Abraham Lincoln Lawrence Bays Axia The University of Phoenix HIS/115 Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president for the United States of America. He was considered on of the greatest presidents because of his fight and success in getting rid of slavery. Before Lincoln was president he was a self-thought lawyer from Illinois. Lincoln was president from March 1861 until his assassination by Johns Wilkes Booth in April 1865. Abraham Lincoln had many views on slavery and not
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Herbert Hoover and The Great Depression Herbert Hoover was the United States 31st president and after months of him being head in office‚ the stock market crashed and the nation fell into “The Great Depression”. Hoover’s intentions were good because he tried to do all he could to recover the economy from it’s downfall‚ but he failed. His plans were to reform banking in order to provide mortgage relief. He also tried expanding public spending whilst trying the keep a balanced budget. He brought
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eligibility of becoming president of the United States. By electing a woman into office we will be breaking the tradition that everyone in the United States following which is having only male as presidents (Appeal to Tradition). Either everyone votes for me or you’ll receive Trump for president (False Dilemma). By becoming president of the United States I will do everything in my power to help everyone and anyone regardless of race and religion. Therefore‚ by not voting for men as president‚ each individual’s
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The Assassination of President Lincoln By: Amelia Austin April 28‚ 2013 History 301 Dr. Brian Craig Miller The Assassination of President Lincoln The day is April 14‚ 1865‚ a day the world will always remember! Abraham Lincoln was the first American President to have been assassinated. In the dynamics of the unfolding events leading to the assassination of “President Lincoln‚” there seem to be a magnitude of people
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First Section: In this report‚ the five leadership qualities I used to grade each president were: decision-making‚ making successful foreign policy‚ making successful domestic policy‚ leadership‚ and crisis management. We make dozens of decisions a day unconsciously. Each decision have consequences that can be positive or negative. Having a president with good decision-making skills helps increase the number of positive outcomes within a country and diminish the negatives. Being an indecisive leader
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Vietnam war. Despite these attempts of the press on the qualifications of Bill Clinton‚ he became the Democratic nominee and selected Albert Gore as his vice president. Clinton was inaugurated in January 1993 at the age of 46‚ this made him the third-youngest president in history up to that time. President Clinton defeated the incumbent‚ President George H.W. Bush with 370 of the 438 electoral votes leaving just 168 for George H.W. Clinton won 43 percent of the popular vote against Bush’s 37.5 and a
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and in the end the American people chose a new leader Mr. George w. Bush. President Bush clearly defined foreign policy objectives and goals. I have seen and hear our dear President Bush foreign policy after September 11. Following this‚ Bush has established its top priorities in foreign policy. He claims that an acts in the government to improve the international community through negotiation and cooperation. Likewise President Bush remark "It is to inspire and be inspired by other nations to work
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After World War II‚ President Roosevelt assumed everything was neutral‚ however tensions rose with the Soviet Union which turned into a conflict known was the Cold War. The Soviet Union kept trying to spread their communist ideology to many countries to gain their power over the world‚ however with the tensions between‚ the United States believed they were the only country that could stop them. The American diplomat Kennan suggested to the current president‚ President Truman ‚ that the containment
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I am writing you to nominate President Ronald Reagan for your Person of the Decade award. He was the 40th President of the United States‚ serving two terms in office. I think he was an excellent President helping to make great strides against communism during his Presidency. He was definitely commendable in his 1987 West Berlin speech‚ “Mr. Gorbachev‚ tear down this wall”. It had stood as a symbol of the divisiveness between Communism and Democratic freedom there between East and West Germany.
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Mr. Griffith History 101 16 July 2012 The Significance of Pre-Presidential Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the United States of America’s sixteenth president and the most iconic figure in the struggle to end slavery. Lincoln was born in Kentucky‚ which was part of the South and a Slave state. However‚ he moved to Illinois in 1830. Lincoln worked as a lawyer in Illinois and even served a term in the United States House of Representatives in the 1840’s. He was a member and leader of the Whig
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