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Roosevelt’s remarriage and the various political offices he held till the end of the 19th century

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  • marries childhood first Edith Kermit-dec 2,1886
  • couple had 5 kids
  • member of U.S. civil service commission (1889-1895)
  • president of the NYC police board (1895-1897)
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Trace the steps and political offices to how Roosevelt became president 1901

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Assistant secretary of the navy 1897-1998

  • commands rough riders in SA war
  • Governor of NY 1898-1900
  • Vice President mar-sep 1901
  • McKinley was shot on sep 6. 1901
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Roosevelt’s presidential stable, traits, and image durning his time in office

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  • he did stomp speaking, young, energetic, very motivated
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Describe Roosevelt’s views of “trust busting” and his confrontation with j.p Morgan

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  • anti trust policy- went after railroad, beef, oil and tobacco trust
  • Hepburn act 1906- authorized the ICC to set maximum railroad rates
  • regulated J.P Morgan and other big major companies
  • first tie the Federal gov. Sets rules in private enterprise
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Provide some specific examples and progressive legislation during Roosevelt’s presidency

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  • meat inspection act (1906) - authorized fed inspection of meat products
  • pure food and drug act (1906)- regulated the sale of food and drug products
  • extend government power to protect the public health and safety
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Explain why Roosevelt did not run for reelection in 1908. Outline the background of William Howard Taft

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  • promised not to run again after 1904 victory
  • his father died at 59 and believed he would as well
  • Taft was a horrible president.
  • couldn’t lead by himself
  • he was a dummy
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Taft administration within the context of the two factions within the Republican Party
How did this cause a personal rift between Roosevelt and Taft

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Taft was a follower not a leafs, he was not able to make chooses for himself
-Roosevelt regretted trusting him in office

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What made Roosevelt to run for president in 1912 as a third party “bull moose” candidate?
Describe the features of his new nationalism platform

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Roosevelt went against Taft. - denied the republican nomination in 1912

  • promised fed regulation of business and comprehensive social welfare legislation
  • samples :
  • primaries for state and national offices
  • women’s suffrage
  • workmen a compensation insurance
  • social security system
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Trace the personal background and political rise of Woodrow Wilson as he secured the Democratic nomination in 1912

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  • Virginia
  • democratic nominee for president 1912
  • Political science professor
  • governor of New Jersey
  • ran on progressive platform of the new freedom
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Describe the campaign features of new freedom

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  • Pledged to end monopoly and restore free competition
  • Thus what Wilson wanted, fighting for true free enterprise and an unregulated economy
  • stronger anti- trust legislation
  • tariff reductions
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Describe the campaign and election results of the 1913 presidential election

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Wilson 435
Roosevelt 88
Taft 8

  • Republicans split into two sides
  • democrats won
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What personal tragedy led Roosevelt to the Dakota region?

How did he spend his time?

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Sheriff, cowboy, solitude and time to grow.

His wife and mother died the same day

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7-7

Outline and describe some noteworthy progressive legislation during wilsons first term in office

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  • Reduce tariffs 10% across the board ; lost reverse made up by income tax
  • fed trade commission and “unfair methods of competitions “ investigate illegal business practices
  • Adamso act 8 hour work days for train employees
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7-8

What was the purpose of the fed trade commission and the fed reserve act?

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  • Twelve regional district bank
  • banks kept portion of deposit of capital al a federal reserve

Fed could loan money to member banks

Regular currency in up and down economy

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Wilsons foreign policy called moral diplomacy.
Assess its effectiveness when confronting issue and crises in the Latin American world

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Self determination for nations challenge in Caribbean and Mexico
“Moral diplomacy”
- promote democratic ideals abroad
- the U.S. Should be the conscience of the world
- spread democracy
- prompt peace
- Condemn colonialism

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7-10
Explain the origins of the first world word I (the Great War)
Outline the two different alliances

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  • The Great War 1914-1918
  • New powerful German empire
  • the allies •Britain , France, Russia and Italy
  • the central power • Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
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7-11

20th century weaponry used in First World War

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Machine gun
British tank
Airplanes
Germany u -boats
Gas attack
Flamethrower
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Wilsons actions when world war broke out in August 1914

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Proclamation of us neutrality in thought and actions

Neutral rights of trade ocean travel

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Problematic nature of neutrality and freedom of the seas

How did this cause the sinking of the Lusitania

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British luxury liner

Sunk by German u boats in May 7,1915

Over 1200 people killed; 128 Americans

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U.S. Entrance into the First World War.
Darting with unrestricted submarine warfare to the Zimmerman telegram

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Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare -jam 1917

Zimmerman telegram - Germany sent a telegram to Mexico trying to get the to fight against the U.S. If they joined the war

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Idealistic message of Wilsons April 1917 war address to congress

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  • asked congress for a declaration of war
  • ” to make the world safe for democracy”
  • ” war to end all wars”
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7-16
America mobilized for war on the Homefront
Propaganda- selective service act

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Registration for the draft - selective service act

Propaganda bonds posters

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7-17

Wartime purpose of the committee on public information, espionage act and sedition act

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• Espionage act
- penalties up to 20 years imprisonment and 10,000 fine for helping the enemy, obstructing recruitment inciting rebelling within the armed services

• sedition act

  • legal to express an opinion deemed “disloyal, profound, scurrilous, or abuser to the American war effort
  • imprisonment of out spoken socialists
  • ugly chapter in the history of American civil liberties
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American military contributions to the First World War
How did it help conclude the war?

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  • U.S. Participates in the last year and a half of the war
  • Defend France on the western front
  • push the Germans back into open country
    Nov 18, 1919
    11th hour
    Stop the war (armistice)
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7-19 Wilsons role and efforts at the Paris peace conference Outline fourteen points
``` Peace settlement in Paris jam 1919 Allied "big four" - Wilson " peace without victory" - freedom of the seas - self determination - League of Nations ``` Victorian allies more bent on revenge and anger
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7-20 Back ground and resins for the conflict between Wilson and U.S. Damage over the treaty of Versailles ratification. How and why did Wilson push for this treaty to end wwI
- strong isolationism in republican controlled senate - g Washington told them not to get involved with Europe - membership the League of Nations? - Wilson uncompromising in keeping all provisions of the treaty
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7-21 | Health if Wilson and how did it affect the end of his presidency ?
Sep 25 1919 return to capital/suffered a stroke Could not speak well the rest of his life Half of his body he couldn't move Wilson incapacitated U.S. Senate defeats treaty
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7-22 | Last years of Wilson's life and assess his overall presidential legacy
Crushed president Wins Nobel peach prize Dies in 1924
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8-1 Americans presidents during the 1920s Characteristics of their presidential administrations
``` Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) -Ohio -"return to normalcy" -scandal ridden presidency -61% people votes died Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) -Vermont - VP succeeds Harding -"business of America is business" Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) ```
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8-2 | Key characteristics and features of the 1920s
-republican presidents -economic bomb - "Heros" -KKK nativism, xenophobia, (secular ways), red hunting Cars, highways - radio/motion pictures - 19th amendment - prohibition - gangster - flappers, vamps - consumer economy/ credit
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8-3 Events leading to stock market crash of 1929 Why does it signal the end of the glorious 1920s
Stocks on margins expanding bubble - 16 million shares dumped on the market - 30 billion in paper value wiped out - crash did not cause the Great Depression/symptomatic
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9/10-1 | Define the Great Depression, consensus view, general cause of it?
- Not enough wages for consumer economy/loss of purchasing power - Lack of credit restraints/stock ok margin - Unsound corporate structure - Poorly regulate banks - Chronic supplies of agricultural products - High tariffs - Opposition to labor and collective
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9/10-2 | Overall Stats and numbers of the Great Depression
- First year of the crash 4 million people lost their jobs - 1931 100,000 people jobless each week - 1932 25% unemployment - equals 13 million unemployed with about 39 million dependents - black works 35% unemployment rate - Chicago 40% - Toledo 80% - 1928-1933 average weekly salary feel $25-$17 - farm prices dropped/dust storms in mid southwest - 1932 banks failed at a rate of 200 a month
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9/10-3 | Herbert hovers effort to stop the depression
- Gov. Lending program - $500 million to ally - banks - railroad companies - insurance companies - other major financial institutions - "track down" theory
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9/10-4 What were bonus army? What lead to the clash with them and the U.S. Military?
- 15,000 vets descended upon Washington demanding their $1,000 bonus - Pitched camps "Hooverville" - senate voted down the bill - Remaining Vets dispersed by the army
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9/10-5 | Childhood, background, personal tragedies and political rise of FDR
(1933-1945) - President durning the Great Depression & WWII - Born 1882 upstate NY -wealthy & Privilaged - Groton,Harvard educated -NY senator1911-13 - Assistant Secretary of the navy 1913-20 - Democratic Party VP nominee 1920 - martial troubles/ affairs (Lucy mercer) - deceitful - Roosevelt gets patio in 1921
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9/10-6 | Eleanor Roosevelt's background FDRs wife
- Married his cousin Eleanor Roosevelt 1905 - niece of Theodore Roosevelt - Hard childhood - Franklin and Eleanor had five children
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9/10-7 | Issues campaign and events of the president election of 1932
Gov. Of NY (1929-1933) Stock Market crash - 1932 presidential campaign - pledged a "New Deal" for the American people
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9/10-8 | Roosevelt's Inauguration Day and speech of March 4th 1933
Radio address Inauguration Day | " the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself"
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9/10-9 | Define and discuss the goals of the "hundred days" period
- From March 9-June 16 1933 - Congress passed a flurry of New Deal legislation - relief, recovery, reform - Roosevelt signed fifteen major pieces of legislation
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9/10-10 | Meaning of "brain Trust", "fireside chats" and "forgotten man"
Fired sided chafes Radio addresses - Compassionate communicator
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9/10-11 | Purpose of the bank holiday March 6, 1933
- Executive order - Temporarily shut down banks throughout the country - Banks reopened until Feds examiners approved
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9/10-12 | New deal programs
-(AAA) agriculture adjustment act Reduced agricultural production; paid farmers not to produce -(TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority Construct down and power plants in Tennessee valley -Glass-Steagall act Brought FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) -(WPA) Works Progress Administration Work in construction and arts projects -(NRA) National Recovery Administration Codes, business regulation, cooperation instead of compete
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9/10-13 Roosevelt's chief new deal critics What did they clan was wrong with it
- Conservative Republicans and corporate America, Supreme Court, Far left demagogues - Charles Coughlin, Dr. Francis Townsend -Huey long nationalization of banks, age old pensions, "share the wealth"
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9/10-14 | Importance of the social security act and Wagner act (1935)
- Systems of unemployment, old age disability insurance and child welfare - Pension plan for retires 65 or older - Wager act right of employees to engage in collective bargaining and to strike
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9/10-15 | Historical views about the New Deal
- Failed to achieve a complete economic recovery - Evaluation of the New Deal relocates attitudes about the role of government in society - Modern era of "big government" - Gave hope and optimism to Americans
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11-1 | Different views regarding foreign policy held by the American public and FDR
- u.s. Disillusioned after WWI; rejection of internationalism - Isolationism put America first before world affairs - FDR internationalist but concentrated in profession
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11-2 | Forgiven policy accomplished by Roosevelt with his Secretary of State Cordell hull
His first Secretary of State "Good neighbor policy" - non-interference in Latin America - Recognition of Soviet Union in 1933
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11-3 Describe the nature of fascism How and why did it begin to appear in Europe such as in Italy and Germany
- Latin "fasces" - Glorified the state, nation and race over individualism - responded to economic dislocation, political instability and failed nationalist hopes - Benito musseslin - First fascist ruler in Europe - Italy 1922
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11-4 Purpose of neutrality laws of the late 1030s Examples of neutralities
1- warned American citizens from traveling on ships of belligerent nations 2- "cash and carry" policy of American goods 3- No selling of arms or lending of money to belligerent nations
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11-5 Actions of Mussolini and hitler during the1930s What nations did they take and the reactions of the League of Nations and European leaders
- Hitler rearms Germany - Tests limits of Versailles treaty - Aggressive actions actions of axis power - Italians invade Ethiopia in 1935 - League of nations protest; proves its ineffectiveness - German remilitarization of the Rhineland mar1932 - Direct violation of Versailles treaty - Reasons for allied compliance
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11-6 | Significance of the nazi-soviet non--aggression pact 1939
- Soviet dictator - At the signing of the nazi soviet nonaggression pact - Aug 23 1939 • immediate invasion of Poland
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11-7 | Start of WWII in Europe?
Sep 1, 1939 | Nazi invasion of Poland
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11-8 Trace and events of WWII from 1940-41 What lands were conquered What did their empire encompass
- Blitzkrieg, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium - magnet line eastern part of France - Natzi nun 1940 brakint Paris
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11-9 Leadership skills of Winston Churchill during WWII why did they need U.S help
- British prime minister - Resist Natzi aggression - Seek military aid from the U.S.
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11-10 Specific actions both Roosevelt and congress do to help Britain during its defense against Natzi Lend lease bill
- Unthinkable if Britaij should fall - Sep1940 - Roosevelt introduces practice draft - Wins 1940 election - mar 1948 lead lease program - "loan" weapons to the allies
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11-11 | Unofficial naval war between U.S. and the Nazis on the Atlantic Ocean 1941
- The partnership to defeat 20th century fascism - summer and fall of 1941 - under war between German u-boats and U.S. Ships
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11-12 Rise of japs as an imperial power and threat to the pacific Main imperial goal?
- Meigi restoration - Have modern army - Fully modernize - Had a very long history of never being conquered - wanted to be a imperial power - Thought they were a superior race
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11-13 | Role and image of japs emperor Hirohito
- Ruler of japs / was not very involved with the military

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