A People's History of the United States

In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and killed. This paved the way for Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to jump in, take his place, and become the 26th President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt, or as he liked to be called, TR, believed in, what most people call now, the progressive era. He believed that a Federal government could have more power and regulation in businesses. TR aimed to distinguish “good corporations” who believed in manufacturing good products and services,…

aesthetic language throughout history. In their first and second inaugural addresses respectively, John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln presented to the country a beautiful collection of lines, many of them still remembered to this day. These artfully written speeches were not written in such style on accident, as the mastery of syntax, diction, and trope are used to effectively win over an audience. Both Kennedy and Lincoln unify and reassure the citizens of the United States by mastering these…

progressive reforms beginning in 1890 and further were mostly successful, even though some yielded muddled results. As a whole, many beneficial improvements were able to rise out of the Progressive Era that aided in ameliorating and shaping the way the United States presently functions, to an extent that made the era one of the most active periods for constitutional amendments. In comparison to the overall effectiveness of Populism and unionization, Progressivism easily suppressed both in…

than not, sentences which contain anthesis also contain parallelism. For example, in Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address” he says, “United, there is little we can’t do, divided there is little we can do.”, he repeats the grammatical structure, however, he changes the ideas in each part of the sentence. Lincoln uses a similar technique in his “Second Inaugural Address” where he states, “ ...devoted altogether to saving the union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it…

Women Influences in American History United States history has many significant and influential figures who accomplished a remarkable change and remembrance. In the early 1600th-1800th century, some men were the voice of the land/home and had the privilege of fighting in wars, having an opinion, and being relied on. While for women, they were just property of the men who were in charge of nurturing their children, obeying/serving their husband and maintaining their households. Women did not…

Context: During the industrial age, corporate giants like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil had an iron grip on the economy. This allowed them to abuse their workers with low pay and poor working conditions, which led to numerous reforms and labor unions being formed, as well as workers being forced to live in sub-humane living conditions. Let’s delve deeper and analyze these reforms under the scope of the presidencies of Roosevelt, Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.) Theodore Roosevelt(All of these…

Education reformer, John Dewey, drove the higher education reform through his assertion that the United States educational system needed to prepare students for the modern era by making personal development the focus of the curriculum (Norton, 549). The education reform successfully increased the number of enrolled students in a public school system to…

pot and the years of peace leading to WWI. The new progressive waged war on monopolies, corruption, inefficiencies, and social injustices. Even though the progressives fought a ‘war’ on many fronts, the efforts’ of the reformers was to “Strength the State.” The three great Progressives are Theodore Roosevelt, the man of ample girth William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson and. But which one of…

important factor was the preexisting dived in Mexico. If the Mexicans had been united against the Spanish invaders, things…

Throughout the second half of the 1800s, Congress had been the most powerful branch of government. Even though the presidency began to amass more power during the late 1880s, it was not until Theodore Roosevelt that the transition to a strong, and effective executive was completed. Since, he not only extended the federal government power, but he also made the president center of American politics, instead of Congress or political parties. Which he did through a desire to make society more fair…