Herbert Spencer

Two civil servants who worked for the U.S Government gave birth to a baby boy, John Edgar Hoover on January 1, 1895. Three blocks away from Capitol Hill, Washington D.C he lived with his mother until her death in 1938, when Hoover was 43 years old. Hoover was highly competitive and determined to overcome a stuttering problem by learning to talk fast. He joined the debate team when he was in high school and achieved some notoriety. Hoover worked for Library of Congress because of his interest in…

I hope you have been having a good school year and a nice holiday break! I have some exciting news. I'm applying for the Coolidge Scholarship which is a scholarship that covers the costs of all four years of undergraduate education for students who are crazy overqualified in everything. I'm not one of them unfortunately, but there are a bunch of smaller awards attached to the scholarship that I am aiming for, including the awards/titles "Coolidge Senator" and "Coolidge Finalist" for good…

During the Great Depression, a presidential election was held whose candidates were Herbert Hoover, Republican, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat. By a landslide, Franklin D. Roosevelt won due to the lack of relief to the nation that Hoover failed to provide. Roosevelt’s plans to implement a New Deal for the American people that promoted reform, recovery, and reform captured the attention of millions and gave them hope for a brighter future. They imagined a future where their children…

Briann Johnson History T R 11:00 November 12, 2014 The Great Depression The Great Depression was most definitely the one of the darkest times for the economy in the U.S. The stock market crash of 1929 caused this economic downturn. When the stock market plummeted, consumer spending majorly dropped. Companies were making less and less profit, the only options were either closing down or laying off employees in hopes of being able to bring themselves out of this low spot . In 1933, the peak of…

Depression an estimated 17 million Americans were without work. At no point did the unemployment rate drop below 13% between the years 1929-1939, life in America was tough. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) like his predecessor former President Herbert Hoover was simply unable to stop the depression. However, the drums of war were heard in the distance as Adolf Hitler and Germany were rampaging throughout Europe. Winston Churchill doggedly persistent that America must join the fight against…

The Great Depression of the 1930’s is an event in United States history that is forever remembered for the catastrophic effect it had on the American peoples’ financial, social, and psychological well being of the time. The vast and complicated nature of the economic downturn would take years to recover from, and is still being analyzed by historians and economists to this very day; as time has passed, the debate among experts on what caused the disaster has yet to settle. Just as the…

America and beyond, across the world. After the first few years of the Depression, public morale was already utterly demolished and people were in desperate need for a solution to end to their suffering. With the disappointment of former president Herbert Hoover’s “rotting,”…

a time of much joy was followed by a time were partying, having a job, and having food on the table were luxuries. This time period was known as The Great Depression. As America began to entire this desperate time, a new president was elected. Herbert Hoover was elected into the presidency in 1929. Less than eight months into his term, it happened. The day known as Black Tuesday was the end of a two-week downfall of the Wall Street Stock Market. This was a time where people were investing in…

people in an era of fast-paced modernization.” (“Calvin Coolidge”) America remembers Coolidge’s term as the “Coolidge prosperity” because he manage to keep the economic success of the 1920’s. Less than a year since Coolidge left office in 1929, during Herbert Hoover’s term, the stock market crashed. Large companies went bankrupt and left many Americans jobless leading toward to a decade economic struggle called the Great Depression. Hoover, who served as the secretary of commerce, believed that…

began. As the government did not provide unemployment insurance, lost jobs quickly translated people into homelessness and destituteness. In 1933, the unemployment rate hovered about 25 percent. The noun "Hooverville", which emphasized President Herbert Hoover should hold the responsibility for this crisis, became a common term in homeless…