Advance of the Progressive Agenda (1900-1913)
Advance of the Progressive Agenda (1900-1913) The Progressive Era was a booming time in which much progress was made for the working man. Many laws that we have today, concerning the welfare and protection of the worker, simply did not exist before the Progressive Era, because there had been no....

Arthur Szyk's Political Cartoons
There have been hundreds of men and women determined to make an alternation in this world we exist in. Those who have matchless thoughts and work vigorously to get their point heard most likely make a difference. One powerful technique most frequently used to get express ones views is by construct....

Coca-Cola and its Evolution
The Coca-Cola company started out as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies....

Cold War: Nation-State Conflict
The phrase Cold War is something that a generation can identify with as an age of uncertainty, with no clear outcome. From a political stand point it is one of the most complicated and interesting times in human history. Two nations managed to fight one another without ever killing a solide....

Comparison between the Great Depression and the current Recession
It may seem a far stretch to compare today's 'recession' (as the politicians are reluctantly calling our current economic status) and the Great Depression of the 1930's, which lasted an entire decade. However, by studying the roots and beginning stages of each problem, a surprising number of commo....

Document review of FDR's Quarantine Speech
The document being reviewed is Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Quarantine Speech" in 1937. In this speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt is trying to make American's understand that to keep the peace in our country, we have to be ready for war. We have to acknowledge that other countries are breaking their wor....

Evolution of a nation
Evolution of a Nation Paper Introduction Many internal changes affected America from 1865 to 1945. In this paper many issues will be examined from social, political, and economic issues all the way up to the Great Depression. All of these factors will contribute to the Evolution of a Nation. ....

Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt
I n t r o d u c t i o nThroughout the ages there have been many great leaders. These leaders are powerful in many ways, with a strong control over the people, and a place in history. But who would have guessed that two cousins would be some of the greatest government figures ever? Franklin Delano Ro....

Franklin D. Roosevelt's War on Poverty
Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. He used this motto after winning the presidential race to help pull our country out of the depression that we were suffering from. Thi....

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt In the early 1930s, the United States has yet to face a new era of happiness and difficulty. The United States was in great need for new hope and sensation, and only one great man could provide the nations desperate needs. As the new el....

Great Depression
The Great Depression has been considered by many economical strategists, as well as citizens who had to live through the indescribable event, as the worst economical tragedy ever to have taken part in the history of the United States. The Great Depression was introduced to U.S. citizens in October o....

History on the White House
The "elliptic salon", with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, formed the most elegant architectural feature of James Hoban's plans for the White House. The Blue Room has always been used as a reception room except for a brief period during the administration of Jo....

Important presidential elections
Some of the most important presidential elections 1812 The election of 1812 consisted of a battle between James Madison, and De Witt Clinton. Madison had represented both Democratic and Republican beliefs, while Clinton was a Federalist. James Madison was born in Port Con....

Irony in to kill a mocking bird
Irony and Sarcasm Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a highly regarded work of American fiction. The story of the novel teaches us many lessons that should last any reader for a lifetime. The messages that Harper Lee relays to the reader are used throughout the book using various methods. One o....

LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONALISM
XXX UNIVERSITY LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE LIVING CONSTITUTION AN ESSAY SUBMITTED TO XXXXX. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BY XXXXX XXXXX APRIL 2006 More that 200 years after it was written, the Constitution still rules the United States and c....

Lyndon B Johnson
Johnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Tex., the eldest son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson. His father, a struggling farmer and cattle speculator in the hill country of Texas, provided only an uncertain income for his family. Politically act....

New Deal
During the 1930's, America witnessed a breakdown of the free enterprise system as the US fell into the worst depression in history. On October 24th, 1929 the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed when millions of shares at inflated prices were offered on sale. Over $50 billions were lost on what ....

Overproduction and the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
In the 1920s overproduction and lack of consumer demand caused the depression. More goods were being produced than a population could consume. As a result, factory owners didnt need their workers because their products were sitting on the shelves. In the middle of the Great Depression, Presid....

Overview of The Chosen
by Chaim Potok Setting: · Second World War · Brooklyn, New York Book One Chapter One The narrator, Reuven Malter, begins the story by telling about a character named Danny Saunders. The two lived within five blocks of one another for fifteen years, but they never met because they lived i....

Panama Canal
Why the canal was built The Panama Canal, often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world, is located in the narrowest part of Central America on the Isthmus of Panama. Constructed by the U.S. and opened in 1914, it is still regarded as one of the world's most outstanding engineering achie....

Pre-World War II Years in the United States
Albert Einstein once said "I don't know what weapons will be used in World War III, but in World War IV people will use sticks and stones." This rather interesting quote resembles the same mentality that many people had in the United States after the First World War, a mentality plagued wi....

presentation skills
Presentations for business, sales, and training - oral and multimedia Presentations skills are very useful - for business, sales, training, public speaking and self-development. Presentations format, media and purpose vary a lot - oral, multimedia, powerpoint presentations, short impromptu present....

Race, Urban Poverty, and Public Policy
Race, Urban Poverty, and Public Policy At the dawn of the 21st century, the problems of race and urban poverty remain pressing challenges which the United States has yet to address. Changes in the global economy, technology, and race relations during the last 30 years have necessitated new and....

Roosevelt's New Deal
On July 2, 1932, at the Democratic National Convention, the crowd listened intently to the phrase, I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. The New Deal name was soon applied to the program of reform and recovery instituted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the early p....

Roosevelt's Response to the Great Depression
The Great Depression of the 1930s was a great blow to America especially after the seeming prosperity of the twenties. The depression was a result not of false prosperity in the twenties, although the distribution of wealth was very uneven the affluence was very real, but rather from a lack of econo....

Social Security Reform
Social Security in the United States is a social insurance program funded through dedicated payroll taxes called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act). The Social Security Act was drafted by President Roosevelt's committee on economic security, under Edwin Witte, and passed by Congress as part....

Spanish-Amerincan War
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt,not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. Hebrought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously ledCongress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strongforeign policy. He t....

The Evolution of a Nation
There were many internal changes that took place between and greatly affected America between 1865 to 1945. In this paper we will review some of these changes and how they directly affected America. Jay Cooke's firm had been the government's chief financier of the Union military effor....

Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was born at 28 East 20th Street in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City on October 27, 1858, as the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (18311878) and Martha Bulloch (18341884). Theodore was younger than his sister Anna, nicknamed "Bamie," but older than hi....

Theodore Roosevelt
Success the real success does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position (Theodore Roosevelt). Theodore Roosevelt is often said to be the most active of all the American presidents, and was at once a realist and a romanticist in foreign affairs and a ....

Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were amazing presidents of the United States and they certainly led our nation with enormous success. Both men were intelligent and looked up to when it came to showing leadership. The Presidents shared similarities yet many differences as well when it came to....

Theodore Roosevelt: The Great Environmentalist
This Paper will outline President Theodore Roosevelt’s role in helping to conserve our environment during his administration (1901-1909). It will also examine his theory of a stronger American democracy through environmental conservationism. “The movement for the conserv....

United States Presidents
It is extremely interesting what all the Presidents of the United States have done for our country. It has been a real accomplishment to take the United States to the highest point ever. Even though there has always been obstacles on the way, elected Presidents have always know what to do to main....

Welfare
Welfare, it is on just about everyones' mind, whether it is Medicare or the A.F.D.C. Some believe there is too much and others think there is too little. As the years go by, the need for welfare reform increases. President Clinton had pledged in his 1992 campaign to "end welfare as we know it". ....

Welfare
Welfare, it is on just about everyones' mind, whether it is Medicare or the A.F.D.C. Some believe there is too much and others think there is too little. As the years go by, the need for welfare reform increases. President Clinton had pledged in his 1992 campaign to "end welfare as we know it". ....

Winston Churchill
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, his family's ancestral seat in Oxfordshire, on November 30, 1874. He was the older son of Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, a British statesman who rose to be chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Com....

WWII and the A-Bomb
Sixty one years after the A-bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, the controversy over whether dropping the bombs was the right thing to do is still present today. But before one can claim a side, they must know all of the facts. Over 3½ years of direct U.S. involvement ....

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