Boston UniversityHISTORY MISC-Remember your Ps and Qs: Presidential Promises and Quotable Quotations

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Square Deal: Theodore Roosevelt Domestic Program Tried to give equal opportunity to business executives, farmers, laborers, & consumers Included attempts to break bad trusts, the Meat Inspection A... ct, the Pure Food & Drug Act, forced arbitration of the anthracite coal strike & conservation measures Dollar Diplomacy: William Howard Taft Endorsed the Roosevelt Corollary expanded America’s role as police officer by substituting dollars for bullets in promoting loans to business executives in Latin America and the Far east Modern Republicanism: Dwight Eisenhower Although he did not extend the welfare state begun by New Deal, he did not tamper with programs already in place New Freedom Woodrow Wilson Progressive Reform agenda Sought to strengthen democracy through programs such as the Underwood Tariff, Clayton Act, Federal Reserve Act & federal Trade Commission New Deal: FDR Variety of Relief, Reform, Recovery designed to get country out of Great depression & avoid a similar catastrophe in the future Country adopted the concept that the govt. has the responsibility to “promote the general welfare” Manifest Destiny James K. Polk Promised to complete the country’s expansion to the Pacific Ocean through the acquisition of the Oregon Country, Texas & what became of the Mexican Cession Rugged Individualism This study source was downloaded by 100000793680026 from CourseHero.com on 05-02-2021 07:24:43 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/40930750/Untitled-document-Google-Docspdf/ This study resource was shared via CourseHero.comRafael Ramirez Period 6 Herbert Hoover Country’s prosperity and greatness to date stemmed from rugged individualism rather than govt. action That this philosophy would work again in the Great Depression Great Society: Lyndon B. Johnson Believed country could eliminate poverty & racial injustice, improve education for all, and revitalize city slums to create a truly great society. Programs included Civil Rights Act, “war on poverty”, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Immigration Act, and Elementary & Secondary Education Act Fair deal: Harry Truman’s Aimed to preserve & extend the New Deal but med considerable congressional opposition New Frontier: John F. Kennedy Sought to find opportunity in space, medicine, technology & social relations. Many of his proposals for civil rights, poverty programs, Medicare & education became law after his assassination “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln Civil War “The power to tax involves the power to destroy” McCulloch v. Maryland Maryland’s tax on Baltimore branch of the Bank of US was unconstitutional. Established principle that National (federal) govt. is dominant “It is at the bottom life we must begin, not at the top.” Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute operated on the principle that African Americans would be well-advised to seek training in the trades rather than strive immediately for social equality “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” S.C. Justice Earl Warren Brown v. Board (overturned Plessy V. Ferguson) “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” Declaration of Independence This study source was downloaded by 100000793680026 from CourseHero.com on 05-02-2021 07:24:43 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/40930750/Untitled-document-Google-Docspdf/ This study resource was shared via CourseHero.c [Show More]

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