Joshua John Ward

(noun)

The largest American slaveholder, dubbed "King of the Rice Planters."

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Examples of Joshua John Ward in the following topics:

  • Slavery in the Rice Kingdom

    • By 1850, a South Carolinian rice planter, Joshua John Ward, was the largest American slaveholder, with an estate that held 1,130 slaves and gave him the title, "King of the Rice Planters."

  • The Development of Sociology in the U.S.

    • Lester Ward is generally thought of as the founder of American sociological study.
    • Like Comte and the positivist founders of sociology, Ward embraced the scientific ethos.
    • Thus, Ward embodied what would become a distinctive characteristic of American sociology.
    • While classical liberalism (featuring such thinkers as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill) had sought prosperity and progress through laissez-faire policies, Ward's "American social liberalism" sought to enhance social progress through direct government intervention.
    • Ward was basically replaced by Durkheim in the history books, which was easily accomplished because Durkheim's views were similar to Ward's but without the relentless criticism of lassiez faire and without Ward's calls for a strong, central government and "social engineering".

  • Burgoyne's Army and the Battle of Saratoga

    • General John Burgoyne, in an attempt to isolate the northern colonies, was defeated by Patriot troops in the Battle of Saratoga.
    • In the summer of 1777, British General John Burgoyne planned an attack from Quebec on the Continental Army.
    • One thousand Native Americans, led by John Butler and several Iroquois war chiefs, joined them as well.
    • Portrait of British General John Burgoyne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1766

  • Social Justice

    • Early progressive thinkers such as John Dewey and Lester Ward placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy was to be successful, its leaders, the general public, needed education .
    • In Dynamic Sociology (1883), Lester Frank Ward laid out the philosophical foundations of the Progressive movement and attacked the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner, while Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) attacked the "conspicuous consumption" of the wealthy.
    • This is John Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902.

  • Indian Painting under British Imperialism

    • In the 18th century, oil and easel painting brought many European artists to India in search of fame and fortune, including Thomas and William Daniel, Joshua Reynolds, George Chinnery, and others.
    • After 1857, John Griffith and John Lockwood Kipling came out to India together and headed the Sir JJ School of Art.

  • The Varieties of Progressivism

    • City governments also were reorganized to reduce the power of local ward bosses and to increase the powers of the city council.
    • Early Progressive thinkers, such as John Dewey and Lester Ward, placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the Progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy were to be successful, the general public needed to be educated.

  • The Concept of Creativity

    • Yet, they can be seen as complementing each other (Sternberg & Lubart, 1995; Finke, Ward & Smith, 1992).
    • A more recent approach to identify the cognitive processes and structures involved in creative thinking is the Geneplore model (Finke, Ward & Smith, 1992).
    • Finke, Ward & Smith (1992) do not insist that all of these processes and "preinventive" structures are necessary during creative cognition.
    • By John Edgar, Kim Maugans, and Erin Adair (2005)
    • Product constraints have an important impact within the creative thinking processes as defined in the Geneplore model (Finke, Ward, & Smith, 1992, p. 20).

  • The War in the Chesapeake

    • On July 4, 1813, Joshua Barney, a Revolutionary War naval hero, convinced the Navy Department to build the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a squadron of twenty barges to defend the Chesapeake Bay.
    • Secretary of War John Armstrong insisted that the British would attack Baltimore rather than Washington, even when the British Army was obviously on its way to the capital.

  • The New Dealers

    • John Dingell(D-MI); Rep.
    • Joshua Twing Brooks (D-PA); the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins; Sen.

  • Baron de Montesquieu

    • After losing both parents at an early age, he became a ward of his uncle, the Baron de Montesquieu.
    • Building on and revising a discussion in John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Montesquieu argues that the executive, legislative, and judicial functions of government (the so-called tripartite system) should be assigned to different bodies, so that attempts by one branch of government to infringe on political liberty might be restrained by the other branches (checks and balances).