A HTG 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gilded Age, Party System, Fiscal Policy
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Why the civil war still matters(mcpherson): negative vs positive liberty, sovereignty, brown vs board, little rock. What to the slave is the fourth of july:douglass: hypocrasy. 14: applied the bill of rights (citizenship) to the states, jim crow laws. Plessy vs ferguson1896 : plessy on a white train car, separate but equal, not govn role to promote social equality. Brown vs board of education: repealed plessy vs ferguson. Separate automatically makes it unequal, socially and psychologically damaging. Roosevelt & anti trust laws- made them into smaller companies so they would compete. Populists:farmers, give power back to the people, railroads are the problem, forced to pay the railroad price, william jennings brian. If one is not honest, it is not a fair trade, not beneficial to the other. Problems with the fda: could be restricting things that could be beneficial, could let a harmful thing.
