Final
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
New safety laws created
Why price change to Model T automobiles?
Mass production
Muckrackers
Exposed corrupt business and polotocal practices.
To fill federal jobs on the basis of merit rather than patronage.
Civil Service Commission The Gilded Age
Buying on margin
1929 Stock market crash
Florance Kelley
Organized boycott of good produced by child labor
1935 Social Security act:
Unemployment insurance and old age pensions.
WWII ended soldiers coming home now had:
GI Bill of rights
Containment of communism but no victory
Korean war
McCarthy: Army
Senator McCarthy believed there were comunists in the US Military.
Suburban Developments
Berlin Blockade
Truman sent Berlin Airlift (supplies for the citizens).
Civil Disobedience
MLK
Thurgood Marshall's goal in Brown vs Board of Education?
End segregation in public education
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Caused Americans to take an active role in the Vietnam War.
If Indochina falls...
Domino Theory
End of the cold war affected the US (2)
Reduced Military spending
Reduced role of US in world affairs
Lessened fears of Soviet nuclear attack
Conservative movement (2)
Reduce the size of Federal Government
Cut spending on social programs
President Reagan and the Berlin Wall
Tearing down th wall would be an important step towards peace.
Reaganomics
Americans would have additional money to spend.
Major Motivation of Jihadists
Struggle against those they see as enemies.
US Response to Arab Uprising?
Cautious Support
Congressional gridlock during Obama's administration affect government?
Made passing laws extremely difficult by discouraging compromise.
Wht is the American Recovery and Reinvestmant act?
Providing funds to create jobs to improve public roads.
Issue that contributed to the weakness of the recovery of 2007 recession?
Most job growths was in low-wage work.