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    Rural poverty affects 10 million people living across the United States (Housing Assistance Council 2014). Rural poverty differs from urban poverty. Rural poverty occurs in on Native American Reservations, in the Deep South, and in the Appalachian Mountain region. Communities affected by rural poverty have similar conditions affecting residents such as drug use. Rural poverty concentrates in certain areas of the United States where there is little to no opportunities and leads to problems such…

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    was never the same after the United States’ involvement in World War I. Throughout the early 1920s the economy was booming as businesses thrived off the increased spending of the public. The flourishing consumer culture generated new forms of leisure such as the radio, the automobile, and Hollywood films as apart of the everyday life. However, this period of prosperity would drift off as demand for these products decreased. After the 1929 crash, the United States plunged into the Great…

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    Andrew Jackson: War Hero

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    Andrew Jackson; war hero, president, racist, and murderer. To elaborate, Andrew Jackson was unfit to serve as the president of the United States. During his term, Jackson degraded the office of the presidency with his policies and antics.For example, Jackson caused a financial collapse that induced a depression of tremendous magnitude with the destruction of the national bank. But, perhaps his greatest offence of all are his crimes and cruelty toward the Native Americans displayed in the Trail…

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    his political thoughts. Jefferson was the third person chosen to become President of the United States of America in the year 1801 through 1809. Before getting to be President, Jefferson had a major role in building an establishment for the nation. He made a significant impact as a lawmaker, statesman, negotiator, scholarly, researcher, and thinker. Some political ideas Jefferson proposed were favoring the state-funded training, free voting, free press, and restricted government. There are a…

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    The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by John Ellis was the telling of what the Founding Fathers’ actions that lead the way for the development of the United States Constitution. Ellis wrote that the years of 1783 to 1789 was the unofficial Second American Revolution, being 1776 the spirit of the first Revolution. Ellis wrote the book because of hearing students reciting Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He has noticed the first part of the address to be in error. The…

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    only precipitated it. A combination of conditions led the United States to the worst economic crisis in its history. During this traumatic period of despair, the Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt would answer this crisis with very antagonist approaches to bring the United States out of this economic catastrophe.…

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    Democracy is the central feature of government in the United States of America. It was an idea set forth by our Founding Fathers as the building block upon which our nation would grow. Democracy is a constant in American government but it was radically changed with the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1828. Jackson wanted to bring the common people back into the government, taking it away from the elitists that had begun to dominate American politics. What was important to his…

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    often referred to as FDR, the 32nd President of the United States of America, was initially a statesman. He served his presidency from the year of 1933 until his demise in the year of 1945. He was part of the democratic party and had been the longest serving president in US history. During most of the Great Depression, FDR he was implementing his New Deal domestic agenda that was created in response to the worst economic crisis in the United States of American history, known as the Great…

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    impeachment will benefit the economic confrontation in Brazil, considering she used money from state banks to fill in her budget, unemployment has led Brazil into a recession, and Brazil’s currency has lost ten percent of its value. However, Dilma is not to be held for Brazils monetary issues, but as President, she has the responsibility to monitor financial issues. Rousseff’s is being accused of controlling state banks while financing government programs, including VAR Palmares known as a…

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    New Deal Dbq

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    During the the great depression america was in its most fragile state, with almost every bank closed and 13,000,000 unemployed, America then elected Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt brought america out of is desperate crashed state with a new program and within the first hundred days. He brought hope to many Americans with worries about losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. One of the many things he did was create was a…

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