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In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...
In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...
put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...
16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...
workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...
period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...
During the Depression, people simply made do with what they had. There was little if any excess income in most families, and peop...
place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...
The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...
the early twentieth century, the United States was still very much an agrarian or agricultural economy. After the First World War...
should have seen the 2000s coming. The student notes that attention to things in the history of the U.S. might have averted or mit...
This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...
the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...
the U.S. (and the rest of the world) out of it. None of this is exactly true, but if you try to pinpoint the exact cause of the Gr...
of laissez faire, which Soros quite appropriately described as Market Fundamentalism" (Petrov). But the free market mechanism has ...
The writer argues that the basic cause of World War II was World War I. The paper also argues that the Great Depression did not ca...
converted into gold at the fixed price" (qtd. in Moffatt, 2009). What would happen is that a nation using the standard would set t...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...
diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...
were beginning to lose faith in the entire banking system, and to prevent a catastrophe, Roosevelt ordered the banks closed ("The ...
Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...
poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...
effect was worse due to the number of people who had bought their stock with borrowed money and were forced to liquidate capital t...
deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...
Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...
was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...