On March 2, 1867 Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, as it intended to prevent the President from removing members of office without the approval of the Senate. Specifically, it meant to protect members of President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet after his assassination. The Act states, “An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, returned to the House of Representatives...
“The new presidents wife has a look that’s all her own, yet it’s the look that’s already being copied rapidly by American women,” the Los Angeles Times noted when First Lady Jackie Kennedy blew up the fashion world during her husband's presidency. In the early 1960s, throughout towns and cities in America, Jackie created a frenzy in the media with her impeccable style. Newspapers...
Charles Ball was born in Calvert County, Maryland and was a slave for the biggest part of his life. His narrative starts with telling the reader about his early childhood life and the hardships of staying a family. He stresses to the reader that though many claimed the evils of slavery were getting easier during the times when laws protecting slaves started to come about, but it was in fact the...