Ferdinand & IsabellaEssay Preview: Ferdinand & IsabellaReport this essayFerdinand and IsabellaFerdinand and Isabella were very important to our world today. They contributed to the uniting of Spain and even the discovery of where we live today, the New World. They strengthened the power of the crown in Spain. They led Spain to be the leading country of exploration and sailing.
Isabella was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torras, Spain on April 22nd, 1451. When Henry IV died on December 10, 1474, Isabella acted quickly and rightfullay inherited the throne. Isabella was the daughter of John II, King of Castile and Leon. Ferdinand was born in Sos, Aragon on March 10th, 1452. Ferdinand succeeded his father as king of Aragon in 1479. On October 19th, 1469 in Valladolid they were married. The Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon were unified in a personal union creating for the first time since the eighth century a single political unit which is now known as Spain.
The first issue they dealt with after their marriage was the Spanish Inquisition. Ferdinand and Isabella embarked on a process of spiritual unification, trying to bring the country under one religion, Roman Catholicism. The Spanish inquisition lasted from 1478 to 1834. In 1478 Ferdinand and Isabella asked for permission to establish a branch of the Inquisition in Spain. Pope Sixtus IV granted them the permission they seeked. Pope Sixus IV granted this permission because there was believed to be a danger to the church from Jews masquerading to as Christians. Tomas de Torquemada was the first grand inquisitor. He persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel all of the Jews from Spain who were unwilling to convert to Christianity. In then end 160,000 leave. In 1502 the same demands were made for the Muslims. In 1492 Granada falls and the reconquest was complete. The Moors of Granada were promised religious freedom but this only lasted for a few years. This ended in 1502 when Jimenez de Cisneros, the archbishop of Toledo, decrees all Muslims convert to Christianity or leave.
Another great thing Ferdinand and Isabella accomplished was sponsoring Christopher Columbus on his quest to sail west. On August 3rd, 1492 he set sail with the Pinzon Brothers on the Santa Maria, Pinta and the Nina. He lands on an island in the Bahamas and names it after San Salvador, Jesus the savior. He then lands on Cuba. Columbus believes it to be Cipango, the place of marvels described by Marco Polo. Columbus lands on another large island, he names it Espanola or Hispaniola. He leaves a small colony there while he sails back to Spain. On March 15th he reaches Spain. In 1493 Columbus sails west with 1500 people to start a colony. He then discovers Guadalupe and Puerto Rico. When he returns to Hispaniola he finds the colony massacred by the natives. In Spain critics were enraged with the news and with Columbus. Columbus returns to confront the critics in Spain. He confronts him with some success
Theodore D. Roosevelt
1860-1946
Theodore Roosevelt is regarded as America’s greatest leader, but he had a different story to tell. His father, Theodore Roosevelt II, a railroad tycoon, was the owner of the Chicago Steel and Steel Corp., which was owned by the Dutchman. Roosevelt’s father was a stockbroker and his father’s son worked at the steel plants.
1946-47
Foster Roosevelt was born a Protestant American. He was raised in the suburbs of New York City and began attending a Presbyterian school that included Protestant teaching, and that also included schools with Calvinists. Roosevelt was educated at John H. Williams College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also had a college in Connecticut, also called Yale, which he joined. In 1937, Roosevelt bought a house in New York City. The Roosevelt family was well positioned to keep him on.
1947-48
Denny and Frances E. Franklin Roosevelt became a father and his daughter Frances the daughter was a former first secretary of the White House. In 1949 she went to graduate school at the Yale Business School in New York, New Haven, Connecticut, and became a professor at Yale University.
1949 Roosevelt founded his own consulting firm, Franklin and Associates, which raised its revenues from investment in other companies. The Frank Franklin, who worked as a tax attorney at the Treasury under General George W. Bush, gave Roosevelt the most valuable brokerage share because of the high turnover tax rate.
1950-51
Denny Franklin is a Harvard-educated economist. He has worked in the White House and was the Deputy Director of Treasury since 1963.
1950-51: New Deal Democrats
It was the early years of the New Deal that became so important that I used to read the newspapers that there were many New Deal Democrats. At that time, my uncle William (C) Hickey was an English teacher and I lived in New Haven, Connecticut, so I think George Hickey was a pretty important party leader. However, what really started our connection at Harvard was William Randolph Hearst, and I saw him in the early days of this party, and I remember he said, when you are trying to make the most of your time, that all of your ideas and your hopes are going to be rejected unless you can convince people that at some point they will go on to win.
After World War I, a young Frederick G. Stanton was elected President. He was known as “the man when the world goes on going on going”, a man who was born to immigrant parents. When he ran for President of the United States during World War II of this country, Stanton was asked many things. He answered the same question once that John H Sherman asked of Abraham Lincoln: “What’s the most important item in the White House?” Stanton answered: “The money.”
In 1941, then Senator John Lewis asked “What’s the most important thing in the White House?” Stanton answered: “The best of what you say you say.” Roosevelt said, “No man thinks of life until tomorrow night. You, as one of the great men, can see the world. You can write, you can read. If you can not take what you want with you when you must, the greatest good will come true.” Roosevelt said nothing.
As the war progressed, the president gave speeches on all subjects: the military, foreign policy and other important