James Black Research Paper

James Hogg was born near Rusk, Texas on March 24, 1851. His parents died when he was only twelve; most of the family’s money disappeared when his parents passed away, making education unattainable. Hogg decided to find a job in order to learn a trade. He eventually found work as a writer at the Quitman Clipper. After working there for a while, he became Quitman Clipper’s publisher and

Rezin Bowie was James Bowie father. Bowie was born in Burke County Georgia. Bowie's father was a man of strong minded and sound of judgement. Bowie's mother was a pious and excellent lady, and from her it is thought that the kids have inherited her remarkable energy of character. Bowie had 4 siblings that were named Viz, David, Rezin P., John J,and Stephen. When James Bowie got older he was involved in the legendary Sandbar Duel Louisiana ,Two men, Samuel Levi Wells, and Dr. Thomas Maddox, had agreed to a duel, and each man had brought several seconds along. Bowie was there on behalf of Wells.

James’ life started out as any human life. He was born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway in Virginia. He was raised on a plantation in sight of the Blue Ridge Mountains. James was the oldest of twelve siblings, but unfortunately only seven of them survived into adulthood. When James was younger, he suffered from psychosomatic, or stress-induced seizures, similar to epileptic

President John Adams was born on October 30th, in the year 1735. They used a different calendar back then so technically he was born on October 19th. The town he was born in was called Braintree, in the state of Massachusetts. The town is now called Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams was the oldest of three boys. He had two younger brothers, Peter and Elihu. Since John Adams was the oldest son, he was expected to go to the best university possible. In 1751, when he was almost sixteen, he earned a scholarship to Harvard University. After he graduated from Harvard in 1755 he decided to be a grade school teacher for 3 years. During this time he met James Putnam, a well known lawyer, and he became interested in law. James Putnam helped him study and in 1758 he finished his Masters degree at Harvard and became a really good lawyer. John married Abigail Smith on October 25th, 1764, a minister’s daughter. They had four children; Abigail Amelia, John Quincy, Charles, and Thomas Boylston.

Blackbeard was a nasty and wicked pirate. He was active from 1716-18. He was born in 1680 in Bristol, England and stayed there until he became a pirate. He became a privateer, which were legal pirates, during Queen Anne’s war. Once the war was over, many men were left with no jobs and some became pirates, including Edward. He became the captain of a pirate ship called Queen Anne’s revenge and sailed in the Caribbean. He was a very cruel captain and once he even shot someone in the legs! To make himself look scary, he had lots of guns and burned fuses in his hair to create a cloud of smoke. Because he burned his hair, it was black, so he got the name Blackbeard. He died when he and his crew got in a fight with Lieutenant Robert Maynard. Maynard

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 between North Carolina and South Carolina, the Waxhaws region. His father died before he was even born because of a logging accident. He eventually became an orphan due to the rest of his family dying from war and sickness. He went to local schools and received an elementary education. A little later in life he became a lawyer and eventually bought land which was a big deal back in the day. He also fought in the war of 1812 and was considered a hero after he defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. After that he began his role in the government as a senator in Tennessee. That shortly ended after about only one year. He then took his shot at the presidency which he successfully

James I, born June 19, 1566, was the King of England, Great Britain, and was Scotland 's short-lived king. James was known to be a controversial ruler and was hated by Parliament. He thought he had the “divine right” to rule England and the rest of its territories. Divine right means to have been given power by God, himself. James I was first born the king of Scotland but James I became king of England after Queen Elizabeth died. (For more information on Queen Elizabeth, go to her section).

John Hancock was born January 12, 1737, in Braintree Massachusetts. Hancock had a good education and graduated from Harvard College. After graduation, he worked for his uncle to take over the family business. As his uncle 's health gradually got worse, Hancock slowly took over the business. In 1764, his dad, Thomas Hancock, died leaving him the House of Hancock. Along with that, he inherited many other properties. At age 27, he became one of the richest men in Massachusetts. While attending the Continental Congress on August 28, 1775, he married Dorothy Quincy. John and Dorothy had two children, but unfortunately, both died at very young ages.

Benjamin Banneker was a huge self educated mathematician, astronomer, complier of almanacs and also a writer all at the same time. Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott’s, Maryland. A free black man who owned his own property with a farm close to Baltimore, Banneker was very self educated in astronomy an mathematics. He was later called to help in the surveying of territory for the construction of the nations capital. Benjamin Banneker also became an active writer of almanacs and exchanged letters with Thomas Jefferson, politely challenging him to do to ensure racial equality. Banneker later passed on October 9, 1806.

Jedediah S. Smith was born June 24, 1798 in New York. He was one of the greatest trappers and explorers. He became one of the “Ashley Men” in 1822. Jedediah was a skinny man with brown hair and blue eyes. He was the fourth oldest of 12 kids. He was the first American to travel overland to California. Jedediah wanted to explore Oregon but couldn’t because the Mexican governor wouldn’t let him.

Bowie was born in logan county, kentucky 1796, april 10. The bowie family always moved to a small town, farm, or piece of land.they first moved to missouri then in 1802 they moved to louisiana where he spent most of his childhood. James bowie was raised and baptized in a catholic church. At the age of thirteen jims father rezin bowie fought in the american revolution. In the lands they moved to there were no schools. So none of the children went to school, yet they learned how to read, write, and do arithmetic from lessons taught by jim 's mom elve. james loved hunting, fishing, family traditions, riding horses, catching alligators, and trapping bears.

Born in 1767, Andrew Jackson grew a military career into political fame. Elected in 1828, he began an era of so-called Jacksonian Democracy with his party, the Democratic party. During his presidency, Jackson tackled three major issues: the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States, the Nullification Crisis, and rising tension between the native Indian Americans and Georgians who wanted to expand. He died in 1845, at the age of 78, at his homestead, the Hermitage.

James Buchanan Jr. was born on April 23, 1791, in to Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. He attended Old Stone Academy and later Dickinson Collge. He was nearly suspended in Dickinson for less than appealing behavior but managed to graduate in 1809. He then moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1812. After this, he enlisted in the military at the beginning of the War of 1812. James Jr. was part of the defense of Baltimore. In 1814 he was elected as a member of the Federalist Party of Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He then continued his early political career by winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives where he served five consecutive terms. In 1832 he was appointed as Andrew Jackson’s envoy to

When you have a dictatorship power and people look to you as a God you respect them, if people tried to leave or take that power away or from you the first thought shouldn’t be to kill them by poison them with potassium cyanide. When someone treats you wrong you just leave them, you don’t give them enough arsenic poison to kill them for not doing what you read in love stories. Jim Jones committed a mass murder by potassium cyanide poisoning while Nannie Doss created a series of murders along her years by arsenic poisoning. In this research paper we get to look back on Jim Jones and Nannie Doss’s earlier childhood, what actually made them notorious, and how their crime spree ended.