Prior to the Mormon settlement near Salt Lake, the western frontier was known as a place that inspired rugged individualism and disorder among the people. ... The Salt Lake settlement's organized government and religious dedication allowed it to be able to expand, developing devices such as an extensive irrigation system, making survival easier. ... Martin Van Buren (Democrat) and Henry Clay (Whig) both were opposed to the annexation of Texas. ...

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Both Kennedy and Johnson had begun to institute talks on weapons testing and proliferation, but Détente, as a policy, was pursued much more vigorously with Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger (Penna, par. 2). ... As Henry Kissinger observed, "the proposition that to some extent we had to collaborate with our adversary while resisting him found a constituency only with great difficulty; the emotional bias was with a simpler verities of an earlier age" (437). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Few have accomplished this goal like Davy Crockett, Henry Ford, Daniel Boone, and various U.S. ... Henry Ford is most well known for Ford Motor Company but very few people know that he was the son of an Irish immigrant who married during the American Civil War. When Henry grew up he was discriminated against because of his Irish decent but he overcame adversity and the rest is history. ... In 1767 Boone traveled into the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. ...

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• Grade Level: High School