the american economy a historical encyclopedia phần 9 ppt

... 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 ... Purchase Treaty 563 Panama Canal Treaty of 190 3 The construction of the Panama Canal opened up trade between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans for the United States as we...

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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 ... Children (AFDC), 7 Alaska, 8 Aldrich-Vreeland Act ( 190 8), 9 Alliance for Progress, 9 American Economic Association (AEA), 9 American Federation of Labor and C...

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... experts—including Edison,Thomas Alva 93 Next, Reed assembled a team of army doctors, including Major James Carroll, Major Jesse W. Lazear, and Major Aristides Agramonte of Havana (a Cuban national who was a member of the U.S. ... Canada, opened up the American industrial and agricultural heart- land to oceangoing vessels. A series of canals, dams, and locks allows ships to trav...

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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] ... 1810 and 1860 alone. The remarkable character of this feature of American slavery can be illustrated by briefly comparing the demographics of slavery in America and in J...

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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 ... In the 194 0s Amos Hawley took the focus of analysis away from the “nat- ural” abilities of particular social groups and instead exam- ined human ecology as it adapted to the dema...

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... 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. fleet could participate easily ... Siry References LaFeber, Walter. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865– 191 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 199 3. See also Vo lume 1: Panama and the Pana...

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... analyze data with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 199 After the National War Labor Board was dismantled in 194 5, there were several major labor strikes, just as there had ... in the 192 0s and in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the 193 0s ensured that gasoline remained abundant and cheap. In 192 8, the major oil companies created an informal global cartel to fix pric...

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... of Panama and later to the Panama Canal. Addition- ally, the United States feared the potential annexation of the islands by foreign powers in the 1860s, first by Austria and Prussia and later ... suffer a significant attack on its industrial base. Warfare ravaged Eu- rope and Japan but American factories emerged from the war unscathed. World War II reduced the industrial capa...

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... of the first veterans’ benefits packages passed after World War I. The act gave disabled veterans of the Great War monthly educa- tion assistance allowances as well as federal grants for reha- bilitation ... 600 bills regarding veterans and their educational welfare. The enactment of the GI Bill was attributable, in part, to a nationwide campaign for its passage. The American Le...

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... Johnson and the Great Society. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 199 8. Anguizola, G. A. Philippe Bunau-Varilla: The Man behind the Panama Canal. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 198 0. Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and a New ... 193 1. Rowe,Leo Stanton. The Pan American Union and the Pan American Conferences, 1 890 – 194 0. Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 194 0. Roy,William G. The Politics of Bu...

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