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86 Cards in this Set
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Capital Good |
-Build productive capacity of economy
-Steel is main good (new cotton) |
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Andrew Carnegie |
-Created steel
-Richest man in the world
-Owned largest steel company in the world |
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Time Zones |
Morning shift, swing shift, and midnight shift |
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Southern Low Wages |
Cotton Industry: encouraged employers from replacing workers with machinery |
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Samuel Gompers |
Founded the American Federation of Labor |
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Secondary Labor Boycott |
Secondary group put pressure on main group to stop strike |
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Segregation in Public Accomodations |
Railroads were first to be segregrated |
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Methods of Denying Blacks the right to vote |
-Pass a literacy test
-If you pay your tax, you can vote |
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Plessey V. Ferguson |
-First segregation case
-Separate but equal
-Validated systems designed to prevent voting, as long as race was not a factor |
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Booker T. Washington |
Leader of slaves against disfranchisement of blacks & Jim Crow Laws |
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Election 1896 |
-McKinley vs Bryan
-Began Republican domination of presidency
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Skyscrapers |
-Steel allows us to build up, not out
-Home Insurance Building (5 stories) " First Skyscraper" |
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City Beautiful Movement |
-Larger park systems
-Broader streets
-Zoning availability
-Planned suburbs |
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Social Register
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-List of name & events
-Goal was to get into article in newspaper |
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Public Amusements |
-Amusement Park *started by local railroad
-Vodville *variety of stage acts
-Nickelodeon *photographs that make a story
-Baseball *local teams brought bonding |
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Progressivism
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-Created by Republicans (President Roosevelt)
-Direct Primary
-Initiative
-Recall |
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Muckrakers |
Tries to unveil the dirty stories |
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Bull Moose Party |
Party formed by Roosevelt after split in Republican Party between him and William Howard Taft -"I'm feeling like a bull moose" |
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Election 1912 |
-Woodrow Wilson is elected with 42%
-Only democrat elected from 1896 to 1912 |
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Great White Fleet |
United States Navy battle fleet, ordered by President Roosevelt, that completed a circumnavigation of the globe |
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Influence of Sea Power upon History |
-Key to Imperial Power: Control the seas
-Regard oceans not as barriers but as highways
-Active merchant marines
-Powerful navy
-Coaling stations |
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Social Darwinism |
Various theories of societies that taught biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest
-White people Anglo-Saxon sat atop of theory |
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USS Maine |
Ship that blew up in Havana by accident
-Caused Spanish-American War |
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Panama Canal |
Ship canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
-Secret Assistance |
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William Randolph Hearst |
-Built the nations largest newspaper chain
-First media mobiles
-Controls newspapers |
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WWI Sides
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Germany sides w/ Mexico to attack U.S.
•US intercepts message |
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Lusitana |
Ship that was blown up by Germans |
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Wilson's 1916 Campaign Slogan |
"He kept us out of war" |
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19th Amendment |
Women's right to vote |
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Wilson's 14 Points |
-Open diplomacy -Freedom of navigation -Removal of trade barriers -Self-determination -League of nations -Treaty of Verside |
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Teapot Dome
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Largest scandal in America
-Wyoming, full of crude oil -President Harding |
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Welfare Capitalism
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Created to prevent unionizing
-Benefits -Health Insurance -Pension |
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Calvin Coolidge
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Profit of American Capitalism
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Charles Lindurgh
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First successful solo transatlantic flight
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Buying Stocks on Margin
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Paying for some, financing others
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Stock Market Crash
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Beginning of depression 1929
-Banks were forced to close because didn't have collateral and have no money to give to people who had money saved there |
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Consumer Goods During Depression |
-Cigarettes
-Newspaper
-Radio
-Ice Cream |
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Dust Bowl |
Drought from Oklahoma to Northern Texas
-Inches of sand & dirt |
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Bonus Army |
Veterans that marched to D.C. during Summer of 1932 |
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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After Depression, Corporation that gave out loans to businesses to help build back
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3 Pressing Problems for FDR Administration |
-Agriculture overproduction
-Business failures
-Unemployment relief |
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Huey Long |
-Democrat against Roosevelt
-created Share Our Wealth Society
-Killed by body guards |
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1936 Election |
Roosevelt wins 46 of 48 states |
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New Deal Humanities Projects |
-Federal Art Project
-Federal Authors Project
-Federal Music Project
-Federal Theater Project |
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Legacies of the New Deal |
-Enlarges Federal Government
-Proves government will intervene in economy because private sector cannot guarantee stability
-Government is going to accept primary responsibility for the individual & public welfare of the people
-Creates modern welfare states
-Shows poverty is an economic problem, not of personal issue |
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Roosevelt's 100 Days |
Time in during Roosevelt's presidency in which he planned to put an end to the depression |
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Cash and Carry |
-Non military goods can be purchased in U.S.
-Pay Cash
-Have to get it yourself |
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Appeasement
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To calm, ease, quiet
-Nevel Chamberland |
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Beginnings of WWII |
-Germans overthrow Poland
-France & England declare war on Germans |
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Pearl Harbor |
Naval base in Hawaii bombed by Japanese |
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Four Freedoms |
-Freedom of speech & expression
-Freedom of worship
-Freedom from want
-Freedom from fear |
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Embargo of Japan |
U.S. embargoes aviation fuel & scrap metal from Japan
-Oil |
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Topaz |
Prison camp for Japanese in Utah |
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D-Day
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Second front off coast France
-Bloodiest day during WWII |
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Battle of the Bulge |
-Americans vs Germans
-Line of attack bulges
-Pushes into Brazil |
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Pacific Battles |
Battles for captured soldiers in Philippines
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Yalta Conference |
-Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin
-Discuss where Europe will be
-Divide Germany into 4 sections *Controlled by French, Russians, English & Americans |
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Atomic Bomb |
-Intimidate the Soviets
-Racism
-Japan would never surrender
-Afraid it would not work |
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Containment |
US policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
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Marshall Plan |
Give money to Germany & Japan to rebuild |
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Berlin Airlift |
-Flying over fence in Berlin
-Beginning of Berlin Wall |
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Police Action
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Authority presence
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Douglas MacArthur
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President Truman names commander of U.N. forces
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Blacklist |
-Person is not known, but suspected communist
-Lost your job if on list |
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Joseph McCarthy
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Leader of House of Unamerican Fares People
•During Red Scare, he hated communism |
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Brown vs Board
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Segregation in schools is banned
-Case that overturned Plessey vs Ferguson |
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Central High School |
First school to become desegregated |
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Eisenhower's Warning |
Military-Industrial Complex |
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Conglomerate |
Different companies doing different things combine to make a big corporation |
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Leavitt Towns |
-Can build 150 homes a week
-All homes have to be the same |
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Interstate Highway System
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Faster transportation within the nation
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Reasons/50's Youth Culture |
-More free time
-More money
-Miniaturization |
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Flexible Response |
The nation must be prepared for all kinds of war. |
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NASA Programs |
-Mercury Project
-Gemini
-Apollo Mission |
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Civil Rights Campaigns/1960's |
Sit In Movement: Black college student in "white section in diners
Freedom Riders: Students that desegregate waiting rooms
Freedom Summer: White students registering blacks to vote |
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JFK Assassination
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-Almost identical to Lincoln's
-Lee Harvey Oswald -4th president assassinated |
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Great Society |
-Higher Education Act
-Medicare & Medicaid
-National endowment for the arts
-National endowment for the humanities |
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1st Involvement in Vietnam |
Harry Truman |
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Domino Effect
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-Trickledown Theory
-Hoover's strategy to get out of the depression: Give money to rich and have them employ the poor |
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Gulf of Tonkin
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After Vietnam men are attacked, the president demanded he could "take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent any further aggression"
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Problem/US Military Strategy |
Problem: What are we doing here?
Strategy: Tied too closely to politics |
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Credability Gap |
-Public began to think Johnson & government were hiding the truth
-TV brought doubt to people |
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Black Panthers |
Cast of people that brought in violence to protect black |
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National Commission on Civil Disorders |
-Focus to help the white, hurt the black
-Condone it by not doing anything
-Only thing that can change it is white institutions |
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Main Events 1968 |
-Tet Offensive (January)
-Lyndon Johnson will not run (March)
-Martin Luther King killed in Memphis (April)
-Robert Kennedy killed in California (June)
-Black power salute at Olympics (Summer)
-Nixon narrowly elected (November) |
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Vietnamization |
Train South Vietnamese troops and leave them to fight
-Bomb North Vietanm |
