Paper 4: USA

In the class of history we wrote an essay answering to this question: How important were Republicans reactions to the Wall Street crash as causes of Roosevelt's success in the presidential elections of 1932? This is my work.

In the elections of 1932, Roosevelt was elected president. Republican’s reactions after the Wall Street crash were crucial for this result.

On the one hand, Hoover’s measures during the economic depression after the Wall Street crash influenced in the election. Hoover was recognised as a do-nothing president because he said prosperity was just around the corner since he was Republican and was not suppose to intervine in the economy of the country. Moreover, he believed security was no responsibility of the government. However, he cut taxes and introduced tariffs to US industries. This ended with the international trade, making the depression worse.

Herbert Hoover Picture of the depression

On the other hand, Roosevelt was Democrat so he was prepared to intervine in the everyday’s life. Roosevelt’s policies were based on helping unemployed people. He believed in active government to improve things and planned to spend public money to get people back to work. Roosevelt travelled along the country expressing his ideas, as part of his campaign. This gave hope to people since they wanted someone to take ideas into actions and Roosevelt showed that in his speeches. In his campaign he talked about giving a New Deal to take US out of the depression.

Franklin D Roosevelt Roosevelt's plan

To conclude, Hoover being unable to solve the problems after the Wall Street crash was really important to help Roosevelt to succeed in the presidential elections in 1932. However, Roosevelt’s campaign was a key to his success too since he was an excellent public speaker and gave hope to Americans by showing he would intervine to change the situation.

Roosevelt's campaign

How important were credit and hire purchase as a reason for economic growth in USA during the 1920s?

In the class of history, we studied USA and we wrote and essay answering this question: How important were credit and hire purchase as a reason for economic growth during the 1920s?

Here it's mine.

During the 1920s USA was suffering many changes. There was an  increase in production, known as the boom which made the economy grew. Credit, a financial facility which enables a person or business to borrow money to purchase products and to pay for them over an extended time period, and hire purchase, a system by which a buyer pays for an item in regular installments, were crucial for this growth.

On the one hand, credit and hire purchase allowed families with low income to buy goods. Big industries such as the motor car industry used hire purchase schemes and 6 out of 10 cars were bought on credit. During the 1920s, the economy was growing so people was confident and started to invest in the stock market. Americans started to speculate, this meant that they borrowed money from banks and bought shares on margin. However, when the prices of the share rised, they sold them and so they paid the loan and get a profit. Due to this, banks started to lend money and many new millionaires appeared. In this way, people invested money on companies.

Wall street market

On the other hand, the economy of the country boosted with the First World War since they provided Europe with arms, food and money. In this way, USA became leader of many sectors of industry. It outstripped Germany in the supply of chemical products and had massive steel, coal and textile industries. Electrification was an important factor too, since electricity was extended to new sectors of the country, making industries more productive. Due to this,  mass production became popular, after Ford’s line production invention, so many consumer goods were produced. With the help of advertisements, the idea of “buy now, pay later” was spread and more people started to buy goods since they considered that spending money meant having a good quality life. Moreover, Republican policies helped too. They protected the national industry against foreign competition by introducing import tariffs and keeping taxes low to let Americans spend more money.

Ford's invention

Radio in 1920s

As a conclusion, credit and hire purchase were important to economic growth during the 1920s. However, these factors were not the most important ones. These financial systems helped to the growth since they encourage people to buy but the economy grew due to other reasons, the industrial strength, the republican policies.

Who am I?

In the ELT class, we had to write a cpmplete description of us. I share my work.

My name is Jimena I live in Buenos Aires and I´m in 5th year. I´m 16 years and I have an elder brother called Marco who is 20 years old and studies engineering at UADE. My mom, Matilde, is a lawyer and my dad, Daniel, is the owner of a toys store. We are a united family, we love each other a lot.

Talking about my physical appearence, I'm tall and thinI have long, blond, straight hair, small brown eyes and tiny red lips. I wear big black glasses.


In relation to my personality I consider myself kind and polite. I'm also a generous and honest person. If I feel comfortable, I my be very talkative. I´m really responsible and hardworking. Moreover, I´m quite demanding with myself.

In my free time I like going to the gym, hanging around with friends, watching films and using my cellphone. In addition, I´m keen on cooking and I enjoy dancing and singing.

To conclude, I´m a perseverant person and I always try to give the best of me in order to achieve my goals. I never give up and if the results aren't the expected ones, I'll try harder the next time. Besides, I'm a charming person. Furthermore, I'm really sensitive and caring. I love my family a lot, they always encourage and support me, they are a great pillar on my life.



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La familia

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