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New Deal Era

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Politics of the United States
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Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
73rd United States Congress
liberalism
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
National Recovery Administration
Alphabet agencies
National Industrial Recovery Act
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rising discontentment resulted as U.S. citizens came to detest Hoover, naming shantytowns ?Hoovervilles? and naming newspapers ?Hoover blankets? farmers began to rise up & protest in the election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) was elected the New Deal programs were to serve the three R?s: relief for the people, recovery for business & economy, & reform of U.S. economic institutions The bread line ?Migrant Mother? The New Deal 1933-1939 The New Deal represented a new form of liberalism, the ideology of individual rights that had long shaped the character of US. society & politics. Now, ?social welfare? liberalism expanded individual rights by protecting citizens w/various social welfare programs. FDR takes office in March of 1933 20th Amendment was ratified in 1933

Reconstruction notes

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Reconstruction Era of the United States
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
Redeemers
Scalawag
Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Freedman
Carpetbagger
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Politics

Reconstruction Chapter 15 Reconstruction both a time period & a process between 1865 and 1877 (from the end of the Civil War until the end of military reconstruction when the Union army withdrew from the South) the process was more complicated & complex: readmitting the Southern states, physically reconstructing & rebuilding Southern towns, cities, & property that had been destroyed during the war, and integrating newly freed blacks into U.S. society the goals & the questions: Lincoln spoke of the need to ?bind up the nation?s wounds? Slavery was finished but what system of labor should replace plantation slavery? What rights should the freedmen be accorded beyond emancipation? On what terms should rebellious states be restored to the Union?

Slavery

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Slavery in the United States
African slave trade
History of the United States
Americas
Racism
Slave Trade
slavery
American studies
Abolitionism
Plantations in the American South
Plantation
Free negro
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Masters and Slaves In the South during the first half of the 19th century, an elite group of whites dominated the society and made profits on the labor of black slaves The Divided Society of the Old South Slavery?s existence in the old South rested upon inequality People living within the realm of a slave-based economy were granted status according to class and caste A diverse spectrum existed between planters and field hands The World of Southern Blacks Slaves, struggling against tremendous odds, managed to create a full, rich culture Slaves created a community that made psychic survival possible Slaves? Daily Life and Labor 90% of South?s 4 million slaves worked on plantations with the rest working in industry or in cities

Human Geo Chp. 13

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Human Geography
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Urban decay
Human Geography
Urban economics
Mortgage industry of the United States
Urban politics in the United States
Politics of the United States
Poverty
Socioeconomics
Gentrification
Redlining
Underclass
Urban renewal
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Isaiah Bennett p.1 5/6/13 CH.13 K.I 3 I Inner-City Physical Issue The major physical problem faced by inner-city neighborhoods is the poor condition Deteriorated housing can either be demolished and replaced with new housing or it can be Process of Deterioration As the number of low-income resident increase in the city the territory they occupy expand Middle-class families move out of a neighborhood to never housing farther from the center and sell or rent their houses to lower-income families Filtering Filtering Process of subdivision of houses and occupancy by successive waves of lower-income people Redlining Redlining Drawing lines a map to identify areas in which they will refuse to lean money Although redlining is illegal enforcement of law against it is frequently difficult

Human Geo ch. 11

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Human Geography
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National accounts
Debt
Least developed country
Infant mortality
Gross domestic product
Business
Technology
Productivity
Economic indicator
economics
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Isaiah Bennett p.1 3/5/13 Ch.9 K.I 1 Economic Indicator of development United Nation selects one economic factor, two social factors, and one demographic factor that in the opinion of a international team The economic factor is gross domestic product (GDP) The social factor are the literacy rate and amount of education? The demographic factors life expectancy Gross Domestic Per Capita Average individual earns a much higher income in an MDX than in an LDC, Per capita income is a difficult figure to obtain in many countries, so to get a example of average incomes in various, geographers Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Is the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a country Types of Jobs

H1B Visas

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SKIL Bill
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Labor

Increase H1B Visas There is now a great need in the U.S. for a dramatic increase in H-1B visa availability in order to meet the demand of U.S. businesses for skilled workers. Companies across the?United States?are now beginning to assess their H-1B visa needs for the FY 2015 (10/1/14 - 9/30/15) filing season and are expecting even greater competition for the limited number of available H-1B cap slots. Foreign born skilled workers actually increase our jobs availability On the contrary, studies have shown that foreign-born skilled workers help the economy and actually create jobs for U.S. citizens.

Funding

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United States Department of Agriculture
Federal assistance in the United States
WIC
Presidency of Barack Obama
Homelessness
Democratic Party
Politics of the United States
Government
Pregnant Women Support Act
Personal life
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Politics

Federal Funding to WIC program (Aff.) When homeless mothers in Sacramento, California, need food, counseling or support, they can come to a rectangle-shaped cinderblock building just a few blocks from the American River. It is an essential program that needs to be funded The building is home to Maryhouse, a daytime homeless shelter. Connie Frank is the executive director and it's her job is to connect the women with social services. Many of them need help finding nighttime shelter, counseling and food. For Frank, the Women Infants and Children program is a key service. "It's a wonderful program, an essential program, to feed these families," she said. "Baby formula, for example, is very expensive?

Overcrowding

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Penology
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Mandatory sentencing
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Prison
Punishment
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Incarceration in the United States
Fair Sentencing Act
law
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Alleviate Overcrowding America?s federal prisons are in trouble. They?re so crowded they?re endangering the lives of inmates and?corrections officers, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles Samuels Jr.,?testified at a Senate hearing?on Wednesday. And the immense cost of confining so many people is draining vital resources from from other public safety endeavors, includinginvestigations and prosecutions. Politicians across the political spectrum, from Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to Rand Paul (R-Ky.), increasingly agree that something has to be done. Send fewer people to prison for?drug crimes. The problem:?There are 219,000 inmates in the federal prisons system -- compared with 25,000 in 1980. About half are there for drug offenses.

APWH Chaper 30 notes

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World History
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Americas
political geography
earth
Latin America
Canada–United States relations
united states
Abolitionism
Canadians
Manifest Destiny
Creole peoples
Louis Riel
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Politics

Chapter?30: The Americas in the Age of Independence Chapter Outline The building of American states The United States: westward expansion and civil war By 1820s all adult white men could vote and hold office Rapid westward expansion after the revolution Britain ceded all lands east of theMississippi River?to United States after the revolution 1803, United States purchased France's Louisiana Territory, west to the Rocky Mountains By 1840s, coast-to-coast expansion was claimed as the manifest destiny of the United States Conflict with indigenous peoples followed westward expansion 1830, Indian Removal Act forced eastern natives to move west of the Mississippi Thousands died on the "Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma Stiff resistance to expansion: Battle ofLittle Big Horn, 1876, Sioux victory

APWH Chaper 38 notes

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World History
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globalization
Cultural geography
Economic geography
Postmodernism
Sociocultural evolution
economics
Economic globalization
Economic growth
World peace
Economic system
Science
Structure
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Chapter?38: A World without Borders Chapter Outline The End of the Cold War Revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary Velvet and violent revolutions Fall of the Berlin Wall The collapse of the Soviet Union Gorbachev's reforms Gorbachev hoped for economic reform within political and economic system Centralized economy inefficient, military spending excessive Declining?standard of living, food shortages, shoddy goods Perestroika and Glasnost Perestroika: "restructuring" the economy Tried decentralizing economy,market system, profit motive Alienated those in positions of power, military leaders Glasnost: "openness" to public criticism, admitting past mistakes Opened door to widespread criticism of party and government

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