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| Middle class movement away from corruption. Moralistic. Basically less-radical populists. |
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| Investigative reporters. Dig up scandals in order to sell papers, magazines, etc. |
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| First he's in favor of big business with few exceptions. Then he starts to interfere in corrupt cases. Finally he moves to New Nationalism. He doesn't get the Democratic Nomination, so he creates the progressive party. |
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Teddy Roosevelt says the following:
-He wants national initiative, recall, and referendum.
-No more child labor
-Women’s suffrage
-Limits on injunctions.
-Supports creation on social insurance
-Scientific setting of tariff
-Recommends referendum on court rulings
-Repeats what court says in Munn, if public interest is involved then government has right to regulate.
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| Breaks up trusts, regardless of the type, level of corruption, etc. New Freedom, which is basically a ripoff of the New Nationalism, which was basically a ripoff of the Populist Platform. You liberals sure do repeat yourselves. |
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| Gives Federal Government control of money supply (indirectly, duh). Under Wilson. |
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| Corporations no longer allowed to threaten competition in the slightest, at stiffer penalties. |
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| Gave the interstate commerce commission the power to control railroads. |
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| Debate for quite some time over whether we can kick some midget, South American ass. The door is opened to it by Roosevelt with the Roosevelt Corrolary. |
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| Provided low-cost credit to farmers. |
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| Restricts child labor from most jobs. Though this was under Wilson, he wasn't too eager to see it passed, because he felt that it was infringing upon the rights of children. |
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| Required interstate railroads to put their workers on an eight hour day without reduction in pay. |
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| Placed heavy taxes on Cuban sugar so that it couldn’t be sold in U.S. |
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| We kicked their asses because of our navy, and therefore we needed to determine what would happen with Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and others. |
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| U.S. isn't allowed to take over Cuba. |
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| America is lively because we closed our frontier. |
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| Super-patriots. We must educate the stupid South Americans. |
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| Free trade with China! Yay! |
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| Let's bribe poor countries to do what we want them to do, so that we don't have to take them over. |
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| English, Russia and France, Germany and Austria Hungary, and Turkey all have secret treaties. The fuse is lit by assassination of archduke of Serbia and arms race in Europe. |
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| Theoretically neutral, but we're basically supporting Britain and France. |
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| Boat sunk by Germans in WW1. Almost gets us into the war, but Wilson's afraid. |
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| British give us a German telegram telling us that Germany is planning to aid a war from Mexico against U.S. Probably forged by British. Gets us into war |
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| We kick some German ass once we get into the war. Wilson wants to have pity on Germany. Europeans, having taken too many casualties for "war without victors" decide to tax them until they bleed. Through the rectum. Bleed iron. LOTS AND LOTS OF BLOOD AND IRON. GET IT? |
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| 2-cent-per-pound bounty on U.S. Sugar. Caused imports to fall sharply. |
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| We're really not very nice to those brown people when we quash their rebellion. |
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| The worst President, by agreement, because he gave in to pressure. |
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| Socialist who opposed WW1 and thus sat it out. Wilson refused to pardon him. Harding pardoned him. |
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| Five major naval powers agree to limit their fleets. |
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| Handed money by Harding administration in the biggest of the Harding Scandals. |
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| What it sounds like. Coolidge breaks up the strike and takes away the jobs of the strikers, becoming a national hero. |
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| One Italian dude sets off a bomb, and suddenly all foreigners are commies. |
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| In an effort to get nominated for the Presidency, Mitchell Palmer arrested a bunch of people and had them arrested, deported, or (randomly) sent to Russia. |
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| Arrested and put to death for murder that they probably didn't convict. They were convicted because they were Italian. |
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| Split Caucasians into Teutonic, Alpine and Mediterranean, thus establishing superiority of Germans and British, etc. |
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| Like William Ripley claims that Germans, French, British, etc. are the great race. Goes on to claim that through intermarriage they are destroying themselves. |
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| Immigration Restriction League (IRA) |
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| Turn of the century lobbiests against immigration. |
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| Run by W.E.B. DuBois. Worked on the principle that black people should integrate themselves into white society. |
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| Prosecuted police officials who allowed lynchings to take place. |
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| Led by Marcus Garvey. Black nationalist movement. |
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| Black nationalist leader. |
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| Cut taxes on the rich, cut governmental expenditure, increased tariffs and put regressive taxes into place. |
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| Worthless treaty to prevent nations from using war as an instrument of policy. |
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| An agency to help banks, railrouads, etc. stay in business by loaning them money. It was not a success. Under Hoover. |
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| National Farmers' Holiday Association (NFHA) |
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| To Farmers: "Eat your own products, and let the money men eat their gold." |
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| Hoover gets his ass kicked by Roosevelt because he utterly lacks charm or charisma, and because the economy got its ass similarly kicked over the last four years. |
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| Roosevelt's brilliant cabinet. The first time a cabinet had been this smart. |
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| Roosevelt's Method of Governing |
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| Experimentation, trusting the brains trust, pragmatism. |
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| The woman with whom Roosevelt had an affair. Eleanor's secretary. Never turned into a big deal. |
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| The first hundred days of Roosevelt's first term, in which he passed almost every one of his major New Deal proposals, many without even discussing them. |
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| Emergency Banking Act (EBA) |
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| Eliminated weak banks and gave cash to strong ones. Also pegged gold at $35 an ounce, which prevented hoarding, etc. |
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| Farm Credit Administration (FCA) |
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| Refinanced the mortgages of farmers who had missed payments. |
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| Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) |
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| Helps non-farmers in danger of foreclosure. |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
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| Orginization giving handouts to the absolutely desperate poor. |
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| Head of FERA. Disliked handouts on principle, so he orginized work projects as much of his relief plan when he left FERA and joined the new CWA in 1933, and then the WPA after the CWA was closed. |
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| Civilian Convervation Corps (CCC) |
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| Built infrastructure and demand without using up supply by building bridges, dams, fences, terracing (for erosion resistance), etc. Gave people paying jobs. |
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| Civil Works Administration (CWA) |
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| Constructed public projects like post offices, city halls, and recreational facilities. Also taught in bankrupt school districts. |
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| Works Projects Administration (WPA) |
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| Like the CWA, built post offices, city halls, etc. but also funded artists to paint public murals, photographers to take pictures of America, writers to write guidebooks of America, and historians to document slavery. |
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| National Youth Administration (NYA) |
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| Part of the WPA. Provided jobs for high school and college students. |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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| In charge of making sure the economy was efficient, etc. So code-crazy that they ended up losing a law suit brought upon them jews. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
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| Restricts farm production in order to raise the value of crops. Part of hundred days. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| The governement created a system of dams to keep the Tennessee River from overflowing and also to provide power (ELECTRIC dams, dude!) |
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| Presidential Candidate in '36. Radio broadcaster and catholic priest who believed that the Fed needed to be abolished. |
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| Presidential Candidate in '36. Wanted to give money to old people 'cause he knew they'd spend it. |
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| Presidential Candidate in '36. Champion of the poor/working man. 'Cause clearly Roosevelt wasn't already that. |
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| Social Security Act of 1935 |
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| Roosevelt stole Townsend's idea of social security, thereby stealing his thunder. |
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| Roosevelt's Pre-WW2 Foreign Policy |
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| Really wimpy. Not doing anything new or interesting. Just keeping Hoover's policies going. |
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| Pre-WW2 doctrine by which the U.S. refused to recognnize any territory gains made by force. Kind of weak, really, since everyone ignored it. |
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| Senator who investigated the dangerous and hostile practices of the munitions industry. |
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| The U.S.'s effort not to put ships in the region, etc. so they wouldn't get dragged into war. |
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| Ship that was sunk, 100 soldiers dying in the process. Roosevelt did not use it as an excuse to declare war. |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| 1942 agency to control wages and inflation. |
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| 1942 agency to mediate industrial disputes. |
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| Office of War Mobilization |
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| U.S. kicks Japanese ass, but takes more casualties. Nonetheless, they cut off the whole Japanese strategy. |
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| The branch of the Republican party that takes control of Congress after Lincoln's death, and makes it impossible for Lincoln's plan to be enacted. |
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| Grain elevators. "14th amendment not for whites." |
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| Free Silver, graduated income tax, popular elections for congress, etc. |
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| Changed the required percentage of confederate states voting for reentry to the union from Lincoln's 10% to 50%. Congress would also decide on readmission, rather than the President. Radical Republican bill. |
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| Lincoln's successor. Believed that readmission was unnecessary if it was unconstitutional to secede. Had serious problems with the radical Republicans. He was impeached, and couldn't veto, because they'd be overridden. |
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| Tried (and failed) to enforce equality for blacks. |
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| Doesn't allow Presidents to choose their cabinets. Passed by radical republicans. Johnson says it's unconstitutional, and defies it. Radical Republicans impeach him. |
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| What southerners called Reconstruction. The legend was one in which the north was humiliating the south. |
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| Corrupt gold scheme under Grant Administration. Grant was not the mastermind. |
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| Won election of 1876 when South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida claimed he had won there, but he hadn't. |
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| In exchange for letting the corruption in the 1876 election go, Southern Democrats are given certain reforms to rebuild the south. |
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| Inventer of the single tax. |
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| A tax on land speculation that would (theoretically) eliminate the need for any other taxes. |
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| American Federation of Labor. Labor reform group. More easy to compromise than other labor groups, so they survive. The counterpoint to them is the Knights of Labor. |
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| Not a rap group. Teddy Roosevelt's cavalry group in the Spanish-American war. Won him much praise. |
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| Teddy Roosevelt incites revolt in Panama, in order to build the canal after plans to do it in Columbia fail. |
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| British head of a medical facility in Belgium during WW1. Was executed by Germans occupying Brussels, which ended up causing a scandal of sorts, because women were so rarely executed. |
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| German foreign minister who supposedly developed the ingenious plan to have Mexico attack the U.S. as a distraction in WW1. |
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| The treaty by which the Russians pulled out of WW1. They kinda got screwed. It was later nullified. |
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| High casualties, nuclear age, Holocaust, spread of the Soviet Union, divided Germany, Civil War in China |
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| Cold War (as opposed to hot), Containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO |
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| Limiting USSR expansion without direct confrontation. |
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| We give money to poor countries to avoid communism. Specifically Greece and Turkey. |
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| Gave money for reconstruction in Europe. Communist nations didn't accept the money. This money was given to repair relations with Europe. God I'm tired. That was so incoherent. |
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| Soviets cut off access to Western Berlin to mess with us. |
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| First permanent alliance. Formed to combat USSR. Totally goes against Washington's Farewell Address. |
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| Tried to undo the Wagner Act. Limited workers' right to strike. Truman vetoed it, but it overroad the veto. Still, he gained union support, which would later help. |
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| McCarran Internal Security Act |
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| Vetoed by Truman. Forced governmental employees to sign loyalty clauses. Kind of a violation of a million rights. |
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| Argh! Communists! Kill them all! |
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| Eisenhower's Foreign Policy |
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| Phase 2 of Containment. Massive retaliation threats. Harder-line intervention into stuff. |
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| Eisenhower's Farewell Address |
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| We need a leader who will preserve liberty and not undermine our noble principles. We need a mandatory, large standing army, and industry constantly devoted to the military. |
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| Congress on Racial Equalities |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| School integration! Yay! Down with separate but equal! |
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| Northerners take bus trips to the south to protest segregation. |
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| Summer after Birmingham. SNCC workers murdered. Volunteers arm themselves, which is against Dr. King's approach. |
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| Democratic Convention (1964) |
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| Mississippi sent two delegations: one followed the technical rules for the primary, but didn't have the public support, the other was the other way around. Neither delegation ended up voting. |
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| King-orginized march, protest, etc. King gets close to Johnson, thus losing some popularity in the short-run. |
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| 6 days of race rioting in a poor section of L.A. |
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| Weak. Mostly interested in peace, but not interested in specifics. |
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| Kennedy's Domestic Affairs |
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| Doesn't really get anything done, but comes up with the idea for the Civil Rights Act and the Peace Corps. |
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| Under Kennedy. Bans nuclear tests. |
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| Johnson's Domestic Affairs |
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| War on Poverty, New Deal logic, education and job training funding, anti-discriminatory acts. |
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| Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 |
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| Federal programs for the unemployed. New Deal style. Under Johnson. |
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| Could it be fucked up? If it could, he did it. You name it, from South America to Southeast Asia, this guy really sucked. |
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| Split Vietnam, with the hope that it would soon be reunited, but it wasn't, leading to war. |
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| Military claims it's been attacked, and goes to congress to ask for power to take all necessary measures to stop attacks on the U.S. Ends up justifying police action. |
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| North Vietnamese attack South, killing U.S. morale. |
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| Fuck around behind the scenes in southeast asia and hope it works out. |
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| President can send troops for up to 6 months with just notification of congress, not approval. |
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| Basically disinterested. Hands it over to his staff. Typical Republican stuff. |
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| Opened relations with China. Understood different forms of communism. Understood global politics on a huge scale. |
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| Tried to avoid conflict with Soviets. |
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| Under Nixon. What do you think it does? |
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| Lincoln's reconstruction plan. Once 10% of a Confederate State swears an oath to the Union, they return to the Union. They need to ratify the 13th amendment, and the President controls pardoning Confederates. |
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| Vetoed by Lincoln. 50% need to swear oath. Congress controls reconstruction. |
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| Dual Citizenship Argument |
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| There's state citizenship and federal citizenship for all citizens. |
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| Equal protection for all citizens. Basically a black law at first. |
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| Voting rights for blacks. |
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| Direct election of senators. |
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| Dude. Women can VOTE now? What's next? Driving? |
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| 1873. 14th Amendment only for blacks, and even if it weren't, there are state rights and federal rights. Procedural due process and substantive due process rights involved in the suit by the butchers are not protected by the federal government. The state has the right to use its own military. |
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| 1877. Freight elevators State has right to regulate industry if it's in the public interest. Implies that 14th amendment is only for blacks. |
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| Civil Rights Cases of 1883 |
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| Private citizens are not covered by 14th amendment. Shift in 14th amendment interpretation from pro-black to pro-business |
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| 1866. Modifies Munn to say that states cannot regulate a business that is interstate in nature, even within their own state. Leads to development of ICC. |
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| 1866. Corporations are people too! |
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| 1895. Sugar refining isn't trade of commerce, and thus can't be regulated by 14th amendment. It's manufacturing, not trade. |
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| 1896. Separate but equal. |
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| 1919. Detention is legal if there's a clear and present danger. Abused for Japanese internment camps. |
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| NRA declared unconstitutional, because it violated interstate commerce for a bunch of jews. |
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| Democrats give up right to the presidency in exchange for an end to reconstruction. |
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| McKinley Tariff of 1890, Payne-Aldridge (under Taft), Dingley (1897), Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922ish |
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