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| a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. The doctrine was introduced by President Monroe; asserted that the Western Hemisphere was not to be further colonized by European countries but that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries |
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| Started after 1863 and would last until the Civil Rights movement of the 50's |
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| How Long did the Freedman's Bureau last? |
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| 1865-1868 (the year of Andrew Jackson's impeachment) |
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| What kind of assistance did the Freedman's bureau provide for freed slaves? |
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Education (built schools, provided teachers)
Housing/land
etc. |
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| When was the anti-imperialist league developed and why? |
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1898
In response to the Spanish/American Post-War Period; were against the forced annexation of the Philippines.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was vice-president of the organization |
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| What effect did the railrods have on plains Indians? |
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| Caused most to be displaced from their native lands |
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| Name the 2 leading finance companies in America during this time (late 1800s early 1900s)? |
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John Pierpont Morgan
House of Kuhn, Loeb, and Company |
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| When was the first May Day and why is it important? |
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May 1st 1886 in Chicago
Recoginized efforts of immigrant laborers demanding safer working conditions and an 8-hour work day |
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| Who were the four major industrialists/financial Barons? |
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Philip Armour
Jay Gould
James Mellon
J.D. Rockefeller |
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| Which political view was seen as a threat during the 1900's and why? |
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Socialism
Threatened capitalist instutions that were currently thriving |
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| What became a mjor, though not new, problem for the middle-class in the newly industrialized America? |
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| Debt; as more and more families moved to the cities and increased their dependancy on merchants and credit, many found that they were often incapable of digging their way out |
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| Who were the candidates who ran for the 25th president of the US? |
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William McKinley (R)
William Jennings Bryan (D) |
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| Who are the Wobblies and when did they form? |
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Indutrial Workers of the World
1905 |
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| 1904 had _______ number of strikes that year alone |
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When was the NAACP established?
What does the acrynom stand for?
What prominent black American helped establish the NAACP? |
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1910
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
W.E.B Dubois |
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| By the 1900's what was the immigration climate like for most Black Americans? |
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| Many, of not most, had made the move from the south and agricultural life, to the north and industrialization |
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| Who stated "The supreme act of patriotism is war" |
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| William McKinley (the Spanish/American War was during his term) |
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| Where and when was the first Worker's Compensation las passed |
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1911; Wisconsin
Many states followed soon after |
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| Who wrote 'The Bodies of Voting' and when? |
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| Helen Keller, a prominent socialist and author (yes, the same one from the Miracle Worker. and its the kid, not the teacher) |
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| Which two states were popular socialist strongholds by 1914? |
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| Resulted in the violent deaths of 19 people during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914. The deaths occurred after a day-long fight between strikers and the Guard. |
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A United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I.
It prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support U.S. enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment. In 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Schenck v. United States that the act did not violate the freedom of speech of those convicted under its provisions. |
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| An act (actually a set of amendments tot he espionage act of 1917) of the United States Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16, 1918. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. The act also allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those same standards for punishable speech or opinion. It applied only to times "when the United States is in war." It was repealed on December 13, 1920. |
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1939-1945
US involvement in WWII: 1941-1945 |
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| According to Zinn ____ number of men became known as draft evaders during WWI |
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WWI timeline:
US involvement: |
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| During WWI, which country was the prime consumer of JP Morgan products? |
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(American Federation of Labor)
1886 |
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| When did the stock market crash? |
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| Who wrote "Woman and the New Race" and what was it about? |
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Margaret Sanger
Sanger was an active women's rights and a contraceptive activist, and that was the focus of her book. |
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| Tarrings, featherings, lynchings, beatings and Sundown Town were all aimed at which group and during which time? |
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Poor american Blacks
Early 1900's |
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| Who was Mother Jones and what was her philosophy? |
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| Mary Harris Jones, a labor activist who became known as the most dangerous woman in America for her success in organizing mine workers. Her philosophy was "on all by all". |
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| What were the stances of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt on violence against women, blacks, workers, unionists and socialist. |
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| None of these presidents, Wilson (1913-1921), Taft (1921-1930), and Roosevelt (1901-1909), ever made active stances against misogyny, racism, or racism, instead opting to focus on industrialization and the economy. |
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| What was the total number of draft evaders during WWI between W. Europe and the US? |
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| Who was Eugene Debs and why was he important. |
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| Eugene Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.[2] Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Debs was arrested and as convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. |
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| "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier" |
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| the popular song of the American resistance to WWI |
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| How many American strikers were there in 1919? |
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| What was the purpose behind "Public Opinion" and "The Phantom Public" |
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| Written by Walter Lippman in the 1920's they, both were in reference to the manipulation of public opinion and manufacturing consent |
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| By 1924, ____ % of American families had little purchasing power |
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| Which act in 1923 cut taxes for the wealthy? |
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| Mellon Act of 1923, passed during the Taft administration |
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Name all the organizations created under Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal
(16 things total; most important - 6) |
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(a system of Social Democracy that created a shift in public support for Democrats) RTAA: Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act NRA: National Recovery Administration - 1st (was eventually removed) WPA: Works Progress Administration - 2nd NYA: National Youth Administration - 1st PWA: Public Works Administration(employment) - 1st CWA: Civilian Works Administration - 1st AAA: Agricultural Adjustment Administration - 1st TVA: Tennessee Valley Administration - 1st CCC: Civilian Conservative Corps - 1st ACE: (US) Army Corps of Engineers - 1st SSA: Social Security Administration - 2nd EBA: Emergency Banking Administration - 1st FHA: Federal Housing Administration - 1st FCA: Farm Credit Administration - 1st *the Glass Steagull Act: Stopped Corporate funneling of assets into outside projects. - 1st + General Revitalization of the Arts
+ Labor Reform - 2nd (increased) |
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| In what year did AFL and CIO merge into one group? |
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| In 1936, the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization merged into AFL-CIO |
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| In what year was the social security act passed? |
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| Under what act was the National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] created? |
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| In which well known car town did the UAW go on strike? When and against which company? |
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| Flint, Michigan; 1936 and GM |
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A United States federal statute that set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government. Within four months, 4,741,971 aliens had registered.
The Act was proposed by Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, a Democrat and a leader of the "anti-labor" bloc of congressmen. It was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Act is best known for its use against political organizations and figures. Prosecutions continued until a series of United States Supreme Court decisions in 1957 reversed numerous convictions under the Smith Act as unconstitutional. The statute has not been repealed. |
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| Communist Control Act of 1954 |
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| A piece of United States federal legislation, signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower on 24 August 1954, which outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and criminalized membership in, or support for the Party. |
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| In what year were Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed? |
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| 1945: Aug 6th - Hiroshima & Aug 9th - Nagasaki |
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| How many Japanese were taken to internment camps and under which order? |
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| In which year did the United Nations form and what did it replace? |
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| 1945; League of Nations (the group that consisted of the victorious axis powers from WWI and WWII) |
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| Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? |
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| American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history. |
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| The practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. |
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| An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate. |
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| The House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
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(1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.
Most active during 1951-1954, during the Cold War and the McCarthy Era |
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the large-scale economic program, 1947–1951,[1] of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe. The initiative was named after Secretary of State George Marshall[2] and was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan. Marshall spoke of urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947.[3]
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was established on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, but they did not accept it.[4][5] The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. During that period some US $13 billion in economic and technical assistance were given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation. This $13 billion was in the context of a U.S. GDP of $258 billion in 1948, and was on top of $12 billion in American aid to Europe between the end of the war and the start of the Plan that is counted separately from the Marshall Plan. |
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The Labor–Management Relations Act (Pub.L. 80-101, 61 Stat. 136, enacted June 23, 1947, informally the Taft–Hartley Act) is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and legislated by overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill"[1] while President Truman argued that it was a "dangerous intrusion on free speech,"[2] and that it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society,"[3] Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.[4] The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; informally the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935.
The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns. It also required union officers to sign non-communist affidavits with the government. Union shops were heavily restricted, and states were allowed to pass "right-to-work laws" that outlawed union shops. Furthermore, the executive branch of the Federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an impending or current strike "imperiled the national health or safety," a test that has been interpreted broadly by the courts. |
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| When and where were the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank created? |
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[IMF & WB]
June 22,1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire |
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| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade began when and ended when? What is GATT about? |
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| 1944-1994; Negotiated during the UN Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization (ITO). GATT was signed in 1947 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1995. The original GATT text (GATT 1947) is still in effect under the WTO framework, subject to the modifications of GATT 1994. |
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| In what year were the polio and influenza epidemics? |
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| 1916 (FDR was a sufferer) and 1918 (Spanish Flu) |
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| Name the pyramid of social class in order from top to bottom |
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Elites
Bourgeoisie
Petty Bourgeoisie
Middle Class
Working Class
Underclass |
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| Who invented the Melting Pot Theory? |
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| Israel Zangwill, a Jewish American playwright in 1908 |
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Civilian Conservation Corps
In March 1933, Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which hired unemployed young men to work on environmental conservation projects throughout the country. For a wage of thirty dollars a month, men worked on flood control and reforestation projects, helped improve national parks, and built many public roads. Approximately 3 million men worked in CCC camps during the program’s nine-year existence. |
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| Important terms from the Cold War in order of timeline |
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Starts with post-war tension between Stalin and Truman
Leads to building of WB/IMF and Marshall Plan by Truman in defiance of Stalin, who in turn goes against Truman by building the 'iron curtain' a series of pro-communist countries throughout E.ern Europe.
Truman adds containment to the Truman Doctrine in 1944, pledging monetary support to countries fighting against Communism, then in 1949, encourages the formation of NATO. Stalin responds with the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Around the same time, particularly after China became communist, Americans began to actively fear Communism. That was the beginning of the Red Hunts, which would eventually lead to McCarthyism.
The Korean War is one of the few times that the USSR and the United States would get into actual combat, as Russia supported the communist N. Korea and the US supported the democratic S. Korea. Led to the tension and eventual division of S. and N. Korea at the 38th parallel.
Eisenhower's election led to a mroe Capitalist outlook, though he did not repeal any New Deal organizations. He also supported efforts of the CIA and NASA in the space race.
The Cold War would continue well into Kennedy's administration and the Vietnam War, not ending until overthrow of Communism in Russia and its replacement with a democratic government in the 1980's, though tensions would wane significantly in the early 60's, leading many to state its ending at 1963 the day that the US introduced the Partial Nuclear Test Ban. |
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