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History 1302 people
History 1302 Final E
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Addams | established Hull House (center for immigrants), birth of social work rather than just charity, founder of the settlement movement |
| George H.W. Bush | Reagans Vice President, then 41st president, No New Taxes, Republican President but Democratic Congress, promised a Kinder, Gentler Nation, served 1 term, father of George W Bush |
| Andrew Carnegie | Steel manufacturing, vertical integration, wrote Gospel of Wealth, self made man |
| Jimmy Carter | he was everything the govt was NOT - honest, integrity, high point was the Camp David Accords that invited Egypt leader and Israel to work things out. focus of securing human rights, won because he was an outsider |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban dictator, appealed to the masses, US does NOT support him, Cubans left because of him, supported by Soviet Union and allowed them to build missile bases in Cuba for the support |
| Caesar Chavez | Founded National Farm Workers Union - wanted to improve conditions for the migrant workers, led strikes for better pay and working conditions |
| George Custer | Battle of Little Bighorn - Custers Last Stand, attacked the Sioux Indians for their land in the Black Hills and was slaughtered |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Founder of NAACP, opposite of Booker Washingtons views - Washington felt blacks should act and talk like whites, DuBois sd NO ACT LIKE WHITEs - celebrate being black, college important |
| Dwight Eisenhower | hero of WWII, 5 star general, I Like Ike, republican, 1st time some border states voted republican, "New Look" policy giving friendly nations weapons and back them w a nuclear arsenal,federal troops to protect black students going to a white college |
| Gorgachev | new leader of Soviet Union, issued 2 directives - Glassnov allowing more ideas and freedom and Perestroika for capitalism, worked w Reagan on arms reduction, resigned in 1991 |
| Herbert Hoover | Democrat promised a New Deal, homeless towns known as Hoovervilles as a show of dispair, behaved NORMALLY thru the depression - as if nothing was wrong, scapegoat, believed in Volunteering, NO 2nd term |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | presidency after JFK was killed, opposite of Kennedy, grew up in poverty, Vietnam his war- didnt start it but it escalated, GREAT SOCIETY (embraced New Deal thoughts), EXPANDED ROLE OF GOVT - felt no poverty, sd Vietnam and costs killed his Great Society |
| John F. Kennedy | slogan NEW FRONTIER, cold warrior fighting communism and wanted containment, claimed to now know about Bay of Pigs but did, Democratic, Assassinated 11/22/63, by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1st TV debate against Nixon, young and catholic which was a concern |
| Robert Kennedy | champion of poor and powerless, brother of JFK, looked like he was going to win election but was assassinated by Sir Han Sir Han a Palestinian opposed to Kennedys pro Israel stance - |
| Martin Luther King | gained respect fast, "non violent resistance" DO NOT MEET VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE - driving philosophy of civil rights movement, assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray, primary leader of blacks |
| Charles Lindbergh | "new hero" of the 1920's, entered a contest to become the 1st to fly solo Spirit of St Louis, because of radio, people could listen to the progress of flight, became a "model" of American success - recvd the flying cross from Congress |
| Huey Long | SHARE OUR WEALTH - counter of the New Deal, "King Fish" - make every man a King by taxing the rich. Taxed wealthy and large corporation and used $ to build schools. Wanted to Redistribute the $. Supporters were poor and middle class - |
| Richard Nixon | Won after Johnson, Vietnam president, won because public was opposed to war and he sd he cd end the war w/peace and honor, didnt appear we were winning, Watergate scandal led him to resign BEFORE HE WAS IMPEACHED |
| Malcolm X | Challenged the concept of non violence - radical, rejected integration, he WANTS separation of the races, argued blacks need to be economically independent and not depend on whites, WAS assassinated |
| Rosa Parks | black woman chose to not get up out of her seat in the bus for a white man, Parks was arrested for breaking segregation laws. Led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 381 days of walking rather than riding the bus |
| Ronald Reagan | conservative Republican,his inauguration was the day Iran released the hostages, promised tax cuts, actor, Reagan= Patriotic America, Reagan Revolution cultural conservatism and economic conservatism support of new right, Christian, TRICKLE DOWN economics |
| Reaganomics | trickle down economy - to institute tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations with the idea then that the large corporations will reinvest it |
| Franklin Delanor Roosevelt | won over Hoover because he promised a NEW DEAL, had polio, dealt w the depression by knowing the problem (unlike Hoover), America LOVED him, save capitalism, warrior spirit to fix the problem, fireside chats, "my friends" nominated first woman to cabinet |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1st Progressive President, muckrakers (journalist exposing the muck), NEW NATIONALISM, trustbuster break up giants like Standard Oil, SQUARE DEAL, walk softly carry big stick, bull moose, Clayton anti Trust act, social justice, regulation of food and drug |
| Sacco and Venzetti | immigrants accused of robbery and murder. judge cd them anarchist and committee found judge guilty of breach of decorum. immigrants executed and people followed caskets -sd they were killed because they were immigrants and not murderers |
| Dr. Benjamin Spock | wrote the "Bible" of child rearing women followed his teaching about child rearing, sd children came first, not the parents |
| Clarence Thomas | black nominated by Bush that was controversial, head of the EEOC, accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, held office of supreme Court Justice |
| Dr. Townsend | townsend plan - govt would pay retired citizens over 60 a monthly pymt and you were given 30 days to spend money. Wd encourage early retirement and stimulate the economy. HIS IDEAS WILL INFLUENCE THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT |
| Woodrow Wilson | ran against Roosevelt and won academic approach, people didnt like him - he was cold, self righteous, President during WWI, DID NOT support womens suffrage, allowed segregation to be reinstituted in govt will abandon Progressive reform "NEW FREEDOM" |
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