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Emma Hurlbert

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

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Kay Bradley

The Granger Revolution - 0 views

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railroad magnates monopoly agriculture farmer Populist

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  • The Grangers, an organization of farmers formed in the late 1860s, were being oppressed by the dominance and ubiquitous influence of the railroads
  • Since there was no regulation of big business, and the nature of the economy necessitated high volume transportation of crops, these farmers had no choice but to give in to the whims of the railroad tycoons. When the burden became too great to endure, the Grangers organized a revolt, which eventually led to government regulation of the railroads and other monopolies.
  • The popularity of the Grangers was "less for its social and educational advantages than for the opportunity it presented for farmers to unite against the monopolistic practices of railroads and elevators and to institute for themselves cooperative methods of buying and selling.
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  • This meant that they had to rely on corporately owned railroads and grain elevators for the transport of their crops. To make matters worse, "elevators, often themselves owned by railroads, charged high prices for their services, weighed and graded grain without supervision, and used their influence with the railroads to ensure that cars were not available to farmers who sought to evade elevator service."
  • the Grangers read their Farmer's Declaration of Independence, which cited all of their grievances and in which they vowed to free themselves from the tyranny of monopoly
  • Munn v. Illinois
  • Following this ruling, several pieces of legislation,
  • were passed. Though they were soon repealed, they represented the first attempts at regulating a private monopoly
  • collectively known as the Granger
  • Laws,
Lauren Moak

American Independence Prezi- "You Say You Want A Revolution" - 2 views

http://prezi.com/sff_akstwwhu/you-say-you-want-a-revolution/ Classroom teaching through the inclusion of all students is necessary to reach all learners. Through Prezi, I was able to have audio-...

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Kay Bradley

Our Documents - Transcript of Monroe Doctrine (1823) - 0 views

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  • The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823:
  • to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
  • Government of Great Britain, which has likewise been acceded t
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  • that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. . .
  • declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety
  • we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States
  • Our policy in regard to Europe
  • is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers;
  • It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord
Kay Bradley

Pre civil war south 4/5 - 0 views

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  • At the same time, southern intellectuals began to defend slavery as a positive factor. After 1830, white Southerners stopped referring to slavery as a necessary evil. Instead, they argued that it was a beneficial institution that created a hierarchical society superior to the leveling democracy of the North. By the late 1840s, a new and more explicitly racist rationale for slavery had emerged.
  • With the emergence of militant abolitionism in the North, sharpened by slave uprisings in Jamaica and Southampton County, Virginia, the South began to see itself as surrounded by enemies.
  • Before the 1830s, southern statements on slavery had been defensive; afterward, they were defiant.
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  • began to denounce the North’s form of capitalism as “wage slavery.”
  • Beginning in 1837, southern leaders held the first of a series of commercial conventions in an attempt to diversify the southern economy and to rescue the South from northern “pecuniary and commercial supremacy.”
  • Efforts to develop the southern economy were surprisingly successful. Southern railroad mileage quadrupled between 1850 and 1860--although southern track mileage still trailed that of the free states by 14,000. By 1860 Richmond manufactured more tobacco than any other America city and exported more goods to South America than any other American port, including New York.
  • Regional independence was also called for in religion. Due in large part to fear of antislavery agitation, southern Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians sought to sever their denominational affiliations with northern churches
  • Southerners also called for a distinctive and peculiarly southern literature. More than 30 periodicals were founded with the word “Southern” in their title, all intended to “breathe a Southern spirit, and sustain a strictly Southern character.”
Kay Bradley

Pre-Civil War South 5/5 - 0 views

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  • By the early 1850s, a growing number of aggressive Southerners had moved beyond earlier calls for separate southern factories, colleges, and churches. Militant nationalists called for the reopening of the slave trade and aggressive annexations of new slave territory in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • expedition was launched from New Orleans in 1851 to secure Cuba
  • William Walker, “the gray-eyed man of destiny,” to extend slave labor into Latin America.
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  • unsuccessfully invaded Mexico.
  • invasions of Nicaragua.
  • Knights of the Golden Circle, developed plans to create an independent slave empire stretching from Maryland and Texas to northern South America and the West Indies.
  • Kay Bradley on 07 Jan 14
     
    Pre-Civil War South
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