Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Roosevelt's Childhood-  Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in the city of Hudson Valley, Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt's father was 54 at the time of his birth. His father's name is James Roosevelt and mother's name was Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt, who had a very positive influence and great in your child. Sara Roosevelt was James Roosevelt was French and Dutch. Franklin's parents took them to different places in Europe which opened his vision of many things in the external world. During the first eight years of life of Roosevelt, was educated by private tutors. At the age of nine Roosevelt attended his first school in Bad Nauheim. Since Roosevelt was a kid was a quick and outgoing person who seemed to enjoy the company of others. A Roosevelt teacher said he was a "bright young man", which can also make friends in an instant. When Roosevelt was fourteen, he and one of his tutors was on tour in Germany while riding a bicycle. He and his tutor were arrested several times for traffic violations small, but Roosevelt always talk his way out of a ticket every time.

That fall, Roosevelt was sent to Groton (Groton is one of the most exclusive schools of America). In this school, Roosevelt had to pay five hundred dollars a year. A family lived intermediate in time two hundred seventy dollars. This shows that the school paid almost twice what a family can afford intermediate in a year. As Roosevelt's mother, all employees of the school made sure that Roosevelt was not a spoiled child. "Do not be spoiled" is rule number one school. The director said that Franklin is beyond normal intelligence, but not great. Roosevelt was fourth smartest guy in the class of nineteen students. Franklin was what was considered popular in school at the time. Popularity meant he has many friends and is well liked by most students and teachers.

FDR's Education-Like I said before, Roosevelt was taught by tutors until he was eight and attended his first school in 1896 at age nine at Bad Nauheim. After Roosevelt attended Harvard after graduating from Groton in 1900. In his second year at Harvard (1901), his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt (who also called "Teddy" Roosevelt) became the 26th president in the United States and is also the youngest president ever elected as president in U.S. . During his time at Harvard, Roosevelt discovered he had an obsession with the law which then went to study the laws of the United States in the city of New York at Columbia Law School. In Roosevelt's first year in law school scored multiples of B and C, and only a single D. Roosevelt has these grades mostly because he spent more time socializing and did very little work.

Roosevelt also began to spend money freely. Franklin could do all this now because it is away from his mother and not following school rules Groton. One of his teachers also commented that Franklin was "A little aptitude for the law," that means it's a bit talented in the law. However, the two other years he was at Columbia Law School, Roosevelt had the greatest degree imaginable and actually passed the highest point I could get as a grade in school. So as soon as possible, Roosevelt left school in 1907 and did not graduate because he wanted to be a lawyer at once and not even think twice about returning to law school. Then, a year later, Roosevelt approved the bar exam in the state of New York that led him to get a job with a prestigious Wall Street firm named Carter, Ledyard and Milburn. Roosevelt was hired to deal mainly with corporate law, this means that the work of Roosevelt was all he had to do with the business of law. So if Roosevelt went to school from 1896-1907 that means that formal education was only eleven. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a total duration of four years in Groton (1896-1900), four years at Harvard University (1900-1904) and three years at Columbia Law School (1904-1907).

An important event in life that impact who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt-The most important event in the life of Roosevelt was in 1921, when Franklin was only thirty-nine years old, he developed a paralytic disease when caught a fever after deeply exercise that summer in Canada. Roosevelt first fell by chance on a cold bay. Then he ran around the entire island of Campobello and swam for a while in Lake Glen Severn. When Roosevelt arrived home, immediately complained of back pain and was cold during the night. The next day, one of his legs felt weak and that afternoon, I had a weak leg was paralyzed. Then the other leg began to feel weak. That evening also paralyzed. Now Roosevelt is disabled to walk or stand. His bladder was also paralyzed. Roosevelt could not evacuate for more than two weeks. Then two weeks later Roosevelt developed polio. Polio has a one percent chance of getting into your nervous system and paralyze human. Although this percentage is too small, even Roosevelt developed paralysis from the chest down.

Franklin wanted to hide his paralysis from the public when he was president because he did not want people to think differently of him, so that most of the photos I took looked like he was not paralyzed. As these;

Moreover, Roosevelt has only two pictures taken in his wheelchair. However, we do not know if there are even more that have not been disclosed publicly.

How Roosevelt connects to our history-Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during World War II. He took us through WWII successfully. Roosevelt also helped reduce the impact of the Great Depression to the people of the United States. In the beginning of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt was president, was Herbert Hoover. Herbert Hoover tried to help with the Great Depression, but the unemployment rate was still an unemployment rate that was too big, come-and-five percent. When Roosevelt became president, he immediately agreed to cut the unemployment rate down to fourteen percent. But Franklin's greatest success was in 1943 when the Great Depression to help, was in the middle of World War II, and even when at war, Roosevelt was able to lower the unemployment rate to two percent. Some people said that the Great Depression ended because at that time, the U.S. need many troops for war. So if many people are drawn to the army, anyone has the opportunity to take the work one of the American soldiers had before being welded. Moreover, because the government is spending more money now, there are more job opportunities growing to try to get the U.S. economy at a normal rate.

President Roosevelt was so good, that the people of the United States four times elected him as president. Roosevelt completed a total of twelve years in office the presidential office.
     
Unfortunately, on April 12, 1945 during the fourth term of office, Roosevelt died of a stroke at age 63. Until today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is still remembered for his great deeds and still be remembered for decades to come.

Abraham Lincoln (Biography)

                           Abraham Lincoln’s childhood

Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky (Hardin County is now LaRue County) on February 12, 1809. Then, Lincoln moved to Indiana at just seven years of age (1816). Two years later his mom Nancy Lincoln died because of milk sickness (1818) however he was very close to his stepmother. Abraham’s father was named Thomas Lincoln who was a farmer and a carpenter. Abraham Lincoln had only one sibling who was named Sarah Grigsby. Sarah Grigsby then died in her twenties at the exact same time when she was giving birth to her baby.

When Abraham Lincoln was born, his father Thomas Lincoln owned two Six-hundred acre farms, a couple of town lots, livestock and horses. Thomas Lincoln was in fact one of the richest men in the County. But, unfortunately in 1816 Thomas had a major downfall in which he lost all his land to court cases of faulty property title meaning that they did not have a legal document saying that the property belonged to them. For that was the reason in why their family moved to a free piece of land in Perry County, Indiana. In that land was where they made a new start.

When Lincoln was a pre-teen he majorly disliked the hard work in the frontier life. Some people both in his family and neighborhood considered Abraham Lincoln being lazy. Then as he grew into being a teen he had 100% full responsibility for all chores that were expected from teen males in a household at the time. Lincoln also became a very skilled axman in his work building rail fences. Lincoln was known as a brawn (has solid and strong muscles) person that’s willing to take bold risks especially when he was challenged to a wrestling match with one of the most competitive wrestlers in his neighborhood.  

                         Abraham Lincoln’s education

Abraham Lincoln had one year of school education however, throughout his life he has been taught by many different people. One of Abraham Lincoln’s passions as a child was reading books. They say that Abraham Lincoln would read and learn from any (and that means any) book that he can get his hands on. Abraham’s passion for reading began when his stepmother forced him to read books every day. After a while Lincoln began getting use to reading and at the same time, began enjoying books as well. Abraham Lincoln was majorly a self-educated man. Lincoln loved reading so much that even at night he would read with the light from the fire place. Sometimes Lincoln would even stop doing chores to read. Every time his father saw him reading instead of doing chores, he would scold Lincoln.  

Abraham Lincoln went to school at a really young age so he just basically learned the ABC’s and also how to read and write. At that time the schools he went to were called ABC schools or “Blab school”. The reason why Abraham is education was stopped was because he had no time to go to school; most of his time was dedicated to helping his father with the chores. One way that Lincoln practiced to write when he wasn’t in school was by writing on hickory bark. When the hickory got full of writing Lincoln would just take a drawknife and shave off all of the writing and then start writing again. After all, Abraham Lincoln was a keen reader. When he was older, his top favorite thing to read was the newspaper. But he also read other types of books and several of the books were about Shakespeare.

However Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother had another role that she also played in his education. His stepmother remembered poems (that her mother use to tell her in her childhood) even dough she did not know how to read. She also gave Lincoln three books to read.

As Abraham Lincoln became a teenager he was intrigued with the laws of the land and country so he started focusing and studying around that topic. Then, after he moved he became a lawyer. A way in which Abe remembered things when he was an adult was by keeping things in his hat. That hat he had was called “stovepipe hat”.

   Important event that impacted who Abraham Lincoln was

The most important event in Abraham Lincoln’s life was when he became the 16th president in November 6 of 1860. The reason why he being the president changed his life was because during his presidency he finally became successful and after so many chances that he had to become successful; every one of those chances were some how blown away. that  His vice president during his presidency was Andrew Johnson. Sadly his presidency only lasted five years until he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The assassination happened around 10:15 in the late evening. The gun the Booth used to kill Lincoln was the .40 caliber Philadelphia derringer. Lincoln was shot behind his left ear. However, Lincoln was guarded by a major named Rathbone who went to grab booth before he through himself of the stand. But, Booth was also carrying a dagger in which he used to stab Rathbone with it. Then Rathbone quickly got up and Booth then stabbed him again. His killer John Wilkes Booth then hopped of the stand where Abraham Lincoln was sitting and broke his left leg. The crowd hadn’t noticed the gunshot because at the moment that Booth shot, the funniest line of the play made everyone in the theater laugh as loud as possible. Booth went across the stage saying, “Sic Semper Tyrannis” making his self look as if he were part of the play. Rathbone then screamed, “Stop him” the in which the crowd quickly reacted to catch Booth. Booth then limped towards the door and struck a man named Boroughs in the forehead with his dagger and then escaped on his horse also in which he kicked Boroughs in the face too.

          However Lincoln did not die instantly. Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street where he died the next day (April 15, 1865) at 7:22 a.m. Twelve days later Booth was surrounded by soldiers in the farm he had been hiding in with his partner Herold. Herold surrendered when he noticed all the soldiers surrounding the farm. Booth screamed, “You’ll never take me alive” and at that moment soldiers started shooting at the barn Booth was in. A soldier quietly came through behind the barn and shot Booth just one inch below the spot where Lincoln was shot. Booth died on the ground he was in 2 hours later. His 4 other partners were executed. Abraham Lincoln’s death is one of the biggest moments in history even today one and a half centuries in the future.

    How Abraham Lincoln is connected to our history (what he did)

Abraham Lincoln led our country through the civil war and still preserved the Union; meaning that he kept the United States together (even dough Abraham Lincoln supported the Union and not the Confederacy) instead of having it divided into two different countries; going through a Civil war while keeping your country together must have been very hard to do so this is a sign of true presidency and great leadership. Lincoln also bought Alaska from Russia which would have been different today if it weren’t for Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln also signed the Land grant Colleges act in 1862 which provided government grants for Universities at every state. Lincoln also presided over the formation of national banks which benefited us with a strong financial system all over the country. And, even when Abraham Lincoln was occupied fighting in the civil war, he tried his best to help out Juarez in Mexico by sending him 30,000 muskets to his army. This shows that a president’s leadership is not only caring for your country, but is also made up of caring for other countries too.

But one of the most important things that Lincoln is known for doing is freeing the slaves by creating the emancipation proclamation in the year of 1863. This was majorly important because slavery was a catastrophic event in which no human should ever go through. Slavery has broken apart millions of families and affected over fifteen million Africans. In account to slavery, Lincoln approved the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. The thirteenth amendment was the amendment that abolished slavery (and involuntary servitude) in America; meaning that slavery would not be used anymore and that slavery would not be used in the United States anytime in the future as well. To the amendment, laws were made stating that whoever enslaved or had someone to serve them at force would be held with charges of slavery against them. Slaves were not freed immediately; they were freed after the thirteenth amendment was made. However the thirteenth amendment is final enactment was made after President Lincoln’s death. Lincoln has truly left many great precedents for future presidents to take into consideration.