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The U.S History Identification The Panic of 1893 The Panic of 1893 was a historical event which started in May, 1893 up to November 1893. The panic came as a result of banks shutting down forcing businesspeople to be unable to pay their workers as they did not have money in their bank accounts (Calomiris et al., 2017). Banks and financial institutions failed due to a failure of brokerage units in Wall Street. Almost all of the southern and western banks experienced a financial crisis. This effect originated from New York and made its way to the other parts of the country. The panic weakened the economy which led to the financial crisis and economic recession. Muckrakers The term Muckrakers was used to refer to the journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era from the 1820s to the 1920s. The muckrakers wanted to expose the corruption that was going on in established businesses and the government. The muckrakers were assisted by the legislative laws that were passed to protect the workers and consumers. Most renowned muckrakers are Ida Tarbell and Ida Wells (Senter, 2018). Muckrakers also wanted to raise awareness of social ills that were associated with industrialization such as poverty and poor living conditions of the workers. Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger was born in 1879-1966. She founded the birth control movement which advocated for women’s reproductive rights. She was a nurse by practice. She is known for her efforts which led to the development of the modern-day birth control pill which was developed in 1960. She transitioned into adulthood during the prime of the Comstock Act of 1873 which
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criminalized contraceptives. She challenged the government and the Comstock laws to produce birth control devices to help women from unwanted pregnancies (Spencer, 2018). Most of the time she fell on the wrong side of the Comstock laws when she published her articles which the government referred to as obscene materials. “A Splendid Little War” The phrase ‘A Splendid Little War’ was used to describe the nature of the war that America declared on Spain on April 21, 1898. The war was critical for America to drive Spain out of the western hemisphere and to redeem Cuba from Spanish brutality (Gessner, 2015). This was also a retaliatory step to revenge the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine battleship in the Havana Harbor. The war only lasted for 11 days after being started with America triumphing over Spain. The Open-Door Policy The Open-Door Policy referred to an announcement of ethics that were created by America between 1899 and 1900 to protest for equivalent privileges of trading between the countries which shared trading partnerships with China. These principles were also made to back the Chinese push for regional honor. The United States outwardly approved the policies since they acted as an American foreign policy cornerstone for over 40 years (Wen & Lu, 2017). This policy was even enacted in the Anglo-Chinese treaties by Nanking in 1842 and Wangxa in 1844. Great Britain’s had much interest in trading with China than any other country and so maintained the policy up to the end of the 19th century. The Panama Canal Between 1903 and 1914, the 26th president of America Theodore Roosevelt supervised the actualization of one of America’s long-term goals of establishing a trans-isthmian canal. This
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was a step that would enable American and British leaders and businesspeople to ship goods between the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts easily (Chidsey, 2016). Roosevelt dispatched warships to Panama City to support the independence of Panama which was successfully achieved on November 3, 1903. The Fourteen Points The Fourteen Points refer to the January 1st, 1918 declaration made by the 28th president of America, Woodrow Wilson during the First World War. This declaration was made on a joint Congress sitting to list his opinions on an establishment of a postwar peace agreement. It resulted in the establishment of a 14-point declaration (Cross, 2018). The Fourteen Points was an effort taken to put an end to the First World War and return the world to its former glory.
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Calomiris, C. W., & Carlson, M. (2017). Interbank networks in the national banking era: their purpose and their role in the panic of 1893. Journal of Financial Economics, 125(3), 434453. Chidsey, D. B. (2016). The Panama Canal: An Informal History of its Concept, Building, and Present Status. Wildside Press LLC. Cross, G. E. (2018). 'The World's Peace'-Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Bulletin of the Western Front Association, (110). Gessner, I. (2015). Heroines of Health: Examining the Other Side of the “Splendid Little War.” European journal of American studies, 10(10-1). Senter, J. C. (2018). The Muckrakers and Progressive Reformers. Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. Spencer, J. (2018). Margaret Sanger: The Literature. Wen, X., & Lu, C. (2017, January). The" Open Door" Policy of the United States and the Political Structure of the Northeast Asia. In 2016 2nd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2016). Atlantis Press.