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Who wrote “the influence of sea power on history” and what was it about

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Alfred T. Mahan and it stated that a good navy makes you great

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What was considered “the splended little war”

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Spanish American war

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What was yellow journalism

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  • Fake news about war
  • brutal and compelling
  • some say “Children attacked by Cubans”
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What happened with the USS Maine

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-docked as warning
-de lome letter intercepted and printed in US newspaper
-says Spain will not let Cuba have independence
-few days after, USS Maine explodes
-blame on Spain
“Remember the main”

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What does US obtain after winning Spanish American war

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Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo bay

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Who was a hero in Spanish American war

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Teddy Roosevelt

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What was the world fair

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  • Exhibited 40 tribes of Philippines

- Most popular exhibit

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Who was Emilio Aguinaldo

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  • Philippine leader who believed the end of Spanish rule would bring independence
  • led gorilla warfare against US
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What was the Philippine-American war

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  • 4,300 Americans and up to 200,000 Filipinos died in war

- US gave the Philippines independence after WWII

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Who was Teddy Roosevelt

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  • sick child from wealthy family
  • assistant secretary of the navy
  • governor of NY but not well liked
  • Vice President
  • president
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Who were the progressives

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  • concerned about plight of the poor
  • looked to purify society
  • saw government as the answer to problems
  • wanted to stabilize business
  • not controlled by a political party
  • led by professionals
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Who was Fredrick Taylor

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Wrote “principals of scientific management. About timing work management

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What were some problems when teddy Roosevelt took office

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  • infant mortality very high
  • trusts were forming
  • cities grew rapidly
  • women in work force
  • immigration
  • lynching in south
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What was lynching

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  • 90% were AA hung in trees

- no laws against it

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What happened in Waco Texas

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Jesse Washington raped and murdered girl and was lynched, burned, torn apart

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Who were muckrakers

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-dig up dirt on society

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Jacob Riis

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Muckraker- poverty- took photos

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Lincoln Stephen

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Muckraker- corruption

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Upton Sinclair

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Wrote “jungle” about meat industry

Muckraker- work and sanitation

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Ray standard Baker

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Muckraker- race relation

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Edwin Markham

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Muckraker- child labor

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What was the WCUT

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Women’s Christian temperance unit

-abolition of alcohol

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Mann act

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Attempted to eliminate prostitution

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Triangle shirtwaist fire

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  • Women trapped in 4 story building fire while making shirts

- many burned to death or jumped

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Muller v Oregon

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  • Oregon passes law that was women can’t work more than 10 hours a day
  • can’t get money
  • solution is women Mary rich
  • Supreme Court agrees
  • step back in women’s rights
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Who was Margaret Sanger

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  • got abortion
  • teaches women about sex
  • targeted for death threats because that is racy
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19th amendment

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-women get the right to vote

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Who was Bon laFollette

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  • Wisconsin governor
  • rural life
  • populist beliefs
  • changed Wisconsin government
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What states was the “laboratory of democracy” according to teddy Roosevelt

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Wisconsin

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What is direct primary

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You vote for who you want your prez to be

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What was the Wisconsin idea

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  • sanitation and factory safety
  • improved higher education
  • state income tax
  • lowered RR and raised RR taxes
  • pushed for direct election of senators
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What did “trust buster” teddy do

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He only broke up monopolies that hurt the economy

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What did teddy Roosevelt do conservation wise

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  • set aside 150 national parks

- Grand Canyon, yellow stone, mt Olympus

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What did the pure food and drug act do

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  • regulate business
  • make coke get rid of cocaine
  • requires companies to list ingredients
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Boll Weevil

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  • But that eats cotton
  • spreads across south
  • came from Mexico
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Crop diversification

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Plant tobacco one year and wheat the next year

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Who was WEB DuBois

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  • founded NAAP
  • Harvard graduate
  • focused on gaining black rights through Supreme Court system
  • biggest success is brown v board of education
  • moved to Africa
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Pastimes during this time

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  • Radio
  • vaudeville
  • baseball
  • football
  • boxing
  • movies
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Open door policy

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Told European nations to get out of China

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Panama Canal

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  • Panama leaves Colombia

- we build Canal

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Roosevelt Corollary

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  • we have the right to invade Caribbean area

- Haiti, Nicaragua, Dominican area are invaded

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What is ironic about Roosevelt winning the Nobel peace prize

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He loved to go to war

43
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What was the “great white fleet”

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  • Roosevelt sends 7 navy ships around the world to show how strong we were
  • Japan builds up navy as result
44
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Dollar diplomacy

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We don’t go to war with a country we are economically tied to

45
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What happened with the invasion of Mexico

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  • Wilson invades port of varacruise
  • deadly hourly war
  • want to fight for justice from poncho via
  • invaded Mexico for a second time
46
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What caused WWI

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Syrian terrorist kills archduke franz Ferdinand

47
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Who joined the war when Austria Hungry invades Syria

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Germany

48
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What side does US take

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Neutral

49
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What were U-Boats

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  • undersea boats
  • used to sink British ships or any ship in British harbor
  • no warning
50
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Lusitania

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  • US passenger ship
  • docked in NY and headed for Britain
  • Germans sunk it near Ireland
  • boat has ammunition on board
  • Germans even warned Americans not to board it
51
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Battle of the Somme

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  • 58,000 people died

- we send people over and over

52
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Zimmerman letter

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  • Intended to Mexico
  • Germany told Mexico they could get Mexican war land back
  • started US into war
53
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Who were “dough boys”

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American WWI soldiers

54
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Who surrendered at the end if WWI

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  • Germany because defeat was inevitable
  • November 11, 1918
  • armasist day
55
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What ended WWI

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Treat of Versailles

56
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What did Wilson’s 14 points entail

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  • wants to pretend like war didn’t happen
  • no punishments
  • keep country boarders
  • wanted League of Nations
57
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What were some problems with the treaty of Versailles

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  • blames Germany for war
  • humiliates them
  • makes Germany have tiny military
  • makes Germany pay reparations
  • millions of $ to France and GB
58
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Committee on public informations

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Used to convince Americans to be behind the war effort

59
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Anti-German sediment

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Changed German sounding things to American

60
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Espionage and sedition acts

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  • Anti- Americans sent away

- could go to jail for talking crap about soldiers

61
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What happened to women’s fashion during the war

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  • shorter dresses to save fabric for solders uniforms

- no corsets so they could save steel for weapons

62
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What was the 1920s consumer revolution

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  • Rapid economic growth occurred bc of purchase of consumer goods
  • cars, furniture, and appliances
63
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Consumers could afford more things because:

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  • make more income
  • bought more on credit
  • companies began mass production
64
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Halitosis ad

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The birth of modern advertising for listerine meaning bad breathe

65
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Jazz age

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AA create Jazz in Deep South

Moves up north and spreads

66
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Who was Langston hughes

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Harlem renaissance writer

67
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Who were some famous writers exposing the 1920s

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  • TS Ellito

- Hemmingway

68
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Who was Charles Linburg

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First American to fly solo across ocean

69
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How to women express themselves in the 1920s

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  • went to bars
  • cut their hair
  • wore short dresses
  • danced
70
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Who did people blame for unwanted change

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Immigrants

71
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Red scare

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  • Everyone afraid of communist
  • communists rounded up and deported
  • based of string patriotism
72
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KKK

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  • claims to have 4 million members
  • preyed on fears
  • slogan “100% Americanism”
  • captured several states before downfall
73
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Scopes Monkey Trial

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  • rise of fundamental religion
  • not allowed to teach evolution
  • scopes teaches evolution in Daten, TN
  • scopes was found guilty
74
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Warren G. Harding

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“Downright moron”
Scandal: teapot dome
-secretary of interior was selling oil reserves for his own personal gain

75
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Calvin Coolidge

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“Silent Cal”

The business of gov is business

76
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Herbert Hoover

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“Hero of Belgium”

-no experience to deal with depression

77
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Laissez-faire capitalism beliefs

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  • market decides

- trickle down economics

78
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What were signs of trouble before the Great Depression

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  • railroads going down hill
  • farmers prices drop
  • Germany was hurting with no money to give to France
79
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Causes of Great Depression

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  • mass over production
  • buying in credit
  • lack of banking regulations
80
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What was Black Tuesday

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17 billion losses in 1 day

81
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Effects of Great Depression

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  • banks closed
  • massive unemployment
  • bread lines formed
82
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What was unemployment like in the Great Depression

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  • 100,000 people loose jobs every week

- unemployment was at 30%

83
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How did Hoover help Great Depression

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  • reconstruction finance corporation

- $500 million to banks

84
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Bonus army

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  • WWI vets came to capital in 1932
  • came to get bonus they were promised to get in 1945
  • didn’t get the money
  • tanks move army out
85
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Who won election 1932

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Franklin Roosevelt

86
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What was banking holiday

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  • Roosevelt declares all banks closed

- “fire side chats” ensure money safe

87
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What reforms were in the Recovery

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NRA and AAA

88
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What reforms were in Relief

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RFC and CCC

89
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What reforms were in Reform

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TVA and FDIC

90
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NRA

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  • national recovery administration
  • Minimum wage not allowed for AA farmers and maids
  • also allows unions
  • hurts blacks
91
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AAA

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  • Agricultural adjustment administration
  • pays AA not grow crop
  • takes farmers out of GD
  • gave few blacks money
92
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RFC

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  • reconstruction finance corperarion

- gives 500 million dollars to the people

93
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CCC

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  • civilian conservation corporation
  • also known as WPA
  • men 18-27 to work and send % of it home to family
  • gave few blacks jobs
94
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TVA

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  • Tennessee valley association

- damed up rivers in Tenn. to give electricity to 8 southern states

95
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FDIC

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  • federal deposit insurance corporation

- insures your money in the bank in case it closes

96
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What did critics of the new deal think

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Thought it was communist

97
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Huey Long

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-gov of Louisiana
-very corrupt
Share the wealth plan

98
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Share the wealth plan

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  • salary cap
  • not allowed to make more than $1 million per year
  • now allowed to have more than $5 million at one time
99
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What did the Supreme Court not like about the new deal

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Declared it unconstitutional

100
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What happened with court packing

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  • Roosevelt adds 6 Supreme Court judges

- never goes through

101
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What did southern legislators want

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  • want AA to be fired around harvest time

- want racist bill but Roosevelt does not

102
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Social security act

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  • Give people 65 or older money

- Kent to reduce unemployment

103
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Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • First Lady

- did good for integration

104
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Marian Anderson

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  • popular singer at time
  • wasn’t allowed to sing @ constitution hall bc she’s black
  • Eleanor lets her sing @ Lincoln memorial

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