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 * Scopes Trial:** Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species began the thought of evolution and Genetics. This went against the law that said that they could only teach what was in the creation story in the bible. UCLA offers to pay anyone who will break the law and start to teach the evolution theory. It finally began in Tenesse in a small town in Dayton. The case is taken by William Jennings Brian, who ran for president of the United States three times and is highly religous, and they find another aitheist lawyer who goes against the religous lawer. The main division in the country changed form north and south to country folk vs. city folk, small things like belts against suspenders were enough to turn the tide of a court.


 * Hoover:** Parents died, and he goes and is raised by his grandparents. Moves to california, and goes to college at Stanford where he is the first student. Goes into Mining Technology. Pays his way through college as football coach. Hoover goes to Austrillia where he begins to make a big difference. During a mining strike, Hoover fires all the other miners and imports itilian miners and the company makes a ton of money. After the success, Hoover is sent to China during the Boxer Rebellion where he helps the American troops attack China. Finds himself in Europe in WWI and arranges for a huge amount of people to go to america from Europe and sets up a help for Belgium. Runs for Congress, and he helps the president run for president where he is elected as the secretary of commerce, and then he is elected president. Thinks that America is great, then there is a great depression and Herbert Hoover is blamed for not fixing things.


 * Bonus Army:** The soldigers from WWI march on Washington and they campout in a tent city in washington to demand their money. Hoover is about to leave office and the police go to stop the riot, two people are shot and killed. Hoover sends out an order for the army to burn down the tent city and kick out the bonus army. Hoover is kicked out of office and Roosevelt is elected president, and he makes jobs to make a highway to the florida keyes, where 175,000 of the men were killed during a hurricane.