MARTIN VAN BUREN Martin Van Buren was the 8th President of the United States. He was also the first President to be born in the United States. Van Buren served as a President in 1837 through 1841. He was part of the Democratic Party and continued Andrew Jackson’s laws on the Native Americans. He pulled the nation together when it suffered their first economical depression, which means the first time they have dealt with serious financial problems.…
John Hancock was born in Braintree,Massachusetts on January 23, 1737{Hancock,John}. When john was a kid his father died and he and his mother went to Lexington to live with his father's parents. His aunt and uncle adopted john because they didn’t have any kids. When john graduated high school he went to his father’s alma mater,Harvard. John graduated from Harvard in 1754 and went to work with uncle{Bio.com}.…
To be remembered as uniquely mediocre, just another number to add to the 43 men sworn to office and 44 presidencies, Martin Van Buren was announced as the United States of America’s eighth president in 1836. Considered as the first professional politician to hold office, the creator of the adjective OK, and the founder of the Democratic Party, Van Buren has contributed more to America as is known today, over the long run, compared to his own immediate contributions as president. Van Buren was born on December 5,1782 to parents of Dutch descent in Kinderhook, New York, which was six years after the colonists in the present day United States declared their independence from Great Britain (Martin Van Buren 1). His father was a tavern keeper and…
The selection process of this project was that of a difficult one, however, one historical figure stood out like a white elephant because there was little attention attracted to him. Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, was an interesting topic because his legacy was tainted post-presidency, but the lingering question was why his presidency was a failure,and why he should be considered the worst president of all time. This topic did have some competition, however, another option that was captivating was, the Red Scare. It was an interesting topic because it had the potential to be a fun project, because it would have been an easy cause and effect essay. Ultimately, however, it came down to originality and challenge of the essay, and Warren G. Harding’s presidency fit the mold.…
Later, he was nominated Vice President. The elections were to take place in November, and he was nominated in June. He was Vice President to President William McKinley, who died on September 14, 1901 because he was shot earlier that month. Since the president died, the Vice President, Theodore, became the 26th and youngest president of the United States. While president, Theodore accomplished many tasks such as improving domestic laws to make society a safer place.…
1. What challenges did this president inherit? George Washington was challenged with military and western expansion as well as having to set up a whole system of government. Franklin Delano Roosevelt inherited the challenge of dealing with the Great Depression because our economy was in shambles due to the stock market. Lyndon Johnson had the challenged of a rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist encroachment in Vietnam; he had segregation issues to deal with (“Lyndon B. Johnson”).…
(Roosevelt 3). Theodore organized the Rough Riders to help the Americans in the war. After the Spanish American war Roosevelt was praised in all of the country. When William Mckinley’s vice president died Roosevelt was promoted to Vice President. In 1901 McKinley was assassinated so Roosevelt took control of the president position (Theodore para 1).…
America has been through various eras of some famous presidents but Herbert Hoover is not one of them. He was the 31st president of the United States of America was born on August 10, 1874; he died ninety years later on October 20, 1964. He was born in West Branch, Iowa, and he died in New York City, New York. Hoover studied at Stanford University. He became an orphan at the age of nine.…
It is said that his temper caused him to do many things he regretted later in life that effected his society. Through his time of reign, he had began to gain higher ranks and granted with more power. In document six, it suggests that the more in command he became, the more unquestioned and powerful. His attitude sparked many different views on him.…
Wilson’s blunder Like Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson is one of the best presidents who just served at a bad time as claimed by Kendrick A. Clements, a historian formerly at the University of South Carolina. Clements praises the Wilson administration for its foreign policies and helping America emerge as a world power. Jim Powell of the Cato Institute, on the other hand has a different opinion. According to Powell, Wilson is the worst president in American history. He says, in his need to join the League of Nations, Wilson refused to see that the members of the League would only comprise of winners and their allies of war, which he said would prevent future wars.…
“A steam engine in trousers,” a contemporary once called him. The first president to ride in an automobile, fly in an airplane, and even be submerged in a submarine. Who was this man? His name was Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States of America. After the assassination of the 25th president, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, his vice president, rose to power to make many great achievements.…
He was a military hero who ran for president as a commoner. A spoils system was put into place when he was President. This system rewarded those who helped him and it featured rotating officeholders. The officeholders were everyday people who never had received a change to be a part of the ruling government. (Book)…
Melanise Otis Research Paper November 30th, 2015 Professor Kelley Harriet Tubman Who was Harriet Tubman and what were her accomplishments? Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist and humanitarian. During the American Civil War, she served as a nurse and a Union spy. Born a slave on Maryland’s eastern shore, in Dorchester County. She was born to enslave parents and her original name was Araminta Harriet Ross.…
Often acknowledged as the Moses of enslaved people, Harriet Tubman was an influential leader in her time and moved many people into freedom during the slave era. Born circa 1820, Harriet Tubman accomplished the seemingly impossible throughout her life; leader of the Underground Railroad, an abolitionist, Union nurse during the Civil War, and supporter of the suffrage movement. She amazingly did all this being a minority woman in a time where white men were the only ones in a place of power. Harriet Tubman’s birth name was Araminta Ross, and she kept that name until she changed it to Harriet upon adulthood, to honor her mother. She was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland, and lived through dreadful conditions until she escaped circa 1850.…
During the World War II the president of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt but he died at the end of the war April 12, 1995. The man who took his place was Harry Truman and he…