By comparing the early life and education, leadership qualities and wartime presidents, Lincoln and Davis can be found as remarkably similar but starkly different. ... Samuel Davis and Thomas Lincoln were very similar fathers who valued education as a means for advancing their sons future.3 The relationship between father and son in both Lincoln and Davis' life was a strained one. ... There would be at times that the back of Thomas' hand would produce "a kind of silent unwelcome tear." ... Thomas College in Kentucky but his mother wanting her son home had Jefferson leave school after...

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This helped to develop his early penchant for reading from a wide selection of topics. ... After his fathers defeat to Thomas Jefferson he returned home. ... Historians regard the treaty as a brilliant act of diplomacy, and close to the end of Adam's life, he called it "the most important event of my life". ... "The sun of my political life," he confided in his diary, "sets in the deepest gloom." ... He had given up a good part of his life to serve his country. ...

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Reagan changed his political party affiliation in the 1950s because he "believed that the Democratic Party had been taken over by "tax-and-spend" liberals who had forgotten the warnings of Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson that government was a threat to liberty" (p. 48-9). ... He outlined his goals in his speech to Americans on February 18, and brought economic awareness to the American people during the televised political debate on October 28, 1980 between himself and Jimmy Carter, where he asked the American people to consider if they were presently any better off than they were four yea...

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She had high hopes for her oldest son, who was tutored personally by his father's law employees, and would become an avid reader and writer early on. ... After Thomas Jefferson's two terms as president, James Madison took over and sent Adams to Russia, and later to London. ... Taking the position his father had prepared him for all his life in 1825, he came in filled with ideas and plans. ... Adams led a rather uneventful presidency, serving just one term as head of the nation, and being elected to the House of Representatives in 1830, where he would serve for the final seventeen yea...

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Life under the Articles of Confederation was filled with hardship and uncertainty, the United States government was in a state of chaos. ... Our Early Government As adopted, the articles provided only for a "firm league of friendship" in which each of the 13 states expressly held "its sovereignty, freedom, and independence" (Alden 340). ... Noticeably absent were the revolutionary leaders of the effort for independence in1775-76, such as John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson (93-94). ... Alexander Hamilton, wanted a strong central government in which a Senate and ex...

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Teddy Roosevelt devoted his adult life to civil service in order to make life for American citizens better. ... He had a great zest for life and wanted to be admired and in the limelight all of the time. ... During the gilded age, when Roosevelt was ending college and starting his political life, the government allowed the industry to grow with any interference. ... Many of the imperialist polices he used at the turn of the century are still used today as our reasons for being involved in foreign affairs have changed very little since the early then. ...

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