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Politics of the United States

Republican History

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The Republican Party By definition, the Republican Party (also referred to as GOP, the ?Great Old Party?) is one of the two major political parties in the United States whose foundation is built on conservatism, focuses on national security, and has an economy led by the people. An economy ?led by the people? means that there is free market and enterprise with little interference from the government. The party dates all the way back to 1854 and was originally made up of northerners to oppose the spread of slavery.

power point of progressive era

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A study of the Progressive Era Muckraking The exposing of corruption in the government or private business Chicago?s Union Stock Yards Chicago?s Union Stock Yards The Jungle The Jungle?s effect Government created sanitation laws and other restrictions for the meat companies This made food products safer Made Chicago?s industry the focus of America Cornelius Vanderbilt Robber Barons One of the American industrial or financial tycoons who became wealthy by unethical means, such as exploitation of labor Think monopoly guy Cornelius Vanderbilt (rail & shipping) was considered one Argued for ?laissez faire? What is laissez faire? John D. Rockefeller President of Standard Oil Company ExxonMobil, Chevron, Conoco, BP, Marathon

History Alive! Chapter 11 Study Guide

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Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment Freedmen?s Bureau black codes Radical Republicans Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson Key Content Questions (3 points each ? these answers will be more than a sentence) Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions. 1. Discuss the ways in which former slaves exercised their rights in the early years of Reconstruction. 2. Describe economic changes in the South during Reconstruction.

History Alive! Chapter 11 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 11.06.16 Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment: This was the first of three Reconstruction-era amendments that freed slaves completely from their masters. Republicans in Congress pleaded with President Johnson to add the requirement that Southern states must grant freedmen the right to vote. Johnson, however, did not accept those pleas and said that white men alone should manage the South.

Chapter 21 outline out of many

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Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era (1900-1917) American Communities Lillian Wald was a girl with a good upbringing who moved to NY to become a nurse Wald and Mary Brewster worked as visiting nurses Professional care at home for 10 to 25 cents, info on health care, sanitation, and disease prevention 1895 ? philanthropist Jacob Smith donated house on Henry Street Settlement @ Lower East Side Henry Street Settlement became example for new kind of reform community based on college level women Unlike other moral reformers, they lived alongside the poor and worked from the inside Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Florence Kelly Henry Street Settlement survived by donations from wealthy NYers

American Imperialism

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American: Isolationist to Imperialist Factors: Yellow Journalism Closing of the frontier New emerging international interest. Agricultural & industrial boom Military/strategic interests/new Navy Darwinism Manifest Destiny Incidents Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country:? Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis inspired missionaries to travel to foreign nations. William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer led the fabricated atrocities of Cuba apart of the new "yellow journalism."? The two men caused the American people to believe that conditions in Cuba were worse than they actually were. Make people adventurous

APUSH Notes

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American Pageant Chapter 13 Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson exemplified common man and rose to prominence, gave everyman hope, pride election of Adams infuriated many commoners, seen as power of aristocracy led to increased participation in voting, all the way up to 78 percent in 1840 candidates recognized changing voting bloc, appealed more to middle class instead of the privileged four main candidates in election of 1824: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, Henry Clay no candidate won majority of electoral votes, House of Representatives to choose winner House to choose between Jackson, Crawford, Adams Adams won with help from Clay, Clay later named Secretary of State supporters of Jackson saw this as ?corrupt bargain?

James K Polk Essay

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? James Knox Polk POTUS Paper President James Knox Polk was an extremely influential figure in American history. Polk played a key role in the expansion of the United States with his brilliant tactics. Polk?s four point plan, Walker Tariff, and war with Mexico successfully helped the union expand and economically prosper. Polk?s four point plan consisted of four major ideas: passing a tariff that would be acceptable in the north and south, organizing the nation?s financial systems, settle the Oregon boundary, and acquiring California. This ingenious plan helped the nation expand and the tariff was a large source of revenue which organized the financial systems successfully. The plan was quite successful.

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Michael Xu APUSH Chapter 24 Study Guide: The New Era, 1920-1929 Term Identity Significance 1) Charles A. Lindbergh 2) the installment plan 3) oligopolies 4) the ?new lobbying? 5) Coronado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers and Maple Floor Association v. United States 6) Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company and Adkins v. Children?s Hospital 7) Welfare capitalism 8) Warren G. Harding 9) Charles Forbes and Harry Daugherty 10) the Teapot Dome scandal 11) Calvin Coolidge 12) the McNary-Haughen bills 13) the 1924 presidential election 14) the Indian Rights Association, the Indian Defense Association, and the General Federation of Women?s Clubs

Notes on Jefferson's and Madison's presidencies

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Course-Notes: Thomas Jefferson/Madison Thomas Jefferson?s Presidency People angry with Alien and sedition act President Adams against war Federalist Party largely unpopular American Navy already started *Navy includes the Marines* Adams had built up navy, did not use it People perceived this as a waste of money Still flexed our U.S. Muscle Hamilton attacks Adams in a pamphlet Federalists fought back with ?smear campaign? against Jefferson Charged that Jefferson robbed a widow, fathered ?mulatto children?, was an Atheist 1st not true, 2nd was, 3rd was not Was a Deist Rousseau belief that God had set up the world as a machine and left it alone Jefferson vote of 1800 Got fewer electoral votes, but won ?swing state? of New York Fighting Aaron Burr

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