... . Benjamin Franklin was a jack-of-all-trades and master of many. No other American, except possibly Thomas Jefferson, has done so many things so well. During his long and useful life, Franklin concerned himself with such different matters as statesmanship and soap making, book printing and cabbage growing, and ... read his Autobiography. Franklin helped establish Pennsylvania's first university and America's first city hospital. Franklin's fame extended to Europe as well as America. Thomas Jefferson hailed him as "the greatest man and ornament of the age and country in which he lived." A...

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... the president and the vice-president against one another, and it was conducted under the burden of a Sedition Act which could put men in jail for criticizing the president. Political life no longer accepted the existence of parties but was dominated by them (Weisberger, 228). The two principal candidates who faced each other in seeking the Presidency in 1800 were the ... their situations had changed a great deal in the four years since John Adams had won the office by a margin of three electoral votes over Thomas Jefferson. Adams was now weighed down by the errors of his Administration,...

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... of other sorts than you can imagine. But least you should imagine it too burdensome to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you: I assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father, and ... business"" (Roberts (1), p.2). Eliza worked hard to make her life on the plantations a good one. Working as a planter, she met a neighboring planter Charles Pinckney whom she married. Together they produced four children. Two of whom, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, were active in the politics of the nation and ... stay here enabled me to bei...

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