The Best and Worst of Americas Presidents Throughout U.S history there have been many good presidents and also many bad presidents. I believe that presidents should be graded on how they handle the economy, foreign policy, and equal rights. From our first president to our current president those I believe are the three most important grading points. A good economy is very important because it gives people a better living by giving them job opportunities and a way for people to make money. Foreign policy is important because it has a lot to do with the trade, technology, and communications of the United States.
The Goals of the Square Deal was to keep the healthy and powerful form taking advantage of small businesses and the poor. Also, the coal strike of 1902 showed governments changing view towards works by seeing mine works as more important people because Coal kept homes warm and factories workings. Roosevelt used government regulation of business to protect society by making a national park to protect the wilderness. Basically everything Roosevelt started Tart destroyed it or delectated it as an option. Taft’s policies were different from Roosevelt’s because basically everything Roosevelt started Tart destroyed it or deleted as an option.
She advocated better factory and slum conditions. Another example is Muckrakers, who wrote articles exposing urban political corruption and wrote about the worst aspects of American life; Ida Tarbell is an example of a Muckraker. These reformers and other people wanted to improve certain parts of America, and they were successful. The Progressive Era reformers and the federal government were both fairly successful in bringing out reform at a national level because they ultimately helped the U.S. economy, looked out for the interests of the people, and engaged in political reformation that made the system more democratic. The reformers and federal government helped America economically by successfully creating reforms on a national level.
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 made it required for all meat and livestock to be inspected, which is why today we have grades on our meet. Teddy fought for this policy so that public would be protected from disease and misleading products, his protection of the common man pushed this policy through. The Elkins and Hepburn Acts, were created to repair and improve the, at the time fractured railroad system. There were so many crazy rates for transporting goods across state lines and even in states that it was causing farmers to go bankrupt. Teddy used the acts to make the shipping equal all around and help the farmers, and small business owners.
The Progressive Era, from the 1890’s to 1920’s, marked the movement of reform, aiming to protect social welfare, restore economic opportunities, and promote moral improvement in America. As the 20th century approached, many reformers of the middle-class addressed problems that contributed to the commotion in the earlier years. The Progressive Era inspired many reform activities, such as instructing poor immigrants and workers the values of hard work and temperance. The public became more aware of the problems across the country as journalists and writers exposed the labor conditions faced by factory workers. One particular reform felt that promoting moral improvement was more important in improving the lives of poor people than reform in the workplace.
In regards, politics go, the Puritans had some interesting views. As John Winthrop, in “a modell of Christian charity” said, the Puritans believed their moral and divine cause, i.e. creating a community of righteous Christians gave them justification to defeat violent “heathens” often times without fair treaty, negotiation, or any other semblance of normal politic. Indeed, they truly believed themselves to be a model for Christianity that the whole world would watching, as is exemplified in the “modell of a Christian charity”. Leaders of the Church were given excessive power.
THE Pure Food and Drug Act was, and still is an important factor in life today. People are constantly cautious about what’s in their food, or how it’s made. The book, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, had a huge impact on the start of Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. The book exploited the true happenings in food factories, which scared many Americans. Upton Sinclair was an author who wrote more than 90 books, but his most famous, The Jungle, was written in 1906.
The thought always in their head that beyond any field of grass or behind any tree the enemy could be waiting. John Wade the protagonist of the story found himself witnessing first hand how horrid war can be and what it can make out of individuals. He saw his whole company turn into evil selfless animals who raped and murdered the innocent and weak. In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O'Brien, small footnotes were attached at the end of each important chapter which give the reader clues and symbolic twists that made the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I chosen explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
Reformation of the Church Despite the similarities of scripture and the beliefs of followers during the Lutheran and Catholic reformation their differences kept the two sides apart as enemies. During the start of the sixteenth century, people were displeased with the corruption and specials favors the church offered to few individuals which started a great Reformation. People from all social classes began to resent the power behind the church and question their authority to decide who gets into heaven. While the starting point of the Lutheran Reformation was when Martin Luther posted his theses, that caused the beginning of a long needed Reformation across Europe. The ideas of the Reforms came from the side of Martin Luther and the common people of the Catholic church who had started to question the clergy of the Catholic Church such as the pope.
The Puritans The Puritans were suffering in England because of economic setbacks, and religious prosecution. Tired and disappointed with the direction England society was heading, Winthrop and his followers migrated across the Atlantic Ocean. The Puritans were highly religious individuals, who were sincere and honest about their faith. Their Lifestyle was strictly based on the Bible, and their devotion to God was immense. The Puritans goal was to reform the Church of England, and they thought they could accomplish that by taking the Church to a foreign land.