US History STAAR - People, Events, and Reforms
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| 13th Amendment 1865 | show 🗑
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| show | Defined Citizenship as Belonging to Anyone Born in the US and Cannot be Taken Away Without Due Process
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| 15th Amendment 1870 | show 🗑
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| Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 | show 🗑
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| show | Allowed for the direct election of senators, increasing public's influence over the governement
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| Progressive Era Reforms Initiative early 1900's | show 🗑
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| show | Submitting a proposed public measure or statue to direct popular vote
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| Progressive Era Reforms Recall early 1900's | show 🗑
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| 19th Amendment 1920 | show 🗑
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| American Indian Citizenship Act 1924 | show 🗑
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| Mendez v. Westminster 1946 | show 🗑
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| show | By Executive Order, President Truman ended segregation in the Armed Forces
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| Delgado v. Bastrop ISD 1948 | show 🗑
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| show | Supreme Court case stating that the attempt to create a segregated UT Law School was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause
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| show | Supreme Court case which ended "separate but equal" ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson; led to desegregation of schools
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| show | Supreme Court case, Mexican Americans & other racial groups have equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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| show | Protected voting rights
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| Civil Rights Act 1964 | show 🗑
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| show | Ended poll tax
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| Voting Rights Act 1965 | show 🗑
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| show | Supreme Court case extending 1st amendment rights to students' freedom of speech includes free expression
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| 26th Amendment 1971 | show 🗑
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| Wisconsin v Yoder 1972 | show 🗑
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| White v Regester 1973 | show 🗑
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| Edgewood ISD v. Kirby 1993 | show 🗑
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| show | Founded Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrants, part of social reform movements
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| Susan B. Anthony | show 🗑
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| show | Awarded several top military honors in WWII, including the Medal of Honor
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| Roy Benavidez | show 🗑
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| show | Radical group in the 1960's who advocated self-defense and revolution to end black oppression; more militant than MLK and other civil rights leaders but also established daycare centers, medical clinics, etc.
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| show | Commanded 1st US Army during D-Day Invasion, lead liberation of Paris, won the Battle of the Bulge
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| show | Important Politician during time period,supported prohibition, women's rights, income tax; Gave famous "Cross of Gold" speech attaching tariffs. Prosecuted John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" for teaching evolution
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| Andrew Carnegie | show 🗑
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| Charles Carroll | show 🗑
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| show | Fought discrimination against migrant workers and Hispanics;Founded the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Union
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| Bill Clinton | show 🗑
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| Hillary Clinton | show 🗑
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| show | "Father of Naval Aviation" & "Founder of the American Aircraft Industry"
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| Clarence Darrow | show 🗑
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| show | French Political Thinker & Historian who came to US to study the political & social nature;Identified 5 characteristics that sets Americans apart:Liberty,Egalitarianism,Individualism,Populism,Laissez-Faire
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| Sanford Dole | show 🗑
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| WEB DuBois | show 🗑
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| *Dwight Eisenhower | show 🗑
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| show | Governor of Arkansas who supported segregation;used Arkansas National Guard tom prevent students from integrating Little Rock High School;President Eisenhower sent army troops to enforce court order to protect first 9 African-American students
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| show | Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war
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| Henry Ford | show 🗑
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| show | wrote The Feminine Mystic,co-founded NOW (National Organization of Women)
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| show | Mexican American physician and civil rights advocate;organized the American GI Forum(1948)initially to improve veteran benefits and enhance medical attention
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| *Hector P. Garcia | show 🗑
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| Marcus Garvey | show 🗑
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| Bill Gates | show 🗑
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| show | US Senator from Arizona(1953-65,1969-1987)& republican party nominee for President in 1964 election;retired from Senate in mid 1980's;considered on of founders of modern Conservative movement
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| show | Powerful,evangelical preacher; conducted many evangelical crusades and counseled majority of US Presidents from Truman through Obama
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| show | Representative from Massachusetts; president of Continental Congress in 1775; first to sign the Declaration of Independence
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| show | President in the 1920's;advocated "return to normalcy"(meaning life before WWI)& "America First" campaign encouraged industrialization and a strong economy, independent of foreign influence
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| Dolores Huerta | show 🗑
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| John Jay | show 🗑
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| show | Founder of television network BET - Black Entertainment Television
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| show | President during the 1960's.Navigated the US through the Cuban Missile Crisis and other Cold War issues with the Soviet Union;assassinated in 1963
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| show | Leader of the Civil Rights Movement;preached nonviolent approach and demanded equal rights for African Americans
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| show | Listed as one of Times most influential business people in 1998;grew up in New York & developed a world renowned beauty company. The basis of entrepreneurial skills were learned in her father's hardware store and working for her uncle
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| Charles A. Lindbergh | show 🗑
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| show | Supported American expansion as a way to increase national pride, spread civilization, and gain world power
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| show | Commander of the US Army in the Pacific in WWII
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| show | Governor of Georgia;former restaurant owner who refused to serve African Americans;ran for governor though he had not held a public office before
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| show | Historian & author of a book on the importance of the navy to a country's power
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| *George Marshall | show 🗑
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| show | Distinguished lawyer;appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1967 and established a record for supporting the voiceless American
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| show | Senator after whom the term "McCarthyism" is named;The fear of Communism increased throughout the 1950's ;stated communists worked in the State department;he worked to identify known communists and accused other s by association
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| show | Clergyman;soldier during Colonial,Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania;elected to the first US Congress
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| Richard Nixon | show 🗑
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| show | Commander of the US Navy and Allied Land and sea forces in the Pacific in WWII
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| Barack Obama | show 🗑
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| show | First woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1981
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| *Rosa Parks | show 🗑
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| show | Colorful and celebrated tank commander for the Third Armored Division who spearheaded the final attack into Germany in WWII
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| General John J. Pershing | show 🗑
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| show | President in the 1980's;grew the US economy through "Reagonomics";influenced the end of the Cold War ;advocated a strong military to deter aggression against the Monroe Doctrine
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| Theodore Roosevelt | show 🗑
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | show 🗑
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| show | President during the Great Depression and WWII;Famous for "New Deal" recovery program which helped alleviate the Great Depression and expanded the role of government;said Dec.7,1941 is a "day which will live in infamy."
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| show | From Pennsylvania; treasurer of the US Mint from 1797 to 1813;physician,writer,educator,Founding Father;signed the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress
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| show | A political conservative known for her anti-feminism and campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment; she believed you could be a mother and have a career,too; wrote/co-authored several books
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| show | Author;wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the US meat packing industry,causing a public uproar and leading to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
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| show | Founder of the largest Hispanic advertising agency in Texas; San Antonio-Sosa,Bromley,Aguliar,Noble & Associates; named Top 25 Hispanics in 2005 by Time Magazine
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| Sonia Sotomayor | show 🗑
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| Harry Truman | show 🗑
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| Harry Truman | show 🗑
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| show | Eventually, Soviet suspicions affected his leadership in the early years of the Cold War and led to his Doctrine where the US supported Greece and Turkey in their attempt to ward off communist threats.
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| show | The only colonial governor who supported the American cause/side in the Revolution
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| *The Tuskegee Airmen | show 🗑
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| show | Governor of Alabama;ran for President four times;fierce pro-segregationist;quote from inaugural address,"I say segregation today,segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."
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| show | small-town general store manager who believed he could bring goods to rural America;store WalMart is industry leader in supply chain operations and brings low prices and common goods to communities across the world
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| show | American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women's suffrage movement
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| Frances Willard | show 🗑
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| show | supervising producer and host of the top-rated,award winning talk show for two decades;global media leader & philanthropist
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| show | active clergyman;New Jersey representative that signed the Declaration of Independence;later President of modern Princeton University
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| show | Educator and Civil Rights Leader, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University,Washington clashed with intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift
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| Medgar Evers | show 🗑
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| Barbara Jordan | show 🗑
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| Alice Walker | show 🗑
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| Malcolm X | show 🗑
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| Alexis de Tocqueville | show 🗑
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| show | Baseball player, brought an end to racial segregation in Major League Baseball
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| Stokely Carmichael | show 🗑
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| George Washington | show 🗑
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| show | Author of Declaration of Independence, third President of the US; negotiated the Lousiana Purchase
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| show | Business tycoon, owned Standard Oil Co. and controlled 90% of oil industry by making Standard Oil into a trust or monopoly
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| William (Boss) Tweed | show 🗑
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| Thomas Nast | show 🗑
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| show | Labor leader attempting to form skilled & unskilled labor groups;ran for President in 1912 under Socialist group as 3rd party candidate earning 6% of popular vote
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| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | show 🗑
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| Herbert Hoover | show 🗑
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| show | Texan which became president after Kennedy assassination;devloped Great Society program to address health care, civil rights and urban decay;
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| show | a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank,1818–1895
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| William Lloyd Garrison | show 🗑
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| show | One of most decorated American from WWI; received Medal Of Honor for leading an attack on German machine gun nest; captured 32 guns, killing 28 Germans and capturing 132 Germans
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| show | Only woman to receive the Medal of Honor; American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon (1832-1919)
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| Mary Kay Ash | show 🗑
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| Westward Expansion & the Gilded Age (Late 1800's) | show 🗑
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| show | Protection against abuses, corruption, and wastes; prohibition; women's suffrage
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| Rise to World Power | show 🗑
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| The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929) | show 🗑
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| show | 1929 Stock Market Crash beginning the Great Depression Dust Bowl, New Deal Legislation
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| World War II (1939-1945) | show 🗑
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| show | 1957 - Sputnik launches; ignited the US-Soviet Space Race
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| show | McCarthyism,HUAC,Berlin Wall,Domino Theory,Korean War, Vietnam War
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| The Civil Rights Movement (1950's-1960's) | show 🗑
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| show | Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964 Voting Rights of 1965 Brown v Board of Education
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| 1970-1990 | show 🗑
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| show | 2001-Terrorists attack the World Trade Center & the Pentagon 2008-Barack Obama is elected first African American President
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| show | US involvement in world affairs, Persian Gulf War, Balkans Crisis
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