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Matt Forster

United States Events 1992-Present - 14 views

What was the Abu Grahib scandal and how did it affect Bush's presidency? (Matt)

recent events 1990s 2000s

started by Kay Bradley on 06 Sep 11 1 follow-up, last by Matt Forster on 07 Sep 11
Emma Hurlbert

Clinton's Post Cold War Policy and Why It Didn't Work - 1 views

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-foreign-policy-postcold-war-world-defeats-clinton-as-president-prepares-to-travel-to-europe-for-dday-ceremony-independent-writers-assess-his-track-record-...

foreign policy Clinton post cold war

started by Emma Hurlbert on 09 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Kay Bradley

8 U.S. Code § 1152 - Numerical limitations on individual foreign states | US ... - 0 views

www.law.cornell.edu/...1152

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Kay Bradley

DH Great Depression Causes + Why it lasted so long - 0 views

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm

Great Depression depression economics history

shared by Kay Bradley on 29 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • prosperity of the 1920s was a cruel illusion
  • most families lived belo
  • poverty line.
  • ...30 more annotations...
  • 60 percent of the nation's families earned less than $2,000 a year
  • Prosperity bypassed specific groups of Americans entirely.
  • The farm sector had been mired in depression since 1921
  • The decline in farm income reverberated throughout the economy.
  • Between 1920 and 1929, more than 5,000 of the country's 30,000 banks failed.
  • small businesspeople failed because they could not secure loans.
  • consumer debt also weakened the economy
  • poor distribution of income
  • During the 1920s, there was a pronounced shift in wealth and income toward the very rich
  • poorest 93 percent of the non-farm population actually saw its disposable income fall.
  • Because the rich tend to spend a high proportion of their income on luxuries, such as large cars, entertainment, and tourism, and save a disproportionately large share of their income,
  • business investment had begun to decline.
  • housing starts
  • 1924 immigration law
  • Soaring inventories
  • reduce investment and production
  • stock market speculation
  • The Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, played a critical, if inadvertent, role in weakening the economy.
  • allowed the money supply to fall dramatically
  • "liquidity crisis."
  • the Federal Reserve allowed the country's money supply to decline by 27 percent between 1929 and 1933.
  • Instead of actively stimulating the economy by cutting interest rates and expanding the money supply-
  • tariff policies damaged the economy by depressing foreign trade
  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
  • By 1933, international trade had plunged 30 percent.
  • Unlike most of Western Europe
  • the United States had no federal system of unemployment insurance.
  • Community Ches
  • Red Cross
Alyssa Apilado

Article I (Olivia) - 19 views

Article I qUESTIONS 11,12, 14 -16, 19 11. Explain the provisions for impeachment. The Senate has the sole power to try impeachments. The President of the United States and the Chief Justic...

Constitution Article I

started by Alyssa Apilado on 11 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Max Novak

Article III U.S. Constitution - 16 views

Questions: 30. What provision is made for the judicial branch of the government? There are federal courts; the Supreme court, inferior courts. 31. What is the provision for the tenure of o...

BAY AREA

started by Max Novak on 10 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Kay Bradley

Timeline: The Iraq War - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views

www.cfr.org/...p18876

iraq

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Kay Bradley

Say African American or Black, but first acknowledge the persistence of structural raci... - 0 views

www.urban.org/...-persistence-structural-racism

shared by Kay Bradley on 27 Aug 20 - No Cached
  • recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean have different combinations of history and experience, so some have argued that the term “black” is more inclusive of the collective experiences of the US population.
  • About 10 percent of the 46.8 million black people in the United States are foreign born. 
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