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    still continues to provide welfare to the elderly and Medicaid and Medicare provide health insurance to low-income families and the elderly. Most reforms that took place during that time still affect American lives today. When the recession hit in 2008 and families did not have money to feed themselves, the federal government was able to send out stipends of about $600 to most families. This type of government intervention would not have been possible during Herbert Hoover’s administration, and…

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    Theodore Roosevelt "Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well”. Theodore Roosevelt was an American politician, writer, naturalist, and soldier. Born in 1858, he became governor of New York in 1899, fought in the Spanish-American war in 1898, and became president after William McKinley died in 1901. He…

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    Elle Macpherson Wiki, Daughter, Married, Height, Net Worth and Bio Elle Macpherson bio Australian Supermodel and actress Elle Macpherson A.K.A Eleanor Nancy Gow was born on 29th March 1964 in Killara, New South Wales. She is best known for her records of five cover appearances mostly for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue during the 1980s. Elle Macpherson bio available on different resources has stated that her parents separated when she was still a teen. Her mother remarried multimillionaire…

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    Theodore Roosevelt. Before Presidency Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in Manhattan, New York City, New York to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Senior. Roosevelt's father was a Philanthropist and business man. He was part owner of Roosevelt and Son, a family business. Theodore Roosevelt came from a long line of wealthy people. Roosevelt had three siblings; Elliot Bulloch Roosevelt, Bamie Roosevelt, and Corrine Roosevelt Robinson. Theodore Roosevelt was…

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    concern that the public not suffer unduly because of trusts.” The coal strike of 1902 would usher in a new kind of progressive politics. TR would make his wish for government intervention a reality with the advent of his trust busting campaign. Roosevelt would use the power of the executive branch as a means form dismantling monopolies in the private sector. A prime example of TR’s trust-busting policies was his 1902 battle with Northern Securities Company, a highly regarded railroad…

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    Progressives were dissatisfied with the social and economic vices they saw among the upper and working classes; they believed that in order to protect and maintain their own virtuous family lives, they needed to reform the vices of the other classes. In a total rejection of negative liberty ideals, progressives argued that “individualism means tyranny” and that societies cannot prevail which “endure on a purely individualistic basis”…

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    Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City (Kane 299). “Teedie” as his family often called him, was the second of four children (Gable 465). Teedie was frequently ill from infancy to his late teens because he struggled with asthma (Harbaugh 329). Although he was a very small child, had asthma and awful vision, nothing took away his energy and zest for life (Gable 465). Theodore grew up very privileged because his father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., was a very wealthy New…

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    Question One Theodore Roosevelt stands as the 26th American president. He remembered so much because of the progressive era reforms. He played a role that has led to changes in the society that are felt to date. First, he remembered for inventing the modern presidency. He came up as a presidential peacemaker who averted so many wars through diplomacy and fought bravely in the Spanish-American War. This made US to be at peace with most of its neighbors. Secondly, Roosevelt argued for…

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    Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City. Theodore Roosevelt’s family ancestors were successful Dutch glass importers that were one of New York’s leading families in the late 1800s. Theodor had a difficult time in early age. But always was on the right way and had reached his goals. Theodor’s father name was Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt
s Wives were Alice Hathaway Lee, Edith Kermit Carow
 his daughters Alice and Ethel. And his 
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    Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. He died in Georgia in 1945 because of cerebral hemorrhage. Roosevelt grew up in a wealthy family in New York. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education; the Roosevelts had been prosperous for many years, making fortunes in real estate and trade. In 1905, Roosevelt married his distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who…

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