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History 106 - 1877-Modern Day
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Undergraduate 1
11/03/2012

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Theodore Roosevelt
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Not ordinary, wealthy, intelligent, coming of age weith strnegth, concerned with national greatness
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Woodrow Wilson 
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wants Congress to be like Parliament, President ministers, Princeton University President 
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William Howard Taft
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Republican party candidate (torturing TR) 
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Eugene V. Debs 
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socialist party also running 
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John Scopes
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teacher who taught evolution in the class room 
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William Jennings Bryan
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strongly against evolution 
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Clarence Darrow
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hist profule lawyer -> pro-evolution
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H.L. Mancken
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editor of American Mercury Magazine: openly biased read by a variety of people 
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Marcus Garvey
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radical thought brought idea of self help to blacks (Back to Africa movement)
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Alain Locke
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1st black Rhode scholar- brought New Negro in book 
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Langston Hughes
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

prolific poet gave a sense of African pride 

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Claude McKay
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"If We Must Die"

socialist

growing willingness to be militant against racism 

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Zora Neal Hurston
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novelist/abthropologist that traveled through South in order to find folktales and master the speech 
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Carl Van Vechten
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described Harlem in writing while being a "tour guide" 
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Jelly Roll Morton
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creole culture - played jazz - acknowledges Spanish roots 
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Louis Armstrong
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1st jazz soloist - bad childhood - invented scat singing
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Duke Ellington
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proud, regal, handsome, sophisticated-

got big break @ Cotton Club 

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Herbert Hoover
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disrespected because of weight of burden 
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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polio - won 1932 election without quesiton - 1st New Deal 
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Dr. Francis Townsend
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older physician - comes up with basid social security 
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Father Coughlan 
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"radio priest" - turned radical and blamed the Jews for the failing economy 
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Huey Long
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governor and senator of Louisiana 

"share the wealth"

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Dorothea Lange
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photographer of Depression issues
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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helped early civil rights movement by being around and nice to blacks 
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Francis Perkins
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first female cabinet member
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John Maynard Keynes
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followed by Roosevelt - put more money into the economy when it is suffering
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Benito Mussolini
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one of the 1st fascist leaders - wants another Roman Empire
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Adolf Hitler
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"Germany was destroyed by the Jews"
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General Tojo
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one of the small group of generals that controlled Japan
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Wendell Willkie
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Republican against isolationism - lost of Roosevelt
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A. Philip Randolph
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leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - hired only black men and raised many to the middle-class
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Harry S. Truman
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president when FDR died - inexperienced 
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Jackie Robinson
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1st black major league baseball player super power 
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Bretton Woods
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did the International Monetary Fundn and World Bank - stabilized world currency 
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General Dougles MacArthur
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worked in Japan - new constitution and rold of emperor
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George Kannan
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Russian that sent the Long Telegram
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Whitaker Chambers
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communist spy - "Bob", "Carl" confessed to government 
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Alger Hiss
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connected with Chambers, worked for AAA, high in gov. 
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Richard Nixon
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knew that Chambers was lying
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Dean Acheson
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secretary of state that questioned Hiss 
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Will Heberg
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Jewish writer that thought America had 3 main traditions 

wrote Protestant, Catholic, Jew

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Joseph McCarthy
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accused many people of being communist and started people calling is McCathyism 
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Thurgood Marshall
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went to Howard, major lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Education
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Earl Warren
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Chief Justice appointed by Ike - needed unanimous vote against segregation 
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Martin Luther King Jr. 
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lead the civil rights movement

influenced by: 

- Southern Christian Tradition 

- Northern inelligence Tradition 

-Ghandian Tradition

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Stokely Carmichael
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leader of the SNCC and helped it become more radical
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Gunnar Myrdal
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wrote An American Dilemma about race relaitons and equal opportunity 
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John F. Kennedy
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sient about civil rights because he did not want to alienate white Southerners 
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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brought democratic party to agree with civil rights
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