James Monroe (1817-1825) James Monroe was born in Westmoreland county Virginia, on April 28th, 1758. His father was Spence Monroe. He came from a Scottish family, but settled in Virginia in the mid sixteen hundreds. James was the eldest of four boys and one girl. In 1786, Monroe married...

James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825) and the last of the so-called Virginia dynasty of U.S. presidents. Monroe was president during the Era of Good Feelings. He gave lots of good impressions on people. One lady said about him: "He is tall and well formed. His d...

James Madison was the fourth president of the United States, he was also one of its founding fathers. In his political career he worked for American independence and helped to establish the government of the new nation. He was secretary of state, and finally president. James Madison was born in ...

James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. His name at birth was James Arthur Jones. Baldwin never knew his father; his mother, who was originally from Maryland, was named Emma Burdis Jones. In 1927, she married David Baldwin, a Baptist preacher and factory worker from New Orleans with a tw...

Few men were equals in James Monroe's sensibility, fortitude, and reverence to the prosperity of the United States. His administration distinguishes itself as one of the few that was successful in nearly every aspect. But perhaps Monroe's most valuable attribution to the progression of the...

"James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket" The African-American author known as James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York in 1924. In his childhood, Baldwin was a voracious reader. He read every book that he could get his hands on at his local library, which he visited several times a...

James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the son of Spence and Elizabeth Monroe. He attended the College of William and Mary at the young age of 16. After two years of college, in 1776 he left and joined the Third Virginia Regiment as a lieutenant. He wa...

James Monroe was born in 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. In 1776 he served as an officer in the continental army and saved the Battle of Trenton against the British. During the battle, he was standing at his post, and a farmer came out and told them to get off his property. The battle was on ...

James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17, 1871. He was the second of three children. Johnson was an American author, lawyer, and diplomat. He was educated at Atlanta and Columbia universities. In 1898 he became the first black lawyer admitted to the ba...

Currently, in the United States of America, there is a wave of patriotism sweeping across this great land: a feeling of pride in being an American and in being able to call this nation home. The United States is the land of the free and the home of the brave; however, for the African-American citize...

A momentous chapter in American history is the story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. The challenge before the Constitutional Convention was to draft a document that would harness political power in a responsible fashion. The direction of the young country&apo...

What were the worldwide effects on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty after the American Revolution and the Glorious Revolution? I believe that the American Revolution was not a fair war because the British had a huge advantage. The British had a bigger and bette...

U.S Immigration Should Not Be Curbed The argument over whether or not immigration should be restricted, is fought out by Daniel James and Stephen Moore. James essentially believes that jobs are being taken away from American workers, immigrants are causing an increase of population (and subsequ...

Immigration has made America what it is today. The Germans, came in post revolutionary times, then the Irish, and finally the Italians, Jews, and Chinese. Now there's another minority group that's been immigrating to America. Immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been crossing the borde...

Racial stereotypes are everywhere around us in America today, whether it's a quick comment by a coworker or an outspoken racial group protesting on the streets of Washington, DC, in our progressive society, racial tension still exists all our community. Considering America today is still thoug...

James Madison was the fourth president of the United States, he was also one of its founding fathers. In his political career he worked for American independence and helped to establish the government of the new nation. He was secretary of state, and finally president. James Madison was born in ...

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson was elected the chief executive of the new free world. With his foot in the door of America, he could now open it to his world of his political mindedness. He did open the door; however he did not like what was on the other side of that door. For this reason, he changed ...

Building a Strong Foundation The American Revolution was an inevitable time in history where the settlers of England's North American colonies needed to take control and break free of England's oppression. According to Thomas Paine, an island cannot rule a continent. Previously, ...

Madison Needs to Go September 1815 Dear reader, As a foreign policy expert, I am strongly against James Madison's own foreign policies. (For those of you who are not sure who James Madison is, he is who succeeded Thomas Jefferson) I can't conceive of four more years with him and hi...

The History of Soccer Growing up and living in the United States, most people don't pay much attention to Soccer. In America, soccer is not even close to becoming a major sport, but to the rest of the world it is a sport which is taken very seriously. Soccer or "football" is the m...

Jimmy Carter, formally known as James Earl Carter, Jr., was born on October 1, 1924, and was the oldest of four children. He was born in a small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. Jimmy's father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a peanut farmer and a storeke...

1. During the 1800's, when the nation was newly formed, the country was unsure as to how much power should the federal government attain. Some people believed that it should have limited power, only the ones listed in the constitution. These were the views of the strict constructionist. The loo...

During the late 1700's in the United States, there were many concerns over the Constitution, and how America's government should operate. In the federalists papers; which were a series of essays on the constitution, James Madison had arguments on factions and majority tyranny. Madison beli...

In Federalist 10, Madison wrote about the formations of factions and two remedies that can cure the mischief's of a faction. He also wrote about two methods that remove the causes of factions. In this essay I intend to write about the definition of a faction, the methods of abolishing, or at ...

Some president's names you can recognize right away while others you may never have heard of. Rutherford B Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison are all largely indistinguishable presidents that reigned in the last half of the nineteenth century. They ...