My president, Martin Van Buren, was the eighth president and vice president of the United States of America.…
The rising young Republican politician Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. Young and physically robust, he brought a new energy to the White House, and won a second term on his own merits in 1904. Roosevelt confronted the bitter struggle between management and labor head-on and became known as the great “trust buster” for his strenuous efforts to break up industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act. He was also a dedicated conservationist, setting aside some 200 million acres for national forests, reserves and wildlife refuges during his…
Samuel Maverick... What a simple name! Well, It's not as simple as it seems.Samuel's life was full of activity and he is an important part of the history books we read today.…
John Hancock was born on January 23, 1737, Braintree, Massachusetts. Son of Reverend John Hancock and Mary Hawke Thaxter. John Hancock's father died when he was only 7 years old, his mother took him and his siblings to live with their uncle. When Hancock was 13 years old he was adopted by his wealthy uncle and aunt Thomas and Lydia. Thomas was a wealthy merchant who owned a highly successful shipping business.…
John D. Rockefeller was the owner of Standard Oil Company. John was born into a very poor family and had to work very hard to start Standard Oil. He also had many problems later in his career. One of the problems he had during his career was the antitrust laws which made him disband his trust into many of the different companies that made up the trust. After Rockefeller stopped working at Standard Oil day to day he became a philanthropist and donated a lot of his money to help different causes.…
Calvin Coolidge was conceived in Plymouth Notch, Vermont on July 4, 1872. Chosen U.S. VP in 1920 he got to be presidentfollowing the passing of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Coolidge, otherwise called Silent Cal picked not to look for a brief moment term. He passed on in Northampton Massachusetts on January 5, 1933. His dad John Coolidge was an effective rancher who served in the Vermont House of Representatives and the Vermont Senate with other neighborhood workplaces. Coolidge's mom kicked the bucket when he was 12 years of age and his adolescent sister Abigail Grace Coolidge, passed on quite a long while later.After his decision in January 1914, Coolidge conveyed a discourse entitled Have faithin Massachusetts, which compressed his logic of…
John D. Rockefeller. “I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.”…
John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839 this is where he grew up in New York. He mainly lived with his mother because his father would leave at times and not return for months. Him and his family moved to new cities around New York for awhile. Then when he turned 12 him and his family went and moved…
I cannot imagine being considered a different race at this point in my life; let alone being considered the “other” race by two different races. Gregory Howard and his brother, Mark, had to figure out this tough challenge at an early age in the 1950s during an enormous financial and racial struggle. Many people did not accept the difference in skin color and some refused to accept anything from the other side of the color line.…
During the 18th and 19th centuries many industrial revolutions took place and modernized the American way of life. Advances were made that forever remodeled the landscape of American economics, industry, and politics. These innovations and advancements, however, did not come without much strife and toil. The innovators of the American Industrial Revolution were visionaries of their time. John D. Rockefeller was a true innovator and industrialist, one of the most recognized of his time. John Rockefeller’s field in which he shined was that of oil drilling, refining, and storing. His work would forever change the livelihood of the American people so much, that the effects of his work are still reminiscing today.…
Born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the offspring of a successful farmer and small business man. Serving in the Vermont Senate and House of Representatives, his father, John Coolidge, later swore him in after the death of President Harding. At the age of twelve, he lost his mother. And, around several years later, his sister met the same fate. With little ambition other than to follow in his father’s footsteps, he managed to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts. In 1895, he graduated with good grades and a reputation for his wits and public speaking abilities. Once college had ended, Calvin Coolidge apprenticed at a law firm in Northampton. He passed the bar in 1897 and then opened a law office and…
J.D Salinger was a literary writer who was born in New York in the year of 1919. J.D Salinger wrote the famous novel Catcher in the Rye and other famous shorts stories related to World War II. He had influenced literature in America as no one else had during the 20th century. J.D Salinget is a writer who has very strong ideas when writing a book and The Catcher in the Rye was banned for many years on the United States due to the fact that it was controversial and gave children bad influences.…
One of the most prominent names in US history is George Washington. George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia. He was the eldest of six children and born with only a first and last name. His father died when he was 11 years old, and from that point he helped his mother maintain the plantation. Very few details on Washington’s early childhood are known. It is believed he finished his formal schooling around age 15. In his early teenage years he showed an aptitude for mathematics and became a successful surveyor, which earned him enough money to acquire his own land.…
In the syllabus is stated "Each student will use their first initial and last name followed by the number of the assignment. The examples given in the above table are correct for student John Doe." I did not find an example of John Doe so what do we put? jdoeWK1 or jdoeAssignment1 - please clarify, I don't want to lose any points for an incorrect file name. Also is it permissible to ask you a question on the DQ?…
The recession of 1960–1961 was a recession in the United States. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research the recession lasted for 10 months, beginning in April 1960 and ending in February 1961 and resulted in the second longest economic extension in U.S. history. During this recession, the Gross Domestic Product of the United States fell 1.6 percent. Though the recession ended in November 1960, the unemployment rate did not peak for a number of months. In May 1961, the rate reached its height for the cycle of 7.1 percent. The GDP of the United States throughout this period fell 1.6%, and the unemployment rate strike its peak at 7.1%.…