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9 weeks exam

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13th Amendment   ended slavery  
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14th Amendment   citizenship for African Americans (but not Native Americans until 1924)  
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15th Amendment   voting rights for black men (but not women until 19th Amendment- 1920)  
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16th Amendment   income; demanded by Populists and Progressives as a response to unequal distribution of wealth  
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17th Amendment   direct election of senators; response to "Millionaires Club" Senate  
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18th Amendment   Prohibition of Alcohol; supported by both Fundamentalists and progressives; led to an increase in organized crime  
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19th Amendment   women's suffrage; response to women's contributions during WWI; suffrage leaders included Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul  
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21st Amendment   Repealed the 18th Amendment (Prohibition of Alcohol)  
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Booker T. Washington   wanted blacks to achieve economic independence; encouraged vocational education (Tuskegee Institute)  
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W.E.B. DuBois   Harvard educated black leader; wanted blacks to achieve social and political equality  
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Great Migration   movement of 1.5 million blacks from the South to the North; led to the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) and the spread of Jazz (Duke Ellington/Louis Jordan) and Blues  
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Harlem Hell fighters   segregated black army troops that fought in WWI  
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Manifest Destiny   the belief that the U.S. was destined to take of North America; justification for westward expansion and imperialism  
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Dawes Act   was passed to assimilate the Indians  
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Transcontinental Railroad   Railroad linked the nation together in 1869; brought settler to the west  
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Laissez-faire capitalism   led to the unequal distribution of wealth; most workers earned a few hundred dollars a year. this led to the rise of labor unions  
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New Immigrants   began coming to America in the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe; moved to cities to find factory work  
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Nativist   tried to restrict immigration; believed immigrants took jobs by working cheaply  
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Chinese Exclusion Act   prohibited immigration of Chinese laborers  
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Mass Marketing   began to develop in the late 19th century, as well as department stores, and five-and-dime stores  
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Political Machines   were corrupt government organizations that got votes for favors  
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Imperialism   the process of building an empire and dominating weaker nations economically, politically, or militarily  
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Factors that drove imperialism   need for markets need for raw minerals desire for power and prestige moral duty ("White man's burden")  
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Open Door Policy   to keep the doors of trade open with China; led to the Boxer Rebellion in 1900  
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