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Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

History; American history

A political party established in 1912 by supporters of Theodore Roosevelt after William H. Taft won the Republican presidential nomination. The party proposed a broad program of reform but Bull Moose ...

Price revolution

History; American history

The large influx of gold and silver into Europe from Spanish America during the sixteenth century, along with increased demand for limited supplies of goods, set off a three fold rise in prices (the ...

Pragmatism

History; American history

A distinctly American philosophy proposed by William James, it contends that any concept should be tested and its validity determined by its outcome and that the truth of an idea is found in the ...

Fire eaters

History; American history

Radical leaders in the South during the years leading up to the Civil War, the fire eaters were persons who took an extreme pro slavery position. They repeatedly expressed their desire to see slavery ...

Enlightenment

History; American history

A broadly influential philosophical and intellectual movement that began in Europe during the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment unleashed a tidal wave of new learning, especially in the sciences ...

Emancipation Proclamation

History; American history

President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation in September 1862 that all slaves would be declared free in those states that were still in rebellion against the Union at the beginning of ...