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Public opinion was very much against Hoover
There was many reasons for the fall , including foreign epidemics and weaponry, the spaniards skilled manipulation of power played a key role in the great empires demise
The Cross of Gold discourse was a discourse conveyed by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The discourse pushed Bimetallism. At the time, the Democratic Party needed to institutionalize the estimation of the dollar to silver and contradicted pegging the estimation of the United States dollar to a best quality level. The expansion that would come about because of the silver standard would make it less demanding for agriculturists and different borrowers to pay off their obligations by expanding their income dollars. It would likewise turn around the collapse which the U.S. experienced from 1873-1896.
Not really decorated in that sense as making them look "good" i guess, but they were mostly leather bound and covered in tar to help preserve the wood.
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