Senior at bellevue high. This is my first day back at school after a visit with uncle jim in washington dc uncle jims the congressman from our district. I sure was popular that day especially since there was a test coming up in civics class here of thought i was running a special review session the way they asked so many questions. The gang couldnt wait to get the inside dope on my trip. They wanted to know where id been in washington. What did i see . What did i hear . So i told them just what happens when mr. Miller goes to washington. He is the stories i told to them. Uncle jim met me at the Union Station is like i got off my train when i told him that my civics class wanted me to make a report he walked my legs off showing me how the federal Government Works we started out right at the plaza in of the station. The first thing he showed me from the station was capitol hill the seat of our federal government. Federal agencies are scattered all over the United States, but washington i
Senior at bellevue high. This is my first day back at school after a visit with uncle jim in washington dc uncle jims the congressman from our district. I sure was popular that day especially since there was a test coming up in civics class here of thought i was running a special review session the way they asked so many questions. The gang couldnt wait to get the inside dope on my trip. They wanted to know where id been in washington. What did i see . What did i hear . So i told them just what happens when mr. Miller goes to washington. He is the stories i told to them. Uncle jim met me at the Union Station is like i got off my train when i told him that my civics class wanted me to make a report he walked my legs off showing me how the federal Government Works we started out right at the plaza in of the station. The first thing he showed me from the station was capitol hill the seat of our federal government. Federal agencies are scattered all over the United States, but washington i
Senior at bellevue high. This is my first day back at school after a visit with uncle jim in washington dc uncle jims the congressman from our district. I sure was popular that day especially since there was a test coming up in civics class here of thought i was running a special review session the way they asked so many questions. The gang couldnt wait to get the inside dope on my trip. They wanted to know where id been in washington. What did i see . What did i hear . So i told them just what happens when mr. Miller goes to washington. He is the stories i told to them. Uncle jim met me at the Union Station is like i got off my train when i told him that my civics class wanted me to make a report he walked my legs off showing me how the federal Government Works we started out right at the plaza in of the station. The first thing he showed me from the station was capitol hill the seat of our federal government. Federal agencies are scattered all over the United States, but washington i
1850 was also the year that a compromise was forged, the last great compromise, they didnt know it then, but we know it now, that saved the union. It was a compromise forged by the north and south that involved a number of major changes to the way territories good to come to the United States involving passage of the fugitive slave act and other compromises that neither side was happy about, but it did preserve the union for the tumultuous decade to come. Host what was the compromise . Guest the compromise of 1850. The compromise, you mean the specifics, included introducing the idea of organizing territory that came into the United States from the mexican war under the doctrine of popular sovereignty. That just meant people of this or that territory when they were ready to come into the union could decide for themselves if they would be a free or slave state. The first territory that would come in that way would be the kansas territory in 1854. Is led to what was called in history the
Good morning, everyone. I am the csc a director, the associate director, and it is my pleasure to introduce to you john marszalek. John marszalek is the distinguished professor at Mississippi State university, where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america, and race relations. He earned his phd at notre dame and joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1973. During his time at Mississippi State, he also served as the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association. Grant papers are now housed at Mississippi State university. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles. Thats impressive. Including his important work, sherman. A finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marszalek received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement from a mississippi author and the Historical Society presented him the highest award for National Distinction in history. H