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YouTube - THE COLD WAR - PART 4: Reds Under the Bed (1 of 2) - 2 views

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    Joseph McCarthy
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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.
  • Some 80 percent of eligible voters turned out at the polls.
  • “third parties” were also active in this period
  • slavery
  • immigration
  • 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

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

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Tobacco Timeline: The Seventeenth Century--The Great Age of the Pipe - 2 views

www.tobacco.org/...Tobacco_History17.html US History colonies
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    Fascinating! Scroll down to 1613, and then to 1620--check out how rapidly the export of tobacco took off! no wonder the owners of the Jamestown Joint Stock company kept shipping people over to Jamestown. . . there was huge profit to be had in cultivating tobacco! Notice also the countries that tried to prohibit tobacco in the early years of its availability in Europe and Asia. . .
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US History Tours Powered by Google Earth - 2 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 29 Sep 10
     
    Really fun! Contents: * Pre-Columbian Sites and Their Significance * The Revolutionary War * The Lewis & Clark Expedition * Indian Removal * The Path to Civil War * The Emergence of a National Park System * Conflicts in WWII: Pearl Harbor, Midway, D-Day, Stalingrad, Okinawa & Others * The Road to Civil Rights * Vietnam Conflicts: Dien bien Phu, Ia Drang, Khe Sanh, My Lai, Kent State & Others * The 20th Century Power Grid: From Hydro-Electric to Nuclear Power
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The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-elusive-big-idea.html multitasking ideas anaysis
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    Do you agree in part or in whole with Neal Gabler's Thesis?
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Telling Americans to Vote, or Else - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Thirty-one countries have some form of mandatory voting
  • Australia adopted mandatory voting in 1924, backed by small fines (roughly the size of traffic tickets) for nonvoting, rising with repeated acts of nonparticipation.
  • The results were remarkable. In the 1925 election, the first held under the new law, turnout soared to 91 percent. In recent elections, it has hovered around 95 percent. The law also changed civic norms. Australians are more likely than before to see voting as an obligation. The negative side effects many feared did not materialize. For example, the percentage of ballots intentionally spoiled or completed randomly as acts of resistance remained on the order of 2 to 3 percent.
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  • three reasons in favor of mandatory votin
  • A democracy can’t be strong if its citizenship is weak. And right now American citizenship is attenuated — strong on rights, weak on responsibilities
  • The second argument for mandatory voting is democratic
  • if some regularly vote while others don’t, officials are likely to give greater weight to participants
  • This might not matter much if nonparticipants were evenly distributed through the population. But political scientists have long known that they aren’t. People with lower levels of income and education are less likely to vote, as are young adults and recent first-generation immigrants
  • Changes in our political system have magnified these disparities.
  • Kay Bradley on 06 Nov 11
     
    Mandatory voting proposal. Compares to Australia, which has had mandatory voting since 1924.
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fuel rods melting - 1 views

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Digital History - 1 views

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    Great online text book; lots of primary sources; particularly strong on social history. Check it out!
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"One Drop of Blood", by Lawrence Wright - 1 views

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    Definitions of race in US History; race categories on the US census
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Investopedia.com - Your Source For Investing Education - 1 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 22 Mar 11
     
    Fun way to learn about finance. Check out the "term of the day" option. Also, check out the Stock Basics tutorial, which I have also placed on our HRS class web site as a handout.
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YouTube - THE COLD WAR - PART 6: Cracks in the Curtain - 1 views

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    Easter European uprisings squashed
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The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts - 2 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 08 Oct 10
     
    Wow! Check out how closely regulated the bakers were! (Command=F Baker will get you there)

Salem Witchcraft Historiography Resources - 1 views

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History of the United States in two minutes - 1 views

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