Navy Department to build the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a squadron of twenty barges to defend the Chesapeake Bay.
- Secretary of War John Armstrong insisted that the British would attack Baltimore rather than Washington, even when the British Army was obviously on its way to the capital.
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The New Dealers
- John Dingell(D-MI); Rep.
- Joshua Twing Brooks (D-PA); the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins; Sen.
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The Dorr Rebellion
- In early 1842, both groups organized elections of their own, leading in April to the selections of both Dorr and Samuel Ward King as Governors of Rhode Island.
- President John Tyler sent an observer but decided not to send soldiers.
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American Indian Relocation
- Some tribes may have had a formal termination agreement approved, but they were successful at warding off termination until repudiation, or terms of their agreement were unmet.
- By the early 1960s, some federal leaders began opposing the implementation of further termination measures, although President John F.