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• “Romantic Nationalism”- patriotism; love your country
• Progress
• Liberty
• Anglo-Saxon destiny
• The History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States (1882)
• PHILOSOPHICAL IDEALS |
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• Progressive Historian
• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913)
• ECONOMIC DETERMINISM |
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• Turnerism- he was trying to get his finger on who the American people were, what they represent
• The Frontier has defined American character |
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| Who was the father of the Navy? |
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• Let freedom ring from all corners of the world
• Asking for freedom for a segment of the American population |
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| Analysis of History (Acronym) |
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Social
Political
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Cultural |
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| Decrease in the purchasing power of a currency |
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| Caused by the bankruptcy of Jay Cooke and Co. (this occurred because of the excessive building of railroads and the company being unable to pay people's bonds back to them; also known as Northern Pacific Default) |
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| Hangover from the Civil War |
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High-Priced Grain, distrust of "Greenback" dollars (people wanted gold)
No US central bank
Franco-Prussian War added to the worldwide depression (no U.S. exports)
• Led to falling grain prices because we didn't need to export to Europe anymore after the war |
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| The bank is secured by stocks and bonds and if the loan goes south the bank is not affected |
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| Who was president during the Reconstruction? |
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| Why did the Reconstruction era end? |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes gave up on trying to give blacks in the South equal rights. |
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• Challenged federal authority (defy constitutional amendments)
• Said that it protected the rights of blacks, but did the opposite |
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| What were the top priorities for Freed African Americans? |
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| What was the Freedman's Bureau? |
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| To provide food and medical care, to help the freedmen to resettle, to ensure justice for the freedmen, to manage abandoned or confiscated property, to regulate labor, and to establish schools |
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| Made it very difficult for blacks to vote through literacy tests and poll taxes |
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| Whites told blacks who to vote for at the risk of their life. Used to influence blacks. |
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| Founded Tuskegee Institute, first black person invited to the White House (Theodore Roosevelt invited him). Wanted to accept being second to the white man. |
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| First black PhD to come out of Harvard. Disagreed with Booker T. Washington in that he wanted equality |
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Blacks will submit to the whites still and work for them, but in turn received education and more due process in law. |
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| Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 |
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| Standardize rates of railroad shipping; Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) monitored railroads to make sure they complied with the new regulations. |
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| National Alliance Ocala Platfrom |
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| Reclaim R.R. lands and reduce or eliminate tariffs |
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ALL ABOUT CONTROLLING COSTS!!!
Better use of steam power, steel, electricity, etc. |
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| One company. From start to finish. From raw materials to finished goods. No relience on third party. |
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| Buy out your competition, expand what you do to preserve the company |
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| Did not distinguish between skilled and unskilled |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Distinguished between skilled and unskilled |
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"Power of the ballot"
Union not paying R.R. workers what they deserved |
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• Manage production
• Professional managers
• Employer control vs. laborer control
• Tasks divided into sub-tasks
• Lower morale
• Worker hostility |
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| Who were the main U.S. immigrants in 1880? |
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British (Irish, English, Scottish)
Germans
Scandinavians |
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| Where do the Chinese and Latin-Americans immigrate to? |
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| Chinese went to Pacific coast, Latin-Americans went to South TO WORK |
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| Government more directly tied in with the people |
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| Advocating social, political, and economic reform |
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| Requirements of an empire |
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Imperial Power must:
Support
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Defend |
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| Not the best guys to hold office. Same political system now in U.S. as back then (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) |
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| Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst |
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| Sway the public's view on the "Cuban-American War with Spain" via the newspaper (DeLome letter- made McKinley look like a pansy) |
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| Tells Cuba that they will be independent and on their own. |
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| We can invade Cuba or get involved with their economic affairs (Guatanamo Bay) |
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| McKinley annihilated Spain |
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| Europe didn't realize how important the navy was |
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| Captain (USN)- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History |
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| U.S. is a two-ocean navy built around battleships |
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"two-power" standard
• Security of the homeland, countries of the Empire, and sea lanes |
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| First Sea Lord; bring in old ships |
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| Japanese trapped Russian fleet at Port Arthur |
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Admiral Togo, British supported Japanese
• Teddy Roosevelt brings Japanese and Russians to Portsmouth, New Hampshire and T.R. got Nobel Peace Prize |
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| U.S. and Britain had no "exclusive control" and that Panama was a neutral canal |
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| Modifies Clayton-Bulwer treaty in that it diminishes British influence so America runs Panama Canal. Britain saw Germany as more of a threat than the U.S. so they gave them approval. |
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| The U.S. agreed to pay Colombia for the right to build a canal in Colombia's province of Panama. The Colombia Senate reject the agreement. |
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| Hay-Burnau Varilla Treaty |
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| U.S. asked Colombia threateningly again for permission to build in Panama Canal, and the Colombian Senate agreed. |
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