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13 Cards in this Set
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Margarett Sanger |
-In 1900's, M.S. was an upper middle class women with a degree in nursing and social work - she thinks women are having to much children -She gets arrested for creating a publication called Women Rebel. Which was considered pornography. - she then flees the country to Europe. Where she is introduced to the contraceptive pill. - she return to the U.S. and starts a clinic, where she gives out the pill - she is known as very racist. Says certain women should have children, because they will contaminate the U.S. - IMPORTANT: she starts the liberation of women by giving them a choice about their body. |
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Dollar diplomacy |
- created in 1908, Taft use of financial power -Tafts economic agenda to encourage American businesses to relocate to Latin America to get them hooked on our goods. -encourage banks to loan money to Latin America to modernize - IMPORTANT: Taft expands control on Latin America economically not militarily |
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19th amendment |
-Ratified in 1920, says to the U.S. constitution prohibits the state's and the federal government to deny the right to vote to U.S. citizens based on sex - until the amendment, women in the U.S didn't have the right to vote. - this was the result of the women's suffrage movement. -IMPORTANT: women break into 2 voting blocks, traditional or modern women roles, and it gives women a choice. It frees them. |
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John T. Scopes |
-In 1920's, scopes challenged anti evolution laws in Tennessee through the ACLU - He challenges the law by teaching evolution in schools - he is arrested for this and put on trial. He is found guilty, but the vase is thrown out on a technicality - the trial was broadcasted on national radio. Which opened a national dialogue on how they should teach children, let's people choose a side. - the trial was known as the monkey trial, to mock the theory that humans evolved from monkeys. - IMPORTANT: he lead to the curriculum that taught students from a scientifical P.O.V. |
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Hetch hetchy |
- a valley once located in the Yosemite nation park - no longer exists -In 1924, the O' shanessy dam was built to aid with San Francisco's water shortage - it's beauty and location in a nation park generated controversy. -preservationist fought to keep the land natural, but conservationist won. -IMPORTANT: Because this was the 1st and last time an area was destroyed to build something to help a state's problem |
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Herbert Hoover |
-In 1929, at the start of the Great depression, Hoover was blamed, even if he was only president for 6 months. - his is actually blamed for not doing anything - he starts to react in 1932, but he miss diagnosis the depression - he believed the economy is failing because companies arnt making enough products. so he helps companies make priducts, but people don't have purchasing power. -IMPORTANT: Because Congress passed Smooth Hawley act. |
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Dust Bowl |
-This happened in the 1930's - The AAA caused the dust bowl - The AAA caused no crops or grass to hold the dirt down - their was also a drought, which made the dirt very dry and loose. -severe winds pick up all the dirt - the dust bowl is actually human made, becuase of financial greed. - IMPORTANT: The dust bowl led to the economic crash, hunger and troubles for 75% of the U.S. we learned a vaulauabe lesson on farming. |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
-was elected in 1932, only president to be elected 4 times. -his legacy was The New Deal, it was a way to solve economic problems caused by the Great Depression. -At the start of his term he has no plan, so he hires a group of men, called "Brain trust" to come up with a contradictory solutions. - he also called Congress back from recess, and created fireside chats, which created trust in citizens -IMPORTANT: He expands the role of the federal government, we become dependent on the federal government to solve social and economic problems. |
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agriculture adjustment act (AAA) |
-In 1933, the federal give gives out subsidies, this is to address farmers issues. -this subsidy is to pay farmers to grow certain crops, or not grow at all - the government also implements price control, so farmers can make money. -they also address soil erosion, and reduce livestock in the West - AAA fails to address the biggest group of farmers, share croppers don't get a cut, only land owners benefit from AAA- IMPORTANT: makes farmers depend on the government till this day - IMPORTANT: makes farmers depend on the government till this day |
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Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) |
- in 1933, the act was made to put men back to work, to build infrastructures in nature. - As an effort to repair nature, to build bridges, trails, campgrounds, and replenish the forest. - Build more than 4000 building for nature. - Each man signed a contract to receive $30 a month, but must send back $25 back home to their families -this helps build families confidence and help regenerate the economy -IMPORTANT: helps enable the modern environmental movement. |
Nature |
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
- TVA in 1933, was known as the most controversial act, because it was deemed as being socialists. - The act was designed to modernize the south, by building power plants. - Contreversial becuase the government gave away electricity pretty much free/free, which was drive private businesses into bankruptcy (not fair) - when the war breaks out, factories expand into the south, and industrialized the south. - IMPORTANT: for the 1st time the south became independent from the North, they didn't depend on the North, because they were modernized. |
SOUTH & North -power plants |
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Public Work Administration (PWA) |
- in 1933, the PWA built infrastructures in the U.S. -like hospitals, airports, universities, and more public buildings -this puts women and men to work - The act with the biggest budget - introduces the federal artist and writer project - Artist hired to take photo's and paint murals, writers hired to capture history (writers were usually women.) - IMPORTANT: This act basically influences the way cities develop |
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Teapot dome scandal |
-during Hardings administration, Albert fall, the Secretary of interior, negotiates with the U.S. Navy to have all their oil reserves put under his power. - he leases Navy petroleum out to his corporate friends, and eventually receives $500,000, - In 1923, the media realizes the corruption of the scandal, scandal is actually very minor - leads to his arrest, he is put on trial and found guilty -IMPORTANT: Leads to the only member of U.S. cabinet to serve prison time for corruption |
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