1. Hi‚ my name is John Doe. I am here to inform you on the historical background of pecan trees. First I will explain the characteristics of pecan trees and then move into who founded the tree first and how the tree benefited them. Lastly‚ I will bring you up to date on how the tree has been domesticated and the benefits that it brings today. 2. The pecan tree starts off small and eventually gets bigger over time like pretty much everything else in the world. The best chance for this tree to
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The last of the thirteen colonies‚ and named after King George II‚ Colonial Georgia served as a safe haven and as a means to protect South Carolina. Colonial Georgia was established in 1733‚ fifty years after the original twelve by General James Oglethorpe. He and a trusted group of colonists intended to create the colony as a safe haven for persecuted Protestant sects‚ less wealthy Europeans and debtors wanting to re-esablish themselves. Georgia’s economy was deeply imbedded in agriculture‚
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Andrew Jackson was born on March 15‚ 1767‚ in the unmarked border between the Carolinas’. He grew up on a small farm with only a mother and two brothers‚ which‚ he later lost in the war. During the Revolutionary War‚ Jackson was captured and tortured at age 14 by British troops. After the war he became a frontier attorney in Tennessee. In 1796‚ he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives‚ and later to the House of Senates. He was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia in 1801‚ known as
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The Homestead Act was signed on May 20‚ 1862 by Abraham Lincoln. The Homestead Act was proposed by northern republicans. Southern representatives in congress kept voting against the Homestead Act because they saw it as an opportunity for the development of Free states that would tip the scale in the free vs. slave states. It was originally passed by congress in 1860 but then vetoed by President James Buchanan. After southern representatives left congress was when the act was then passed. The act
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1. This map shows the possible migration routes for the first Native Americans that settled in between 15000 and 60000 years ago. These settlers came from Asia across either the Aleutian Islands or Bering Strait and settled in North and South America. 2. When the Europeans first came to the Americas‚ there was a huge amount of different tribes with a variety of religion‚ language‚ and society. These tribes were spread across from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Northern Canada to at least
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Forced Founders In Forced Founders by Woody Holton‚ Holton argues that Indian and slave rebellions were the primary force in the Independence movement in Virginia. It is commonly believed that the land-owning gentry class prompted the revolution in Virginia. Nevertheless‚ Holton shows how slaves‚ American Indians‚ and debtors may have actually played a much greater part in the Independence movement than popular history suggests. Holton?s contention is that class conflict acted as a powerful catalyst
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of multistoried buildings and build intricate irrigation systems to water cornfields. Mound Builders – tribe of Indians from the Ohio river valley who sustained large settlements because the incorporation of the agriculture of corn. Creeks‚ Choctaw‚ Cherokee‚ Chicasaw ‚ Seminole – these tribes in the Eastern United States were able to maintain high-population densities because of their “three-sister” farming technique‚ which allowed for a rich diet of corn‚ beans‚ and squash. Importance of
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pride in this act through World War 2. Had it not been for the efforts of the Navajo‚ the Marines would not have been able to take over Iwo Jima. The idea to use the Navajo language as a code came from a man named Phillip Johnston. In WWI the Choctaw language was used to send messages. This brought up the idea because the Navajo language is an unwritten language. Only about 30 non-Navajo knew how to speak this language at the time of WWII. Johnston believed this would answer the call from the
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Caviar Settlers of America discovered sturgeon to be the most prolific fish of the North American continent. In the beginning of 19th century‚ the United States was the major producer of caviar in the world and produced 90% of the world’s caviar. The American caviar industry got started when Henry Schacht‚ a German immigrant‚ opened a business catching sturgeon on the Delaware River. He treated his caviar with German salt and exported a great deal of it to Europe. At around the same time‚ sturgeon
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interconnected rooms at Chaco Canyon. C. Eastern Indians 1. Developed the three-sister farming where the beans grew on the trellis of the cornstalks and the squash covering the planting mounds to retain moisture in the soil. 2. Among them were the Creek‚ Choctaw‚ and Cherokee. D. Iroquois Confederacy 1. Created by the legendary leader‚ Hiawatha. 2. Developed political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors. IV. Indirect Discoveries of the New World
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