Calvin Coolidge

becoming “a national movement” (Honeywell). In 1909, La Follette put into motion what was to “become the mouthpiece of progressivism - La Follette's Magazine” (Honeywell). Fifteen years later, La Follette broke away from the Republican party when “Calvin Coolidge was nominated for president”…

What are you, Democrat or republican? There are only 59 % of the world’s people who are involved in the political parties. 31 % of the 59 % is Democrat, 28% is Republican. What does it mean to be a Democrat or Republican? A Republican feels there should be no abortion, nor Gay marriage. While Democrats feel that Gay marriage is acceptable. They also feel abortion is okay because it’s the women’s’ body and they can do what they want. Republicans and Democrats are apart of…

Hebert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874 in West Bank, Iowa. He was the first president born west of the Mississippi River. Hoover was the second of three children of a Quaker family. His father died when he was six and his mother died three years later. At age nine Hoover moved in with his aunt and uncle in Oregon. After going to Quaker schools, Hoover joined the first class to attend Stanford University which opened in 1891. He graduated with a degree in geology and became a mining engineer.…

For decades, the role the government plays in the economy has been a heavily debated topic. The search to find a solution to this conundrum has been tedious and extensive, seemingly everyone having an opinion. A myriad of historical evidence demonstrates that the government should have a large and expansive role in the economy. The faults of both the Gilded Age and the Twenties combined with the solutions that emerged from the Progressive Era, The New Deal, and World War II provide extensive…

disagreed with the politics of then president Marco Fidel Suarez and participated in a protest movement against Suarez. In 1928 After the banana worker’s strike in Magdalena, he gained enormous national popularity. The US government under Calvin Coolidge threatened to invade if the Colombian government did not intervene to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company United Fruit representatives reported the strike as “communistic subversive activity” and had sent numerous telegrams to…

President Calvin Coolidge made the Statue of Liberty a national monument in 1924. At this time the statue underwent a big restoration and the lady received a new torch and a gold-leaf covered flame. She was rededicated on July 4, 1986 by the 40th U.S. President Ronald…

"I declare this lava bed to become a park," I hear President Calvin Coolidge. This Lava Bed is located on the border of California and Oregon. At this site you are able to see caves, take a tour around the park, go hiking on scenic trails, climb cinder cones and learn about volcanoes that are active or inactive. I think this field trip would be educational because we would be there and we would remember instead of pictures off the internet. The tour around the park will be historical because…

us kids could learn a lot from visiting this place, as well as you adults can too. The guiders will teach us how the monument was created and formed over the last few years. According to the passage you can immediately discover "why President Calvin Coolidge declared Lave Beds A national monument back in 1925." There is many different sights you could see all around you. We all would explore the lava tubes that are underground in which the author states are "almost like…

The beauty of history is found in the lives of those who have lived it. History is the account of lives that have been lived, events that have been recorded, and how those lives and events have changed the course of the world to bring it to where it is today. Millions have lived and died unremembered, but yet millions are remembered today for the life they lived. These millions are the one who make a difference in the world. Among these individuals who have impacted the creation of today are…

Next, Hoover served as head of the American Relief that oversaw the feeding of Europeans after the second world war. Due to his achievements in his former positions President Warren G. Harding and President Calvin Coolidge both picked Hoover as their secretary of commerce (Herbert). Herbert Hoover is remembered for all these achievements which he attained prior to his position of presidency. Even though Hoover is not remembered as good president during his time…