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1890: Shermand Antitrust Act

-> began to modify faith in unterred capitalism

different school systems

also private, mostly religious schools

each state has its won law regulated education

1960: students were allowed to choose their subjects

1980: parents wanted to change this freedom

influx of immigration children

school must make sure that students develop basic skills for job market

60% of american work in jobs that involve high school diploma

1944: GI Bill armed forces had the right to go to college

1993: 54% women of all degrees awarded

60% of american work in jobs that involve high school diploma

1944: GI Bill armed forces had the right to go to college

1993: 54% women of all degrees awarded

1980: body of common knowledge to all college students

1992: 51% of all bachelor degrees were confered in the fields of business, management etc.

benjamin franklin: electricity, needs of the people

Jefferson: varoius types of rice, olive trees

best known for applied science

Eddison: invented electric lighting

nuclear fission was the achievement of US scientists in the early 1940s

Einstein warned Franklin that there will be extremly powerful bombs

use against Japan in August 1945

1957: Soviet union launched first satellite Sputnik

1969: moon landing

americans put more emphasis on relationship beween diseases and personal behaiour

smoking forbidden on trains, busses

Americans have dominated the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine since WWII

mortality from heart dieases decreased dropped 41% between 1951 and 1991

seperation of church and state ordained by First Amendment

currency: IN GOD WE TRUST

williams disagreed with clergy & found a seperate colony in Rhode Islans

Massachusetts: did not cut ties between church and state

guaranteed freedom of speech

questioned the calidity of biblical miracles and traditional belieg

favor impassioned, participatory approach to religion

irish came during Civil War

catholic schools educate catholic and non religious students

catholic also send their children to private schools (maintaining seperation of educational system )

many jews came to america

before Civil war no semitim

main religion: catholic, protestant jews

now: islamic, buddhism and hinduism

mormon and christian science churches were founded in america

also armsih as a religious gripu

want to form a powerful politival movement, want to bring religion and politics together

common belief that everyone can find a job

great depression: people had no job 

new program established: gave hundreds of people jobs

invest in stock market in hope to earn more money

many people buy  insurancwes

tose who are below the poverty line receive welfare payments

1990s

social program tend to trap the poor in dependency

new law: state-run assistance program

-> limits life time welfare assistance to 5 years

some hospitale are run by a city, state, federal gobernment

medical care costs increased dramatically

5/6 are covered by a group health insuarance plan

HMO: staffed by a group of physicians who provide all of a persons medical care

joint federal state program that funds medical care for the poor

care for people who need medicine/medical bill who are 65 or older/diabled

Gottschalk

Ives

Sullivan: skyscraper

first skyscraper: 1884 in Chicago

Bauhaus by van der Rohe

modern danve: relate to the development of american music

classical ballet : 1930

ballet schools: bew yourk city ballet & american balled theatre

hudson river schools

homer: depicted rural america

rauschenberg and JOhns : used photos newsprints in their composition

first influenced by european authors

Poe: first one to write ficiton

Hawthrone: the Scarlet Letter

Melville: moby dick etc

Whitman: poet of the body

Dickinson: unconventioanal poetry for her time

Pound: complex and obscure work

Baldwin: expressed disdain for racism 

nationsl past time democratic game

one of the favorite games

orginiated before civiel war