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Who are some notable Hispanic inventors and scientists?

Bernardo Houssay was a famous Argentinian scientist and activist. In 1947, he received half of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His outstanding achievement is discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar in animals.\nLuis Federico Leloir grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and won the 1970 Nobel prize for the discovery and study of sugar nucleotides. He worked alongside Professor Bernardo A. Houssay, who had a strong influence Leloir's interest in adrenalin carbohydrate metabolism. He also won the Bunge and Born Foundation Award, the ..

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How did Roosevelt help with the Great Depression?

Because FDR refused to run up the federal deficits that ending the depression would require, many programs were voted down in both chambers of congress. Some of these reforms included a federal program for health care, a full-employment act, an increase in the minimum wage and an increase in Social Security benefits. FDR's New Deal did help restore the Gross National Product (GNP) to its 1929 level, but it was not the main factor in ending the Great Depression.\n\nThe main events that helped to create an end to the Great Depression occurred when the federal government imposed rationing on..

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What are some theories on the origins of the Native Americans?

The Land Bridge Theory, also referred to as the Bering Strait Theory, was proposed in 1930 and is widely accepted in the scientific community, as of 2015. The theory states that the first people to inhabit the New World migrated across the Bering Land Bridge tracking large animal herds. The Atlantic Theory mentions that humans reached America by boat, coming from Europe. The Solutrean Hypothesis suggests that early European people migrated to North America in prehistoric times.

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Which events led to the Spanish-American War?

Wikipedia explains that the seeds of the Spanish-American War were planted in the early 19th century when President James Monroe articulated the Monroe Doctrine, according to which the United States would not tolerate further European colonization of the Americas or interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. At first, Cuba was exempt from this declaration. However, by the turn of the 20th century, Cuba had become an important port for American trade.\nAccording to the Library of Congress, Cuba revolted against Spain in 1895. The United States pressed for a swift settlement of the m..

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When was the White House cornerstone laid?

The White House, originally called the Executive Mansion, was designed by Irish immigrant James Hoban. During the War of 1812, British troops burned the White House to the ground. It was rebuilt using Hoban's design and expanded. President James Monroe was the first U.S. president to occupy the rebuilt White House in 1817. The first president to officially refer to the chief executive's home as the White House was Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.

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Who was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard?

Beauregard was born in 1818 in Louisiana to a French Creole family. He was trained as an engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point and served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. Between the wars, most of his engineering work was in building and repairing military forts. When Louisiana seceded, Beauregard enlisted as a private in the Orleans Guards, a battalion made up of French Creole aristocrats. He corresponded with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, angling for a position in the newly formed Confederate States Army. With the crisis over Fort Sumter coming to..

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What was the outcome of the first Continental Congress?

Twelve of the 13 British colonies in what is now America sent representatives to the First Continental Congress. Only Georgia, which was afraid of the large Cherokee and Creek Indian populations on its frontier, did not join the meeting. The body did not have a particular agenda when it met, but members agreed that the grievances against Great Britain needed redress. Some colonies, such as New York, wanted to begin a revolution, while others wanted merely to have equal legislative rights. Pennsylvania's Joseph Galloway proposed the formation of a colonial parliament called the Grand Counc..

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How many soldiers have been sent to Iraq?

Following the election of Barack Obama, ground troops were scaled back at a faster rate, and the last combat brigade left in August 2010. Up to that point, 4,421 troops had been killed and almost 32,000 had been wounded in action. About 50,000 military personnel remained in Iraq to aid in the transition process. In contrast, the British army had lower levels of troops deployed, hitting a peak in 2003 at 18,000.

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Why did people move west on the Oregon Trail?

Emigrants moved in part due to the widespread economic depression of the 1830s and '40s, while others were fleeing the political turmoil of the Civil War. Missionaries were a common sight. As more and more people settled in the west, travelers set out to join their families. Great Britain also had claims in the Northwest and Mexico in the Southwest; the Bureau of Land Management hypothesizes that some settlers may have been motivated by patriotism to claim land for America.\nThough the first emigrants to use the Oregon Trail arrived in 1836, the first large-scale mass migration did not oc..

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What does Bastille Day celebrate?

The French people revolted against the government and stormed the Bastille, which held only seven prisoners at the time, freeing the prisoners and gaining control of a large amount of ammunition and gunpowder. Feudalism was shortly abolished following the revolt on August 4, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was proclaimed on August 26. France celebrated its unity the following July 14.Bastille Day is marked by a large military parade that is the biggest and oldest in Europe. It occurs on Paris's Champs-Elysees, and it is attended by French government officials a..

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