the american economy a historical encyclopedia phần 2 ppt

... Canada, opened up the American industrial and agricultural heart- land to oceangoing vessels. A series of canals, dams, and locks allows ships to travel the Great Lakes all the way to Chicago. Other major ... weather pattern occasionally moved as far north as Nebraska and the Dakotas. Dust storms in 1935 carried away wheat—half of the crop in Kansas, one- fourth in Oklahoma, and...

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... reason. During the Stamp Act crisis, Americans argued that there was a difference between a tax for revenue and a tax for the regulation of trade—Parliament, the Americans said, lacked the authority to pass ... of 2, 664 applicants) for African American, Asian, Native American, and Latino applicants, and the school established lower academic requirements for these individua...

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... numerous reasons, mainly to achieve higher standards, establish standardization, and exclude immigrants from the field. (The American Bar Asso- ciation [ABA] and the American Association of Law Schools [AALS] ... slavery, and they ar- gued that their analysis revealed that, contrary to received wisdom, the American slave was not lazy but worked as hard as the white laborer. Alth...

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... peculiar to the southern states; as are hitherto Lead & Coal. Flax and Hemp are or may be raised in greater abun- dance there, than in the More Northern states, and the Wool of Virginia is said ... destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet and seize the American colony of the Philip- pines. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the first step in the plan, and with it came American entry...

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... otherwise, revert to the Republic of Panama, under any contracts or concessions, with said Wyse, the Universal Panama Canal Company, the Panama Railroad Company and the New Panama Canal Company. The ... Panama, whose decisions as to such damages shall be final and whose awards as to such damages shall be paid solely by the United States. No part of the work on said Canal or the...

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... isthmian canal increased when the United States emerged from the Spanish -American War as a power in the Caribbean and the Pacific. A canal across Central America seemed necessary so that the U.S. ... In- dochina and joined the Axis powers as a result of the Tripar- tite Pact. In April 1941, the Japanese signed a neutrality agreement with the Soviet Union and began m...

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... Westview Press, 20 02. See also Vo lume 1: Iran-Contra; Panama and Panama Canal; Reagan, Ronald. NIPA See National Income and Product Accounts. NIRA See National Industrial Recovery Act. NLRB See National Labor ... the Con- tras. During the ensuing Contra War of the 1980s, the Nicaraguan economy deteriorated because of warfare and an American embargo on Nicaraguan goods that beg...

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... of the colony, the United States became increasingly interested in acquiring the islands as a strategic asset guarding eastern approaches to the Isthmus of Panama and later to the Panama Canal. ... is the only major industrialized nation that did not suffer a significant attack on its industrial base. Warfare ravaged Eu- rope and Japan but American factories emerged from the...

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... 1894 at the American Bankers As- sociation meeting by a banker from New York and another from Baltimore, was known as the Baltimore Plan and rested on the idea that financial and currency stability ... early 1800s, changes in the economy con- vinced many Americans that educational reform was needed. The growth of the cash economy and the withering away of the barter and...

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... of the Panama Canal Treaty, at such part of Corozal Cemetery in the former Canal Zone as encompasses the remains of citizens of the United States of America. (3) The President— (A) shall have announced, ... war or auxiliary vessel of the United States of America or the Republic of Panama going to the head of the line of vessels in order to transit the Panama Canal rapidly...

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