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What was the banking crisis of 1931?

What was the banking crisis of 1931? In December 1931, New York's Bank of the United States collapsed. The bank had more than $200 million in deposits at the time, making it the largest single bank failure in American history. In the wake of the stock market crash of October 1929, people were ...

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What was the BBC Prison Study?

What was the BBC Prison Study? The BBC Prison Study explores the social and psychological consequences of putting people in groups of unequal power. It examines when people accept inequality and when they challenge it. Findings from the study were first broadcast by the BBC in 2002. The BBC prison ...

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What was the Cherokee Treaty?

What was the Cherokee Treaty? Negotiated in 1835 by a minority party of Cherokees, challenged by the majority of the Cherokee people and their elected government, the Treaty of New Echota was used by the United States to justify the forced removal of the Cherokees from their homelands along what ...

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What was the coal miners strike of 1919?

What was the coal miners strike of 1919? The United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis announced a strike for . They had agreed to a wage agreement to run until the end of World War I and now sought to capture some of their industry's wartime gains. Why did United Mine Workers Strike 1919? ...

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What was the first Time magazine?

What was the first Time magazine? Time magazine first appeared on , and sold 9,000 copies. What was the first issue of Time magazine? The first issue of Time was published on , featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover; a facsimile reprint ...

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What was the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?

What was the Gilded Age and Progressive Era? Many historians overlap the end of the Gilded Age (1870–1900) with the beginning of the Progressive Era (1890–1929). The Gilded Age was an age of movement. Populations changed, people moved, and trade increased. The Progressives sought to solve many of ...

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