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PLESSY V. FERGUSON

-Jim Crowe


-says that JC is constitutional, as long as there


are equal accommodations


-until 1954; Brown v. Board

DAWES ACT OF 1887

-natives lose land


-farmers are loosing crops


-after civil war


-hand over land to white settlers



AGRICULTURE IN THE 1800S

-cities are growing


-they need food


-crops in Great Plains

CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1882

-prohibiting immigration of Chinese immigrants

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1800S

-Industrial Revolution because of railroad


-cities growing


-factories produce more materials


-farm produce raw material for factories

SOCIAL DARWINISM

1. racist component


-hierarchical racist


-Northern Europeans are dominant


2. Class components


-believe some classes are biologically better


3. Nationalist component

WORKERS IN THE 1800S

-wages are going up for workers


-factories are dangerous


-workers don't have control of pace of work


-assembly line is speeding up


-no workman's comp or safety features





IMMIGRATION IN THE 1800S

-South-Eastern Europeans


-poor rural immigrants

EDUCATION IN THE 1800S

-very few people graduate from high school and college



SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT OF 1890

-monopolies have no incentive to charge low


prices to offer quality goods


-used to bust up unions

POPULISM

-price of crops are going up


-farmers upset with railroad


-farmers upset with prices


-Farmers were the populist party


-they wanted tariffs

SPANISH - AMERICAN WAR

-Spanish are considered racially inferior


-Cuba gets independence



1901 PLATT AMENDMENT

-right for US to intervene in Cuba


-to protect life and property


-aftermath of Spanish - American War

PROGRESSIVES

Muckrakers


-journalist who publish accounts in factories


-settlement house people


-optimistic


-good environment/society


will make good people


-toward urban people

SOCIAL GOSPEL

-strand of Christianity


-concerned with poverty


-they use the bible to justify govt action


-living wage

TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE

-result of fire to pass safety standards


-big fire in New York


-during Progressive Era

ROOSEVELT COROLLARY

-says we have the right to intervene with and


Latin American country


-US domination in Latin America

BRITISH NAVAL BLOCKADE (WWI)

-British wont allow us to trade with Germany


-were OK with that


-not OK with Germans blocking us from Britain



RED SCARE (1919)

-series of bombs went off


-govt goes after agitators


-communist scare


-bombings, strikes

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1920

-marks end of Progressive Era


-Woodrow Wilson (progressive)


-Teddy Roosevelt (progressive)


-Harding (republican; economic liberal)


-go back to Normalcy



US ECONOMY IN THE 1920S

-another Gilded Age


-a lot of prosperity


-growth growth growth


-1929


-oversupply


-under-consumption


-Stock Market Crash

NATIONAL ORIGINS ACT OF 1924



-bans all Asian Immigrations


-except Philippines


-puts tiny quota on SE Europeans


-no ban on Latino immigration

CULTURE WARS

-1920s


-African Americans with more political rights


-Catholic, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox


-African Americans with political rights

HOOVER AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

-he urges employers to keep workers employed

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

-minimum of 2,500


-regulation on banking

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT OF 1935

-establishes unions


-Wagner Act


-Second New Deal


-companies cant fire workers


if they form a union


-they have right to unionize

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION

-old New Deal


-put back to work writers and musicians


-actors and directors

NEW DEAL POLITICAL COALITION

Supporters


-working class whites


-middle class urban progressives


-Southerners


-Northern blacks

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938

-minimum wage/ maximum hours

MAIN FEATURES OF THE NEW DEAL

-regulation of the economy


-regulation of banks, and stock market



DAWES PLAN OF 1924

-after ww1 Britain and France owe us (billions)


-we tell them they have to pay us back


-we lend money to Germany


-Germany lends money to Britain and France


-Britain and France pay us back

THE USA AND THE HOLOCAUST

-we do nothing

JAPANESE INTERNMENT

-US did not think Japanese were a threat

CONTAINMENT

-in China


-after WW2, there is civil war in China


-communist win in China


-push for Democracy in Japan



FAIR DEAL

-Truman wants to expand on New Deal


-National Health Care

BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954)

-ruling that overturns Plessy V. Ferguson


-says Jim Crowe is unconstitutional


-violates 14th amendment


-empowers civil rights activist

CAUSES OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

-growing educated African American in North


-MLK picks cities to stir up emotions for protests

DOMESTIC POLICIES OF EISENHOWER

-1st republican elected since 1958


-he is a moderate


-expands on New Deal

VOTING RIGHTS ACT (1965)

-gives African Americans right to vote


-in the South


-led by MLK


-televised



1968 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

-Nixon wins


-he is focusing on stability and order


-fighting crime


-urban riots


-moderate

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

-Nixon establishes


-protect human health and the environment

ENGEL V. VITALE (1962)

-Supreme Court ruling that says you can't have


prayer in public schools

ECONOMIC CRISIS OF 1970S

-stagflation


-prices of oil goes up


-inflation and high unemployment

CHRISTIAN RIGHT

-galvanizes them


-organize more and more


-mobilize voters


-support Republicans



CESAR CHAVEZ AND THE UNITED FARM WORKERS

-labor activist that united farm workers

PROPOSITION 13

-in California


-Property taxes


-freezes property taxes


-don't go up when you buy a home

DOMESTIC POLICIES OF RONALD REAGAN

-he believes in supply-side economics


-core is to cut taxes


-under Reagan


-large budget deficits


-increase military spending


-food stamps get cut



END OF COLD WAR

-Eastern Europe throws communism off


-China is still Communist

DOMESTIC POLICIES OF BILL CLINTON

-promises health care


-NAFTA


-works with congress to reduce govt spending


-Glass Stegel repeal

DOMESTIC POLICIES OF GEORGE W. BUSH

-GWB is like Reagan


-passes largest tax cut in US history


-build factories to generate growth



IRAQI WAR (2003)

-did not end conflict in Iraq


-heavy US losses


-over 3,500 Americans died


-never found weapons of mass destruction

FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2008

-Housing Market triggers crisis


-property was marked higher than it was worth


-people in 2008 could not pay their mortgages


-Housing market collapses

US POLITICS SINCE 2008

-Obama


-tried to get entitlement reform


-prevented him from getting anything done


-politics is very polarized

SETTLEMENT HOUSES

-urban middle class women


-trying to improve lives of the poor


-go into working class apartment building


-ventilation


-working to improve urban poor

WORLD WAR II AND US RACE RELATIONS

-Chinese support US Era

-US knew Japanese were not a threat


-CA has long history of racism



IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1965

-ends 1924 Act


-ends racist restrictions


-cap on Latino immigration


-Non-quota immagrants

ROE V. WADE

-legalizes abortion in the all 50 states


-states can't prohibit abortion

Chile

-September 11, 1973


-we have president overthrown