The iconic jazz artist Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas. His dad, Charles Parker Sr., was an African-American stage performer, and his mom, Addie Parker, was a housekeeper of Native-American descent. In 1927, Charlie moved with his parents to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 7. It was here where Charlie was introduced to various genres of music. At the time, the most popular of the genres included jazz, blues, and gospel. Charlie found interest in playing an instrument
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How did the Kansas Nebraska Act increase Sectional Tension? 1. Nebraska was north of latitude 36o30’, and only States in that area could enter the Union as Free States. Therefore, Southern Politicians, who were not keen to Nebraska developed, made large efforts to delay granting territorial status to Nebraska. 2. Douglas was so keen to make Nebraska a territory, as it would needed the land to build a railroad through it. 3. Douglas proposed a bill to organize most of the remaining part
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a win for the South but enraged abolitionists and perpetuated the anti-slavery cause in the North. The Kansas-Nebraska Act renewed these sectional tensions when it replaced the Missouri Compromise with popular sovereignty and opened the Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery. In protest of the replacement of the Missouri Compromise the North denied the Fugitive Slave Act. Meanwhile in Kansas the Act had led to violent conflict. The formation of two illegal governments in the territory, one pro-slavery
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James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois in 1837. He grew to be the famous Wild West gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok. He left home in 1855 for Kansas, working as a farm helper, hired gun, and stagecoach driver. In his time as a stage coach driver, his wagon broke down and he had to camp out during the night little did Hickok know he was camped near a cinnamon bear. While he was sleeping the cinnamon bear must have thought he smelled good because it lightly bit Hickok’s leg which of course
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brutality against Missourians, Union soldiers took women that were family members of guerillas and placed them in an old jail in Kansas City. The stability of the building had deterred and had collapsed killing and injuring many of the captured. This enraged the guerillas; so they acted in character and seeked out their revenge. They massacred the people of Lawrence, Kansas. This attack had the entire country in disbelief and outraged. Believing they had their retribution against the Jayhawkers, the
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Compromise was later replaced with the Kansas Nebraska Act, an attempted compromise that said the people of the state could vote on whether or not the state would join the union as a slave state. The Kansas Nebraska Act eventually resulted in Bleeding Kansas. Many people migrated to Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska act, and voted in favor of slavery. The vote was tipped towards slave state, which caused abolitionists to become anger, which resulted in a small battle in Kansas, in which about fifteen people
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Law Assignment 2 the Case The case of the Langley Brothers, Inc., exempt securities are in question, The Langley Brothers decide to sell no par common stock worth $ 1 million dollars to the public. The stock will only be sold in the state of Kansas. Joseph Langley says that the offering does not need to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. His brother, Harry disagrees. According to the Securities Act of 1933 there are a number of specific securities that are exempt
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In the passage I chose (pages 1-3), Capote argues that citizens would not think that their town would be a setting of a murder. Their town is in Kansas a town called Holcomb, which Kansas calls “out-there”. Everyone in this town knows each other and are very comfortable around each other that they don't even lock their doors. Capote shows that the town is having a hard time keeping up “Holcomb bank is flaking gold on a dirty window” and “a gaunt women working in a falling- apart post office.”
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slavery to be dealt with by the states instead of the federal government laid the foundation for what would be built up into the Civil War. The graphic history book uses images of people to illustrate the cause brought by the Act of eighteen o eight and Kansas-Nebraska Act and the resulting destruction by the war and the establishment
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