October 2011 US History Discussion

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<li>Horatio Alger writes about-- self made man</li>
<li>“Is that all?” quote-- Betty Friedan</li>
<li>muckraker</li>
<li>“city up on the hill”-- Winthrop</li>
<li>Jonathan Edward-- religious revival (forgot the wording, anyway)</li>
<li>During American Antislavery War: issue a lot of paper money</li>
<li>McCarran Internal Security Act-- against communism</li>
<li>1970s migration: south and west</li>
<li>American Antislavery Society: working-class african american</li>
<li>iron curtain: the very last choice-- something about threat from USSR</li>
<li>similarity b/t Malcolm X, Garvey, and someone else: separatism </li>
<li>Article of Confederation: weak central government</li>
<li>Federalist paper: ratification of constitution</li>
<li>seventeenth century labor system: slave replaced indentured servants</li>
<li>Jay Treaty: preservation of peace with GB</li>
<li>Zoot Suit Riot: mexican youth</li>
<li>Great Plain: steel plow </li>
<li>first question: disease</li>
<li>McCarthy: (???)</li>
<li>“Great Society”-- LBJ</li>
<li>desegregation in army: after 1945</li>
<li>McCulloch vs. Maryland: federal power > state power</li>
<li>not a factor that caused Great Depression: failure of negotiation with other countries on certain pacts</li>
<li>Cartoon (Tammany Hall): political machine</li>
<li>“I ask no favor for my sex.” – (what was the right answer to this question? i think it was only one word)</li>
<li>rise of NYC: Erie canal </li>
<li>talented tenth: W.B. Dubois</li>
<li>Carter: human rights</li>
<li>repeal stamp act: refuse to buy birtish goods</li>
<li>great awakening: religious enthusiasm</li>
<li>labor question (West Indies): sugar (?)</li>
<li>natural right for everyone: Declaration of Independence (?)</li>
<li>difference between Taft and TR: </li>
<li>bleeding kansas: </li>
<li>fifty-four forty or fight: Oregon</li>
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