film‚ making the first movies with synch sound. • DAVID SARNOFF (BELARUSIAN – 1891-1971) - 1906 – worked for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. 1912 – Rose to fame after he claimed to be the only telegraph operator working to relay news about the survivors of the Titanic. 1919-1970 – Led (RADIO CORPORATION AMERICA) RCA. • RADIO ACT OF 1912 - The United States government began requiring radio operators to obtain licenses to send out signals and mandated that seagoing vessels continuously
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Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt Ascends In November 1898‚ Roosevelt was elected governor by a narrow margin. He showed typical vigor in Albany and‚ as feared‚ alienated political boss Thomas Platt by pushing through a new tax on corporate franchises. His efforts at moderate reforms included a number of conservation measures and improvements in public education. In 1900‚ Platt and other New York Republicans urged President McKinley to take Roosevelt as his running mate; the previous vice president
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amendment approved. In the early 19th century women suffrage groups took a stand and marched‚ wrote letters‚ and practiced proper civil defiance to accomplish this great American change. In 1878 the Amendment was finally introduced in Congress. In 1912 The Progressive Party of Theodore Roosevelt turned into the first political party that encouraged women suffrage‚ and with his support that is when things began to change for the better. The women who helped push this amendment
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presidency in 1992‚ governing as a New Democrat. The Democratic Party lost control of Congress in the election of 1994 to the Republican Party. Re-elected in 1996‚ Clinton was the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected to two terms. Following twelve years of Republican rule‚ the Democratic Party regained majority control of both the House and the Senate in the 2006 elections. Some of the party’s key issues in the early 21st century in their last national platform have included
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 (ch. 6‚ 36 Stat. 11)‚ named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R-NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI)‚ began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States.[1] It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897.[2] President William Howard Taft called Congress into a special session in 1909 shortly after his inauguration to discuss the issue.
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Kentucky gives some women suffrage in school elections. 1861: Kansas enters the Union; the new state gives its women the right to vote in local school elections. 1869: Wyoming territory constitution grants women the right to vote and to hold public office. 1870: Utah territory gives full suffrage to women. 1893: The male electorate in Colorado votes "yes" on woman suffrage. 1894: Some cities in Kentucky and Ohio give women the vote in school board elections. 1895: Utah amends its constitution to grant
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Contributions to American Political Thought Throughout his tenure as a civil servant‚ Theodore Roosevelt perpetually involved himself in matters of reform. Well read and well traveled‚ Roosevelt expressed his wide array of political thought out of experience as well as an underlying desire to see the United States establish itself as a world power under the ideals of a democratic republica wolf amongst sheep on the world scene. The nation’s twenty-sixth president laid the
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Woodrow Wilson‚ conservative who had been the president of Princeton University‚ governor of New Jersey * In 1912‚ ‚ the Democrats nominated Wilson on the 46th ballot * The Democratic ticket would run under a platform called “New Freedom‚” which would include many progressive reforms. At the Progressive convention‚ Jane Addams put
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Mariano Trías (Appointed June 22‚ 1901–1905? Resigned) Major David C. Shanks (Appointed 1905?–September 30‚ 1905 Relieved) Capt. Louis J. Van Shaick (Appointed October 12‚ 1905–1907)[5] Leonardo R. Osorio (1908–1909) Tomás Mascardo (1910–1912) Antero S. Soriano (1912–1919) Luis O. Ferrer‚ Sr. (1919–1921) Raymundo C. Jeciel (1922–1925) Fabian Pugeda (1925–1931) Pedro F. Espiritu (1931–1934) Philippine Commonwealth[edit Ramon Q. Samonte (1935–1940) Emilio F. Virata - Acting Governor Luis Y. Ferrer‚ Jr
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APUSH Study Guide 26 The Path of Empire‚ 1890-1899 Themes/Constructs: In the 1890s a number of economic and political forces sparked a spectacular burst of imperial expansionism for the United States that culminated in the Spanish-American War—a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines. Various developments provoked the previously isolated United States to turn its attention overseas in the 1890s. Among the stimuli for the
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