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- began the Reformation by nailing his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany
- When a band of citizens disguised as Native Americans boarded tea-laden ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor
- Ten amendments that were added to the constitution
- Established to oversee the collection of the Townshend Act taxes
- sailed all the way around Africa to India, opening a new all-water route to the East
- General search warrants giving British officials authority to search virtually any place at any time for contraband(colonists saw this as an invasion of privacy)
- A representative assembly that acted as an advisory body to the governor of the colony that set an important precedent for representative government
- Proposed of Charles Townshend and consisted of a series of taxes on imported paper, paints, lead, glass and tea
- Developed a limited representative government (guaranteed certain freedoms and provided a representative counsel)
- Written by William Blackstone, this provides the best-known history of English law
- People who opposed the church of England, mostly made up of the Catholics and the Puritans
- A system where most manufacturing was done by the entire family at home, especially in the early colonial days
- It was meant to limit overproduction of crops so that their prices would increase.
- Lent money to sharecroppers and tenant farmers to help them buy their own farms; established camps for migrant workers
- Stimulated the economyPut people back to work....Improved morale and self-confidence of the peopleUS Govt's. role changes and became directly involved in helping peopleWWII ended the Great Depression not FDR's New DealViolated laissez faire
- Response to critics (Dr.Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children.Purpose: (REFORM) PREVENT ANOTHER DEPRESSION
- closed all banks until gov. examiners could investigate their financial condition; only sound/solvent banks were allowed to reopen
- Sent 3 million young men to work camps to build bridges, replant forests and other conservation tasks.Develop job skills and improve environment.Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families.Purpose: (RELIEF) EASE SUFFERING OF NEEDY
- Stock Market Crash (billions of $$$ lost)25% Unemployment5,000 banks fail (1929-1932)9 million saving accounts lost1 million farmers lose their farms
- created to have a pool of money that would enable troubled banks to continue lending money in their communities