In 1623, John Hemminges and Henry Condell, two of Shakespeareâs fellow actors in the Lord Chamberlainâs Men, collected 36 of Shakespeareâs plays and had them published in the First Folio. Pericles, Prince of Tyre is the only play attributed to Shakespeare that did not appear in the First Folio. Richard Burbage (1567-1619), known as a method actor, played the lead roles in many of Shakespeareâs plays, Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear, as well as those written by Ben Jonson.
The evaluation of Grant's presidency can be split up into seven categories: policy leadership, crisis management, presidential appointments, foreign policy, character and integrity, public persuasion, and presidential vision. Grant did many good things for Domestic Policy in his presidency. He successfully readmitted the last four Confederate states into the Union with the help of Congress. He won the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, giving African Americans the right to vote.
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time. The U.S. Senate voted in favor of ratifying it with amendments on April 25, 1854, and then transmitted it to 14th President Franklin Pierce. Mexico's government and its General Congress or Congress of the Union took final approval action on June 8, 1854.