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American Exceptionalism

American Exceptionalism. Alexis de Tocqueville’s five values crucial to America’s success as a constitutional republic: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.

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American Exceptionalism

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  1. American Exceptionalism • Alexis de Tocqueville’s five values crucial to America’s success as a constitutional republic: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.

  2. According to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, where does a government get it’s authority? From the people • Homestead Act moved people westward with promise of land. • Dealing with the Native Americans – Reservations, then the Dawes Act which was an attempt to assimilate Native Americans into the American societies • What were problems of urbanization?, women and child labor? • The dislike of immigration is called nativism

  3. Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy test and Grandfather clauses were set up to limit African American rights and their ability to vote. • Spanish American War 1898 is the first step toward imperialism (control over the Philippines, Puerto Rico) • Open Door policy was to open up trade with China for the United States who had been shut out by others spheres of influence

  4. Initiative, referendum, and recall helped involve the people more into the govt. (popular sovereignty) • Progressive amendments • 16th amendment – graduated income tax • 17th amendment – direct election of the Senate • 18th amendment – Prohibition • 19th amendment – Women's suffrage • Influence of Muckrakers Ida Tarbell (the History of Standard Oil), Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities), Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives)

  5. Ida B Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington – African American leaders • Why people moved from the rural areas to the city?” Jobs, technology changed the number of farmers needed • The Transcontinental Railroad • Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth • John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration, trust, monopolies • Know what laissez faire means • What technological changes developed during this time period

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