Accelerated Us History Ch. 21-29 - People

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Jane Adams

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Social Gospeller, sought to put her faith into action. Advocated sacred humanism. Led the settlement house movement

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W.E.B. DuBois

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Educated African American. Expressed frustrations and dreams of fellow blacks in "The Souls of Black Folks" Critiqued Booker T. Washington, believed in cultivating the ablestt 10% of the black population

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Robert Lafoulettte

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US senator, governor of Wisconsin. Progressive republican regular who bypassed party leaders to ride reform to power

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Gifford Pinchot

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Ally to Roosevelt. Helped sponsor a national conservation congress which divided into two groups

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William Taft

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Succeeded Roosevelt as president. Incapable of rallying support for a cause. More conservtive than roosevelt. Not forceful enough to overcome growing divisions in the republican party.

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Woodrow Wilson

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wrote congressional government. Religion was an important factor in his personality. Believed the president must be as much concerned with the guidance of legislation as with orderly execution of the laws

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Henry Ford

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greatly reduced assembly ttime for cars which allowed them to lower prices. introduced a $5 minimum wage for employees and shortened tthe work day and the work week. believed that by giving more money o his workers he would encourage people tto buy more cars.

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Alfre Sloan

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President of General Motors. Instead of refining production he adopted new approaches to advertising. Object was to make $ not cars. Figured people would pay more for luxury - His cars became a symbol of wealth and status, showed the importance of merchandising

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Charles Lindbergh

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First person to gflly non-stop across the atlantic from NY to Paris. The event was popularized through radio

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Babe Ruth

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Baseball superstar. Transformed baseball into a game of the homerun hitter

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Sigmund Freud

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revolutionized academic and popular thinking abou human behavior. Figured that unconcious sexual anxieties caused much of human behavior. Argued that these feelings were developed at infancy and stayed with us throughout our lives.

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Alfred Kinsey

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Sex researcher. Stated that women born after 1900 were twice as likely to have premarital sex as their mothers, with the most pronounced changes occuring in those reaching maturity around the 1920's.

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A. Philip Randolph

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called for a "new negro" who would meet violence with violence, end descrimination and acheive racial equality

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Marcus Garvey

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Charismatic, from Jamaica, rejected integration and preached racial pride and self-help. Declared that Jesus Christ and Mary were black and exhorted his followers to glorify their african american heritage

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Harry Hopkins

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One of the most trusted advisors. Proposed that the federal government hire the unemployed and put them to work

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Huey Long

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Louisiana Senator. Attacked state oil companies. Increased state spending on public works and improved public schools. Opposed the New Deal as too concervative.

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Father Charles Chaplin

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Early supporter who turned after the new deal. Blamed the depression on greedy bankers and challenged Roosevelt to solve tthe crisis by nationalizing banks and inflating the currency. Formed the national Union for Social Justice.

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Francis Townshend

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Retired California physician. Developed a plan to give a $200 monthly pension to every citizen over 60. In return recipients would have to retire and spend the entire pension within the US. [younger Americans would get jobs, the economy would get stimulated.]

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Benito Mussolini

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Italy's facist dictator. Promised to restore the country's martial glory. Invented the concept of facism.

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Rosie the Riveter

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Popular symbol of women who abandoned traditional female occcupations to work in defense industries.

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Winston Churchill

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Great Britain's Prime minister. Approached International affairs in balance of power terms. Wanted to block Soviet expansion and was determined that Britain play a major role in post-war Europe. Wanted Britain to emerge from the war with the colonial empire intact

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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of the Soviet Union. Rose to power by crushing poilitical rivals during the years following the Bolshevik revolution. Negotiator - pressed for a postwar settlement that would guarentee the Soviet Union's future security and open up new lands for communism. [insisted on Germany's destruction to protect the S.U. from future attacks]

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Harry Truman

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weary of Stalin but did not regard him as a threat. liked that he was straightforward [overly optomistic]

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Mao Tse-Tung

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Leader of the communists against Chiang Kaishek. Proclaimed Red China's sovereignty with Chiang in Taiwan and Mao on the mainland [China became two countries]

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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg

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Part of a group of radicals implicated by Dr. Klaus Fuchs. Passed atomic secrets to the soviets during the war

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Joseph McCarthy

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Capitalized on the anticommunism issue. Illuminated the cost of placing anticommunism above the constitution

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Emmet Till

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Came from up North. Talked to a white woman in a direct way. Was later brutally murdered by white men who were found not guilty

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John Foster Dulles

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Secretary of State, point man for Eisenhower's foreign policy. Experienced and knowledgable but rigid and excessively moral. Impassioned anticommunist, "flexed America's muscles"

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Nikita Kruschev

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Stalin's successor. Tried to lessen tentions between the U.S. and the S.U. seemed to be working towards a peaceful goal

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Nationalistic leader of Egypt

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Ho Chi Minh

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Leader of Vietnam. Was kind and simple, became cold-blooded and ruthless in quest for Vietnamese independance and a communist nation

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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Leader of the independant government established in South Vietnam. Anticommunist and nationalist. Not a very strong leader. Chances of restoring order were slim.

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William Levitt

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Famous post-war suburban housing developer. Attempted to keep African Americans out of his development. Courts said this was legally unenforcable but did not disallow practiced per se

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Jackie Robinson

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First professional black baseball player. Broke stereotypes that blacks were not competitive or hardworking.

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Malcolm X

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most controversial part of black nationalism. Became a black Muslim. Preached messages of black pride and nationalism. Verbally attacked MLK.

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Betty Friedan

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Discovered that women had a general feeling of dissatisfaction. Published "The Feminine Mystique" - Analysed and critiqued educators, psychologists, sociologists and mass media. The book helped launch a new women's liberation movement.

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Cesar Chavez

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Formed the National Farm workers Associattion. Called for a nationwide boycott of the table grapes to win recognition for the union. Led the struggle for higher wages, enforcement of state labor laws, and recognittion of the farm worker's union.

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Rachel Carson

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Marine biologist who published a book that awakened enviornmental conciouness. Described how chemical pesticides contaminated nature's food chain.