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    exchange a. Shells b. Bones and fossils c. Tokens d. Special rocks and minerals B. What is happiness? 1. Happiness is defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as “a state of well-being and contentment or a pleasurable or satisfying experience. (Merriam Webster Dictionary) C. A Time Before Money 1. Generally‚ historians agree that money was created at approximately 100‚000 B.C. (Wikipedia: History of Money) 2. Before that time‚ a

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    resistance against American settlers which was another reason President Madison would eventually cite in order to declare war on Great Britain. Another major factor to the war where the warhawks a group of senators whose most notable member was Henry Clay. The War Hawks‚ who were interested in expansion westward and into Canada‚ were angry at British leaders for closing trade channels with America and considered Britain’s treatment of American sailors illegal. They believed retaliation was necessary

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    Author ’s Last Name � PAGE �1� [The Writer ’s Name] [The Professor ’s Name] [The Course Title] [Date] In Deliverance‚ we see four Adams. We can attribute this to the four men traveling back to the primitive time where they vow to use only knives‚ bows‚ and arrows. When the mountain men confront the four men‚ Lewis and the other men capture a gun and a rifle‚ but they do not use either. Instead they bury the shotgun with the one mountain man and throw the other in the river. Keeping the guns

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    Daniel Boone: Frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and led settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee William Bradford: Second governor of Plymouth‚ served 30 years; wrote History of Plymouth Plantation Henry Clay: Leading War Hawk representing Kentucky Ralph Waldo Emerson: Served as a Unitarian minister for 6 years and developed his own religion called transcendentalism Patrick Henry: Famous patriot known for the declaration “Give me liberty or give me death”

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    manipulation was in the 1860s‚ when a photo of Abraham Lincoln‚ the 16th president of the United states‚ body changed into John C. Calhoun body if you didn’t know John C. Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina‚ who is known for his strong defense of slavery. The way the image changed was that the portrait had Abraham Lincoln head‚ but John C. Calhoun body. Another example of photo manipulation

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    twice that number in the 1830’s. This caused most of the state to blame the tariff. The reason being is that the tariff raised the price of goods to help reduce the sale of foreign goods in the United States. The states senator at the time‚ John Calhoun‚ believed that nullification could be a way to prevent

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    Multicultural and differences within a country might have been a normal circumstances. Those two might have stimulated people to propose hundreds of objections and appeals whichever debates always asserted in. To win over the court‚ debates were the only key to make the court’s decision in their favor. However‚ differences in the United States history did not only end up at the court yet at the secession. The seeds of secession actually had been sown early in American history which literally with

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    the union or secede. After this‚ Vice President Calhoun‚ who was born in South Carolina‚ wanted to legally resist the tariffs. He created the idea of nullification in 1828. John Calhoun wrote the "South Carolina Exposition and Protest‚" which declared the tariff null and void in South Carolina. Nullification was the theory that a state had the ability to declare invalid a federal-level law. So when the national government instituted a tariff‚ Calhoun told the South Carolina that they could simply

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    of integrity and deviancy. The trial court dismissed the case claiming that the phrase was not defamation‚ and Yeagle appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court (Calhoun). Issue: The issue stands whether or not the phrase could reasonably be interpreted as a factual accusation about Yeagle‚ and thus would be considered defamation (Calhoun). Holding: The Virginia Supreme Court found that the phrase was not a factual accusation‚ thus it does not fall under defamation. The court affirmed the judgment

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    the two‚ is‚ instead of an evil‚ a good a positive good." ... "I hold then‚ that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not‚ in point of fact‚ live on the labor of the other." ... Calhoun said it on February 6‚ 1837‚ is voicing his opposition to sending the issue of abolition to a Senate committee for study‚ noting that "The subject is beyond the jurisdiction of Congress - they have no right to touch it in any shape or form‚ or to

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