Herbert Blumer

and my opinions on future elections. Before, the Election of 1928 it all started when Coolidge announced that he will not be running again,so than there was an opening for a new Republican nominee and his name was Herbert Hoover.The Election of 1928 consisted of two major people Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith.Herbert Hoover was nominated on the first…

eighteen. And along with this, women’s fashion changed along with their job opportunities. At the beginning of the 1930s, more than 15 million Americans – fully one-quarter of all wage-earning workers – were unemployed (“The 1930s”). When President Herbert Hoover failed at relieving most of the crisis, he lost re-election against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who promised he’d alleviate some of the Depression. The American people were ecstatic when they heard this news. As millions lost their jobs…

October 24th, 1929, an alarming day that should’ve warned Americans about the tragic event that was about to happen, became known as Black Thursday, the foreshadowing to the Great Depression that changed Americans lives forever. This is when Franklin Delano Roosevelt made his political debut as President by creating several programs that collectively became known as the New Deal. FDR’s New Deal gave Americans a fresh start and better lives during the Great Depression. Black Thursday refers to…

Vanderbilt started off at the bottom with one ferry boat and ended up with a fleet of ships. 40 years after him starting the business he is the largest shipping company in the world. Vanderbilt sells all of his ships, to invest in the railroad company. By the end of the war Vanderbilt is worth 68 million and is the richest man in the country. Vanderbilt was grooming his favorite son, George to take over his company. George was his favorite son because he saw him a lot like himself. George ended…

For centuries, no one ever questioned how humans have gotten to where we are today. Humans would turn to different belief systems and religion to relieve them of their preoccupations and questions. The powerful and influential religion of Christianity was the answer to all. The Roman Catholic Church and several others determined that God was the creator of life and created everything. During the Scientific Revolution, those who wanted to combine science and religion were convinced that God gave…

America was not the land of opportunity. During the Great Depression which was when the stock market crashed and many people were not able to make money or have jobs. Because of the Great Depression “Unemployment jumped from less than 3 million in 1929 to 4 million in 1930, to 8 million in 1931, and to 12 1/2 million in 1932 [and]... a quarter of the nation's families did not have a single employed wage earner” (Notes). This made it so America’s economic opportunity was lost because of how many…

The Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted until 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression interminably experienced by the modern western world, sparking alterations in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy and economic theory. The Great Depression originated in the United States it caused radical decreases in output, relentless unemployment, and subtle deflation in almost every country. The social and economic effects were no less outrageous especially in the United States,…

Thousands lost their homes, and the value of these homes declined significantly, as well (Housing Tables). Prior to this decline, there was a push in society for homeownership. In other words, the cultural importance of homeownership increased. In 1931, Herbert Hoover gave a speech in which he said, “home owning is more than the provision of domiciles; it goes to the roots of family life, public morals and standards of living” (Hoover). The conversation about homeownership was centered on the…

What Caused the Great Depression? The Great Depression was started for many different reason building up. Some of the reasons are people gambling on stocks, people purchasing things they couldn’t afford. Then people stop buying once they ran out of credit as a effect production begin to slack so workers became laid off. It all started in 1929 when the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929. Stocks were invented for buying and selling shares of a company. Because people were writing and…

John Pierpont Morgan, financier, art collector and philanthropist best known as J.P. Morgan, was born on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the only son of his parents and only brother of six sisters. He studied for two years in the University of Goettingen in Germany and then He started his career in the banking industry by joining his father business. In 1860 he got married to Amelia Sturges but she died in few months so he got married again to Frances Tracy in 1865 and got four…