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Compare And Contrast Make America And Happy Days Are Here Again

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“Hope isn’t blind optimism. It isn’t ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It isn’t sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it” (Obama, 2008). That can be named as the true definition of America's hope when they are placed in troublesome times like the Great Depression. Everyone in the 1930’s had such a drastic lifestyle change and could only escape the hardship through the following of underdogs like James J. Braddock or even deprived racehorses like Seabiscuit. These idols gave them hope and allowed …show more content…

A large part of this is how much our current president, Donald J. Trump, can be compared to the likes of the president during the 1920's, Herbert Hoover. Not only are they savvy businessmen who have had no political experience whatsoever, but they even shared similar slogans, “Make America Great Again” and "Happy Days Are Here Again". That's not where the parallels between these two ends. “Donald Trump has basically only ever made money through his vast brand, Trump empire, and has never been in any type of political office. In addition, Hoover was quite successful in the coal industries and made millions through it, much like the current president. As well as that he also was a latecomer when it came to politics – just like Trump, and had never held electoral office, nor did he have any military experience, yet he did have some political experience as he was the FDA during the first World War,” (Bullion, 2016). When the comparisons we’ve got shown are so blatantly similar to one another, it becomes a scary idea, considering Hoover was one of the worst presidents in American history and is even a large influence in the cause of the Great Depression, so a correlation like that is quite frightening. Moving away from the current president's similarities to the forty-fifth, it is even easier to see how the economy has changed since the Great Depression. There are many factors during the Great Depression that are just not present today. For instance, “The stock market crash of 1929 was essentially followed by almost four years of idleness on the federal government's part, as mentioned before. This time around, the action has been swift and sweeping. From 2008 to 2009, more than a dozen economic stimulus packages were introduced, and they were all designed to jumpstart the economy and/or save and create jobs,” (Communications). As a result, today’s economy is a little

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Hoover carried the blame for the Depression. The American people believed that he wasn’t doing enough in attempt to alleviate such a ruinous economic depression, so in the election of 1932 they demanded a change. Winning by a landslide, democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt took over for Hoover and went on to become the longest-serving president in American history. Roosevelt believed that the government had to play a stronger role in the economy if America was to see any future prosperity. In his first inaugural address, Roosevelt utilizes metaphorical language, a personal and honest tone, and pathos in attempt to revive the lost trust and confidence of the American people in its federal government.

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Hoover did not want to do the work himself but rather put all of this pressure of a failing economy on state governments and the people of America. Still trying to exhibit the laissez-faire mentality entering presidency. The people of America needed change from someone who made some attempt to govern the country, to someone that would get involved and become applicable to the time of

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The Great Depression was one of the most trying times in American History, and the 1932 election held the fate of the country. The American people were in a desperate time and they were looking to the next president for guidance. When it came down to the nominees, the American people had to choose between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herbet Hoover. Roosevelt was the obvious choice for the American people, as many people held Hoover personally accountable for the depression, as well as the fact that Hoover’s plan was for excessive government spending rather than actually dealing with the depression (Foner, p. 641). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was perhaps one of the most impactful presidents in the nation’s history, with one of the most anticipated inaugural addresses of the time.

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Herbert Hoover was our 31st president of the United States of America. He became president right at the start of the great depression. Herbert Hoover had to figure out how to get america back onto its feet again. Herbert Hoover changed how he was going to fight the war against The Great Depression. He called for more Federal Assistance stating that's what they did to win the war and it was what they will do to win the war against the Depression.

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Many blame Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression, but this is a false statement because he stepped into office at the worst time. He had to immediately formulate new policies that would help the US retreat from the Great Depression. He served one term from 1929 to 1933. One item that made him well known for his presidency were the camps that housed the unemployed and the poor, called Hoovervilles. These “shanty towns” were normally on the outskirts of major cities and towns, so the community was close enough to still walk into town.

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 Hoover is often blamed for not doing anything to end the Great Depression, but he actually did try to use the government to create infrastructure projects, thus creating jobs. Like the Hoover Dam and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to try to end the Depression. There are two major differences between their approaches.  One is that President Roosevelt was willing to do more than President Hoover to combat the Great Depression.  Roosevelt was willing to let the government become more involved in the economy.

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The Great Depression was a time of strife and hardship for the American people and as expected, a remedy was called for. Hoover and Roosevelt were the two presidents at the time of this crisis and their philosophies for improvement, while sharing some similarities, had two very different stances. Hoover’s belief was held in the people and he thought that with the right motivation the country’s problems would be solved through one another. Roosevelt however thought that help laid within the federal government. He believed that America had a strong government exactly for the purpose of helping the people.

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But it was true that his presidency was not very recognizable and it had a lot of backfire and different bad moments, the Great Depression had a lot to do with why Hoover’s presidency failed, the people had thought that since he couldn’t keep the stock market together that he would not be able to keep America together. Hoover getting undermined by Congress was definitely not what he thought was going to happen, thinking that he could just be able to rebuild America after the depression would have been easier if he and Congress had gotten along, in the end, Herbert Hoover was the thirty first president of the United States and had served this country and had made sure that it got administered America as though anyone would have if the stock market had happened to crash, it’s good to think back to Hoover’s humanitarian works because he did help out a lot of people in serious need, he did all of this but still having a complete income of millions of dollars working as a mining engineer, he was creative about his ideas and with that he created such things as the Hoover Dam,

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The Great Depression was a time of peril for the strong majority of Americans. Hoover’s main solution was to not do much, to let time pass and hope the problem goes away. Well, that’s being unfair, he enacted some questionable policies. For example, he signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill that would tax 40% of trade.

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Herbert Hoover’s presidency is associated with the Great Depression seeing that eight months into his term, the stock market collapsed starting an economic depression that would leave 23% of Americans unemployed by 1932. Hoover failed to take the actions needed to help the country initially, however in his annual speech to Congress in 1932, Hoover discusses three directions in which the government can take to aid the rebuilding of the economy. When the United States Stock Market crashed in October 1929 and the country began its ten year Depression, businesses and banks began closing left and right. This caused many Americans to lose their jobs and created massive amounts of poverty throughout the country. Prices became inflated and simple,

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Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was elected into office seven months before the stock market crashed in 1929. Hoover had to deal with the Great Depression during his Presidency and he was not re-elected, getting beat by Franklin D. Roosevelt. I believe that Herbert Hoover was an okay president, with more bad things during his Presidency than good. He was good because he got the Americans to believe him at the beginning of the Depression and he made the “Star Spangled Banner” our national anthem.

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Doom for Hoover Herbert Hoover can be looked at as the thirty first president of the United States, but he can’t say he enjoyed it all. Most people, now of days, could say he was a great man that just had unfortunate timing on when he became president. He was born and raised in Ohio to a family of Quakers. He, his brother, and his sister had somewhat of a hard life.

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During the 20s, which became known at the Roaring 20s, American society was at an all time high and people were prospering as the nation’s wealth almost doubled and American was sent into the modern, consumer age. However following almost directly after the Roaring 20s, America entered a period of economic failure, also known as the Great Depression. During this period, the U.S faced economic, social, and political turmoil. The government and various individuals quickly sought after solutions to address the problems facing America during this time. Herbert Hoover, who was President at the start of the Depression, and his many reforms intended to revitalize the economy and create more jobs but would fail and his belief in rugged individualism

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The great depression was a time of pessimism. No one had faith in achieving the American Dream, many thought it wasn’t

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Hoover went down in history as the total uncaring chief executive. Hoover presided over economic disaster cared little about his fellow citizens and accepted the great depression as inevitable. Hoover simply be endured regardless of the level of suffering his causes (Yellow). His opponents in congress who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel president (Pink). Herbert Hoover’s people didn’t like him and they blamed him for the great depression.

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