Transforming the West -West is the supplier and place where all the raw material comes from -Main supplier of the East CONTENT: Transcontinental Railroad -Completed in the 1870’s‚ over 2 mountain ranges 1 company owned primarily by people who made money as storekeepers -Government Project‚ but owned privately -Land grant railroads -Opened up the west‚ tied California and the East together Indian Affairs -Government took on Indian policy that wanted to get them out of the way Western
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47. John D Rockefeller 48. Elbert Henry Gary 49. The Gospel of Wealth 50. Theory of Causation 51. Mary Baker Eddy IDs 1. Mark Hanna 2. Apache Chief Geronimo 3. William Jennings Bryan 4. Wilson Gorman Tariff 5. Mary Elizabeth 6. National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry 7. Frederick Jackson Turner 8. Chief Joseph 9. Black Hills War 10. Helen Hunt Jackson 11. Dawes Severalty Act 12. Mary Baker Eddy 13. Homestead Act
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Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Dubois Debate * the debate over the best course for racial advancement in America by 1905 was run by: * Booker T. Washington * Booker T. Washington did not think that social equality of the races was as important as economic equality. He said: * "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly‚ and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to
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Taylor Larza Professor Theis English 104 5th March 2013 Larza v. Board of Education “Against School” is an essay that argues the true effectiveness of the current public school system‚ and how it affects children later in the real world. John Gatto‚ a teacher of 30 years in the Manhattan school system and winner of many prestigious teaching awards‚ discusses how high school was just a breeding ground for boredom. The boredom not only affects the children‚ but also the teachers. Gatto believes
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The commencement of the Gilded Age after the end of the Reconstruction period in 1877 sparked domestic change and reform for the United States that transformed the nation in economic‚ social‚ and political aspects (Thesis). The economy prospered due to the development of railroads and industrial and agricultural expansion‚ creating jobs for citizens and an efficient method to produce and transport goods throughout the nation (Claim #1). Social advancements such as Jane Addam’s foundation of the
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Functionalism is the original and still dominant discipline of thought in the social sciences. As a construct of two forms of scientific investigation: the scientific approach and viewing the individual as a part of a social organism or social whole‚ the scientific method considers society as an objectively observable and "real" entity that is suitable for methods and philosophies that guide examination and study of the physical world. The 17th century philosopher‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ believed that humans
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decline of agriculture. Near the end of the nineteenth century‚ business began to centralize‚ leading to the rise of monopolies and trusts. Falling prices‚ along with the need for better efficiency in industry‚ led to the rise of companies‚ the Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil company being a significant one. The rise of these monopolies and trusts concerned many farmers‚ for they felt that the disappearance of competition would lead to abnormaly unreasonable price raises that would hurt consumers
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Famous Thinkers The two famous thinkers in the week four Electronic Reserve Readings are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates. Each had separate aspirations and both men contributed a significant amount of growth in the Twentieth Century. Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have gone “down in history as individuals who changed the way the world worked personally‚ socially‚ and politically”. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential civil rights activists and speaker
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COURSE OVERVIEW Geoffrey Wiseman - “Polylateralism: Diplomacy’s Third Dimension” - two basis forms of diplomacy that have evolved over the years: bilateral (conduct of relations between two states) and multilateral (conduct of relations between three or more states at permanent or ad hoc international conferences - ague that polylateralism constitutes diplomacy’s third dimension (conduct of relations between official entities and at least one unofficial nonstate entity) - define state actors
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Farmers of the Late Nineteenth Century The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American Politics. The country was finally free of the threat of war‚ and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However‚ as these two decades went by‚ the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat‚ once the sustenance of the agriculture industry‚ were selling at prices so low that it was nearly impossible for farmers to make a profit off them.
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