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27 Cards in this Set
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Focus of Large Corporations |
Transformed American society and the nation's economy, promoting urbanization, and economic growth |
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Opportunities of Urbanization |
Offering new economic opportunities |
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Reasons for calls to stronger financial regulation |
Episodes of credit and market instability |
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Aims of Progressive reformers |
Worked to reform existing social and political institutions at the local, state, and federal levels by creating new organizations |
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Legislation promoted by Progressives |
Federal legislation to regulate abuses of the economy and the environment, and many ssough the expand democracy |
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FDR's New Deal |
Drew on earlier progressive ideas and represented a multifaceted approach to both the causes and effects of the Great Depression |
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Radical v. Conservative Opinions of New Deal |
Pushed Roosevelt toward more extensive reforms, even as conservatives in Congress and the Supreme Court sought to limit the New Deal's scope |
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New Deal's legacy of reform |
Endeavor to make society and individuals more secure |
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Effects of new technology |
Led to social transformations that improved the standard of living for many while contributing to increased political and cultural conflicts |
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Examples of cultural conflict caused by modernization |
Tradition versus innovation, urban versus rural, fundamentalist Christianity versuse scientific modernism, management versus labor, natives versus new immigrants, white versus black, and didealism versus disillusionment |
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Causes and Effects of Harlem Renaissance |
Encouraged the development of a variety of cultural expressions for migrant, regional, and AA artists |
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Repressive atmosphere created by WWI |
Civil liverties, resulting in official restrictions on freedom of speech |
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First Red Scare |
Legitimized attacks on radicals and immigrants |
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Restricted v. Unrestricted immigration |
National policies permit for inexpensive supply of labor |
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Great Migration |
Out of South to pursue new economic opportunities offered by WWI |
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Effects of WWI and WWII on migration |
Need for wartime production labor because of economic difficulties |
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Mexicans during 1930s and 1940s |
Drawn to the US by economic opportunities |
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Causes of US expansion into non-white nations |
Expand their culture and norms to others |
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Effects of US victory in Spanish American War |
Led to the US acquisition of island territories, an expanded economic and military presence in the Caribbean and Latin America, engagement in a protracted insurrection in the Philippines, and increased involvement in Asia |
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Effects of America's Imperialism on views of American Involvement |
Between imperialists and anti-imperialissts and later inventionists and isolationists |
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Neutrality v. Involvement during WWI |
Nation entered the conflict, departing from neutrality becuase of Woodrow Wilson |
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Post WWI peace negotiations with Wilson |
Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations |
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US Foreign policy from 1920 to 1930 |
International investment, peace treaties, select military intervention |
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Economic effects of mobilization for WWII |
Supply troops for the war effort and a workforce on the home front ended the Great Depression and provided opportunities for women and minorities to improve their socioeconomic positions |
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Wartime experiences that caused Americans to question values |
Internment of Japanese Americans, challenges to civil liberties, debates over race and segregation, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb raised questions about American values |
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Reasons for US and allied victory in WWII |
Allied political and military cooperation, industrial production, technological and scientific advances, and popular commitment to advancing democratic ideals |
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Reasons for US emergence as a world power after WWII |
Dominant American role in the Allied victory and postwar peace settlements, combined with the war-ravaged condition of Asia and Europe |
