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Timeline- 1820-1945 Flashcards

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Missouri Compromise

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1820

  • Missouri is admitted as a slave state because Maine is admitted as a free state
  • Prior to this, all northern states were free all southern states were slave
  • from now on, gov decides on the status of a state
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Fugitive slave Act

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1850

  • becomes a crime not to report runaway slaves
  • any freed slave must have paperwork stating they are free
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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1854

  • makes Kansas and Nebraska territories
  • overturns the Missouri compromise- people now decide whether a state will be a free or slave state
  • many people move to the area to sway the vote (setting for Bleeding Borders)
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Kansas “Black Laws” is passed

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1855

-it becomes a felony to speak out against owning slaves

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The Civil War

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1861-1865

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Kansas enters the Union

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1861

-slavery is officially outlawed (abolitionists victory)

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High point of Jewish immigration to the United States

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1881 to 1924

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Founding of the Hawthorne school

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1907

- all of Jewish reformatory school founded as part of the New York Jewish community’s effort to eliminate crime

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World War I

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1914 - 1919

  • 1918 US enters the war
  • spirit of extra patriotism: morally important to be American
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Arthur Capper serves as governor of Kansas

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1915 - 1919

- saw alcohol as an inhibitor of efficiency

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Kansas passes the “bone dry law”

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1917

-Kansas is officially an alcohol-free state

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The 18th amendment passes

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1919

  • prohibition
  • doesn’t go into effect until 1920
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Labor strike that led to Gov. Allen enforcing compulsory arbitration

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1919

-compulsory arbitration: disempowers labor unions so that they cannot go on strike, meaning less labor disputes

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Coolidge takes over when Pres. Harding dies

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1923

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Calvin Coolidge elected and serves as Pres.

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1924 - 1929

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Immigration act of 1924

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1924

-limits the number of immigrants allowed into the US by establishing quotas

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Lincoln C. Andrews appointed assistant secretary of the treasury

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1925

-takes charge of enforcing prohibition

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Methodists expand in Kansas

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1926

-makes prohibition a moral issue

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Hoover is elected

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1928

  • has a Kansas Republican as vice Pres.
  • committed to Prohibition
  • serves from 1929 - 1933
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Resurgence of the KKK

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1922

- not directed towards Blacks necessarily but foreigners (Jews and Catholics)

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Fundamentalism emerges as a religious movement

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1910 - 1914

  • the fundamentals: series of pamphlets (fundamentalists v. modernist)
  • return to the fundamentals of Christianity
  • argues that the world had gone to liberal and secular
  • increased interest in having morality as part of politics
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National women’s suffrage (in KS, 1912)

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1912

-Increased the vote for the bone dry law

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Republican Party holds national convention in Kansas City, MO

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1928

  • Consider Kansas City to be part of Kansas even though it’s in Missouri
  • Very proud this because of conservative roots
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Stock market crash begins the Great Depression

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1929

  • Known as Black Tuesday (October 29)
  • Lasted throughout the 1930s
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Great Depression takes hold in Kansas

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1932/33

-We prices drop destroy the productive agriculture

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FDR voted into office

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1932

  • FDR v. Herbert Hoover
  • Issues: economics (middle of Great Depression), Prohibition (economic factors)
  • Roosevelt united all wings of the party, avoided divisive cultural issues such as religion and the KKK, promised to end prohibition, and brought in a leading southern conservative as his running mate, House Speaker John Garner of Texas
  • winning:
  • states carried: 42 (FDR) v. 6 (HH)
  • percentage: 57% (FDR) v. 39% (HH)
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FDR into office

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1933
-In his first hundred days in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that Instituted the New Deal-a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovered (economic growth), and reform (though regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation)

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Scopes Trial

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1925

  • Brian: prosecution (fundamentalist)
  • Darrow: defense (modernist)
  • paints American in a negative, Back land, rural, light
  • Scopes convicted and charged
  • The modernist win the heart of America
  • KS confused by rural stereotypes in comparison to urban stereotypes
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Alfred Landon is Republican nominee for president

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1936

  • Ran against FDR
  • FDR won by a landslide
  • Landing only one New Hampshire and Vermont against FDR (not even Kansas)
30
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Dust storms in Kansas

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1934/36

-This phenomenon was caused by severe drought and bad farming techniques

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Repeal of Prohibition

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1933

  • 21st amendment passed
  • December 5, 1933
32
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Kansas votes to continue Prohibition

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1934

  • Shortly after the end of nationwide prohibition, proposal was put to referendum that Kansas end its statewide prohibition, and regulate and tax liquor instead
  • voters rejected it by sizable margin
33
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World War II (begins)

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1939-45

  • Axis V. Allied
  • The start of the war generally held on 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later
34
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World War II (US enters)

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1941

-Enter due to Pearl Harbor attack

35
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21st Amendment enforcement act

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2000 (Clinton)
law gave federal courts the power to intervene in cases involving interstate wine shipping, especially from sales over the Internet.
It also strong-armed states into lowering the drunk-driving threshold for blood alcohol concen tration (BAC) from 0.10 to 0.08

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