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Progressive Era Terms

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Alisa Chen Hamza Noor Rohini Verma Christina Xu Jenny Zhi Progressive Unit Terms People- Theodore Roosevelt- American politician, Republican, author, soldier, and the 26th President of the United States. Became the youngest President after the assassination of President McKinley. William Howard Taft- 27th President and 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Woodrow Wilson- 28th President of the United States, he was president when World War One. Robert La Follette- nicknamed ?Fighting Bob? was an American Republican who was a Senator, member of the House of Representative, and Governor of Wisconsin. ?He was the PRogressive Party?s nominee for the 1924 election. ?He opposed railroad trists and is considered one the Americas greatest Senators.

Letter to teacher about the book

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Kellum Harris AP English 6th 1-12-14 Dear Mrs. Roeming, So far in the book Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the topics of prostitution, sex-change operations, and gender inequality have been brought into a completely new perspective for this reader. My points of view were not only challenged, but my beliefs actually changed. I learned that some people whom society views as nasty, slutty, or ?over-reactive feminists? may be some of the smartest and most intellectual individuals in our society today.

Krugman Macroeconomics Chapter 30

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Module 30: Long-run Implications of Fiscal Policy: Deficits and the Public Debt ? Why governments calculate the cyclically adjusted budget balance Why a large public debt may be a cause for concern Why implicit liabilities of the government are also a cause for concern ? Recession ? Expansionary fiscal policy ? Raising government spending/lowering taxes ? Aggregate demand curve shifts to the right Inflation ? Contractionary fiscal policy ? Lowering government spending/raising taxes ? Aggregate demand curve shifts to the left ? The Budget Balance as a Measure of Fiscal Policy Budget Balance: the difference between the government?s tax revenue and its spending in a given year T: value of tax revenues G: government purchases of goods and services

Krugman Macroeconomics Chapter 20

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Module 20: Economic Policy and the Aggregate Demand? Aggregate Supply Model How the AD?AS model is used to formulate macroeconomic policy The rationale for stabilization policy Why fiscal policy is an important tool for managing economic fluctuations Which policies constitute expansionary fiscal policy and which constitute contractionary fiscal policy ? ? Economy is self-correcting in the long run: it will eventually trend back to potential output Stabilization policy: is the use of government policy to reduce the severity of recessions and rein in excessively strong expansions ? Policy in the Face of Demand Shocks Monetary and fiscal policy shift the aggregate demand curve

Chapter 28 Test

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Chapter 28 Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 43. As one progressive explained, the ?real heart? of the progressive movement was to a. preserve world peace. b. use the government as an agency of human welfare. c. ensure the Jeffersonian style of government. d. reinstate the policy of laissez-faire. e. to promote economic and social equality. 44. Progressives, who were among the strongest critics of injustice in early- twentieth-century America, received much of their inspiration from a. the Federalists. b. the Greenback Labor party and the Populists. c. foreign nations. d. progressive theorists, like Jacob Riis. e. social Darwinists. 45. Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism.

Chapter 25 Test

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Chapter 28 America on the World Stage, 1899?1909 Name ___________________________ Date ________________ A.P. U.S. History & Government Mr. Ferretti Chapter 25 Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 31. The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was a. uniquely American. b. fueled by an agricultural system suffering from poor production levels. c. attributable to the closing of the frontier. d. a trend that affected Europe as well. e. a result of natural reproduction. 32. The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was a. the development of the skyscraper.

Chapter 22 Test

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Chapter 22 Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 27. The fate of the Confederate leaders after 1865 was that a. most were jailed for an extended period of time. b. several were executed for treason. c. all were eventually pardoned. d. none was ever allowed to hold political office again. e. several went into exile in Brazil. 28. In the postwar South a. the economy was utterly devastated. b. the emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence. c. the much-feared inflation never materialized. d. industry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish. e. poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery. 29. At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

American Pagent Chapter 4 Rough Notes

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Ben Nichols? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? AP History Notes? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Chapter 4?? ~1/2 the people that were born in the new world died before they were 12? ~Angry men (Bacon) overthrew Berkley and his monopoly? ~Slavery put many people out of business in Virginia? ~Freed slaves could own other slaves up to a point? ~Slaves brought words into English language? ~New England industries had an easier time than southern farmers? ~Northern families did much better at staying alive? ~Southern women were able to keep land and a title where Northern women were not? ~Harvard is the oldest corporation in the US? ~Most children were required an elementary education in the North? ~The witchcraft hysteria ended in 1693

American Pageant 13E Chapter 5 Study Guide

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Student Study Guide for the American Pageant CHAPTER 5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700?1775 seq NL1 \r 0 \h Chapter Summary ? By 1775 the thirteen American colonies east of the Appalachians were inhabited by a burgeoning population of two million whites and half a million blacks. The white population was increasingly a melting pot of diverse ethnic groups including Germans and the Scots-Irish.

African American Final

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Quicksand Nella Larsen 11/10/14 9:13 PM Lynching As a practice and how it represented Practice of killing people in the extra judicial way Without due process/trial Vigilante mob action Late 18th C through the 19th C Most victims = African American men Chicago Tribute begins to systematically record lynching 1892 especially strong year for lynching Tuskegee University begins to collect lynching statistics 1912 NAACP begins to also collect statistics Lynching reaches a peak: Slavery is deemed unconstitutional 1877 large number of efforts arise to reinstitute slavery Systematic dismantling of the rights gained Rise in terrorism and violence (institutionalized/non) Captured/documented through photography Public spectacles spectacular imagery

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