American Heritage 100 III
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- 15th Amend
- enfranchisement of all black men
- 16th amend
- Progressives: income tax
- 17th amend
- Progressives: Popular election of Senators
- 19th amend
- Women can vote; women's suffrage
- FDIC
- New Deal alphabet program; Federal Deposit sfety net of $100,000.
- 1987 stock crash
- no bank runs
- Limits of new Deal
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created more gov't beaurocrats
didn't end GD (WWII did)
gov't expansion - Accomplishments of New Deal
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helped ppl psychologically
-work programs helped economically - architects for religious freedom
- evangelists
- Public Goods
- lighthouses, nat'l defense
- Externalities
- Pollution, vaccine, Hershey PA
- Depression
- severe recession
- fiscal policy
- gov't uses public expenditures and taxes to offset/eliminate expected decline
- Monetary policy
- Federal Reserve (nat'l bank) increases $ supply and thus pushes down interest rates
- Bush
- Republican, only committed to small gov't in PRINCIPLE, not in action
- CLIP Republicans
- Breech of Contract, Pork barrel projects skyrocketed
- Bush's political model
- Reagan
- Powerful gov't
- Patriot Act
- 2005 Fed. deficit
- $319 billion
- 2006 projected deficit
- $423 billion (a record)
- What do we tend to do when we want freedom from fear?
- Grow central gov't
- Why should I care about politics?
- Gov't growth; debts will come due at some point; prophets tell us to
- Who spreads the contagion of liberty?
- PEOPLE DO!!!
- CLIP citizen responsibility
- Vanderbuilt University
- CLIP Spread of Liberty?
- no; christian death sentence in Afghanistan; Taliban gone but culture remains
- CLIP Inclusion?
- Merry Christmas--Happy Holidays, those who fight againsts this
- CLIP Sesame Street
- All I need to know I learned in Sesame Street
- Challenges to Jim Crow
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-1930s-1950s
-NAACP
-1954 Brown v. Board of Edu.
- - CLIP MLK Speech
- civil disobedience- blacks are not challenging the Supreme Court, they are upholding nat'l law by exposing contradictions in state/local laws
- Brown's Impact
- rise of massive resistance with white citizens councils; put the 'supreme law of the land' behind the movement
- Montgomery, AL bus boycott
- 1955-56
- MLK
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Bus boycott significant because:
- -got grassroots ppl involved as well as others on nat'l scale
- CLIP local authorities resist nat'l law
- Little Rock, AK Central High School; Eisenhower sends in nat'l guard to control state troops
- 1963
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-Birmingham, AL
-June 11: JFK urges support for civil rights legislation
-June 12: dramatically, Medgar Evans shot dead
-Peaceful march on DC - CLIP
- MLK I have a dream speech
- SNCC leader
- John Lewis
- Malcolm X
- Separatist, anti-white
- MLK becomes nat'l hero
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CLIP Just one man -U2
voice of AA in South and in North/Harlem - Civil Rights Movement inspired
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-Women's movement
-Gay rights movement
-Environmental movement - Environmental movement
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-turn to grassroots
-major demonstrations; Earth day (1970)
-Ask Fed. gov't to extend reach (EPA established, 1970) - CLIP Env. movement and Civ. Rights Movem.
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Soilent green; Earth will vomit
--> they were wrong!!!! - Civil Rights Act
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Jan 1964
-outlawed discrimination in public accomodations/ employment - Watts riots
- LA nieghborhood race riots provoked by northern A.A. sufferings: economic inequality and police brutality
- BLACK POWER (SNCC)
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Huey Newton; Black Pantehers
"Revolution--time to pick up the gun"
caused white backlash