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History
12th Grade
05/31/2010

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Billy Sunday
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the baseball evangelist orphan
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Lyman Stewart
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Gods oilman
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R.A. Torrey
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apostle to the skeptics
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R.G. Lee
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Bellevue church, "Payday Someday"
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G. Campbell Morgan
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Prince of Expositors, British
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J. Gresham Machen
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organized Westminster theological seminary after quitting princeton
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Lost Generation
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restless american writers
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Countee Cullen
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black poet who was known for his poignant poems
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Thorton Wilder
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Leading playwright "our town" "Life With Father"
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John Steinbeck
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won nobel prize in 1930 for writing
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Margaret Mitchell
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Gone with the wind
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Kate Smith
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immortalized a God bless america
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Albert Fall
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senator of New Mexico became Secretary of Interior
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John Maynard Keynes
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british left wing economic theoretician who advocated central planning and massive economic and social intervention on the part of the government in order to bring a nation out of economic recession or depression
The great problem behind economic depression is unemployment
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Cordell Hull
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secretary of state americas international relations
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Huey Long
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created "Share the wealth"
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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a federal corporation 1933 erected dams and hydro electric plants along tennessee river most far reaching of all new deal undetakings
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Dawes Plan
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aided germany and large loan to help promote and industrial growth
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Agricultural Marketing Act
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established a fed. farm board
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Volstead Act
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put 18th amendment into effect
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Social Security Act
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established a govn't fund for unemployment and old-age insurance
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National Budget Act
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provided a yearly unified budget for the federal govn't
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October 29, 1929
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wall street crash "black tuesday"
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Amelia Earhart
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first women to fly solo across the atlantic ocean
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Charles Lindbergh
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first solo flight across the atlantic ocean
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The New Deal
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established by FDR
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Hindenberg
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exploded airship most dramatic event of 1930s
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John Dewey
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Dewey Decimal System, Progressive Edu.
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Friedrich Neitzsche
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Father of Atheistic Existentialism "God is dead"
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Sigmund Freud
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psychoanalysis denies human personality
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William James
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pragmatic philosophy
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Frances Perkins
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FDR secretary of labor First women to be appt. cabinet pos.
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Abandonment of Gold Standard
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shook public confidence in monetary system
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Calvin Coolidge
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VP to Harding first VP to attend cabinet meetings
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Warren Harding
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President 1920 return to normalcy
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Wilsons attorney gen. general intelligence division
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FDR
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called for the new deal last president to be inaugurated may 4th
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Herbert Hoover
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1928 roman catholic
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third international
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organization dedicated to worldwide communist revolution
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William Z Foster
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key figure in commie revo led steelworkers strike 1919
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Sacco Vanzetti case
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result of red scare accused of murdering a paymaker
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Paris Peace Pact
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Kellogg Brian pact outlawed int. war
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Good Neighbor Policy
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friendship with latin countries
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Elihu Root
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world court
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Al Capone g
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american gangster scarface chicago Valentines Day massacre
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William Jennings Bryan
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The great commoner
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21st amendment
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repealed prohibition
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John Lewis
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Committee of Industrial Organizations CIO
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Natonal Broadcasting Company
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first national radio network in 1927
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KDKA
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first commercial radio station in pittsburgh
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W.E.B Dubois
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opposed booker t led NAACP
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