Herbert Spencer

Andrew Jackson The United States’ seventh president, Andrew Jackson served two terms from 1829-1837. He is known for making many difficult decisions, but I believe that his decisions on the Indian Removal Act, the Spoils System, and Bank War were wrong. The Indian Removal Act created tension between the United States and the Native Americans. The Indian Removal Act granted the United States land the Native Americans were living in east of the Mississippi River. This forced Natives Americans…

University & worked in Wall Street law firm as a clerk for several years. He entered politics in 1910, by winning the state senate in Dutchess County as a Democrat when the county was heavily Republican. Roosevelt became assistant secretary of the US Navy in 1913, by President Woodrow Wilson. He stayed in his post for 7 years, & travel to Europe in 1918, for a tour of the naval bases & battlefields after the US enter WWII. Roosevelt had support of his wife & a longtime supporter, a journalist…

Franklin D. Roosevelt “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” These are the words of a man that was once a great leader. During the time of a social revolution this man made hope, opportunity, and justice our nation’s national commitment. He found ways to problems that no one else could and he did what was necessary for everyone. In his 4 terms of presidency he led America through The Great Depression and WW 2. This man is none other than Franklin D. Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt…

Introduction Herbert Hoover is often seen as a faulty president, but is there truth behind this statement? One can find that out by looking into his early life, professional life, the presidency, and legacy. Early Life Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa. His father was Jesse Clark Hoover, the towns blacksmith, and his mother's name was Hulda Hoover, the town's teacher. His mother was very intelligent. Everyone wanted her to speak during the town…

The dominant culture's influences on the Hoovers is that they are dysfunctional with a lot of issues individually and as a family. The predominant influence is that the drama surrounding the family and Olive, who wants to compete in the beauty pageant. In the film, for example, the family eating habits are unhealthy to say the least. The Hoover family typically eat fast food, for instance, fried chicken and Grandpa Edwin gets fed up with eating out regularly and not having home cooked meals as…

Calvin Coolidge rose to fulfill the office of presidency after the sudden and unexpected death of President Harding. Coolidge was recognized quickly as a people’s man, highly educated, making him relatable and reliable to the upper class; but also coming from a background of agriculture connecting him to the lower class citizens. Coolidge’s time in office is acknowledged as one of transition. An age of advancing modernization in the gap of the “roaring twenties” and the encroaching hardship of…

Roosevelt won two elections for the New York Governor seat and the led him to be a strong choice for the Democratic Presidential nomination. And his strategy for the fall campaign was very simple: let Hoover do all the work and don’t do anything crazy. Hoover was wildly unpopular with the America due to his lack of attention to the budget causing the Great Depression so Roosevelt figured he would let his unpopularity shift America to the Democratic Party. He gave speeches all across the country…

Herbert Hoover’s philosophy about the function of the federal government was individualist in nature as well, meaning that he viewed a decentralized federal government with most of the day to day intervention being in the jurisdiction of the local and state governments. He was distinctly against the communist and socialist ideas that were spreading through Europe creating centralised authoritarian governments. Instead his individualist mentality resulted in a response through decentralized…

Heidi Ngo Core Humanities 203 Tom Hertweck, Kyle Bladow July 11, 2015 The Threat of Fascism The obstructive wars of World War I and World War II pushed the United States into and out of the Great Depression, and into an era where America became recognized as one of the most powerful country in the world. Through the avoidance of being involved in these foreign wars, the United States was inevitably pulled into the battlefront due to a threat of the national security of this nation. A common…

The Country was overwhelmed with unemployment as the Great Depression swept across the country leaving people upside down with nowhere to turn, families had no way to provide for one another leading to hunger. Herbert Hoover was tossed into this mess when everything began to collapse. Hoover scrambled for a solution and overall felt that the people should rely on charity to fix this epidemic. Franklin D Roosevelt, the man who followed Hoover, elected in 1934. Franklin D Roosevelt had a different…