Herbert Mullin

The great depression was an economic slump that contributed to the loss of jobs,homes, and families. It was how that later presidents help America get out of the economic slump that was remarkable or not. Both presidents, Hoover and Roosevelt responsed differently to the panic of America The effects of the great depression were detrimental and effected all across the world, yet mostly america. Also, the great depression lead up to the new deal and later started the second world war. Stock…

Every year, millions of foreign people immigrate to the United States in search of the American dream. Citizens of foreign countries and Americans are continuously in search of it because, they want a better life. They believe that with determination, America's endless opportunities will set them up for success. James Truslow Adams introduced the term American dream in 1931, and now it plays a significant part of America’s culture and heritage. A large number of people disbelieve that they can…

The Great Depression was an extreme time of struggle for not only the economy of America, but also the American people of every race. The Great Depression took place from 1929- 1939. One of the main reasons of what led to the Great Depression was the crash of the stock market. The crash itself propelled and drove Wall Street workers straight into a major fear and nightmare that was thought and imagined to never come. Throughout the years that came “Consumer spending and investment dropped,…

President Franklin Roosevelt, a distant cousin of former President Theodore Roosevelt, was the creator of the New Deal. Roosevelt created the New Deal in hopes to bring America out of its Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of many acts, most had been declared unconstitutional years later. However Roosevelt stood by his plan, determined to bring America back to the prospering nation it once was (Trueman). Roosevelt was elected to office in the deepest year of the great depression. His goal…

would only improve. Unfortunately it was only the beginning. Overproduction of goods and underconsumption of buying slowed the market greatly. No one knew it yet, but this time of debt, depression, and unemployment would last 10 years. President Herbert Hoover believed that the depression was the people’s fault, and was adamant on helping them. This made the people loose trust in Hoover. Areas of large economic poverty filled with shacks made from newspapers, and cardboard were referred to as…

In March of 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address to a nation that was in the midst of the Great Depression and declared a war on poverty. Although he specifically greeted former President Hoover and Chief Justice, Charles Evan Hughes, he mainly addressed the general public with a determination to overcome the economic issues that the Great Depression brought to the people. FDR hoped to revive “the American spirit” that was sought by his predecessors so that every…

Black Tuesday- was the most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of United States. The price of stocks completely crashed and eliminated many American jobs. Speculation- investment in stocks involving risk but offering the chance of gains such as profit from changes in the market price. "Buying on Margin"- People buy stocks with borrowed money and pay back the borrowed money with the profit earned from the stock. This caused problems because if the stock decreased in value then the…

The following report is on the book Think And Grow Rich written by Napoleon Hill during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Great Depression was, without a doubt, one of the hardest times in America's history. In 1929 the stock market crashed, jobs and fortunes were lost and the thrills of the “roaring 20s” were replaced by bread-lines, poverty, drought and despair. As the hard-times dragged on, people began to lose hope. Many were lost and directionless. Napoleon Hill lived through…

Leaders of the free world of America have almost all been great but there are two leaders that constantly stick out from the rest. They are John F Kennedy the man that united America against the common enemy of communism, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt who lead us out of the Great Depression, and World War Two these two men were quite similar and different, as John F Kennedy lead the world through a war of mystery and espionage, Franklin lead the world through a war of fire, death, and misery in…

The Great Depressions was one of the worst economic downfalls in US history. The great depression all started from 1929 and lasted till 1939. Due to the economic meltdown it had affected Western economies but not only did affect the US it also affected other nations. It started in the US which experienced the worst end of the Great Depression. Although, many people believe that it began years earlier in Europe and that the US felt that they were immune to such a dramatic fall in the economy.…