National Politics
McKinley to Hoover
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Election of 1896
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Panic of 1893
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William Jennings Bryan
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Cross of Gold
William McKinley
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McKinley Presidency 1897-1901
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Domestic
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Dingley Tariff, 1897 – highest ever
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Currency Act of 1900
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Foreign Policy
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Social Darwinism & White Man’s Burden
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Hawaii
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Dole Fruit
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Cuba and Spanish American War
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Why
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The Teller Amendment
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Platt Amendment
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Splendid Little War
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Summary
yellow journalism
Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam
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The Progressives
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New Women
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Jane Addams
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Muckrakers
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
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Initiative, referendum, recall
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Florence Kelly
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Birth Control
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The Not so Progressive
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Immigration Restriction League
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Jim Crow Laws
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The Birth of a Nation
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Popular Culture in the Progressive Era
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Ashcan School
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Nickelodeons
Summary
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 (reelected in 1904)
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Domestic
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United Mine Workers Union
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Trust Busting
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Hepburn Act, 1906
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
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Meat Inspection Act, 1906
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Sanitary rules and federal inspections
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Booker T. Washington
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Brownville Incident
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National Reclamation Act of 1902
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US Forest Service, 1905
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Antiquities Act, 1906
Foreign Policy
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Panama Canal
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Latin America
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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
Russo-Japanese War
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Yellow Peril
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Great White Fleet
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Gentlemen’s Agreement
Speaking softly and carrying a big stick
Election of 1908
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William Jennings Bryan
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William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft 1909-1913
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Domestic
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Mann-Elkins Act, 1910
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Trust Busting
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
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Foreign Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
Election of 1912
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William Howard Taft
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Progressive Party AKA Bull Moose
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Woodrow Wilson
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Eugene Debs
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Socialist Party
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
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Domestic
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Federal Reserve Act, 1913
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Federal Trade Commission Act, 1914
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Clayton Antitrust Act, 1914
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Keating-Owen Act, 1916
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Adamson Act, 1916
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Muller v. Oregon
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Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1916
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Federal Farm Loan Act and Federal Warehouse Act, 1916
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Federal Highway Act, 1916
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Constitutional Reform
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16th Amendment, 1913
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17th Amendment, 1913
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18th Amendment, 1919
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19th Amendment, 1920
Summary
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Foreign Policy
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Europe
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World War I
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Abroad
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Lusitania & Zimmerman Note
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American Expeditionary Force
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At Home
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Selective Service Act
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The Commission on Training Camp Activities
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War Industries Board
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Fuel Administration
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Food Administration
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Woman’s Land Army
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National War Labor Board
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Railroad Administration
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Liberty Loans
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Committee on Public Information
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Income Tax
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Conscientious Objectors
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The Espionage Act & Sedition Amendment
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Great Migration of African Americans north
End of War
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14 points
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Treaty of Versailles
Summary
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Dawn of a New Era – The Tumultuous 20’s
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Liberating
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The Roaring 20s
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Automobile Industry
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Fordism
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radio & cinema
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Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
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Cotton Club
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Jazz
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Flappers
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Repression
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Revived Racism
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1919 Chicago Race Riots
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KKK
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Red Scares 1919 and 1920
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J. Edgar Hoover, 1919
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Palmer Raids
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National Origins Act
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Reaction
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Regionalism
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Louis Armstrong
Edward Hooper
Literature
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Sinclair Lewis
Election of 1920
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Domestic
Teapot Dome
Foreign Policy
Washington Naval Arms Conference, 1921
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
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Foreign Policy
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Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
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Domestic
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National Origins Act (1924)
Summary
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Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
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Domestic
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Welfare Capitalism
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The Great Depression
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Summary
Buying On Margin