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[vampress]

Does anyone else have issues with history? I know that holding down a job doing AP class work and working around my family is like a juggling act with knives. My family tells me not to burn myself out. I keep busy for the fun of it. Can anyone halp explain the jefferson era in the united states history. I'M CONFUSED

[Cherokee_girl]

Give me one weekend with your book and I bet I could do it!

[Pimienta]

all the impressment and war and peace and embargos

it's all greek to me

[lycan]

i hate history just
i dont speak english ither
i speak mathematics and sciences

i am wierd because of this

[Math_nerd]

I like all school sujects exept for spanish and spelling

[vampress]

I won't take spanish and I spell very well. I've known many people whose spelling is so attrotous that it takes me an hour to read a paragraph. can you raed tihs? Terhe is sicentfic sudty syanig taht you can raed tihngs wtih the leetrts out of oderr. cool huh

[Math_nerd]

That just looks like my regular type....

[vampress]

i know but the study is true. What about history can anyone help me no one has told me yet!

[Math_nerd]

i can help, but I need fairaly spisiphic questions other than "help!"

[Astarte]

I loved Ancient History at school - I think history is about people and not just dates.

I'm a bit of a scifi nut because you get to visit other worlds and ideas. History is the same. A whole different world where people believed different things, behaved in different ways, clothes, food, thinking.

Try looking at the people and why they did the things they did. What were they trying to achieve by their actions?

A lot of teachers make history as dry as dust, when really it's full of gossip and scandals and all sorts of rascally goings on. Just like today!

[Cherokee_girl]

I'm a bit of a scifi nut because you get to visit other worlds and ideas. History is the same. A whole different world where people believed different things, behaved in different ways, clothes, food, thinking.

I never thought of it that way. But now that you mention it you're right.

Just imagine what you would have done in their place. It's fun to come up with different situations and outcomes.

[vampress]

yeah someone with info to make history less boring! has anyone done us history yet? maybe the jacksonian era where andrew jackson was president? when was the civil was exactly? i want a exact date

[Astarte]

* Jackson was racist and sexist. He also believed that the earth was flat.

* Jackson was the only President to pay off the national debt.

* Jackson was the first President to ride in a train.

* On January 30, 1835, a mentally disturbed man named Richard Lawrence fired two different guns at Jackson from point-blank range. Both weapons failed to fire. The odds of this happeneing were put at 1:125,000. Jackson then chased after Lawrence and beat him with his cane.

* Jackson, Mississippi is named after Andrew Jackson.

* At his funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing!

* Jackson was the only President to have been held as a prisoner of war. This was during the Revolutionary War. Jackson was only 13 years old.

* In 1806 Jackson had a duel with Charles Dickinson over some things that he said about Jackson's wife. Dickinson got the first shot, and hit Jackson directly in the chest, about two inches from his heart. Jackson didn't even fall down! Instead, he raised his gun and killed Dickinson! He then walked away. The bullet had lodged to close to his heart to be removed, so he carried it there for the rest of his life.

* Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House, and just about everyone did! At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.

* Andrew Jackson was orphaned at the age of 14.

* Jackson was the first president born in a log cabin.

* He was the only president to serve in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

* Andrew Jackson's favorite foods were wild turkey, partridge, venison, cheese, blackberries, and milk.

* Jackson owned five horses: Same Peaches, Emily, Lady Nashville, Bolivia, and Truxton (a champion race horse) as well as other ponies.

* He was named after his father.

Maybe this will make the president seem a bit more "real" to people out there?

http://www.geocities.com/presfacts/jackson.html

Also from Wikipedia there was this:

Jackson was a lean figure standing at 6 feet, 1 inch (1.85 m) tall, and weighing between 130 and 140 pounds (64 kg) on average.

Jackson also had an unruly shock of red hair, which had completely grayed by the time he became president at age 61, in 1829.

He had a pair of the most penetrating deep blue eyes.

Jackson was one of our more sickly presidents, suffering from chronic headaches, abdominal pains, and a hacking cough that often brought up blood and sometimes even made his whole body shake. Also, Jackson caught many colds and fevers that made his aches and pains and hacking cough even worse.

Jackson was also very nearsighted and wore glasses for most of his presidency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

[Astarte]

Andrew Jackson - the Jacksonian era.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson



Term of office March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1837
Preceded by John Quincy Adams
Succeeded by Martin Van Buren
Political party Democrat

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845), one of the founders of the Democratic Party, was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Until his election, every President had either been from Massachusetts or a member of the Virginia plantation elite. Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" and (by American Indians) "Sharp Knife". He was the first president who had lived on the American frontier, and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the original thirteen colonies.

****Jackson became the symbol of an era in American history—known as the "Age of Jackson" or the "Jacksonian Era"—an era traditionally seen as dominating the years between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. A number of cities are named after him, notably Jacksonville, Florida and Jackson, Mississippi.

[Astarte]

There is a 9-part series called "The Civil War"

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/m ... ?v_id=9774

which will take you through the events of that time, as well as those leading up to it. Have a big box of tissues ready, as it is a true ducumentary, taken from actual personal letters from soldiers and their wives and an incredible number of photos of that time. The commentary is very good and by the end of it you feel you know the people and the times very well. It's heart-rendering.