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Born to slavery and freed by the war in 1865, as a young man, he became head of the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers' college for blacks. It became his base of operations. His "Atlanta Compromise" of 1895 appealed to middle class whites across the South, asking them to give blacks a chance to work and develop separately, while implicitly promising not to demand the vote. White leaders across the North, from politicians to industrialists, from philanthropists to Churchman, enthusiastically endorsed Washington's program, as did most middle class blacks across the country.
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Booker T Washington
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A dictator from Italy, emboldened by Hitler's success had aggressive foreign policy 1935. Invaded independent African nation of Ethiopia.
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Benito Mussolini
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Roosevelt claimed the most imp. action in foreign affairs. This was to link the atlantic and pacific oceans across the isthmus connecting North and South America. It would b free and open to ships of all nations
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panama canal
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He emphasized unparallel prosperity wonderful economical situation that Americans would become more wealthier. He knew that 5000 banks failed.
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Herbert Hoover
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This was a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It authorized the President to regulate banks, and attempted to stimulate the United States economy to recover from the Great Depression. To do this it established the National Recovery Administration and the entirely separate Public Works Administration (PWA, which built major construction projects like dams.)
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National Recovery Act
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Franklin Roosevelt promised this for the american people. after his election the label was applied to his program of legislation passed to combat the great depression. included measures aimed at relief, reform, and recovery... achieve some relief and considerable reform but little recovery
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New Deal
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1935 known as the National Labor Reform Act, created the national labor relations board to supervise union elections and designate winning unions s official bargaining agents. board could also issue cease and desist orders to employers who dealt unfairly with their workers.
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Wagner Act
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created by congress in 1933 as part of the new deal, this agency attempted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies to take land out of production. Object was to raise prices, and it did, but the act did nothing for tenant farmers and sharecroppers.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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in order to sell newspapers to public before and during the spanish-american war, publishers William randolph hearst and Joseph pulitzer engaged in blatant sensationalization of the news, it didn't cause the war with Spain. helped turn US public opinion against Spain's actions.
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“Yellow journalism”
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a new deal effort at regional planning created by congress in 1933. this agency built dams and power plants on the river. It's programs for flood control, soil conservation, and reforestation helped raise the standard of living for millions in the valley.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Secretary of the interior Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for leasing government owned oil lands in wyoming and cali to private oil businessmen.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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was a contest between modern liberlism and religious fundamentalism. John was on trial for teaching Darwinian evolution in defiance of a TN state law. He was found guilty and fined 100$.
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial
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new deal agency created to provide work relief for the unemployed
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Works Progress Administration
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one of the most popular new deal programs, the CCC was created by congress to provide young men between ages 18 - 25 with gov. jobs in reforestation and other conservation projects.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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also known as pact of paris was the brainchild of US secretary of state Frank and french premier Aristide Briand. it pledged its signatories, eventually including nearly all nations to shun was as an unstrument of policy. derided as an international kiss, it had little effect on the actual conduct of world affairs.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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series of radio addresses by Frank. Roosevelt from 1933- 44, in which the president spoke to the american people about such issues as the banking crisis, social security, and WWII. broadly credited with enhancing Roosevelt's popularity among ordinary americans
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“Fireside Chat”
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British luxury ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. The great ship sank in just 18 minutes, eight miles (15 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, and was probably a major factor in the eventual decision of the United States to join the war in 1917. It is often considered by historians to be the second most famous civilian passenger liner disaster after the sinking of Titanic. New evidence that the Lusitania was carrying significant amounts of munitions destined for Great Britain has intensified the debate as to whether she was a legitimate military target.
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RMS Lusitania
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speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. The common people of Europe welcomed Wilson as a hero but his Allied colleagues
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Wilson’s 14 Points
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was coded and dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff, at the height of World War I. On January 19, Bernstorff, per Zimmermann's request, forwarded it to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. Zimmermann sent the thing in anticipation of the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by the German Empire on February 1, an act which German High Command feared would draw the neutral United States into war on the side of the Allies. The 'something' instructed Ambassador Eckardt that if the United States appeared likely to enter the war he was to approach the Mexican government with a proposal for military alliance. He was to offer Mexico material aid in the reclamation of territory lost during the Mexican-American War, specifically the American states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Eckardt was also instructed to urge Mexico to help broker an alliance between Germany and Japan.
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Zimmerman telegram
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a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent erosion. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.
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“Dust Bowl”
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The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act". It did not specifically prohibit the use of intoxicating liquors. The act defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing over 0.5% alcohol and superseded all existing prohibition laws in effect in states with such legislation. The combination of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the laws passed under its authority became known simply as "Prohibition" and enormously affected United States society in the 1920s (popularly known as the Roaring Twenties).
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reinforced the prohibition of alcohol in the United States of America,
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929,[1][2] also known as the Great Crash, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and longevity of its fallout.[3]
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Black Twenties
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was a concept created and promulgated during the Shōwa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan which represented the desire to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers". The Sphere was initiated by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, in an attempt to create a Great East Asia, comprising Japan, Manchukuo, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, that would, according to imperial propaganda, establish a new international order seeking ‘co prosperity’ for Asian countries which would share prosperity and peace, free from Western colonialism and domination Military goals of this expansion included the isolation of Australia and naval operations in the Indian Ocean.
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Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere
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Senator Huey Long announced during a nationwide radio address that he was forming the "" Society, dedicated to the redistribution of the nation's wealth. Long had originally been a supporter of the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but starting with the formation of the "" Society, began advocating for more radical reforms that Roosevelt wasn't willing to embrace. He claimed considerable support across America, boasting that the "" movement had over 27,000 branches and nearly 7.5 million members.
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Share our wealth
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The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, was a legislative initiative to add more justices to the Supreme Court proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt shortly after his landslide victory in the 1936 presidential election. Although the bill aimed generally to overhaul and modernize all of the federal court system, its most important provision would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court for every sitting member over the age of 70½, up to a maximum of six.
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Roosevelt’s “Court Packing” Plan
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was an independent agency of the United States government chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover in 1932. It was modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War I. The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, farm mortgage associations, and other businesses. The loans were nearly all repaid. It was continued by the New Deal and played a major role in handling the Great Depression in the United States and setting up the relief programs that were taken over by the New Deal in 1933.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting almost every locality in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations. It was created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential order, and funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935.
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Works Progress Administration
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was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I. Several ships were named USS Mahan, including the lead vessel of a class of destroyers. His research into naval history led to his most important work, The Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1783, published in 1890.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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National Hero of Jamaica was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. he was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. He was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement focusing on Africa known as Garveyism Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam, to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet). The intention of the movement was for those of African ancestry to "redeem" Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave it. The idea that African Americans should return to Africa was known as the Colonist Movement. His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World entitled “African Fundamentalism” |
Marcus Garvey
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(July 1, 1898) was the bloodiest and most famous battle of the Spanish-American War. It was also one of the greatest victories for the Rough Riders.
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San Juan Hill
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was the 28th President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era. Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. To date he is the only President to serve in a political office in New Jersey before election to the Presidency, although Grover Cleveland is the only President born in the state of New Jersey. Early in his first term, he supported some cabinet appointees in introducing segregation in the federal workplace of several departments, a Democratic Congress to pass major legislation that included the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act, America's first-ever federal progressive income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913 and most notably the Federal Reserve Act.
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Woodrow Wilson
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was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization".eeply believed in the Efficiency Movement (a major component of the Progressive Era), arguing that a technical solution existed for every social and economic problem. That position was challenged by the stock market crash of 1929 that took place less than 8 months after Hoover's taking office, and the Great Depression
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Herbert Hoover
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as an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor.a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party known as the Nazi Party. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and became its leader in 1921. Following his imprisonment after a failed coup in 1923, he gained support by promoting nationalism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor in 1933, and quickly established a totalitarian and fascist dictatorship.
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Adolf Hitler
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Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, he was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, He was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, or wordless vocalizing.
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Louis Armstrong
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was the 32nd President of the United States. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. created the New Deal to provide relief for the unemployed, recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic and banking systems, through various agencies, such as the WPA, NRA, and the AAA. Although recovery of the economy was incomplete until World War II, several programs he initiated, such as the FDIC, TVA, and the U.S.SEC, continue to have instrumental roles in the nation's commerce. Some of his other legacies include the Social Security system and the NLRB.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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when the USS Maine was destroyed the US went to war with Spain. The war only lasted 100 days and only 460 soldiers were killed.. they gained Guam, Puerto Rico, the Phillipines, and Cuba. It was a short war and the US gained a lot of territory and then they became a World Power.
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a splendid little war
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by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power throughout history and discusses the various factors needed to support a strong navy.
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The Influence of Sea Power upon History
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