1.) Samuel May was a “jack of all trades” in his time which was from 1783 to 1851. As the document states he was “a carpenter, surveyor, contractor, ferryman, innkeeper, farmer, justice of the peace, gold prospector, and politician.” As you can see there wasn’t much that Samuel couldn’t do. Samuel May was the second son of Sarah and John May and was born in Virginia. Before coming to Shelby creek Samuel’s parents traveled to Roane’s Creek located in Carter County. They sold their farm in the spring of 1800 and started their extensive trip through Pound Gap to Shelby Creek. After reaching Shelby Creek the May family created a farm where Samuel spent around three years, most likely helping his Father John tend to the many tasks present on a …show more content…
Samuel hunted and trapped animals to support himself during this time but soon he found work as a carpenter. He obtained a contract with Floyd County to build the counties first whipping post, stocks, stray pen and pillory. Samuel married Catherine Evans who was from Virginia in 1808. As time progressed and Samuel got more involved in contracts and jobs in the county he was granted a ferry license for a ferry across the Big Sandy in 1814. Samuel went on to complete many things in his life such as building the May house in 1817, which was definitely not built to be a private house but, more of a house for the community. There were many crops outside the house along with animal pens. During the financial panic Samuel sold land along with his slaves to maintain strength financially. From 1809 to 1833 Samuel’s wife Catherine “bore him six sons and eight daughters” according to the story. Samuels’s sons mainly helped him with the work needed outside such as the farm and their daughters helped Catherine with the chores inside. After their children matured they scattered in all directions from the …show more content…
The first thing is the westward movement. Around 1803 the Louisiana Purchase occurred. After this purchase many Americans traveled to the new land to gain land and be successful. However, the journey to the land wasn’t a piece of cake. These people who chose to move West ran into many obstacles such as, animals dying, becoming lost and even death. This compares to the Samuel family because they also had to make a long journey to Prestonsburg through Pound Gap and I can imagine how brutal the trip was for them. To support yourself in Floyd County at this time you had to hunt or trap animals, so you could trade or sell pelts, furs and other things to gain money. And while building your cabin you would stay in a cavern. Everyone wanted land so they could sell it or start a farm and try to become prosperous. This exactly what Samuel done during this time, he wanted a farm to become wealthy. There was also many economic problems, both local and national during this time. When the depression of 1819 occurred it had an effect on people national and locally. This was a time when all the banks basically went bankrupt and as a result the people ran to get their money from the banks. After this the banks wanted immediate repayment from the people. This crippled many people and families financially because they had no way to repay the banks if they didn’t have land or multiple
As he moved from one mill town to another he adds a new family members Alice and Anna. They moved to homestead where they worked in steel mill. The conflict between the labor unions and the steel mill company in Braddock lead to attempt to closing the mill. Even though he gets paid more than we used to, rents were high
This allowed people to become wealthy after what seemed like a day. About a third of the people in the South had some sort of slave ownership, this meant that much of the south was poor and sometimes didn’t even own
While progressing in his career he was becoming more incorporated with politics. From Philadelphia to New York to Amsterdam he traveled many miles, leaving and sacrificing time with his family and helping his wife Abigail. “Our obligations
Collection 1 Performance Task: Argumentative Essay Like specks of sand on a beach, people are constantly migrating to various areas. Immigration has impacted America in a predominantly negative way. As demonstrated in Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, and The General History of Virginia by John Smith, immigration has induced numerous conflicts, forced people to face adversity from those they met, and caused several people to undergo a number of hardships. There were a variety of hardships being faced, most notably the physical ones.
Andrew Jackson was born March, 15, 1767 in South Carolina. His father died right after he was born so he was only raised by his mother. At the age of 13 him and his brothers volunteered to fight in the Revolutionary War. He got inheritance from his grandfather afterwords, finished school and became a school teacher for a short period of time. He was known for having a really bad temper, and for challenging people to a duel.
These poor people made up an ample amount of the population. The poor class of the South obviously was unable to afford a plantation or slaves for that matter. Consequently, it can be implied that did not have a very large impact on their will to fight in the Civil War. Farmers were the next class of people, they owned small patches of land, never large enough to be a plantation. These farmers supported at most one slave who were usually treated more as workers than property.
Fish 2 Joshua had 1,092 slaves that worked hard every day. Joshua’s slaves worked for all the plantations. Joshua worked a long time to get all of the rice plantations and all of the fields done and the pay the field workers of Georgetown County. Joshua Ward is mostly known for being the greatest and most experimental of the Antebellum Rice Planters. Ward was an expert at doing things with all of the rice.
Amid the late 16th century and into the 17th century, European nations quickly inhabited the new lands called the Americas. England sent out multiple groups to two regions in the eastern coast of North America. Those areas were called the Chesapeake and the New England locations. Later, in the end of the1700 's, these two locations would combine to create one nation. However originally both areas had very different and distinctive identities.
Imagine if the cotton businesses had no slaves the Southerners would have to create their own factories, for example, if they did have to create their own industry, they would have to sell all their slaves and that’s one of the last things that they wanted to do. If the South had no slaves, they would have to do everything all by themselves. According to page 242 it says " planters would have had to sell slaves to raise the money to build factories, most wealthy southerners had their wealth invested in land and slaves. Planters would have had to sell slaves to raise the money to build factories. Most wealthy southerners were unwilling to do this.
Struggling to meet the financial needs of the family, Johnson became employed as a tailor. Soon after starting, he met his future wife Eliza McCardle. At an early age of eighteen years old Johnson married McCardle who was only sixteen. The two started their own tailor shop. Johnson was considered poor which contributed to a lack of education.
Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812. When war broke out between the United States and Britain, his leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero and he would become America’s most influential and polarizing political figure during the 1820’s and 1830’s. The year is 1763 in Tennessee and Washington D.C. during the life of Andrew Jackson. As he lived, Mr. Jackson did some foolish things and some impacting things. An example of three of the foolish things that Mr. Jackson did are the following:
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 to poor Scotts-Irish parents. Serving as a courier for the revolutionary forces at age 13, he witnessed the deaths of his family at the hands of disease and the British. Jackson, now an orphan, went to live with his uncles and study law. After later being admitted to the North Carolina bar, he became more rich and famous, joining the convention for writing a new Tennessee constitution. He was elected to the senate after serving two years as the first House of Representatives member from Tennessee, and resigned after just one year.
While more than 10.7 million people were enslaved throughout American history, the story of just one plantation can paint the picture of what life was like for most slaves (Gates Jr.). The Kitchen House is a book about Lavinia, an orphan who grows up as an indentured servant to the Pykes. When she is about 12 years old, she travels to Williamsburg with Mrs. Pyke and Mrs. Pyke’s sister, Miss Sarah. After Lavinia marries and divorces Mr. Boran, a widower, she marries Marshall Pyke, the son of the captain. Together, they move back to Tall Oaks, the plantation owned by the Pykes.
Not just that he also inherited numbers of properties and thousands of acres of land. At age 27 He became one of the wealthiest men. On August 28, 1775
Samuel Houston is an important figure in history because of his military leadership, his presidency in the Republic of Texas, and his contributions as a Senator. He was born on March 2, 1793 as the 5th child of Major Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Paxton (tshaonline.org). After Major Houston's death, Elizabeth decided to take her family to Tennessee where Sam and his siblings grew up (shalhp 96). As a curios child, Sam came across an English-speaking Cherokee while walking into the woods; he became friends with them and later lived with the Cherokees where he was named Co-lon-neh or the Raven in English (lsl 17-28). In 1813, he joined the U.S. Army and fought alongside the Cherokees and under the leadership of General Andrew Jackson in the battle