...Herbert Hoover Vicki L.Ware HIST102 Heidi Kyle November 24, 2014 Hebert Hoover This short paper will look at what things that Herbert Hoover he accomplished that endeared him to the American public and set up his successful Presidential run in 1928. The paper will also look at his Quaker roots, lack of knowledge concerning the Washington political highway, and poor communication skills that prevent the American people from re-electing him in the 1932 Presidential campaign. And not knowing prior to the 1932 election what programs he was instituting during the Great Depression that could have potentially gotten him re-elected in 1932. As with all history, historians read, interpret and then write their findings in documentation as to whether or not a historic event or person lived up to what the expectation of the outcome at that point and time. When discussing whether or not Herbert Hoover succeeded or not during his Presidency one must take into account is background. Herbert Clark Hoover was born in 1874 into a Quaker family, which influenced his entire life. Mr. Hoover learned from his Quaker roots “that men are not mere abstractions but that they are individual units of a social order”1. This doctrine set in place the building blocks on how Mr. Hoover view the world and for his sense of justice and fair play. Research point out that true to his Quaker roots Mr. Hoover believed that all business transactions should be tempered with a sense of justice and equity...
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...Notes * U.S. Diplomacy and Russia In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge addressed the issue of Russian war debts. The President noted that the United States was resuming diplomatic relations with nations that had been cut off during World War I. The Russians, however, presented a problem for Coolidge because their communist form of government opposed democracy. * Italy Italy was a democracy when World War I began in 1914. The country's army fought alongside Allied forces. Unfortunately, the war left the government and economy of Italy unstable and a fertile ground for revolutionaries. Decisions made at the Paris Peace Conference denied the large territorial gains the Italian government expected after the war. In 1921, Benito Mussolini founded the National Fascist Party and rose up as a revolutionary leader. * Fascism was based on a foundation of authoritarianism and nationalism. For Mussolini, the most important aspect of a nation or state was the unity and survival of that state. Mussolini rejected democracy because he thought different political views and political parties weakened the unity of the state. * Taking Fascism on the Road Fascists disagreed with the communist belief that private property and businesses should belong to the state. The Fascists also believed that the nationalism of a state must be aggressively exported to other countries. In other words, the Fascists maintained that a nation had a right to invade and conquer a weaker nation...
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...FDR and the Great Depression “The Great Depression,” a name that always brings up images of pain, suffering, and severe poverty. So by the time the presidential election of 1932 rolled around, America wanted a new president. So Along came Democratic Franklin Delano Roosevelt who beat out than Republican President Herbert Hoover by over seven million votes. FDR came up with what is known as the three pronged plan. It entailed correcting the financial crisis and providing short term emergency relief for the unemployed, industrial recovery by federal support and paying farmers to reduce crop and herd sizes which raised prices. He also came up with the New Deal policy. The New Deal totally rewrote the nation’s labor laws, reshaped government and the general populace interactions and also put millions back to work. This New Deal was successful in short term relief but vastly differed in how it affected the rural and urban communities both good and bad. Roosevelt declared that the New Deal would bring relief, recovery, and reform. While it did help the economy a little it was not the grand save FDR imagined it to be. People living in urban areas benefited the most from the deal because many of the new jobs were in the city. Musicians, artists, dancers, and performers all benefited from the new theater project. The Public Works Administration put thousands back to work by repairing roads and doing heavy construction and this new administration is still being used...
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...issues occurred from the Great Depression. The buying on credit was a long term cause of the Depression. Since the 20’s was a period of great economic boom, not many people took the future into consideration. Many people bought expensive luxury items using money they did not have. Installment buying allowed people to make a monthly, weekly, or yearly payment on an item that they wanted or needed. Buying on credit and installment buying left millions of people in debt. Also, the continuous scamming in the stock market caused a loss of a lot of money. Buying on margin was a problem because people would only pay 10% and borrowing the rest from the bank. In 1928 Herbert Hoover was elected for president, when the Great Depression hit he did nothing about it. He thought it wasn’t the government’s problem and the people had to deal with it themselves. His approach was “rugged individualism” which means just waiting the depression out, he was a proponent...
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...confronted the United States, including industrialization, the rise of powerful corporations, the growth of cities and the mass arrivals of immigrants. This period was known as the Progressive Era. Two major historical turning points that took place during this time were (1) Women earned the right to vote and (2) Education. Women Suffrage The early 1900s saw a successful push for the vote through a coalition of suffragists, temperance groups, reform-minded politicians, and women's social-welfare organizations. Although Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton devoted 50 years to the woman's suffrage movement, neither lived to see women gain the right to vote. But their work and that of many other suffragists contributed to the ultimate passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Two groups that contributed to the passage of the 19th amendment the women organizations the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), founded in 1890, and the National Women’s Party (NWP), founded in 1913 and led by Alice Paul. Alice Paul and other women of the National Women's Party picketed the White House. They wanted then President Woodrow Wilson to support a Constitutional amendment giving all American women suffrage, or the right to vote. Women gained voting right in the west before the east and south and many wonder why. I believe it was because of money and development the powers that be were interested in getting the women votes to help them control development by supporting their agenda...
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...Constitution that abolished slavery. The abolishment of slavery was the final blow to the South during the civil war and was an attempt to secure the future of the nation by making sure that the institution of slavery, which was the ultimate cause of the civil war, could never cause a civil war in the US ever again. This was the first time slavery was mentioned in the Constitution * Fourteenth Amendment * The amendment to the US Constitution during the reconstruction period that promised civil rights to everyone, including persons of color. This amendment elevated former slaves to the same status as everyone else. * Fifteenth Amendment * An amendment to the US Constitution during the reconstruction period that prohibited states from denying men the right to vote on the grounds of race or color. This amendment allowed black men to vote in the United States. * Henry Ford * Inventor of the Model-T car during the industrial revolution. Changed American culture * Scientific Management * Also known as Taylorism, a new method of assembly line production, making factories more efficient during the American Industrial Revolution, designed by Frederick Taylor. The first person to use this method was Henry Ford for the Model-T car. * Thomas Edison * The inventor of the light bulb. This changed the life of many Americans, as it eventually led to the rise of nightlife, since there was a new way to keep things lit in the dark. * Luna Park...
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...The mid-1920’s ushered in a variety of new inventions. Gas chambers, invented in 1924 in the state of Nevada, developed a more peaceful execution. In 1924, James Spangler invented the Hoover Machine, an invention known around the world. Spangler invented the vacuum, and his cousin’s husband, William Hoover, bought his machine first. William Hoover later owned the Hoover Vacuum Company. ("Invention and History of Vacuum Cleaners", 2015)(McGrath, 1999, pp. 832-833). Changing the world and the future, Robert H. Goddard, successfully built a liquid-fueled rocket and launched it on March 16, 1926. The rocket victoriously traveled for two and a half seconds at 60 miles per hour and landed almost 200 feet from the launching pad. Goddard, always fascinated...
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...she represented during the Great Depression. She suspended her social activities in Washington, D.C. in order to travel to Arkansas and used every tool she had to send help and money into her district. She used her federal contacts to bring in projects such as bridges and buildings. Having to rely on the same staff as her husband had, she tried to balance a family life with her new lead role in her community and quite possibly eclipsed her husband’s career. ² Effiegene Wingo was born April 13, 1883 in Lockesburg, Arkansas to George Todd Locke and Callie Blanche Dooley Locke, the first of seven children. She is also the great-great-great granddaughter of Matthew Locke from North Carolina.3 George Locke moved the family to DeQueen, Arkansas where he owned quite a bit of land in July 1897. He donated land to the town for several different projects including building the town site and cemetery, constructing sidewalks, contributing to churches, and bringing an electric power plant to town. George Locke was also a member of the Masons and had his daughter, Effiegene join the women’s order of the Eastern Star. After losing his crops to natural disasters, George Locke reorganized his assets...
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...their ideas are still influential today. This essay will look at the contribution that both men made to economic thought. According to Adam Smith Institute (2012), Adam Smith was born in 1723 in Scotland and is popularly known as the father of economics. His best known work is called “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” which is more commonly known as the Wealth of Nations. It was published in 1776 and in it; Adam Smith outlines his main economic ideas. Many ideas in the book were not ground breaking or original but Smith was the first to put them all together. In the Wealth of Nations (1776) Smith begins with an example of a factory that produces pins which he uses to explain the benefits of specialisation and division of labour. Smith explains how: “One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head” And so on until the pin is finished. Splitting the production of the pins into different operations, would result in more pins being created. Smith believed that 10 workers could produce 48,000 pins a day using specialisation and division of labour. If the workers were to produce pins individually then Smith believed that they would only produce 20 or less pins a day. It was Smiths argument that a worker should concentrate on one task rather than multiple tasks and that this would result in a higher level of productivity. In the present day, specialisation...
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...theories but some of the most common theories would suggest that the flight around the world was simply a cover-up for a spy mission, commissioned by President Roosevelt to determine what the Japanese were doing in the Pacific or that she and Fred Noonan, her flight crewmen, weren't merely swallowed up by the Pacific Ocean, but however captured by the Japanese. No evidence to support either of those or any other theory for that matter has ever been established (1). Amelia Earhart (1897-1939) was an American woman aviation pioneer and the finest in woman’s early supporting for equal rights. She was an incredibly intellectual female; entered the seventh grade at the age of twelve, which lead her through her life from childhood to her disappearance on 2 July 1937 (2). Because of her many accomplishments, her capability to always have passion and persistence in aviation and life, and her aptitude to encourage others, Amelia should be admired. The main reason that Amelia should be admired is for her various accomplishments that lead to her success. On October 22, 1922, Amelia set the world record for female pilots at an altitude of 14,000 feet in a Kinner Airster biplane (2). Although she was only a passenger in a plane flown by Wilmer Stutz and Louis Gordon, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic nonstop on June 17 and 18, 1928 (3). For accomplishing this flight she was awarded the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion...
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...USA was still enjoying the effects of the economic boom, whilst Herbert Hoover was elected president. He predicted an end to poverty in the USA. However, in 1929, the Wall Street stock market crashed. It was said to have occurred for many reasons, including the decrease in demands for American products by the end of the 1920s. In autumn 1929, profits weren’t made by American firms for some reason, cautious investigators began to realise that falling profits would lead to a drop in share prices, therefore people began to sell their shares. As a result of all this, the Great Depression followed up. This made 13 million people unemployed. Unemployment worsened with the non-available alternate jobs and total dependency on primary sector industries. There were many more factors as to why unemployment had doubled: Cut backs in business and government expenditures, low credit availability that added to debt by borrowing and deflation in prices of consumer goods, made worse by the drop in wages. In 1929, the rate of unemployment was 3.2%, a year later it rose to 8.9% due to the effects of the Great Depression. Every year after that it rose drastically, 1933 being the highest unemployment rate of the decade at 24.9%. From then on the rate slowly decreased but still, ten years later in 1939 it was incredibly high at 17.2%. Also, as a result of the unemployment, people could not afford to pay the mortgages on their homes, and were forced to stay in Hoovervilles. A Hooverville was a shanty...
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...“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority” (Ken 1). A management technique used by Ken Blanchard that is very much relevant in more aspects of management. By definition, management is the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. Meaning influence, the power to have an effect on something or someone, could be considered a management strategy. In the black community, leadership is often based off who's influencing the community rather than the authorities. This can be seen in large movements like The Black Power Movement, where those who were influencing and leading the black community, were fighting against the authority. This movement was widely supported during its time. However, how can one be sure if this method can be effective in terms of delivering a message, and promoting the movement? Since these movements are put in place to create change, it is reasonable to base the success of a movement off its impact on today's society. The methods used in the fight for social equality for those lacking political power and cultural institutions, popularized by The Black Power Movement, has been adopted and implemented by today’s hiphop artist like Sean Combs, stage name Diddy; allowing the battle to be fought in a time where unity has become dwarfed by individuality. With black being the absence of hue and brightness, and bright being defined as intelligent and quickwitted. The AfricanAmerican or black man was commonly suppressed by ...
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...Hunger, poverty, and unemployment were the realities of the Great Depression, a hard-hitting worldwide economic collapse that affected the lives of Americans and took place mostly in the 1930s. Influential people such as President Herbert Hoover had tried to mend the situation, however, due to his previous laissez-fair or hands-off policies he made the depression worse. In 1932, hope was restored as the charismatic Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected into office and with his New Deal plan to provide relief, reform, and recovery he led the country back into economic prosperity. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration was efficient in solving problems of the Great Depression and expanding the role of the federal government in the sense that...
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...(note the theme of “God-given freedoms for all people”). | 14 | | 9)The socio-economic and cultural impact of World War II on U.S. society. | 14 | | 10)World War II’s legacy to American history, including its social, economic, political, and cultural impacts. | 15 | | | | | Solid academic writing and in-text citations including a reference page using GCU documentation guidelines. | 30 | | After the turn of the 20th century people in the United States were not looking to get involved in any political problems or military issues with any other country or nation anywhere else in the world. There seemed to be no threats to what was a fairly satisfactory existence for the most part. Most people had no idea that the very early stages of a world conflict was bubbling around in Europe and elsewhere. To spell out exactly how the first World War began is not a simple story. It is,...
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...Study August 19, 2014 Abstract This paper will discuss how the Veteran’s Administration first started and how it has evolved over the years to become the entity it is today, serving our nations veterans. I will also discuss how the Veteran’s Administration has been plagued with many scandals throughout its existence, from when it was known as the Veterans Bureau during the early 1920’s and also the many issues that the Veterans Administration has dealt with over the years to include those that were involved and their official capacity in wrong doings. This paper will look at how the Veterans administration has tried to make changes to support the increased number of Veterans after many of our past wars and some of the difficulties veterans from the Vietnam War have faced to receive care and benefits that were exposed to Agent Orange. I will also looked at the many problems veterans have faced over the years to include most recent allegation that the VA has gone through since the earlier part of this year and the changes that has taken place to correct the problem. According to an article written by CNN, during the end of the Revolutionary War Congress was supposed to pay those veterans that were disabled during the war, but the service members individual states were left up to the task, leaving only a few thousand to receive any type of payment pay. Congress establishes the Veterans Bureau which was to help administer assistance to veterans of World War I...
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