...Many believe Herbert Hoover is to blame for the Stock Market Crash in October of 1929. Although, he believed he was doing what was best for America, others believed otherwise. He was either looked at as one of the best presidents, or one of the worse. I believe Herbert Hoover was a strong leader of the United States before, during, and after his presidency. Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874. He was born in West Branch, Iowa. Hoover’s mother and father were both Quakers. Though they didn’t stay around long of his life. At a young age, Hoover lost his mother to pneumonia, and his father to a heart disease and typhoid. Shortly after losing both parents, Hoover was sent to live first with his uncle, Allan Hoover, in West Branch. He stayed...
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...I. Synopsis: Case: The HOOVER COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. BISSELL INC., Defendant. No. 5:98-CV-1088. United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division. March 19, 1999. A. The Hoover Company History: Hoover vacuum cleaners have markets in the United States and Canada. In addition to vacuum cleaners, Hoover also produces and sells high quality washers and dryers. Maytag acquired The Hoover Company in 1989, providing Maytag an important foothold in the highly competitive international market. The company roots back to 1827, when Henry Hoover established a plant near Canton, OH. 80 years later led to him and his sons selling vacuum cleaners after purchasing rights to an electric suction sweeper, which was invented a year before by a guy named Murray Spangler. In 1908, Hoover bought Spangler’s patent, kept him as a partner and soon named the company Hoover Suction Sweeper Co. Hoover than began marketing the sweeper in stores all throughout the country. By 1921, Hoover had gone global and by 1923, sales reached $23 million. Hoover today specializes in all floor care and is a continued leader in the industry (Hoover: Fundinguniverse, 2006). B. Bissell Inc. Company History In 1876, Melville Bissell began marketing his carpet sweeper invention with revolving brushes. The revolving brushes picked up the dust and dirt and deposited it inside the sweeper housing. Being dependent on the rotation of the wheels to drive the sweeping mechanism, it only removed debris from...
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...Allan Henry Hoover, the second of Herbert and Lou Hoover’s two sons, was born in London on July 17, 1907. As a boy he traveled the world with his parents and his brother Herbert Jr., seldom staying in the same school for more than a few months at a time. At the age of eight, in the midst of the First World War the family traveled back to London as Herbert enlisted himself into providing food relief for the Belgian people. On the night of a Zeppelin raid on the British capital, Herbert would later recall “furiously” searching the house for his two sons only to find them on the roof calmly watching the air battle being fought above the city. Returning to the United States in 1917 and graduating from Palo Alto High School in 1924, he followed...
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...On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple cult, ordered all his followers living in his Jonestown compound to drink poisoned grape-flavored punch in order to commit mass suicide. On that day, 912 people (including 276 children) died in what has become known as the Jonestown Massacre. How could one person convince over 900 others to commit suicide? Well, Jim Jones had been planning to carry out this "revolutionary act" of mass suicide for quite some time. To ensure full compliance, Jones had staged practice runs, called "White Nights," in which he would order everyone to drink what he told them was poisoned punch. After everyone had stood around for about 45 minutes or so, he would then tell them that this had been a loyalty test. The Dots in Pac-Man When the Pac-Man video game was released in 1980, it quickly became an international sensation. As kids and adults alike moved the pie-shaped Pac-Man character around the screen, they tried to eat up lots of dots without themselves getting eaten by ghosts. But how many dots were they trying to eat? It turns out that each level of Pac-Man had the exact same number of dots -- 240. Lincoln Logs Created by Frank Lloyd Wright's Son Lincoln Logs is a classic children's toy that has been played by millions of children for decades. The toy usually comes in a box or cylinder and includes both brown "logs" and green slats for roofs, which children use to build their own frontier house or fort. Despite playing...
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...Year 10 Revision Timelines: The Roaring Twenties Women Before First World War * Women could not vote. * Middle/upper class women did not work but had the role of mothers and housewives. Working class women had low paid jobs such as factory work and cleaning. * Women usually wore full length dresses, wore no make up and had their hair tied back in buns. * Divorce was very rare and so was sex before marriage. * Women did not smoke or drink in public. * They had to go out with a chaperone (a family member) when they met their boyfriend. How did the First World War change the lives of women? * During the war, women began to work in areas like heavy industry. They proved they could work as well as men. By 1929, there were 10 million women workers; a rise of 24% since 1920. * Working gave women independence and they began smoking and drinking in public. * Women were given the vote in August 1920 but few were chosen to be actual politicians. * Production of consumer goods such as vacuum cleaners and washing machines meant women had more time for leisure activities. * Flappers emerged in the 1920’s = women from middle and upper class families from the Northern States. They cut their hair in short bobs, wore make up, short skirts and bright clothes. They also smoked and drank in public, went to speakeasies, danced the Charleston with men and listened to Jazz and drove cars and motorbikes. * BUT many groups, particularly...
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...The Great Depression The economy of America faced a very hard time when the stock market crashed on October 1929 during the presidency of the 31st president of the United States of America, Herbert Hoover, who claimed that it was all caused by World War One. Mentioning the name, the first thing that comes to mind is the Great depression during which an enormous downfall happened after the wonderful years of prosperity. It was hard to believe how in a blink of an eye the situation rapidly changed. In the beginning of the 1930s, over 13 million people were unemployed. The whole nation came to a standstill. President Hoover, a republican, refused to intervene and instead, let the free market deal with the problem and the economic downturn morphs...
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...he did not have enough gain to be a democratic president, his ideas influenced different reforms in society which gained a lot of support, and helped to country progress for the better. He died July 26, 1925 in Tennessee. 4.Clarence Darrow- Clarence Darrow was born April 18, 1857 he was an American lawyer. Darrow agreed in the Georgist economic reform which believed in equality and no special privilege. 5.Warren G. Harding- Served as 29th president of the United States from 1921 to 1923, he died of a heart attack. He started as a newspaper publisher in Ohio and was a known republican. His presidency was affected by the criminal activities of his cabinet members. He was also pro business policies and for limited immigration. 6.Herbert Hoover- Served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He received the majority of the decade long Great Depression when it was the policies created by the presidents before him that caused the problem. 7.Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Was the 32nd President of the United States, served from 1932 to 1945. Led the United States to victory in WWII and was the only president to be elected four times. 8.Langston Hughes- “Jazz poetry” was something Langston Hughes was an innovator for in the 1930s. Hughes was born in 1902 in Missouri and had a strong voice in society. During the time of the Harlem Renaissance Hughes was an activist. 9.Billie Holiday- Eleanora Fagan, also known as Billie Holiday, was a prominent Jazz singer and songwriter...
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...introduction of the 1920’s came some uncertainties, such as the Red Scare which began due to a group of professional revolutionaries starting the Bolshevik revolution in Russia (1919). The Black scare which was caused by the rising black population after WWI and resulting in the rebirth and growth of the Ku Klux Klan. President Harding took office in 1921 and promised changes in the economic policies of the Government. Andrew Mellon was a millionaire who was appointed Secretary of treasury by President Harding in 1921. Mellon was a businessman whom sought to balance the budget creating the General Accounting Office and the Bureau of the Budget to make the government more efficient to reduce the debt, resulting in Economic expansion Hoover was Appointed to Secretary of commerce by Harding, trade associations, efficiency. Made productivity go up, prices go down resulting in a huge economic boom. New products and technologies were a result of the roaring 20’s. Electricity was...
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...woman suffrage. First incumbent U.S. senator and first newspaper publisher to become president. Teapot Dome Scandal-bribery incident that further destroyed public reputation of Harding administration Calvin Coolidge-republican lawyer, conduct during boston police strike of 1919 gave him reputation of a man of decisive action. Soon after elected as 29th president to succeed Harding in 1923, gained reputation as a small-government conservative, and also a man who said very little. Herbert Hoover-republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929, promising Americans prosperity and attempted to deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. “rugged individualism”-moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that promotes the exercise of one’s goals and desires and so independence and self-reliance. Republican Decade-The decade after WWI where there were 3 Republican presidents: Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Laissez-faire-the type of economy where government does not interfere because the businesses are supposed to know what’s best for the economy; businesses do their own thing and government does not interfere. Great Crash-book written by John Kenneth Galbraith depicting the economic lead up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Argues that the market crash was able to be seen by the rampant speculation in the stock market,...
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...Commercialization of Culture Advertisements, mass production, sacrificing quality for time and quantity, the desire for bigger and better, these are the problems of commercialism. Commercialism has been advancing nearly unnoticed by most consumers even since Babylonian times. But, what makes it harmful enough to be explained in a paper? Everyday we sit in our homes desiring goods and services that we do not need or may not even want, and discussing issues that have little or no importance to our lives other than to make small talk. Everyday we work hard to buy stuff that is better or at least equal to what society considers normal. As our former president Herbert Hoover even stated prior to the Great Depression, what he would have liked to see in every American household is "Two cars in every garage" (The American President: Herbert Hoover, 2002). We are fashioning ourselves to be boringly equal cogs in one giant corporate machine, and in turn, are losing our culture to business and propaganda. When a new "hipper" culture appears, commercialists explode the culture across the United States like a plague. What average adult would not know what a skateboard is, what reggae music is, or what Middle East tension is. We have all been commercialized by the news. Few sources indicated a way to prevent or end commercialism, because our lives revolve around it, it is hard to vision a world without economy, advertising, and commercialism. Communism, at its purest form, when are working as equals to...
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...The 1930’s was a period of transformation in the political, legal, and social status of African Americans in the United States. Despite dramatic developments, many economic and demographic characteristics of African Americans at the end of the 1930’s were not that different from what they had been in the previous decades. It was for difficult for Blacks to make a living during the Great Depression. Living conditions were unreal and most people lived in extreme poverty. While these conditions affected all segments of society, African Americans were far worst off. Most of the country's Black population lived in rural areas and worked on farms owned by white landowners. For African-Americans, the depression was hard to distinguish when poverty was always a way of life. Living conditions became more horrendous when some landowners lost their properties during the Depression. However, there were many African-Americans who continued to make their living doing hard manual labor or working in dangerous areas such as in foundries, while others worked as domestic servants for whites. A smaller number worked for the railroads, steel mills, coal mines and school boards. There were some African-Americans who made fairly reasonable living operating small businesses. Around this time, the government began to get involved with the social statuses of African Americans. At the start of the decade and throughout most of his first term, neither President Franklin Roosevelt nor the Congress paid...
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...the stock lost value, you had to pay back the borrowed money. This lead the stock prices to rise really high. So when investors realized that, they started selling their stock making the prices drop. The Stock Market crash was not the only factor in the Great Depression. Banks were failing because they had lost a large amount of money. This money came from savings accounts which was bad because people were left with no money. Factories begun to overproduce consumer goods because the demand fell. People were not purchasing much after the crash and started to hold on to their money in fear. President Hoover’s first thing in response to the crash was he called business leaders to Washington to try to pressure them to keep wages high. Hoover did a lot in response to the...
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...solutions commensurate with the problems of the day. It has not always been this way. On Friday, May 1, 1931, James Truslow Adams, a popular historian, was putting the final touches on the preface to his latest book. It was a curious time in the life of the nation. Though the Crash of 1929 had signaled the beginning of the Great Depression that was to endure for years to come, there was also a spirit of progress, of possibility. On the day Adams was finishing his manuscript, President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington to turn on the lights of the newly opened Empire State Building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, which, at 1,250 ft., was to be the tallest building in Manhattan until the construction of the World Trade Center four decades later. High hopes amid hard times: the moment matched Adams' thesis in his book, The Epic of America, a history of the nation that was to popularize a term not yet in the general vernacular in those last years of the reigns of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Adams' subject, he wrote, was "that American dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank which is the greatest contribution we have as yet made to the thought and welfare of the world." It was not a new thing, this abiding belief that tomorrow would be better than today. "That dream or hope," Adams...
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...During the postwar decade, the social isolation that was facilitated enabled individuals to not pay attention to the minimalist approach the government took towards capitalism. This allowed society to be eased into a false sense of security in not scrutinizing business practices, moving away from regulatory measures, and silencing the workers’ movements such as the IWW that participated in strikes to bring attention to these realities. Also during this time, African Americans and women struggled for their rights and equality in society. Zinn argues that while there was such an emphasis on social reality, the government was able to use this advantage for political and economic affairs that encouraged the business community. This materialized in a recoil against workers and ethnic minorities, something that Zinn believes is essential in understanding the rise of the Klan and other issues in American society. Howard Zinn also argues that the Great Depression, brought upon by the stock market crash, uneven distribution of wealth in society, and other factors that helped aid the Great Depression, brought out more social activism such as the Bonus Army and the establishment of “Hoovervilles” as a way to bring back the social and political activism that raised the affairs of unfair capitalism to the publics’ interest. This called for Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policy, elements that helped to recover, reform, and provide relief to those who suffered in the 1920s. During...
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...Russ Britton Mrs. Watters English 400 9/8/14 John Deere and the Company John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 7, 1804. He was raised by his mother basically his whole life. Growing up, he wanted to be a blacksmith. He fulfilled his dream at age 17 as a blacksmith’s apprentice. A few years later, he was doing it on his own. His next twelve years were very busy after that. In 1837, Deere moved west to Grand Detour, Illinois. As he was there he opened up his own blacksmith shop. As a blacksmith, he experienced working on other plows that had been created for farming. John quickly realized that these plows needed to be remade. Here he began to start creating his own plows and he sold three plows by 1838. He had produced ten more plows by the next year. and even forty more by 1840. The demand for these plows were high, therefore he partnered up with Leonard Andrus to produce even more. In 1846, they sold close to one thousand plows that year. A few years later, Deere noticed that Grand Detour wasn’t good enough for him. As a result, he packed up and moved to Moline, Illinois. Moline is located by the Mississippi River, which gave him access to even more opportunities. He was able to offer cheap transportation and water power. John started to get british steel because it is sturdy. That immediately sped up his operation. His company made around 1,600 plows in the year of 1850. In 1858, he transferred his leadership of the company to his son, Charles, who was turned...
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