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- 1741: Chicago Politics
- ... it had been previously fabricated. Now dubbed “the Kelly-Nash Machine,” the influence of the mayor’s office grew that much more. And even though the country was going through the depths of the Great Depression, good-hearted men like Cermak and Kelly kept Chicago together. Such good things were not meant to last. 1943 saw the death of Pat Nash, and soon after came an abrupt decline to the system ...
- 1742: Churchill Biography
- ... it's collapse when for two years he was out of Parliament He returned to the conservative government in 1924 and was given the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer. For ten years during the depression Churchill was denied cabinet office. His backing and support for Edward VII during his abdication were frowned upon by the national government, but the public supported him in his views when Germany declared war in ...
- 1743: Commander In Chief Franklin De
- ... this country. What set him apart from other leaders is that he held this office during the most trying times our country faced in this century. He was elected president in 1933 during the Great Depression and remained in office for four consecutive terms until his death in 1945, one month before the end of World War II. His leadership through these historical times was controversial. While some saw greatness, others ...
- 1744: Continental Congress
- ... to move out, shows that the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was ineffective and that The United States had troubles getting Britain to move out. The inability of the government (Document G) led to a depression that began in 1784 and hit hard in Massachusetts after it had lost its best market in the British West Indies. To make things worse, state legislature voted to pay off its Revolutionary debt in ...
- 1745: Crazy Horse
- ... in charge of this expedition. During this expedition Custer claimed that there was gold in the Black Hills. Grant looked at this as an opportunity to show the country he could pull them from the depression and he opened the Black Hills for prospecting. This broke the treaty of 1868 again (Ambrose 343-346). The Black Hills was a sacred place to the Sioux. It was a place where spirits dwelled ...
- 1746: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- ... her home, husband, and finally her daughter, and by taking part in and writing about the social movements of the day. Later in life she married her first cousin, George Gilman, and again suffered from depression though not as severely as she had suffered throughout her first marriage. Using her life experiences as a female within a male dominated society, Gilman wanted to redefine womanhood. She declared that women were equal ...
- 1747: Causes Of The American Civil W
- ... were subject to heavy fines, jail, and sometimes an order to aid the slave-catchers, which rubbed salt into old sores. (Bailey, 407). In 1857 the United States was struck by a short but severe depression. There were three basic causes for this Panic of 1857 . Perhaps the most important was the interruption in the flow of European capital into American investments as a result of the Crimean War, which lasted ...
- 1748: Causes And Effects Of World Wa
- ... to widespread unemployment. This in turn lead to the fall of peoples spirits, and "homes and ways of life were disrupted in millions of personal tragedies." (Mckay, pg. 957-958) The era of the Great Depression was also the era of the rise of political dictatorship throughout Europe. These dictatorships involved a new form of tyranny and were most evident in Stalin Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.( Mckay, pg.967) With ...
- 1749: British Chartism
- ... from the popular discontent following the Reform Act of 1832, which gave very little importance to large, industrial boroughs in parliament. Movements of mass discontent in Yorkshire and Lancashire caused by industrial exploitation and economic depression had already taken place. In 1838, the cabinet-maker William Lovett and the tailor Francis Place wrote the People s Charter . It is best known for its Six Points , which proposed the following: universal manhood ...
- 1750: The Japanese Economy
- ... just as easily portray the decline of Great Britain’s economy seven decades ago. Many economists point to Great Britain’s economic lengthy recession of the 1920s as beginning (if not triggering) the worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s. In our present day, the continued economic slide of Japan, the world’s second largest economy, is the single biggest threat posed to the global economy. Another similarity exists between modern day ...
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