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Harrison Wilson 28, April, 2015 History 1301 Panola Community College Bill Offer Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty second President of the United States of America and the only president allowed to serve more than two terms. This is no problem and it was well deserved because his legacy is one that leads him to be known as the greatest president of the 20th century- quite possibly the greatest president ever in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30th,…

used in the Anthracite Coal miner strike of 1902. It states that a person or third party will hear the arguments presented from both extremes and provide a resolution that will satisfy both groups. 6. Underwood Tariff: This policy was implemented in 1913 in order to help to lower the rates of income for everyone in the US. It also stated that a person was required to pay 1% federal tax if and only if he/she making above 3,000 dollars. 7. Smith-Lever Act, Smith-Hughes Act: This document passed…

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer born March 12, 1889 in Kiev, Ukraine. In the world of ballet, Nijinsky was known as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He gained his popularity and recognition for his intense commitment to characterizations, artistry, and extreme focus on techniques. Those achievements were gained within the time span of nine years—compared to other artists of that time, it took decades or even after their career for their work to be…

Rousseau begins his argument on the conception of freedom that goes contradictory to that of Mill. In this sense, he suggests that society must undergo a transformation or transition from the natural state to the civil state society, and that this society may be considered both free and subject to some legitimate form of political authority. Rousseau believes that this political authority is not found in the natural state, which he considers limited only by the power of natural superiority or…

In 1899 President Theodore Roosevelt started a project of building the Panama Canal. It is the 50 mile long water passage that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This passage is very useful because ships can travel through it and they don’t have to go all the way around the continent. This is the main purpose for this canal, to shorten the passage that ships have to travel. This saved a lot of money on fuel that ships had to use to go around the continent. People thought about building…

There was women’s rights advancement in WWI as women were granted to vote in Canada, but in New Zealand, Australia, Finland and Norway the gave the women the right to vote before WWI and Denmark, Iceland, Holland and Sweden all gave the women the right to vote during WWI, but they were not involved with it At the end of the war Russia, Germany and the U.S gave women the right to vote, but it took France and Italy until 1945 to grant that right The women’s peace party was formed during WWI. They…

his generation, he joined the anarchist movement. His painting "The Wreckers" (1897-99), showing a laborer working with a pickaxe, may refer to his wish to destroy older ways of life in order to establish better societal conditions. In September of 1913, Paul Signac rented a house at Antibes and had a daughter, Ginette, with Jeanne…

Between 1905 and 1913 he got arrested and exiled a number of times, spending 7 or 10 years between 1907 and 1917 in either prison or exile. Stalin was in exile during WW1, during which he had wrote an article with Lenin’s help in 1913 and served as an editor for a Bolshevik newspaper before his final arrest and exile, and was released from exile, along with fellow Bolsheviks…

Imagine you are in a time with dirty water and cold lunches in school. That is what the women in Progressive Era wanted to reform for clean water, trash collections, and hot lunches at schools. The Progressive Era was from the 1890’s to the 1920’s. Women in the Progressive Era faced many challenges so the women in middle class wanted the reform and change the way they were treated. They made a women’s organization and many legislations. To begin, the Progressive Era was in the 1890’s to the…

She was born on February 4th, 1913, in a town called Tuskegee, Alabama who knew when she grew up she would start a movement across the USA by refusing to give up a seat. It was Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat to a white man. It was in Montgomery Alabama. It took place on December 1st, 1955. She was tired of being mistreated because of her race, so she didn’t want to sit on the back of the bus so she sat where she wanted to. Rosa Parks, she refused to give up a bus seat which started…