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Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation Summary & Analysis - 0 views

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civil rights summary

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Kay Bradley

Appendix A. Political Parties in the United States, 1820-1860 - North Carolina Digital ... - 2 views

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  • Each “party system” is a roughly defined time period in which two major political parties, each with fairly consistent supporters and beliefs, dominated the political scene.
  • The second party system emerged from a split within the Democratic-Republican Party
  • Jackson’s followers formed the Democratic Party, while Clay’s formed the Whig Party
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  • Democrats gradually came to support many Whig policies, such as industrialization and railroads, draining Whig support. The issue of slavery and its expansion into the western territories territories finally split the Whigs in the early 1850s.
  • immigration
  • “third parties” were also active in this period
  • slavery
  • Some 80 percent of eligible voters turned out at the polls.
  • The second party system broke down in the 1850s over the issue of slavery
  • Kay Bradley on 06 Dec 10
     
    Great summary of the American Political party system in the antebellum era
Kay Bradley

Cattle, Frontiers, and Farming - AP U.S. History Topic Outlines - Study Notes - 0 views

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agriculture farmer Populist

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  • During that same time, however, over two million families purchased land from the railroads, land companies, or state governments. Homesteading was difficult since 160 acres on the dry plains were often not enough to support a family. The land was cheap, but livestock, equipment, and seed were expensive.
  • Transportation to haul produce to market was expensive, and interest rates on loans and mortgages were high
  • Unscrupulous companies often acquired the best timber and mineral properties through fraudulent practices including using “dummy” homesteaders and fake improvements
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  • Much of the public domain land passed quickly from the original homesteaders to promoters, not farmers.
  • Railroads had made it possible to sell crops at great distances, and farmers began to think in terms of a single cash crop rather than general farming to produce their families’ needs. Railroads benefited from this trade and sent agents to Europe to promote western settlement.
  • pecial steel plows were developed
  • sodbusters
  • fertile
  • barbed wire.
  • By 1883, Joseph Glidden’s company was making 600 miles of his patented wire each day.
  • In the late 1880s and early 1890s, a drought drove all but the most stubborn out.
  • “lifter” to cultivate rather than a plow to break up the soil
  • Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.
  • With the Homestead Act of 1862, a settler could claim as much as 160 acres (a quarter section) on the condition that he (occasionally she) lived on the land for five years, improved it, and paid a fee of $30. Alternatively, land could be bought after only six months’ residence at $1.25 per acre.
  • Special plows and new machinery such as threshers and hay mowers all allowed a farmer to produce more, but the expense of the devices often put him into debt.
Kay Bradley

New Deal Findings: The Supreme Court - 0 views

Why did the Supreme Court invalidate the AAA and the NRA? How did FDR try to prevent this from happening in the second New Deal? Post your summaries under comments

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Alexander Luckmann

New Deal Findings: Critics of the New Deal, including socialists - 3 views

According to hueylong.com, "Long was revered by the masses as a champion of the common man and demonized by the powerful as a dangerous demagogue." This shows a surprisingly uncritical perspective...

started by Kay Bradley on 24 Mar 11 1 follow-up, last by Alexander Luckmann on 25 Mar 11
Kay Bradley

New Deal Findings: Second New Deal Programs (1936-1942) - 2 views

FDR was re-elected in 1936; he revamped New Deal programs in his second term a) to respond to critics from right and left and b) to try to make New Deal programs capable of withstanding Supreme Cou...

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Alex Sommer

New Deal Findings: First New Deal Programs (1933-1936) - 2 views

-Summarized with the 3R's of FDR's program: relief, recovery, reform -FDR led the Democratic party and voiced liberal, pro-union policies -Republicans mostly opposed legislation passed during the N...

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Alexander Luckmann

New Deal Findings: Art and Theater - 7 views

WPA was a major artistic program. - Employed muralists like Diego Rivera - WPA built Davies Tennis Stadium in Oakland in an old mine cutting - A lot of WPA relief went to African-Amer...

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Kay Bradley

New Deal Findings: Economic Philosophy of New Deal - 2 views

John Maynard Keynes' influence; try anything attitude. . . Post your summaries under Comments

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Rory Chipman

New Deal Findings: Women - 5 views

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/03_2009/historian4.php this is a really good essay on the role of women during the great depression

started by Kay Bradley on 24 Mar 11 2 follow-ups, last by Rory Chipman on 28 Mar 11
Kay Bradley

New Deal Findings: People of Color - 0 views

How did African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos fare during the Great Depression? Was their experience similar to or different from that of caucasian Americans? Were there any special progra...

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Alex Sommer

New Deal Findings: Labor - 2 views

-Stock market crashed in October of 1929 -Mexicans and blacks were hit the hardest (40-50% of black workers were unemployed by 1932, in Chicago) -Unemployment for all races increased by 607% -Many ...

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Alex Sommer

New Deal Findings: Agriculture (problems, programs) - 2 views

-Terrible weather and extreme temperatures exacerbated the conditions of agriculture -After WWI, France had relied on America for crops, but now could sustain themselves -US had a surplus of cr...

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Kay Bradley

Federalist No. 1 (Alexander Hamilton) - 0 views

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    CLiffs notes of the FEderalist Papers
Kay Bradley

The New England and Middle colonies (article) | Khan Academy - 0 views

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  • Navigation ActsA series of acts passed between 1650 and 1673 that established three rules of colonial trade: first, trade must be carried out only on English ships; second, all goods imported into the colonies had to pass through ports in England; and third, specific goods, such as tobacco, could be exported only to England
  • Proprietary colonyColonies that were under the authority of individuals that had been granted charters of ownership, like Maryland and Pennsylvania.
  • The New England colonies were founded to escape religious persecution
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  • Motivations for colonization:
  • The Middle colonies, like Delaware, New York, and New Jersey, were founded as trade centers,
  • The Middle colonies were also called the “Breadbasket colonies”
  • New England colonies attracted Puritan settlers with families
  • Demographics
  • not single indentured servants
  • Middle colonies attracted a diverse group of European migrants, including Germans, Scots-Irish, French, and Swedish
  • Economics in the colonies: Colonial economies developed based on each colony’s environment
  • New England colonies depended on fishing, lumbering, and subsistence farming
  • Middle colonies also featured mixed economies, including farming and merchant shipping
  • Establishing representative governments:
  • Mayflower Compact
  • Taking into account that the English colonies were still under the British crown, creating the Mayflower Compact was unusually democratic for the time.
  • rench, and Dutch colonizers, the English colonizers rarely married Native Americans
  • Unlike the Spanish
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  • Wampanoag
  • Narragansett
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