Since I am interested in South Carolina, I decided to find out a little more about it. One of the things I would like to find out is what happened in South Carolina’s history. It would also be interesting to find out about the state governor. Information about the capital city is another thing I want to learn about South Carolina. Finally, I want to know about to know about a famous person from South Carolina. Those are some of the things I hope to learn from doing this paper. The first thing I wanted to find out was what has happened in South Carolina’s history. I learned that Harleston Green was the first golf course in the United States. South Carolina [SC] has more than 350 golf course around the state. The size of SC is 32,021 square miles. South Carolina became a state on May 23, 1788. The tree is very important to the state and it’s called a palmetto. During the American Revolutionary War, the British struck the fort on Sullivan’s Island and that was near Charleston. When they fired cannonballs, they bounced off the palmetto tree and they were used to build the exterior wall. Also on February 17, 1865, General William and his Union soldiers burned and destroyed the city. South Carolina’s new state house wasn’t built until 1903 (South). The second thing I wanted to learn was about the state governor. I found out that Nikki Randhawa Haley is South Carolina’s state governor. Haley was elected Tuesday, November 2, 2010. One of her main goal was to create new jobs. When Haley took office, she invested in 45,000 new jobs. Nikki was born in Bamberg, South Carolina. She had her first job at 13 years old. She was keeping the books for her family’s clothes store. Nikki has a husband named Michael Haley they have... ... middle of paper ... ...g many things that I never thought about before doing this paper was also a benefit. For example, I found out how much Nikki Haley has done for the governor. I also benefited by this research because when I’m out of school I want to move to South Carolina. I have learned much from this paper, and I know it will help me later on in my life. Works Cited “Columbia.” Info Please. 2005. 10 April 2014 . “Nikki R. Haley.” South Carolina Office of the Governor. 2013. 7 April 2014 . “South Carolina.” History. 2014. 4 April 2014 . “Young Jeezy Biography.” Aceshowbiz. 2014. 15 April 2014 .
Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Print.
Nellie Tayloe was a woman of remarkable skills, responsibility and endurance. Before she became the first woman governor of the United States, Nellie was a kindergarten teacher and a presenter of informative papers at her local women’s group. She also helped her husband with his law practice as well as his governorship.
By April 1933, when Governor Herbert H. Lehman signed the new minimum wage bill for working women, the agenda pursued by the Women's Joint Legislative Conference began to assume national proportions for three reasons. First, the election of New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as president in November of 1932 presented an opportunity for progressive-minded reformers. Second, Conference leaders such as Molly Dewson, Frances Perkins, and Rose Schneiderman left the New York scene to pursue a reform agenda in Washington, D.C. Dewson became the head of the Women's Division of the national Democratic Party, while Perkins assumed the position of U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first female cabinet officer in American history. Schneiderman found herself appointed to the National Recovery Administration (NRA) after Congress created the agency in June 1933. Finally, and most importantly, a powerful ally helped facilitate the continuation of the Conference agenda. Eleanor Roosevelt, the new First Lady, effectively promoted women in the New Deal. As her biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook shows, Roosevelt worked with Molly Dewson to compile a list of qualified women for federal appointments. "By 1935," Cook notes, "over fifty women had been appointed to ranking national positions and hundreds to leadership positions in various government agencies on the state and local level."
One would ruminate that 1100 men equipped with 30 pieces of artillery defending an un-finished fort would be no match for three thousand men and nine war ships armed with 270 cannons. Contrarily, on 28 June 1776 during the Revolutionary War, the American Forces proved a decisive victory against the British, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence was days later. The Patriots, under the leadership of Colonel William Moultrie, made a fort of the indigenous Sabal (cabbage) Palmetto Palm tree and took advantage of the British’s poor planning and lack of integration for a decisive American victory. Due to this battle, the Palmetto Palm tree was added to South Carolina’s state flag in 1861, and to this day, 28 June 1776 is termed South Carolina’s Independence Day. Sources used in this Battle Analysis are all from American internet sites, with some originating from South Carolina. The Sources seem to glorify the American Victory and favor the Patriots.
South Carolina was one of the only states in which the black slaves and abolitionists outnumbered their oppressors. Denmark Vesey’s slave revolt consisted of over nine-thousand armed slaves, free blacks, and abolitionists, that would have absolutely devastated society in South Carolina for slave owners, and could have quite possibly been a major step towards the abolishment of slavery in the United states. Robertson succeeded in describing the harsh conditions of slaves in pre-civil war Charleston, South Carolina. This book also helped me to understand the distinctions between the different groups. These groups including the black slaves, free blacks, extreme abolitionists, and the pro-slavery communities.
Senate seat. Maness was a careerist in the U.S. Air Force and retired in 2011. Since 2011, Maness has been serving as the director in the utility industry in his hometown of Madisonville, Louisiana. Maness has never held an elected position in any level of the government. However, he has an extensive educational background. Maness received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tampa and then went on to receive multiple master’s degrees from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the Air Command and Staff College and the U.S. College of Naval Warfare. Maness is married to the previous Candy Smith and had five children with her, two of which are serving in the U.S. military.
Of all the areas with which the southerners contended, the socio-political arena was probably their strongest. It is in this area that they had history and law to support their assertions. With the recent exception of the British, the slave trade had been an integral part of the economies of many nations and the slaves were the labor by which many nations and empires attained greatness. Souther...
I will conduct internet research, review various books written at different times in history, review periodicals, including the Charleston Mercury, and review letters and speeches written by John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson during this period.
Congresswoman Elizabeth Hanford Dole grew up in North Carolina in the small town of Salisbury ,and was born to a wholesaler on July 29, 1936. Dole had a privileged childhood and had the opportunity to study private balled and horseback riding amongst other things. As she grew up she became a model student succeeding in academics as well as extracurricular activities, such as drama and student government; and even got elected as president of her freshman class. After high school like many girls her age, Dole proceeded to go to college where she followed in her brothers footsteps and attended Duke University where she majored in political science in 1958 after which she did post-graduate work at Oxford in 1959 (“San Diego 96”). Some of her many accomplishments while there was to be elected May queen, Student body president, and even got accepted into an undergraduate honors society by the name of Phi Beta Kappa.
Most stories depict a world full of misconception and over scrutinized facts which deal with an indirect narration of the past. The story is drawn out and over dramatized to the point of disbelief. Bastard out of Carolina is just that. On the contrary, this book is nothing but realistic. Comparing world sufficiency established by Dorothy Allison’s idea of the fifties to that of today’s standards, one would see it as if that world is one out of a fairytale; not so much a fairytale, but as more of a nightmare-tale. To the readers’ surprise, this fictional story is based off personal experience from that of the author. In conclusion, what is said in this novel could be directly compared to life as it was during the nineteen fifties in South Carolina. In particular, white folk of the time period are what is being analyzed and compared. Allison was born into a macrocosm of poverty and sexual abuse. To her, this was the normality of existence at a young age. Her life parallels Bone’s existence in the book and is an ideal structure to base assumption of the fifties off of. What was sufficient ‘then’ is highly different from that of expectations and sufficiency from a present day perspective. Sufficiency lies on a linear social line of expectation. The norms and ideologies of society lie along this line likewise. Defining what exactly sufficiency means in this context: sufficiency is the normality or the accepting of a certain level of knowledge, income, and interactive structure into a society. Essentially it is what is considered ‘enough’ in a given tense. In the fifties for example, role expectations in a family are extremely different from that of today’s expectations. The undertaking of a role today is more freely accepted than what ...
South Carolina began as a colony of Barbados. They came there to cultivate crops such as rice and indigo. These settlers brought their slavery practices with them. This idea of growing rice worked well due to the fact that the slaves had experience prior to this experience working with it, and they were just in a good area for growing such a crop. By 1770, black people were nearly eighty percent of the population in South Carolina and the colony of Georgia.
She was the first Hispanic woman to be elected into the Florida State House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. She has sponsored the legislation for the one of the largest prepaid college tuition programs in the nation. More than one million Florida families have benefited from the education programs sponsored by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, allowing their children to be able to go to college. She has played an important role in improving the educational system in Florida.
On March 26, 1930, a woman who would change the world for all of women was born. Her name was Sandra Day. Sandra Day was born on a cattle ranch in El Paso, Texas. After a few years of her life, she moved to Arizona to live with her grandmother, who thought she needed a proper education. Her family then moved with her to live on the “Lazy B”, their new Arizona cattle ranch. Having grown up on a ranch, she had always dreamed to become a rancher. For a woman, it was hard to become a rancher at the time, like trying to get in to the Supreme Court. No matter, she worked hard for her dream.
Mrs. Betsy Devos is an education reformist and a robust American woman entrepreneur. She has served for the government of the United States as the 11th Secretary of Education. Betsy has played a larger part in the society leading her life as philanthropic personnel. Ordinarily, she has contributed positively in politics. Mrs. Betsy was born in Holland Michigan on 8th January 1958. As hard working citizen, she has served as National Committeewoman for Michigan for five years from 1992-1997 then later as from 1996 to 2000 she worked as a chairwoman of the Michigan. Surprisingly in 2003, she was re-elected to the same seat. Her father Edgar Prince is her mentor; Edgar is famous as a billionaire industrialist who his enterprise and life are deemed with success.
With all of these opposing forces at play, the United States political interests were bound to come to a clash. In December of 1860, South Carolina became the first official state to secede from the Union; ten states followed in the coming months. And thus the Civil War had begun.