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28 Cards in this Set
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Muller V. Oregon |
1908 - Supreme court rules women's health was injured when they work more than 10 hrs. Brandeis Brief - a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely more on a compilation of scientific information and social science than on legal citations. |
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Hetersociality |
social mixing of sexes in a new consumer and urban culture - amusement parks, dance halls, fashion - more freedom and leisure time |
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Carrie Catt Chapman |
President of National American Women Suffrage Association endorsed constitution amendment to let women vote. NAWSA formed in 1890 Leader of the older, less radical suffrage movement. Predecessor to Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. |
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Alice Paul |
Led national women's Party (NWP) - more radical and militant. led with Lucy Burns. formed in 1916. significant because she radicalized and reinvigorated the suffragist movement. |
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
Banned Chinese immigration into U.S. for 10 years and barred Chinese already in the country from becoming naturalized citizens. - Chinese workers would accept lower wages. - made permanent in 1902. - 1907 - gentlemen's agreement - Japan said they wouldn't give passports to laborers. |
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Eugenics |
new "science" which studied the alleged mental characteristics of different races. Significant because it gave a "reason" to discriminate against other races based on science. |
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Wilson's Fourteen Points |
Clearest statement of American War aims and Wilson's version of a new international order; established agenda for peace conference after war. - policy of preparedness - world must be made safe for Democracy - Nov. 1917 - communist Rev. overturned Russian govt and Russia withdrew and released a secret treaty that showed allied plans to divide up territory - self determination, freedom of seas, no secret treaties... etc. - Germany surrendered by November. |
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Sedition Act of 1918 |
Illegal to question/go against the government of war. expansion of the espionage Act. Designed to protect America's participation in WWI. - infringing on freedom of speech during wartime. |
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Palmer Raids 1919-1920 |
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer - more than 5,000 people arrested without warrants - about 250 deported - went after labor and communist unions. - The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. |
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Johnson Reed Immigration Act of 1924 |
Revised the 1921 law, set quotas to 2% of the number of foreign born counted for each nationality in the census for 1890. first major restriction of incoming people to the US. |
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Dawes Act of 1877 |
In order to have land, Native Americans had to have land - forced Native Americans to Americanize and assimilate - kill the Indian, save the man - Dawes defined what it was to be Native American but also said you enroll and get that much percent of your own card instead of tribal so forced them to assimilate. |
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Henry Ford |
produced the moving assembly line. known as the greatest man in America. Living symbol of power. 1914 - raised workers pay to $5.00 Significant b/c he raised minimum wage and created hundreds of jobs and literally changed the world's way of transportation. |
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Great Migration |
horrible conditions in the Jim Crow south and new opportunities in the North (expanded with wartime production) = millions of blacks move from South to North. Began in the early 20th century. accelerated in 1915-1916 and lasted until the 1970's. Blacks moved to large northern cities (NYC, Chicago, Detroit etc...) lots of violence - riots in urban north. |
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Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 |
worst in history - whites attacked african americans, over 300 people were killed, hundreds of acres of "black land" was burned - lasted a few days. Started with the drowning of a black teen by whites. the mob included police and higher up whites. |
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prohibition |
18th amendment - repealed in 1933 (21st Amendment) - prohibited the production and sale of alcohol. Women led the movement - thought alcohol led to debt and abuse and everyone would be better off without it. |
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The Scopes Trial (1915) |
John Thomas Scopes represented by Clarence Darrow - High school teacher was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. significant bc it challenged a way of universal thinking - allowed different methods to be taught in schools. |
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Installment Plan |
enabled people to buy goods over an extended period of time, without having to put down very much money at the time of purchase. With this plan people could purchase automobiles, household appliances, homes, furniture, and other items. Significant because this is the first time people start to buy things on credit and this also aids the stock market crash. |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
the rights of citizens should not be abridged according to sex. guarenteed equal rights for women. passed by congress in 1972. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
African American culture was central to 1920's jazz age, blues and jazz music. cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. |
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Welfare Capitalism |
The practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees. Welfare capitalism in this second sense, or industrial paternalism, was centered on industries that employed skilled labor and peaked in the mid-20th century. Welfare capitalism is the practice of companies providing their employees with good social conditions and benefits.
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River Rouge Factory |
- located in Dearborn Michigan -6,000 workers -largest factory for Ford -eventually couldn't hold all the workers it attracted. -eventual harsh conditions and layoffs -they spied on employees |
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Dearborn Independent |
newspaper published in Rouge engineering building. it launched articles against Jews and others. Had an anti-sematic series. The newspaper ended up in Hitler's office and a picture of Ford ended up on Hitler's wall. |
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First 100 Days |
unprecedented flurry of legislation, rescued banks; government created jobs. lots of activity to stimulate the economy. New deal amendments tried to jump-start the economy out of the depression. Significant because of the expansion of government to have a more active role in the economy. |
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National Recovery Act (1933) |
Law passed by the United States Congress in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery. Sig. b/c the president now had more control over economy. |
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Social Security Act (1935) |
An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adeuate provision for aged person, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes. |
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) |
John L. Lewis - challenged AFL and its sole focus on craft unions - united auto workers (AUW) and sit-down strikes a federation of unions that organized workers inindustrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. |
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Popular Front (1935-1937) |
communist instructed by leadership in Moscow to work with liberals and other leftists to defeat fascism. A broad coalition of different political groupings, usually made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and leftist forces as well as social-democratic and communist groups. |
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