Reading time: 3 minutes and 32 seconds Sammy Davis Jr. supported and campaigned for John F. Kennedy in his 1960 campaign for President. Davis was supposed to play at Kennedy’s inauguration (spoiler alert Kennedy won) with his fellow rat pack buddy Frank Sinatra. On the day of the inauguration, Davis’s invite was revoked due to […]
Month: February 2019
William Henry Harrison and the shortest Presidential term in U.S. history
.Reading time: 2 minutes and 56 seconds In honor of one of my favorite US holidays, Presidents day I will discuss the President who served the shortest presidential term in U.S. history, William Henry Harrison. William Henry Harrison was a former military officer, congressman, governor of the Indiana territories and a U.S. Senator. Harrison was […]
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
By the mid-1800s hundreds of slaves were escaping to the northern states. This made slave masters unhappy of course because they were losing valuable “property.” Southerners started raiding into northern states to recapture the slaves, but many of the raids failed because the northern states refused to acknowledge or enforce the southerners property rights. With […]
Unintended Consequences: The 3/5th Compromise
Article 1 Section 2 clause 3 of the United States Consitution states ” Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to Service for […]
