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45 Cards in this Set
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15th Amend
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enfranchisement of all black men
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16th amend
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Progressives: income tax
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17th amend
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Progressives: Popular election of Senators
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19th amend
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Women can vote; women's suffrage
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FDIC
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New Deal alphabet program; Federal Deposit sfety net of $100,000.
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1987 stock crash
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no bank runs
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Limits of new Deal
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created more gov't beaurocrats
didn't end GD (WWII did) gov't expansion |
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Accomplishments of New Deal
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helped ppl psychologically
-work programs helped economically |
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architects for religious freedom
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evangelists
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Public Goods
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lighthouses, nat'l defense
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Externalities
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Pollution, vaccine, Hershey PA
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Depression
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severe recession
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fiscal policy
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gov't uses public expenditures and taxes to offset/eliminate expected decline
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Monetary policy
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Federal Reserve (nat'l bank) increases $ supply and thus pushes down interest rates
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Bush
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Republican, only committed to small gov't in PRINCIPLE, not in action
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CLIP Republicans
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Breech of Contract, Pork barrel projects skyrocketed
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Bush's political model
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Reagan
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Powerful gov't
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Patriot Act
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2005 Fed. deficit
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$319 billion
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2006 projected deficit
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$423 billion (a record)
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What do we tend to do when we want freedom from fear?
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Grow central gov't
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Why should I care about politics?
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Gov't growth; debts will come due at some point; prophets tell us to
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Who spreads the contagion of liberty?
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PEOPLE DO!!!
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CLIP citizen responsibility
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Vanderbuilt University
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CLIP Spread of Liberty?
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no; christian death sentence in Afghanistan; Taliban gone but culture remains
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CLIP Inclusion?
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Merry Christmas--Happy Holidays, those who fight againsts this
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CLIP Sesame Street
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All I need to know I learned in Sesame Street
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Challenges to Jim Crow
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-1930s-1950s
-NAACP -1954 Brown v. Board of Edu. - |
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CLIP MLK Speech
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civil disobedience- blacks are not challenging the Supreme Court, they are upholding nat'l law by exposing contradictions in state/local laws
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Brown's Impact
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rise of massive resistance with white citizens councils; put the 'supreme law of the land' behind the movement
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Montgomery, AL bus boycott
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1955-56
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MLK
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Bus boycott significant because:
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-got grassroots ppl involved as well as others on nat'l scale
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CLIP local authorities resist nat'l law
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Little Rock, AK Central High School; Eisenhower sends in nat'l guard to control state troops
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1963
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-Birmingham, AL
-June 11: JFK urges support for civil rights legislation -June 12: dramatically, Medgar Evans shot dead -Peaceful march on DC |
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CLIP
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MLK I have a dream speech
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SNCC leader
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John Lewis
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Malcolm X
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Separatist, anti-white
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MLK becomes nat'l hero
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CLIP Just one man -U2
voice of AA in South and in North/Harlem |
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Civil Rights Movement inspired
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-Women's movement
-Gay rights movement -Environmental movement |
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Environmental movement
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-turn to grassroots
-major demonstrations; Earth day (1970) -Ask Fed. gov't to extend reach (EPA established, 1970) |
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CLIP Env. movement and Civ. Rights Movem.
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Soilent green; Earth will vomit
--> they were wrong!!!! |
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Civil Rights Act
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Jan 1964
-outlawed discrimination in public accomodations/ employment |
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Watts riots
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LA nieghborhood race riots provoked by northern A.A. sufferings: economic inequality and police brutality
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BLACK POWER (SNCC)
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Huey Newton; Black Pantehers
"Revolution--time to pick up the gun" caused white backlash |