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| Head of Consensus Bureau announced, "We've conquered the Frontier!" when? |
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| How was the "Indian Problem" handled? |
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take land
kill buffalo
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| Battle of Little Bighorn ID |
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| In 1876, George A. Custer tried to wipe out an entire camp of Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer rushed into battle at Little Bighorn, despite his scouts many warnings. He and his soldiers ended up being th eones who were wiped out. This is historically significant, because when Easterners heard about this they were furious. After, they were all insanely anti-Indian, and they forced all Natives onto reservations. After this no one questioned harsh Native American policies. |
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| The Native Americans (lead by Sitting Bull) believed that a special dance called the Ghost Dance could save them from the whites, but the whites saw the dance as a direct threat. In 1890,at Wounded Knee, the US soldiers came and ended up killing Sitting Bull (because he resisted). The US originally was going to take all Sitting Bull's followers captive, but then a gunshot was shot, which caused a massacre of many Native Americans. |
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| 1882, prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the US, unions pressured congress feared to many Chinese workers would lower wages |
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| born into Slavery, wrote Up From Slavery, went to Hampton Normal College, taught @ Tuskegee Institute, believed AAs should be submissive, do voactional jobs with pride, and the whites would grow to like them, white people looove Booker T. |
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| attended Fisk and Harvard, worte several books, worked at Atlanta University, taught that the "Talented Tenth" should steo forward and get a degree in liberal arts, founded Niagra Movement, whites haaaaate him, push for equality, he is disgusted by Booker T. |
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freedmen convicted of not working could be fined, whipped, or sold for a year's labor (what sounds so familiar?)
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| almost like Feudalism, but with blacks and whites and no protection against the scary, Blacks and poor sign contracts to work but they never meet demands and are in debt to white man, therefore chained to the land |
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| Biggest Crime of an AA Male |
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| looking at a white lady (or he might VIOLATE her or something) |
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| heavyweight boxing champion, won the Fight of the Century, liked his white ladies, married many, frequently arrested for "transporting prositutes" |
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| Minstrel Shows and Blackface |
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| white traveling minstrels perform as blacks, and perpetuate stereotypes |
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| What do countries need to industrialize? |
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natural resources
work force (often educated)
capital (money to invest)
transportation systems
stable gov. |
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| How did class structure change? |
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| Before, the classes were rich landowners and poor workers. Then, laborers climber their way to the top and madde money in industry, by investing, also called bourgeosie |
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immigrants filled demand for labor
railroads spanned the continent and replaced canals and steamboats
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based on Darwin's theory of natural selection
the fit surivive and the unfit die (law of the jungle,sorry) |
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| Fire in this building that caused many deaths, due to unsafe conditions, caused saftey regulations to be made. |
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| economic system in which private citizens onw and use means of production in order to make a profit |
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| economic system in which the government owns some means of production in order to get everyone their basic needs |
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| economic system in which the gov. owns all means of production |
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History is shaped by economic forces.
Class struggles exist between poor and rich.
Class with money controls gov.
Middle Class shrinks, becuase they are conquered by big business, and working class grows larger.
Workers revolt and seize control of gov.
All goods and services shared equally.
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| Terrence Powderly, included everybody, didn't prefer strikes |
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| American Federal of Labor |
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| Samuel Gomper, skilled workers but not women or African Americans, preferred strikes, closed shops |
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| Socailists, unskilled workers, many workers convicted of promoting strikes during war, RADICALS |
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| Eugene V. Webbs, industrial union opposed strikes but involved in Pullman Strike |
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| Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
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| wages cut and "double headers" cause violence to spread and the federal troops are called |
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| Chicago, several deaths, violence between scabs and strikers, anarchists show up @ meeting, someone throws a bomb |
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| Pullman town angered by restrictions, strike, lead ARU to strike, used Sherman AntiTrust Act against them |
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economic
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military power
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| Missionary/Moral Diplomacy |
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| Wilson realized US was acting immoral tried to change it, other countries still hate us |
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| competing by making news sensational, kind of embellishing stories, or finding scandal (OMG Paris Hilton got arrested, really we aren't surprised) |
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| Progressive Era and Date the 19th Amendmant was Ratified |
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| Austrian-Hungarian Empire |
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| ruled many unhappy ethnic groups, including Bosnians |
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| Germans because they captured Alsace-Lorraine |
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| Assassination of heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Thrown |
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| Sarajevo, Bosnia 1914 Fronz Ferdinand, by Serbian Blank Hand terrorist |
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| Year US entered/Russia left |
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| tanks, artillary shells, airplanes, submarines, poison gas, flame throwers, Zepplins |
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| Us becomes more of a World power, more involved Gov. |
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| more gov. control, daylight savings, gov. influence on Unions |
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| Cincinnati lost national prestige, increased nativism, Great Migration and Women, anti-German, |
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| Wilson's program for reaching his goals to create peace |
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| 1919, international peace conference in Paris, ending WWI |
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David Lloyd George (Britian)
Georges Clemenceau (France)
Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
Woodrow Wilson (America |
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| an organization in which the nations of the world join together to ensure peace and security |
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| Why do US senators oppose treaty |
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| it commits the US to the league of nations |
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| What did Wilson do to Raise support of the Treaty of Versailles? |
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| He went around the country speaking in favor of the Treaty |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance |
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| 1933,created by Glass-Steagall Act: insured bank deposits |
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| Securities and Exchange Comission |
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| 1934, government regulates stock market |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| 1933, put 2.5 mil young,unmarried ment to work maintaining forests,beaches,parks |
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| Public Works Administration |
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| government funded building of Gran Coulee Dam, NYC triborough bridge, and overseas highways |
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| 1933, provided hydroelectric power, flood control, and recreational opportunites to the Tenesse River Valley and sorrounding area |
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| 1938, banned child labor and established a min. wage for all workers |
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| 1935, provides social security in the form of regular payments to those who couldn't support themselves (old age pensions, survivors benefits, unemployment insurance, aid for dependant children, blind, and disabled) |
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| welathy family in , NY state secretary, assisant secretary of the navy, struck with polio in early 20s, gov. of Ny |
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unequal distribution of income
personal debt
risky investments
stock market prices and buying on the margin
overproduction
limited money supply |
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| Causes of the Great depression |
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| 56% last hired, first fired |
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| African American # unemployed |
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| "Great Engineer" stuck to tradition, encouraged confidence, asked people not to lay off workers, Federal Farm Board, Hawley-Smott Tariff, trickle-down economics |
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| Hoover's Limited Response |
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| a situation in which a government spends more money then it receives to stimulate the economy |
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| the use of gov. spending to encourage economic activity by increasing the demand for goods |
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| government policies designed to stimulate the production of goods and services |
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| he promised to never sell the lands of his father, and the tribe faught for their land but he surrendered when grew tired of fighting and wanted peace |
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| the lieutenant sent to investigate rumors of gold in Black Hills, foolishly rushed to fight in Battle of Little Bighorn and died |
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| never signed Fort Lamarie Treaty, left the reservation and caused hostility, escaped from Battle of Little Bighorn to Canada, later joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
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| never signed Fort Lamarie Treaty, left the reservation and caused hostility, died at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
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| 2,000 Sioux warriors wiped out Custer and 200 men w/in an hour, but the US still ended up winning |
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| Sitting Bull killed by police for resisting their efforts to calm him , his followers surrendered, but then a shot was fired and 200 Sioux were killed |
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| divided reservation land into plots, each NA family with a man as the head recieved a 160 acre plot these landowners have citizenship and had to abide by laws of US |
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| ended the 2 year war of the Sioux warriors and US, means the US abandoned the Bozeman Trail & created a large reservation in South Dakota |
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| according to the Fort Lamarie Treaty, belong to Sioux, tall pine covered mountains in South Dakota and Wyoming, Kernel Custer found gold there (kind of) |
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| abook by Hunt Jackson, inspired peace movement |
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timezones
cut buffalo range in 2
more people west |
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| Transcontinental Railroad ID |
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| In Utah,1869, the workers of the Transcontinental Railroad finished the job. The Transcontinental Railroad (commisioned by Leland Stanford) was the first railroad to full connect the west to the east. This is historically significant,because it caused people to populate the west (and send goods back to the east. It also caused the Native Americans to loose their livelyhood (buffalo, which were hunted by whites for their hides) and homes. |
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| farmers and poor workers more money, silver |
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| Presidential Election of 1896 |
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William Mckinley(Republican) won
William Jennings Bryan (Democratic and Populist) lost, despite the Cross of Gold Speech |
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| author of a century of dishonor |
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| AAs went west, lead by Benjamin Pap Signleton |
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| Fredrick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis |
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| beleived frontier played a major role in forming American character, self-improvement, adeventure, democracy, socially mobile |
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| gave 160 acres of land to settlers who moved west, gave free ownership to the settler for 5 yrs |
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| MCkinely's democratic and poulist opponent, famous for the Cross of Gold speech |
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| man to setup oil well & drill for oil |
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| man to invent electric lightbulb & power plant |
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| created the telegraph, language for telegraph |
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| man who invented the "talking telegraph" or the telephone |
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| Henry Bessemer/Bessemer Process |
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| invented a new process for making steel in an easier and cheaper way, made it possible to mass produce steel |
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| designed a suspension bridge with thick steel cables suspended from high towers to hold up the main span, longest in the world,the Brooklyn Bridge |
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| formed the Standard Oil Company, gave lots of money to charity, used some shifty methods to gain control of the oil industry |
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| John D. Rockfeller's oil company |
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| Andrew Carnagie/Carnagie Steel |
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| grew up poor and became rich, had a steel business, gave much of his money away to charity |
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| Andrew Carnagie's ideas about wealth, everyone is free to become rich, then they should give much of their money to charity |
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| society should interfere with competition as little as possible, opposed government protecting workers, believed government should stay out of the affairs of business men who were "fit " to become rich |
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| complete control of a product or service |
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| gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of a product 's development |
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| involves bringing together as many firms of the same business |
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| the board of trustees managed the companies as a single unit |
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| outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate trade or commerce |
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| Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
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| wages cut and "double headers" cause violence to spread and the federal troops are called |
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| Chicago, several deaths, violence between scabs and strikers, anarchists show up @ meeting, someone throws a bomb |
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| carnagie steel, Pittsuburgh, Henry Frick called Pinkertons, anarchist attempts assasination |
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| Pullman town angered by restrictions, strike, lead ARU to strike, used Sherman AntiTrust Act against them |
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fortunes built by stealing from public
exploited natural resources
bought gov. favors
low wages/unhealthy conditions
drove competitors to ruin |
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increased # of factories, raised productivity and goods
created jobs
endowed museums,libraries, and universities |
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| Should the Government Bust Monopolies? |
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| hard to do when big business supports the politicans and made America rich |
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| Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels pamplet on communism |
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| fight for better wages and conditions for all types of workers, many diffferent types |
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| process in which workers negotiate as a group w/ employers |
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| president of the ARU, ran for president a lot, including once from jail |
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post construction era , covered in thin layer of gold but made of iron
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| under this system, elected officials appointed friends and supporters to government jobs regardless of their qualifications, a lot of bribery and corruption |
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| Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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| 1883, classified government jobs and tested applicants' fitness for them, also stated that federal employees couldn't be required to campaign funds or be fired for political reasons |
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| an unoffcial city organization designed to keep a particular group or party in power and usually headed by a single powerful boss |
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| fairly honest politcical machine boss, won office and used his post to guarentee elction victories and business contracts for the part faithful, but improved the quality of police forces and city services |
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| notorious boss, gained access to city treasury and plundered it stealing millions |
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| the political club William Marcy Tweed controlled, ran NY democractic party |
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| created a settlement house in Chicago to help their iimigrant neighbors |
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| the settlement house Jane Addams started that helped immigrants adapt to US life |
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| policy of favoring native born Americans over immigrants |
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| famous activist who smashed illegal saloons with a hatchet all over Kansas |
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| specail tenements shaped like dumbells |
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| large open area beneath ship's deck; tickets cheap, but offered no privacy, poor food, and few toilets (ewwww!) |
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| east coast entry,all steerage, 1892-1954 |
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| urban areas of one ethnic or racail group |
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| agreements among home owners not to sell homes to certain groups, Africans, Asians, Mexicans, and Jews |
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| 1882, prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the US, unions pressured congress feared to many Chinese workers would lower wages |
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| Gentlemen's Agreement (1907) |
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| unofficial agreement between Roosevelt and Japan, Japan stops issueing passports to laborers, San Francisco accepts Asian students |
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| group of Africans singing spirtuals with a touch of white music, save Fisk university from ruin |
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| black music, new melodies, shifting accents |
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| composer who wrote "Maple Leaf Rag" |
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| period of post-reconstruction segregation, based off minstrel who performed in blackface |
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| tax one must pay to vote, keeps AAs from voting |
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| must be able to read to vote, keeps AAs from voting |
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| must have had ancestors vote to vote, kept AAs from voting |
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| not legally segregation, but rather in fact segregation |
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| "seperate but equal" black and white will have seperate public places but they will be equal (yeah right) |
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| murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| NAACP, tried to abolish prejudice and segregation |
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| started an editorial campaign speaking out against lynching, later she also became involved in civil rights groups |
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| Booker T Washington's school |
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| Atlanta Exposition Speech |
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| Booker T Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech, "cast down your bucket" |
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| 1896, seperate but equal ruling |
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| Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, banana trade becomes a huge part of economies |
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| Alfred T. Mahon, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History |
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| writer who wrote book, argued nation's economic future hinged on gaining new markets abroad |
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| sent to put down rebellion, instituted 'reconcentration," forced hundreds of Cubans in guarded camp, many die |
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| the intense burst of national pride and desire for aggressive foreign policy |
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| letter published, written by the Spanish Ambassador, describing McKinley as "weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd," fueled public hatred for Spain |
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| An accidental fire blew up the USS Maine, but American public blamed the Spanish |
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| Filipino rebel leader, declared Philippines a republic |
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| strong nationalist queen of Hawaii, opposed US control of islands, and sought to reduce the power of foreign merchants |
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| pineapple planter who removed Queen Liluokalani from office, he proclaimed Hawaii a republic and requested it be annexed in |
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| areas of economic and political control |
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| created to ensure that the uS would have access to China's millions of consumers, keep an "open door" to China |
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| Chinese organization called the Righteous and Harmonious fists started a rebellion, resented foreign influence of any kind |
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| McKinely's VP who became president and redefined the presidency |
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| canal created on the Panama peninsula, linked to oceans making global shipping faster and cheaper, pushed by Teddy Roosevelt |
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| Roosevelt messages to congress don't use the Monroe Doctrine as a cloak for territitorial aggresion |
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| Roosevelt sent navy cruise around the world, to demonstrate naval power, the gleaming white ships |
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economic
rise of nationalism
military power
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| forced Japan to trade with the Us |
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| TR's team of horsemen who conquered San Juan Hill |
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| the hill TR and the Rough Riders charged |
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| US president during the Spanish American War, de Lome letter called him "weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd" |
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| conflict in 1898 between Spain and US over Cuban Independance |
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| Causes of the Spainish American War |
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yellow jouranlism
USS Maine sinking
Democratic presure on McKinely |
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| requires the direct election of senators ratified by states, popular vote |
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| coal strike, Roosevelt claims he resolved fairly |
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| gave congress the power to levy income tax |
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| prohibited the manufacture and sale of liqor |
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| nickname for the Progressive party |
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Taft(Replublican), Roosevelt(Progrssive), Wilson(Democratic), Eugen V. Debbs(socailist)
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| strengthens Sherman Antitrust Act |
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| divided the country into twelve districts, each w/ a Federal Reserve bank owned by its members of the banks, supervised by a board reported by the president |
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| progrssive lawyer,nominated by Wilson for the supreme court, known for being the "people's lawyer" |
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| the 1st time American women demanded the right to vote, included Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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| NWSA worked for voting rights |
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| founded her own temperance group, fought for equal rights of women, |
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| the bill that allowed women the right to vote |
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| National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
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| Anthony, stanton, Lucy Stone, and younger leaders work together to win women more rights |
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| rose as a leader in women's suffrage movement, learned tactics from the aggressive English suffrage movement she studied, took over NAWSA committee with Lucy Burns |
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| 1919, women may vote!!!!! |
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| McKinley's vp, who became prez |
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| people who saw the unjustness of the current system and wanted to change it |
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| wrote Hisotry of the Standard Oil Company |
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| republican canidate for president, lost |
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| TR's word for investigative reporters who alerted the public to wrongdoings in politics and business |
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| Declaration of Sentinments |
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| written at seneca falls to sound like declaration of independance, demanded women's rights |
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| referred to President Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts," that violated federal antitrust law |
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| Archduke of Austria-Hungry, heir to the thrown, killed by nationalist terrorist |
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| German plan called for a quick sweep of Fr5nace, then to turn east and defeat Russia, so they didn't have to face France and Russia at one time |
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| Germany and Austria-Hungary |
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| France, Serbia, Great Britian |
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| place where no one lived or wanted to go, muddy, rat-infested,empty, etc. |
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| British passenger liner sunken by a German U-Boat , 128 Americans killed as well as many British |
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| Germany promised U-Boats would warn before attacking |
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| Germany's foreign secretary made a secret offer to Mexico: they could have south-west America if they declared war on the US |
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| general of the 1st small force to Europe, served mainly to boost morale |
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| authorizes a draft of young men for the military service |
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| drafted men who refused to fight for religious reasons, claimed they objected fighting as a matter of conscience, sevred noncombant positions |
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| African American fighter group who aided France, awarded the Croix de Guerre |
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| Vladmir Lenin and Bolsheviks |
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| leader and his followers who overthrew the Russian government |
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| came from Kansas, swept across Europe and eventually worldwide, killing millions in the final months of the war and after |
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| Ottoman empire organized killings of Armenian civilians, contiuned into the 20s |
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| specail war bonds to support the Allied cause |
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| Comittee of Public Information |
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| controlled media to make sure the Americans had a positive view of the war |
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| made it illegal to interfere with the draft |
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| made it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything disloyal or abusive about the American Government or the army |
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| African Americans who left the South to work in Northern factories, became a flood of people during the war |
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| president during WWI, didn't want to fight, but was forced to |
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world must be made safe for democracy
war to end all wars
Lusitania |
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| the modern, free, scandalous, enetgetic rebelious women of the 20's, jazz babbies |
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| act that was supposed to enforce the 18th amendmant but was widely ignored |
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| a teacher named John Scopes taught evolution in school, when that was an illegal process the trial was a huge debate of fundamentalism vs. evolution |
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group who acted out in violance and assualt against anyone who was not the perfect American,
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| American fear of communism and any other radical politcal beleifs |
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| Justice Department set up a specail force to conduct raids and arrest "subversives," people trying to overthrow the gov |
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| plan that set a payment schedule to the German national bank and approved a loan to Germany |
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| act that reduced the annual quota to 2 percent, based on the census of 1890, limited immigration to America from Italy, Poland, Russia etc. |
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| 15 nations plegded not to use the threat of war in dealing with one another, more than 60 other nations eventually, joined but the pact was to unreasonable to actually work |
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| flew across the atlantic, celebrity |
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| hit more homeruns than anyone |
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| vaudiville performer who starred in the jazz singer |
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| 1st commercial radio station |
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| group that rejected the quest for material possesions that seemed to occupy the rest of America |
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| writer of the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age, Great Gatsby |
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| the time of African American litaeray awakening, really just when whites begin to notice blacks |
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| poet, short story writer, journalist, and playwright whose career stretched into the 1960s |
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| creator of the car especially the Model T, |
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| improved vehicle made with an assembly line |
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| Republican president, bright hopes for the future |
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| Secretary of treasury, among the wealthiest people in the nation |
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| the practice of making high risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return |
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| allowed investors to purchase a stock for only a frcation of its price and borrow the rest |
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| millions of AAs move from the south to the north |
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| US tries to isolate itself from the rest of the world |
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| People "tuned" in every day to listen to music, as jazz, sports and live events |
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| Credit and Installment Plans |
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credit systems where payment for merchandise/items is made in installments over a pre-approved period of time
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| improvement of the human species by not allowing those with illnesses both physical or mental to have more than a few kids |
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| Carrie Buck's case was among the first thta helped make eugenics legal although it was a very sad and unfair trial |
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| St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
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| the murder of seven people as part of a prohibition era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Illinois, in 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran |
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| alcohol becomes illegal, which makes more people use it than ever |
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| Satchmo, famous trumpter of the 20s |
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| a composer, pianist, and big band leader |
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| October 29, 1929 stock market crash |
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worst economic downturn in US history
1229-1941 |
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shelters of the homeless, nickname mocks president
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| region where so much soil blew out of the central and southern great plains |
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| photographer who photographed hundreds of migrant workers steaming to California from the Dust Bowl, showed the true side of the Great Depression |
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| black youths from Sctossburo, Alabama who were accused of raping 2 white women, w/o an attorney 8 were sentenced to death Communists helped overturn the convictions but 4 of the boys spent many years in jail |
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farmers bid mere pennies for land and machines auctioned by the banks |
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| young people riding the rails who gaced many dangers |
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| highest import tax in history |
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| vets who wanted to recieve their bonus for being in WWI in advance which government strongly said no to |
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| president ordered him to clear Pennsylvania Avenue, but he decided to use force to drive the marchers out of Washington |
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| democratic president w/ a new deal |
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| FDR's approach to fixing the Great Depression, put many people in work but gave the gov a more active role in peoples lives |
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| FDR speaks over the radio with easy manner and confidence regularly |
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| period between FDR's inaguration in March and June, he pushed programs to provide relief against the Great Depression |
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| FDR ordered all banks to close for 4 days when the gov. inspected the financial health of every single bank, after this Americans regained trust in the banks |
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| 1st woman appointed to a cabinet post, headed the New York State Industrial Commission, became Secretary of Labor |
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| Mary Buthane forged a united stand among black officeholders by organizing a federal council on Negro Affairs |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt's newspaper column |
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| provides financial security, in the form of regular payments to people who couldn't support themselves |
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| first African American singer to perform at the white house, tried to rent Constitution Hall for a concert, who orginally denied but many including Eleanor Roosevelt rallied against her, she ended up performing on the steps of Lincoln Memorial |
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| group that spear-headed much opposition to the New Deal, league charged New Deal with limiting individual freedom in an unconstitutional manner, |
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| a demagogue (New Deal critics who manipulate people using scare tactics, half-truths, etc.) who used radio to broadcast his message, acheived popularity although he occasionally contradicted himself |
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| another demagogue who was a county lawyer who grew up in poverty, was a senator who came up with the Share-Our-Wealth program,involved the government taking much of most people's money with income tax |
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| individual income limited to 1 mil and inheritance to 5 mil, the gov would take the rest away through income taxes, then redistribute the wealth to poor-er familes |
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| FDR was unhappy with the supreme court, so he tried to add more judges who favored the New Deal, rather than opposed it, strong criticism forced him to withdraw this reform bill |
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| in '37 the government collapsed once again, nation entered a period of slow business activity |
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| really sad book about the great Depression written by John Steinbeck |
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| Orson Welles gave a radio broadcast reading of the sci-fi novel that people thought was real |
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| workers sit down on the job and refuse to move, illegal because they were so highly effective, you couldn't just bring in scabs |
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| policy of providing across the board tax cuts or benefits to businesses, such as tax breaks, in the belief that this will indirectly benefit the broad population |
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| president at the beganing of the great Depression, was hated because he did so little to help the situation |
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