presidency in 1992‚ governing as a New Democrat. The Democratic Party lost control of Congress in the election of 1994 to the Republican Party. Re-elected in 1996‚ Clinton was the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected to two terms. Following twelve years of Republican rule‚ the Democratic Party regained majority control of both the House and the Senate in the 2006 elections. Some of the party’s key issues in the early 21st century in their last national platform have included
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 (ch. 6‚ 36 Stat. 11)‚ named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R-NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI)‚ began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States.[1] It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897.[2] President William Howard Taft called Congress into a special session in 1909 shortly after his inauguration to discuss the issue.
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Kentucky gives some women suffrage in school elections. 1861: Kansas enters the Union; the new state gives its women the right to vote in local school elections. 1869: Wyoming territory constitution grants women the right to vote and to hold public office. 1870: Utah territory gives full suffrage to women. 1893: The male electorate in Colorado votes "yes" on woman suffrage. 1894: Some cities in Kentucky and Ohio give women the vote in school board elections. 1895: Utah amends its constitution to grant
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Contributions to American Political Thought Throughout his tenure as a civil servant‚ Theodore Roosevelt perpetually involved himself in matters of reform. Well read and well traveled‚ Roosevelt expressed his wide array of political thought out of experience as well as an underlying desire to see the United States establish itself as a world power under the ideals of a democratic republica wolf amongst sheep on the world scene. The nation’s twenty-sixth president laid the
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Woodrow Wilson‚ conservative who had been the president of Princeton University‚ governor of New Jersey * In 1912‚ ‚ the Democrats nominated Wilson on the 46th ballot * The Democratic ticket would run under a platform called “New Freedom‚” which would include many progressive reforms. At the Progressive convention‚ Jane Addams put
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APUSH Study Guide 26 The Path of Empire‚ 1890-1899 Themes/Constructs: In the 1890s a number of economic and political forces sparked a spectacular burst of imperial expansionism for the United States that culminated in the Spanish-American War—a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines. Various developments provoked the previously isolated United States to turn its attention overseas in the 1890s. Among the stimuli for the
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Mariano Trías (Appointed June 22‚ 1901–1905? Resigned) Major David C. Shanks (Appointed 1905?–September 30‚ 1905 Relieved) Capt. Louis J. Van Shaick (Appointed October 12‚ 1905–1907)[5] Leonardo R. Osorio (1908–1909) Tomás Mascardo (1910–1912) Antero S. Soriano (1912–1919) Luis O. Ferrer‚ Sr. (1919–1921) Raymundo C. Jeciel (1922–1925) Fabian Pugeda (1925–1931) Pedro F. Espiritu (1931–1934) Philippine Commonwealth[edit Ramon Q. Samonte (1935–1940) Emilio F. Virata - Acting Governor Luis Y. Ferrer‚ Jr
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lack of fire escapes. The government stepped in after this event and passed many new laws to better regulate building codes and keep workers safer. Louis Brandeis’ work in the case Muller vs. Oregon and the later Adamson act (unrelated to Brandeis) of 1912 were both a part of this new workplace reform. Because of the low standards of society during this
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Woodrow Wilson and The Presidency From the beginning of the 1912 election‚ the people could sense the new ideas of Woodrow Wilson would move them in the right direction. Wilson’s idea of New Freedom would almost guarantee his presidential victory in 1912. In contrast to Wilson’s New Freedom‚ Roosevelt’s New Nationalism called for the continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions‚ paralleled by the growth of powerful regulatory agencies. Roosevelt’s ideas were founded in the Herbert
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owners‚ and other pro-big business legislation. The Democrats‚ who had been joined by the Populist Party‚ used this against McKinley‚ declaring that he was in the pockets of the business owners. Most of the issues in 1900 were the same as the previous election‚ and the Democrats even put forth the same candidate. However‚ McKinley was a popular and well liked president. He was the victorious leader of the nation when the Spanish-American War
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