Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. These three presidents each shaped America into what they thought was the American Dream. The “American Dream” comes up in conversations from time to time and everybody has their different views of it. The “American Dream” is a set of beliefs that they would make this country the best that it could be and then some. The normal persons “American Dream” was to come to America and start a good life. Most of the people that were expecting a good and easy life when getting to America were in for a rude surprise. At first America’s economy was in a great incline, but that soon ended and came crashing to the ground, literally. The stock market fell through the floor, banks became bankrupt over night. People, mostly immigrants trying to make a life with their family’s, lost everything in the mayhem of all of it. Once the economic crisis was solve, all went back to normal, their lives, their money, and dreams went back to the way they were. These three great men worked as a tem putting their dreams, goals, policies and laws together to try and form the “American Dream”.
Between the three men, Theodore Roosevelt was the first to be in office. His time in office was between 1901-1909 which was the time when the U.S. was on the rise with the
industrial industries. The small towns, locally owned and ran farms were being moved out of and left for the big city, the more urbanized country. People were leaving the small towns and farms for the big easy jobs in the city. The city jobs paid more, they had better hours, and if you had a good enough job, you had some insurance for you and your family. Because of the big inflation in industrialism, the population had near close to doubled in size because of migrant workers looking for work in the new towns and the fast growing factories. The towns were packed due to the population increase. With the towns being jam packed with new immigrants, the living