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Important terms Flashcards

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Bracero Program

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Increased mexican workers ww2

Zoot suit riots

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George Creel

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Committee on Public Information
Gain support for world war 1
4 minute speeches

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Black Panthers

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Huey Newton, Bobby Seale

Arming blacks against white police

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Harlem Renaissance poets

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Langston hughes

Claude McKay

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Frederick Johnson Turner

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Frontier Thesis

Increased democracy

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Andrew Carnegie

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Gospel of Wealth

Trickle down economics

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Adam Smith

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Wealth of nations

Laissez faire economics

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Helen Jackson

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A century of dishonor

Treatment of native americans

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John Deere

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Invented steel plow that broke soil

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Cyrus McCormick

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Mechanical mower reaper

Helped harvest

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Neal S. Dow

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Father of prohibition
Maine law 1851
Prohibited alcohol

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Ida Tarbell

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The history of standard oil company

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Keynes

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Deficit spending

Prime the pump

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Ignatius Donnelley

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Omaha Platform
Coinage of silver 16:1
Graduated income tax
Government own telephones, railroads
Direct election of senators
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Christian science

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Mary Baker Eddy

Idea that faith is more important in healing than medicine/science

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Henry Adams

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Famous historian

“The education of henry adams”

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Carrie Nation

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Leading role in temperance movement

Ax in bar

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George Fitzhugh

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Said northern workers were no better off than slaves

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Comstack Law

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Brith control illegal
Later challenged by Sanger
Griswold vs Connecticut made birth control legal

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Walter Reed and Golthis (?)

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Discovered the origin of malaria

By eliminating cause of malaria allowed for production of panama canal

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Lochner v New york

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Federal government has right to intervene in employment issues

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Muller v Oregon

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Legislation of labor

Specifically applied to women

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Munn v Illinois

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Regulate railroads

Government int

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Henry Grady

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Coined the term the new south

Diverse and more industrialized south

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Henry George

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Progress and Poverty

Criticized land owned by wealthy

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Edward Bellamy

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Looking Backward

Socialist utopian society

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Committee to defend America

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Interventionists during ww2

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America first committee

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Isolationists

Charles Lindbergh

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A Philip Randolph

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Led to GDR banning segregation in defense industries

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