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prices for goods/services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand
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1 Jacksonian Era 2 Merchantilism
3 Watergate 4 Free-market economy
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Terms in this set (90)
, -Andrew Jackson (1828-1854)
-"democracy for the common man"
-promoted strength of presidency(executive branch)
Jacksonian Era
-slavery
-diversification
-transportation
-late 19th century
Gilded Age -Mark Twain
-corruption and bribery underneath
-After Reconstruction(1890-1920)
-problems with industrialization
-outlaw alcohol
-regulate child labor
Progressive Era
-manage natural resources
-pure water/milk
-restrict immigration
-regulate trusts
-Franklin D. Roosevelt(1933-1937)
New Deal -programs to recover from the Great Depression
-Relief, Recovery, Reform
-Richard Nixon(1970s)
Watergate
-political scandal involving FBI and CIA
-Senetor Joseph McCarthy(1950-1956)
McCarthyism -the prosecution of innocent people using powerful,
unproved allegations
-1865-1877
Reconstruction -rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
-help South become part of the union(North) again
-led by Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Ward
Beecher, Lyman Beecher, Edward Everett and Joseph
Second Great Awakening Smith
-thousands of people gathered at revivals
-thought they could bring about a Golden Age