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| show | German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann secretly proposed a German
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| show | Wilson's plan for peace at the outset of war; called for an end to imperialism, secret alliances, and a league of nations
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| show | created to rally public support for WWI; headed by George Creel; gave "four minute" speeches and propaganda speeches
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| show | headed by Taft, mediated between owners and workers in order to avoid strikes and stoppages
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| show | Industrial Workers of the World, or "wobblies"; sabotaged industries and the WWI effort from bitterness about their conditions
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| show | led by Alice Paul; protested WWI, organized hunger strikes and marches, and protested "Kaiser Wilson"
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| show | led by Herbert C. Hoover; rejected issuing ration cards and relied on donations; proclaimed "wheatless Wednesdays" and "meatless Tuesdays"
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| show | nickname given to inexperienced American servicemen
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| show | led American troop intervention in the Mexican Revolution and in WWI
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| show | congressional Republican who led the resistance of "irreconcilables" against the League of Nations as part of the Versailles Treaty
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| show | leaders in the WWI peace process: Wilson, Clemenceau (France), Lloyd George (Britain), and Orlando (Italy)
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| show | proposed alliances of nations to prevent war; doomed to fail when the U.S. never joined
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| TREATY OF VERSAILLES OF 1919 | show 🗑
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| show | progressive party that ran TR for president in 1912
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| show | Wilson's campaign slogan for 1912; shunned social
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| show | Roosevelt's 1912 campaign program; called for consolidation of trusts and unions, regulatory agencies, woman's suffrage, and social welfare
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| show | significantly dropped the tariff in 1913; gave way to income taxes for revenue
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| show | created a 12-branch regional U.S. Bank overseen by an advisory board; helped control the money supply
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| show | lengthened the Sherman Act's list of objectionable practices, such as price discrimination and interlocking directorates
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| MORAL DIPLOMACY | show 🗑
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| SUSSEX PLEDGE | show 🗑
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| show | journalists who exposed the ills of society, paved the way for progressivism
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| LNCOLN STEFFENS | show 🗑
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| show | muckraker who published a devastating but factual depiction of the Standard Oil Company
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| show | allowed voters to nominate candidates, created to undercut political machines
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| show | progressive measures allowing voters to propose and pass legislation; intented to lessen power of party machines
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| show | enables the voters to remove faithless corrupt officials
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| ROBERT LA FOLLETTE/HIRAM JOHNSON | show 🗑
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| show | New York, 1911, 146 workers died in an 8
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| show | started by Frances Willard, campaigned against saloons and unwholesome society
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| show | domestic policy of Roosevelt that sought to control corporations, protect consumers, and Conserve of natural resources
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| COAL MINER'S STRIKE | show 🗑
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| show | legislation that strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, allowed for corruption to be punished, led to "trustbusting"
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| show | Roosevelt's first trust
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| show | stated that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection.
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| show | designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
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| show | Roosevelt organized lands, created national parks, promoted irrigation; Department of Forestry led by Gifford Pinchot
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| show | response to the Panic of 1907, national banks to issue emergency currency backed by various kinds of collateral
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| DOLLAR DIPLOMACY | show 🗑
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| show | Progressives turned on Taft when he fired Pinchot; Republicans were split, Roosevelt reran
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| &ch27=GREAT REPROACHMENT | show 🗑
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| YELLOW JOURNALISM | show 🗑
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| DE LOME LETTER | show 🗑
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| show | American ship that exploded near Cuba, used as propaganda to make the US enter the war
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| show | US Naval commodore that captured the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
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| ROUGH RIDERS | show 🗑
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| show | effective black soldiers in the Spanish American War
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| BATTLE OF SAN JUAN HILL | show 🗑
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| ANTI IMPERIALISTIC LEAGUE | show 🗑
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| show | legislation that made Puerto Rico and American protectorate with limited self
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| show | agreement that the US would withdraw from Cuba once they were liberated from Spain
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| show | Cuban constitution drafted in 1902 with American influence; expired in 1934
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| SANFORD DOLE | show 🗑
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| show | Secretary of State that signed treaties related to the Open door Policy and Panama Canal
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| OPEN DOOR POLICY | show 🗑
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| BOXER REBELLION | show 🗑
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| show | made with Britain in 1850, the U.S. could not gain exclusive control of a proposed Panama Canal
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| HAY BUNAU VARILLA TREATY | show 🗑
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| ROOSEVELT COROLLARY | show 🗑
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| GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT | show 🗑
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| show | to ease tensions with Japan, TR sent the “Great White Fleet” on a tour; the U.S. and Japan pledged to respect each other's territorial possessions
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| &ch26=BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN | show 🗑
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| BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE | show 🗑
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| HELEN HUNT JACKSON | show 🗑
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| show | dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, Indians could get citizenship if they assimilated.
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| show | or "Pike's Peakers", those who flocked to mine gold and silver in Colorado and Nevada ("Comstock Load")
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| THE LONG DRIVE | show 🗑
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| HOMESTEAD ACT OF 1862 | show 🗑
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| show | method of frequent shallow cultivation that adapted to the dry western environment; over time it depleted and dried the soil
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| show | people who illegally entered the Indian territory of Oklahoma before it was opened to the public
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| show | organized in 1867, objective was to enhance the lives of isolated farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities.
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| show | called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; income tax, loans for farmers, and free and unlimited coinage of silver.
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| show | led by Eugene Debs in Chicago, 1894; Cleveland brought in federal troops to squash the strike, shows government supported business in this era
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| WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN | show 🗑
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| show | Republican nominee in 1896, a Senator that was pro-tariff and the gold standard
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| GOLD STANDARD ACT OF 1900 | show 🗑
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| show | Italians, Jews, and Eastern Europeans migrate to the US in the 1880s (2000 a day); slums developed
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| SOCIAL GOSPEL | show 🗑
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| JANE ADDAMS | show 🗑
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| NATIVISM | show 🗑
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| AMERICANIZATION MOVEMENT | show 🗑
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| show | Protestant evangelist, led an urban Christian revival in Chicago in response to Catholicism, Judaism, and liberal theology
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| show | founded Church of Christian Science, preached that the true practice of Christianity heals sickness.
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| CHARLES DARWIN | show 🗑
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| BOOKER T WASHINGTON | show 🗑
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| show | African American who taught and researched at Tuskegee Institute, became an internationally famous agricultural chemist
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| show | founded the NAACP, urged blacks to aggressively seek equality
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| show | provided a grant of public lands to states to build universities
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| DIME NOVELS | show 🗑
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| show | literary movement, crude human comedy and drama of the everyday world, notables were Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin (first feminist writer) and Jack London
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| show | feminists who published a magazine advocating free love, anti
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| show | leader of the new generation of the women's suffrage movement, led NAWSA when women were granted suffrage
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| show | The National Prohibition Party was formed in 1869, Woman's Christian Temperance Union was formed in 1874, Anti
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| LOUIS SULLIVAN | show 🗑
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| VAUDEVILLE/BARNUM AND BAILEY | show 🗑
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| show | depicted cowboys and Indians fighting, featured William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley (riflewoman)
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| &ch24=UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD | show 🗑
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| CORNELIUS VANDERBILT | show 🗑
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| show | shady schemes by the railroads to maximize profits
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| INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION | show 🗑
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| ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL | show 🗑
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| show | invented the phonograph, light bulb, and moving pictures (film)
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| show | major steel tycoon, controlled all aspects of production
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| JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER | show 🗑
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| show | wealth banker that financed other robber barons
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| show | Chicago meat-packing tycoon, developed first refridgerator car, first to use animal by-products for glue, soap, and other products
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| show | process that converts iron to steel
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| GOSPEL OF WEALTH | show 🗑
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| SOCIAL DARWINISM | show 🗑
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| SHERMAN ANTI TRUST ACT | show 🗑
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| show | organized in 1866, lasted six years and attracted 600,000 members, included skilled and unskilled labor, but usually not foreigners or women
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| show | led by Terence Powderly, sought to include all workers in one big union, 750,000 by 1885
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| AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL) | show 🗑
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| HOMESTEAD STRIKE | show 🗑
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| show | violent strike in Chicago, 1886; a bomb killed eight police, four were executed; symbolic beginning of the labor revolution
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| &ch23="BLOODY SHIRT" | show 🗑
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| show | massive scheme in 1869 by cornering the gold market and selling when prices dropped.
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| show | leader of the Democratic political machine in New York, aka "Tammany Hall"
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| CREDIT MOBILIER | show 🗑
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| show | a bootleg whiskey scheme the cost the government millions in tax revenue
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| show | party in response to disgust of the political corruption in Washington and of military Reconstruction
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| PANIC OF 1873 | show 🗑
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| show | term coined by Mark Twain, gilded = "gold
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| STALWARTS | show 🗑
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| HALF BREEDS | show 🗑
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| show | practice by politicians of giving economic or political supporters civil servant jobs
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| show | deal that allowed Hayes to become president in exchange for the end of reconstruction in the south.
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| JIM CROW LAWS | show 🗑
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| show | case where the Court ruled segregation to be constitutional
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| CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT | show 🗑
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| show | Guiteau assassinated Garfield so Arthur would become president and give him a civil service job
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| show | law signed by Arthur that ended the spoils system and launched a merit
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| show | Republicans (hating the nominee Blaine) who bolted to the Democratic party during the 1884 election.
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| show | only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms; first Democratic president in 28 years; lowered tariffs, badly handled the Panic of 1893
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| show | worst economic panic of the 1800s, caused by overbuilding and over
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| SHERMAN SILVER PURCHASE ACT OF 1890 | show 🗑
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| show | highspending Republican congress of the 1880s; raised tariffs, gave to veterans, increased government purchases on silver
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| show | Independent candidate in 1992; divided Republican vote, paved way for rise of Clinton
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| OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING | show 🗑
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| BRANCH DAVIDIANS | show 🗑
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| show | two student gunmen assaulted students and teachers in a Colorado school in 1998; 13 were killed
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| NEWT GINGRICH | show 🗑
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| NAFTA | show 🗑
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| GATT | show 🗑
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| show | Clinton lied under oath about having an affair with inter Monica Lewinsky; he was impeached for perjury, but not convicted
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| show | Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore; unsettled for weeks, rested on recounts in Florida, Supreme Court gave election to Bush
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| &ch40=NEW RIGHT/MORAL MAJORITY | show 🗑
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| BOLLWEEVILS | show 🗑
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| REAGANOMICS | show 🗑
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| show | Strategic Defense Initiative; proposed antimissile defense shield, aka, "Star Wars"
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| show | series of meetings in the 80s to cool tensions in the Cold War; agreed to INF Treaty, which banned nukes in Europe
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| IRANCONTRA AFFAIR | show 🗑
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| show | hundreds of mortgage banks failed in the 80s; real estate values dropped and the stock market suffered
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| show | Americanled campaign to repel Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein out of oilrich Kuwait; "Operation Desert Storm" was a major success
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| show | prohibiting discrimination against citizens with physical or mental disabilities
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| show | 1970s, postwar boom was ending, very high inflation with low economic production
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| VIETNAMIZATION | show 🗑
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| NIXON DOCTRINE | show 🗑
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| SILENT MAJORITY | show 🗑
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| show | when the US entered Cambodia, student protests erupted; at Kent State (OH), National Guardsmen killed four students
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| PENTAGON PAPERS | show 🗑
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| show | Nixon's foreign policy advisor; planned end to Vietnam and Nixon's trip to China
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| SHANGHAI COMMUNIQUE | show 🗑
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| show | Cold War policy in the 1970s with the goal of easing tensions between the US, USSR, and China
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| AMB/SALT TREATIES | show 🗑
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| THE WARREN COURT | show 🗑
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| THE BURGER COURT | show 🗑
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| AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | show 🗑
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| show | launched in the 1970s by Nixon to clean air and water; created the Environmental Protection Agency
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| show | Nixon's reelection plan in 1972 to appoint conservative justices and limit civil rights appealing to southern states
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| show | passed by Congress over Nixon's veto; requires the president to notify the Congress of military operations
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| ARAB OIL EMBARGO | show 🗑
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| show | Committee to Reelect the President; broke into Democratic headquarters, began the Watergate scandal
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| show | hearings over Nixon's involvement in CREEP's actions; tapes proved his guilt, he was forced to resign; later pardoned by Ford
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| show | 1975; recognized Soviet boundaries and helped to ease tensions between the two nations
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| EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT | show 🗑
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| show | Carter mediated a peace between Egypt and Israel; top foreign policy achievement
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| IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS | show 🗑
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| show | Kennedy's policy slogan; aimed to boost the economy, to provide international aid, provide for national defense, and to boost the space program
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| show | authorized tariff cuts of up to 50% to promote trade with other countries
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| FLEXIBLE RESPONSE | show 🗑
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| show | stated that western involvement in the Third World was a chance to create western style economies in those places
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| BAY OF PIGS INVASION | show 🗑
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| CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS | show 🗑
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| FREEDOM RIDERS | show 🗑
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| show | Civil Rights leader, led peaceful boycotts, marches, and made major speeches; formed the SCLC; assassinated in 1969
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| show | peaceful civil rights marchers were repelled by police with attack dogs and highpressure water hoses; King imprisoned, led Kennedy to pursue civil rights laws
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| MARCH ON WASHINGTON | show 🗑
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| show | 1965; voter registration campaign led by King; two people were killed
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| show | alleged assassin of JFK in Dallas, Nov 1963
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| THE GREAT SOCIETY | show 🗑
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| CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 | show 🗑
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| GULF TONKIN RESOLUTION | show 🗑
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| MEDICARE/MEDICAID/WELFARE | show 🗑
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| FREEDOM SUMMER | show 🗑
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| VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 | show 🗑
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| WATTS RIOTS | show 🗑
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| show | civil rights leader; advocated militant reform through the Nation of Islam; was shot and killed by the NOI when he got too powerful
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| show | was originated by Stokley Carmichael; furthered militant civil rights by openly carrying weapons in the streets of Oakland
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| OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER | show 🗑
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| CREDIBILITY GAP | show 🗑
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| COINTELPRO | show 🗑
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| TET OFFENSIVE | show 🗑
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| show | LBJ did not seek another term; competition for the nomination was fierce; RFK was murdered, Humphrey won at the convention which was engulfed with protesters
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| COUNTERCULTURE | show 🗑
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| show | founded in 1951, was the first major gay/lesbian activist group in America
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| THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND | show 🗑
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| show | created rock and roll by fusing RandB and country; beginning of a youth counterculture in America
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| McCARTHYISM | show 🗑
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| show | NAACP member who launched the civil rights movement; refused to give up her bus seat to a white (required by Montgomery, Ala law)
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| BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION | show 🗑
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| show | nine black students in Arkansas who were prevented from entering a school; Eisenhower mobilized the National Guard to admit them
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| CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957 | show 🗑
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| show | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Martin Luther King, aimed to mobilize the vast power of the black churches on behalf of black rights
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| show | black youths in North Carolina sat at white lunch counters and demanded to be served
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| SNCC | show 🗑
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| show | attempt by Eisenhower to round up Mexican illegals exploiting the Braceros program
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| INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ACT | show 🗑
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| STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND | show 🗑
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| show | Eisenhower vowed to come to the aid of any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism to protect American oil; OPEC later formed
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| LANDRUMGRIFFIN ACT | show 🗑
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| SPACE RACE | show 🗑
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| POSTWAR WRITERS | show 🗑
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| show | outlawed the "closed" (allunion) shop; made unions liable for disputes; required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath.
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| show | to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power after WWII
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| GI BILL | show 🗑
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| SUNBELT | show 🗑
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| BABYBOOMERS | show 🗑
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| YALTA CONFERENCE | show 🗑
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| COLD WAR | show 🗑
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| show | postWWII assembly of nations to improve diplomacy and prevent war
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| NUREMBURG TRIALS | show 🗑
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| BERLIN AIRLIFT | show 🗑
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| NATO | show 🗑
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| show | US containment policy to give military aid to any nation threatened by a Communist take over
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| show | US containment policy to give economic aid for nations to rebuild after the war; encourage them to resist Communism
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| show | created the Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Security council, and Central Intelligence Agency
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| show | launched by Truman to investigate the possibility of communist spies in the government, 3,000 were ousted; many had to take loyalty oaths
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| show | Committee on UnAmerican Activities, established by the House to investigate Communists, antireligion, homosexuality, rock n’ roll, civil rights; Alger Hiss, Rosenbergs were targeted
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| POINT FOUR | show 🗑
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| show | Truman's domestic policy called for improved housing, better employment and pay, farmer supports, and an extension of Social Security
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| show | the US defended South Korea from an invasion by the Communist North; stalemated until an armistice in 1953
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| &ch35=ABC1 AGREEMENT | show 🗑
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| JAPANESE INTERNMENT | show 🗑
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| show | organized America's industries to only make items essential to the WWII effort
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| OFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION | show 🗑
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| show | measures taken during WWII to limit wage increases and strikes; the government also took coal mines and railroads
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| BRACEROEOS | show 🗑
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| FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION | show 🗑
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| TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN | show 🗑
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| NAVEJO CODE TALKERS | show 🗑
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| show | American General in the South Pacific; lost and recovered the Philippines
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| show | American General in the Central Pacific; coordinated Battle of Midway and Island Hopping campaigns
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| show | called for bypassing key Japanese islands and attacking supply islands instead; The major bases would then wither from lack of supplies
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| DWIGHT EISENHOWER | show 🗑
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| show | American General who played a major role in the liberation of France
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| A.C. McAULIFFE | show 🗑
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| MANATTAN PROJECT | show 🗑
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| show | response to Japanese invasion of Manchuria; held United States would not recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force
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| show | 1933, meeting of 66 nations to address the global depression; fell apart when US vacated
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| show | gave independence to the Philippines in 1946
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| RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENTS | show 🗑
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| show | banned US trade with debtdodging nations
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| show | stated that no American could legally sail on a belligerent ship, trade with a belligerent, or make loans to a belligerent.
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| QUARENTINE SPEECH | show 🗑
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| show | when WWII began, it lifted embargoes on Allies; adopted a "cash and carry" policy for munitions sales
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| HAVANA CONFERENCE | show 🗑
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| CDAAA AND AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE | show 🗑
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| LENDLEASE | show 🗑
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| ATLANTIC CHARTER | show 🗑
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| ROBIN MOOR / GREER / KEARNEY / REUBEN JAMES | show 🗑
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| FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH | show 🗑
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| &ch33=THE GREAT DEPRESSION | show 🗑
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| show | wealthy NY governor elected in 1932; wife was Eleanor; fought the Depression and later WWII
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| show | March 610 1932, closed banks in order to prevent withdraws ("runs on banks"), and in turn failures
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| THE NEW DEAL | show 🗑
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| FIRESIDE CHATS | show 🗑
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| NEW DEAL OPPONENTS | show 🗑
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| FRANCES PERKINS | show 🗑
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| show | late in 1933 a prolonged drought struck the Great Plains; caused by overcultivation; described in The Grapes of Wrath
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| SOCIAL SECURITY | show 🗑
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| show | Congress of Industrial Organizations; formed by John Lewis as union for unskilled labor; later merged with the AFL (became AFLCIO)
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| show | refers to the Supreme Court justices during FDR's presidency who repeatedly struck down New Deal programs
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| show | FDR asked Congress to expand the Supreme court to 15 justices, which he would fill them with proNew Dealers; public backlash was fierce, and FDR lost popularity.
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| KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS | show 🗑
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| show | elected in 1920; first of the Republican "Old Guard" to be president after the progressive era
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| WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE | show 🗑
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| FIVE POWER NAVAL TREATY | show 🗑
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| show | made between Britain, Japan, France and the United States to preserve the status quo in the Pacific
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| NINE POWER TREATY | show 🗑
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| KELLOGGBRIAND PACT | show 🗑
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| show | to prevent Europe from flooding American markets with cheap goods after the war, Congress raised the tariff from 27% to 35%
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| THE "OHIO GANG" | show 🗑
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| TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL | show 🗑
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| show | VP under Harding, later elected to his own term; "silentCal", probusiness and antilabor
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| show | plan that called for German reparations to allies, who in turn could pay debts to American banks; stalled after the crash
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| show | ran Food Administration during WWI, Commerce Secretary under Harding and Coolidge, elected president in 1928; was blamed for the Great Depression
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| AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT | show 🗑
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| HAWLEYSMOOT TARIFF | show 🗑
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| BLACK TUESDAY | show 🗑
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| HOOVERTOWNS | show 🗑
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| RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION | show 🗑
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| show | claimed about 20,000 people, converged on the capital in 1932 demanding the immediate payment of their entire bonus
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| GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY | show 🗑
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| show | early 1920s, Americans were fearful of a communist take over, many bombings; also fearful of all immigrants, like Sacco and Vanzetti; KKK resurfaced, Palmer Raids sought suspects
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| EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT/IMMIGRATION ACT | show 🗑
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| 18TH AMENDMENT/VOLSTEAD ACT | show 🗑
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| show | notable Christian evangelists of the 1920s, made church services a form of entertainment; advocated prohibition and fought evolution
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|
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| show | notable gangster in 1920s Chicago; represented organized crime that controlled illegal alcohol, prostitution, and kidnapping
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|
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| show | showdown between evolution and fundamental Christianity; centered on teacher who taught evolution in Tennessee
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|
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| show | father of the gasoline engine; launched automobile industry, produced the singlestyle Model T
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| GENERAL MOTORS | show 🗑
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| show | early pioneers of the airplane
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|
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| AMOS N ANDY | show 🗑
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| D.W. GRIFFITH | show 🗑
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| FLAPPERS | show 🗑
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| HARLEM RENAISSANCE | show 🗑
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| THE EXPATRIATES | show 🗑
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| show | notable architect of the 1920s and 30s
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| show | Treasury Secretary during the 1920s; often credited with the boom, and sometimes blamed for the bust
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| &ch22=FREEDMAN'S BUREAU | show 🗑
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| LINCOLN'S PLAN | show 🗑
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| show | Lincoln's plan, plus ratification of 13th Amendment (which outlawed slavery)
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|
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| CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION | show 🗑
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||||
| BLACK CODES | show 🗑
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| 15TH AMENDMENT | show 🗑
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| CIVIL RIGHTS BILL OF 1866 | show 🗑
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| THADEAUS STEVENS | show 🗑
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| show | former southern Democrats who formed alliances with freedmen and Republicans to seize control of politics in the South
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|
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| CARPETBAGGERS | show 🗑
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||||
| show | when Reconstruction ended, traditional white Democrats returned to government
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|
||||
| show | antiblack and antiimmigrant terrorist group; "Invisible Empire of the South"
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|
||||
| show | required the president to get consent from the Senate before removing cabinet members; was a trick to impeach Johnson
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|
||||
| show | refers to State Secretary Seward's purchase of Alaska for 7.2 million in 1867
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|
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| &ch21=BATTLE OF FIRST BULL RUN | show 🗑
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| GEORGE MCCLELLAN | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Union campaign led by McClellan to capture Richmond; was a disaster after defeat at the Seven Days' Battle
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|
||||
| show | Union ships blocked cotton exports to Europe and food imports to the South
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|
||||
| BATTLE OF MERRIMACK AND MONITOR | show 🗑
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| show | August 1862; Lee defeated Pope; forced Union to get a victory
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|
||||
| BATTLE OF ANTIETAM | show 🗑
|
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| EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | two Union victories on July 4, 1863; turning point of the war; first major victory for Grant
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|
||||
| show | Union general who invaded and scorched the South from Atlanta to Charleston
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|
||||
| WAR/PEACE DEMOCRATS | show 🗑
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||||
| show | radicals who attempted to sabotage Lincoln, the war, and emancipation
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|
||||
| UNION PARTY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Grant was transferred to the east with the goal of ending the war with an assault on Richmond
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|
||||
| show | Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865
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|
||||
| JOHN WILKES BOOTH | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | nation formed from the rebel states during the Civil War
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|
||||
| FORT SUMPTER | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | slave states that did not break from the Union (Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia)
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|
||||
| show | major general of the Confederate Army (led unit called Army of Northern Virginia)
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|
||||
| STONEWALL JACKSON | show 🗑
|
||||
| ULYSES S. GRANT | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a union vessel, the Trent, intercepted a British ship evacuating confederate soldiers; almost led to conflict
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|
||||
| ALABAMA RAIDER | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | law implementing a Union draft; one pay $300 for exemption; led to riots in New York
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|
||||
| show | once the South left the Union, Republicans raised the tariff to protect northern industries
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|
||||
| NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | prospectors who flocked to Pennsylvania to get rich on newlydiscovered petroleum
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|
||||
| &ch19=UNCLE TOM'S CABIN | show 🗑
|
||||
| BORDER RUFFIANS | show 🗑
|
||||
| JOHN BROWN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | voters were allowed to vote on one line in the Kansas constitution for or against slavery (it would be slave either way)
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|
||||
| JAMES BUCHANAN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | In 1856, abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner was cained and nearly killed by proslave Senator Preston Brooks
🗑
|
||||
| show | formed by Protestants who were alarmed by the increase of immigrants from Ireland and Germany
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|
||||
| show | deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, declared slaves to be "property" that could not be removed without due process (fifth Amendment).
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|
||||
| show | broke out in 1857 due to California gold inflating the currency and overspeculation in land and railroads.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Stephen Douglas said in the Illinois senatorial debate that no matter how the Supreme Court ruled, slavery would stay down if the people voted it down.
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|
||||
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | US Senator from Mississippi, elected president of the Confederacy in 1860.
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|
||||
| CRITTENDEN AMENDMENTS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | notion that people of a territory should determine if they want to be slave or free
🗑
|
||||
| show | Southern, pro-slave in antebellum years
🗑
|
||||
| show | Northern, antislave in antebellum years
🗑
|
||||
| FREESOIL PARTY | show 🗑
|
||||
| 49ERS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | chain of safe houses in the South that freed slaves to Canada; organized by Harriet Tubman
🗑
|
||||
| SEVENTH OF MARCH SPEECH | show 🗑
|
||||
| COMPROMISE OF 1850 | show 🗑
|
||||
| FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | elected in 1852; puppet of the Democrats; sought expansion in Nicaragua and Cuba; signed trade treaties with China (Wanghia) and Japan (Kanagawa)
🗑
|
||||
| TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | proposed by Stephen Douglas; gave popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska to organized land for northern railroad; crippled Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850
🗑
|
||||
| show | originated as a Midwestern party opposed to slavery.
🗑
|
||||
| &ch16="KING COTTON" | show 🗑
|
||||
| AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY | show 🗑
|
||||
| NAT TURNER | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | major antislave movement; leaders were W. Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth (former slave woman), and Frederick Douglas (main black abolitionist)
🗑
|
||||
| GAG RESOLUTION | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | major Christian revival in response to deism and Unitarianism (believed God existed, but was unknowable); led by the Methodists and Baptists
🗑
|
||||
| show | name given to New England during Second Great Awakening; saw many touring preachers, like Charles Grandison Finney and Peter Cartwright
🗑
|
||||
| show | predicted Jesus would return on October 22, 1844; despite the false prediction, the church continued
🗑
|
||||
| MORMONS | show 🗑
|
||||
| DOROTHY DIX | show 🗑
|
||||
| SENECA FALLS CONVENTION | show 🗑
|
||||
| DOMESTIC FEMINISM | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | attempts at rural societies without government interference; included New Harmony, Brook Farm, and Oneida; all failed
🗑
|
||||
| TRANSCENDETALISM | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Transcendentalist who were darker, mysterious, horror; notables were Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville
🗑
|
||||
| show | God wants America to move west
🗑
|
||||
| "RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 1.5 million in the 1840s; mostly poor Catholic; fought blacks for jobs in NY and Boston
🗑
|
||||
| show | 1.5 million in the 1850s; political refugees; many settled in Chicago, Milwaukee, and rest of Midwest.
🗑
|
||||
| show | case that declared labor unions legal
🗑
|
||||
| show | mantra of women before 1840 symbolizing the veneration of housewifry.
🗑
|
||||
| show | young, single women that worked beginning in the Market Revolution.
🗑
|
||||
| show | "Father of the Factory System" in America; memorized British plans for textile machinery
🗑
|
||||
| ELI WHITNEY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | pioneers of the sewing machine and textile industry
🗑
|
||||
| show | invented the telegraph; linked Washington and Baltimore; “What hath God wrought?”
🗑
|
||||
| show | developed a steel plow in 1837 that could till rocky soil of the west
🗑
|
||||
| show | developed the mowerreaper that could harvest wheat five times faster than before
🗑
|
||||
| show | began in 1811, completed in 1852; the "national road" went from Maryland to Illinois
🗑
|
||||
| ROBERT FULTON | show 🗑
|
||||
| PONY EXPRESS | show 🗑
|
||||
| &ch17=CAROLINE AFFAIR | show 🗑
|
||||
| CREOLE AFFAIR | show 🗑
|
||||
| WEBSTERASHBURTON TREATY | show 🗑
|
||||
| OREGON FEVER | show 🗑
|
||||
| JAMES K POLK | show 🗑
|
||||
| WALKER TARIFF | show 🗑
|
||||
| OREGON DISPUTE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | sent by Polk to Mexico to buy California; he was denied access, leading to Mexican War
🗑
|
||||
| show | declared by US over unpaid claims and Slidell Affair, major generals were Taylor, Fremont, and Scott
🗑
|
||||
| show | negotiated by Trist, secured Texas for US, the US paid $18 million for the southwest (including California)
🗑
|
||||
| WILMOT PROVISO | show 🗑
|
||||
| &ch13="CORRPUT BARGAIN" | show 🗑
|
||||
| "HICKORYITES" / "KING MOB" | show 🗑
|
||||
| SPOILS SYSTEM | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | name given to Tariff of 1828, despised by southerners who lost exports to Britain and had to pay high prices with no industries to protect
🗑
|
||||
| JOHN C CALHOUN | show 🗑
|
||||
| NULLIFICATION CRISIS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | put forth by Clay, appeased southerners by gradually dropping the tariff over ten years to original levels
🗑
|
||||
| FORCE BILL | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | squabble between the wives of Jackson's cabinet members.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to the Indians, effort to Christianize the five "civilized tribes" (Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles)
🗑
|
||||
| show | signed by Jackson to move 100,000 Indians to Oklahoma along the "trail of tears"
🗑
|
||||
| BANK WAR | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | antiJackson party that ran a candidate in 1832 to displace Jackson
🗑
|
||||
| WILDCAT / PET BANKS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | party opposed to Jackson, based on the American system and state's rights
🗑
|
||||
| show | Democratic candidate and winner in the election of 1836; carried on Jackson's policies
🗑
|
||||
| PANIC OF 1837 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | revolt of American settlers again Mexico; memorable battle at the Alamo; led to the Texas Republic
🗑
|
||||
| show | slogan for Whig candidate William Harrison in 1840; also used "Old Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"; van Buren lost due to the panic;
🗑
|
||||
| &ch12=WAR OF 1812 | show 🗑
|
||||
| SIEGE OF WASHINGTON | show 🗑
|
||||
| BATTLE OF BALTIMORE | show 🗑
|
||||
| TECUMSEH | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | decisive battle in the War of 1812, Americans under Jackson victorious
🗑
|
||||
| TREATY OF GHENT | show 🗑
|
||||
| HARFORD CONVENTION | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | first protective tariff in America
🗑
|
||||
| show | congressman, Secretary of State, fought for American System (internal improvements, banks, tariffs), "Great Compromiser"
🗑
|
||||
| show | period after War of 1812, one party politics, good economy, problems loomed
🗑
|
||||
| PANIC OF 1819 | show 🗑
|
||||
| LAND ACT OF 1820 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | proposed slave ban in Missouri Territory, called emancipation of children born to slave parents; bill was defeated.
🗑
|
||||
| MISSOURI COMPROMISE | show 🗑
|
||||
| McCULLOCH V. MARYLAND (1819) | show 🗑
|
||||
| GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Us purchased Florida from Spain, Jackson served as governor
🗑
|
||||
| CANNING PROPOSAL | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | denied the right of Europeans to colonize in the western hemisphere, US would not intervene in foreign wars.
🗑
|
||||
| &ch11=REVOLUTION OF 1800 | show 🗑
|
||||
| NATURALIZATION LAW OF 1802 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Secretary of Treasury to Jefferson, reduced the national debt and balanced the budget
🗑
|
||||
| show | passed by the expiring Federalist Congress; created 16 new federal judgeships, were filled by Adams – “The Midnight Judges”
🗑
|
||||
| show | Supreme Court Justice, carried on the Federalist message after the party was gone.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Supreme Court deemed the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional, established judicial review
🗑
|
||||
| show | four year war between US and Tripoli, US paid Tripoli $60,000 for the release of captured Americans, US navy shown to be weak
🗑
|
||||
| show | middle third of the continent, sold to US by Napoleon of France, explored by Lewis, Clark, and Pike
🗑
|
||||
| show | Fiery Vice President of Jefferson, hated Hamilton and killed him in a duel, part a conspiracy to take over Louisiana
🗑
|
||||
| show | British order to navy to capture American ships headed for French ports
🗑
|
||||
| BERLIN AND MILAN DECREES | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | policy of British navy to kidnap foreign officers to serve in British navy.
🗑
|
||||
| EMBARGO ACT | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | replaced Embargo Act, opened up trade to every country except France and Britain
🗑
|
||||
| show | offered France and Britain an embargo against the other if one would lift Orders in Council or Berlin/Milan Decrees
🗑
|
||||
| &ch10=BILL OF RIGHTS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | created the Supreme Court, with a chief justice and five associates; district courts; created Attorney General
🗑
|
||||
| FEDERALIST PARTY | show 🗑
|
||||
| DEMOCRATICREPUBLICAN PARTY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | first Treasury Secretary, advocated assumption, a US Bank, and excise taxes; rival of Jefferson
🗑
|
||||
| show | In 1794, Pennsylvania distillers opposed and fought the 1791 excise tax on whiskey; Washington aggressively sent in troops.
🗑
|
||||
| NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION OF 1793 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The British armed these eight Indian nations to terrorize Americans and protect the British Great Lakes fur trade.
🗑
|
||||
| show | the British would evacuate U.S. soil, pay for ship damages, the U.S. would continue to pay the debts owed to British merchants
🗑
|
||||
| PINCKNEY TREATY | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | upset by the Jay Treaty, France attacked American ships; Adams sent reps to France, but were disallowed to meet foreign minister.
🗑
|
||||
| QUASI WAR | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Napoleon invited new American reps, it ended previous treaties, France agreed to pay damages to American shippers
🗑
|
||||
| ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Jefferson and Madison call upon these states to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.
🗑
|
||||
| &ch9=REPUBLICAN MOTHERHOOD | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | drafted by Thomas Jefferson, stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided his/her own faith
🗑
|
||||
| show | first constitution of the United States, weak Congress, strong states, led to economic and political upheaval
🗑
|
||||
| show | When lands get settled, it is monitored by the federal government; when 60,000 people arrive, it becomes a state
🗑
|
||||
| LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | farmer revolt to prevent foreclosures; signaled the failure of the Articles of Confederation
🗑
|
||||
| show | Africans who held American ships ransom, led to embarrassment and the need for a stronger navy
🗑
|
||||
| show | or large state plan, called for representation to be based on population in congress.
🗑
|
||||
| show | or small state plan, called for equal representation in the congress
🗑
|
||||
| CONNECTICUT (GREAT) COMPROMISE | show 🗑
|
||||
| THREEFIFTHS COMPROMISE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | faction at the Constitutional Convention that favored the new Constitution; led by Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, and Jay
🗑
|
||||
| show | faction of the Constitutional Convention that disliked the new Constitution; led by Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee
🗑
|
||||
| &ch8=SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS | show 🗑
|
||||
| LEXINGTON AND CONCORD | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | name for Massachusetts militiamen who agreed to fight in "a minute's notice."
🗑
|
||||
| show | June 1775, first major battle of the Revolution; Americans captured hill, but retreated when gunpowder ran out.
🗑
|
||||
| show | professed American loyalty to the king and begged to the king to stop further hostilities.
🗑
|
||||
| THOMAS PAINE | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | motion made at the Philadelphia Congress by Richard Henry Lee on July 2nd; Thomas Jefferson wrote the commentary on July 4th.
🗑
|
||||
| show | the Loyalists (antirebellion) were called Tories, and the Patriots (prorebellion) were called Whigs
🗑
|
||||
| BOSTON CAMPAIGN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | In summer 1776, the British, under Howe repeatedly defeated the Americans and forced them to flee to New Jersey.
🗑
|
||||
| show | German soldiers hired by the British; frequently deserted
🗑
|
||||
| show | Howe failed to chase Washington, so Washington launched surprise night attacks on 12/26/1776.
🗑
|
||||
| BARON VON STEUBEN | show 🗑
|
||||
| BURGOYNE'S BLUNDER | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Oct 1777, turning point of the war; American General Gates defeated General Burgoyne; made aid from France possible.
🗑
|
||||
| ARMED NEUTRALITY | show 🗑
|
||||
| BENEDICT ARNOLD | show 🗑
|
||||
| CAROLINA CAMPAIGN | show 🗑
|
||||
| WESTERN CAMPAIGN | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | led American privateers against the British Navy to hamper trade and supply lines
🗑
|
||||
| show | fall 1781; decisive battle where General Cornwallis was surrounded by Washington, Rochambeau, and Admiral de Grasse
🗑
|
||||
| TREATY OF PARIS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | British economic policy; they exported more than they imported in order to get gold and silver into their treasury; relied on shipping.
🗑
|
||||
| NAVIGATION LAWS | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | British prime minister, strictly enforced Navigation Laws; issued Sugar, Quartering, and Stamps Acts in 1765
🗑
|
||||
| show | issued to pay debt from the French and Indian War, and to fund current troops; was forced to be revoked by the Stamp Act Congress
🗑
|
||||
| show | American belief that Britishimposed taxes on the colonies were illegal because no colonist sat in the Parliament.
🗑
|
||||
| show | organized by the Stamp act Congress to boycott British goods; brought colonies closer together.
🗑
|
||||
| DECLARATORY ACT | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | issued by "champagne" Charlie Townshend; put a light import tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea (leading to smuggling)
🗑
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| show | On March 5, 1770, a crowd of 60 townspeople harassed 10 redcoats, prompting them to fire on the civilians, killing/wounding 11 of them.
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| COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE | show 🗑
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| SONS OF LIBERTY | show 🗑
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| show | the British attempted to force colonists to sell surplus tea; on December 16, 1773, a band of Bostonians, ships and dumped the tea into the sea.
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| show | series of punishments for the Boston Tea Party; restricted town meetings, closed Boston Harbor, a new Quartering Act, soldiers tried in Europe.
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| QUEBEC ACT | show 🗑
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| FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS | show 🗑
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| THE ASSOCIATION | show 🗑
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| &ch6=SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN | show 🗑
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| COUREURS DU BOIS | show 🗑
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| show | founded Detroit in 1701 to thwart English settlers pushing into the Ohio Valley.
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| ROBERT LA SALLE | show 🗑
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| KING WILLIAMS WAR AND QUEEN ANNE'S WAR | show 🗑
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| WAR OF JENKINS EAR | show 🗑
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| show | grew out of Jenkins Ear; Britain fought Spain and France; Britain captured Louisbourg, became enraged when the peace treaty handed it back to France
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| show | Main area of contention by 1754; Britain wanted to expand; the French wanted to link Canada and the lower Mississippi
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| FORT DUQUESNE/FORT NECESSITY | show 🗑
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| CAJUNS | show 🗑
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| show | Britain conquered France in 1763 to become the sole power of North America
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| ALBANY CONGRESS | show 🗑
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| WILLIAM PITT | show 🗑
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| show | gave Canada and Florida to the British, Louisiana and Cuba to Spain, fishing islets to France
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| show | led several tribes and some French in a violent campaign to drive the British out of the Ohio country
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| PROCLAMATION OF 1763 | show 🗑
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| &ch5=INDENTURED SERVITUDE | show 🗑
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| show | Whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to acquire 50 acres of land; Virginia and Maryland used this to encourage more colonists;
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| show | Revolt of servants over repeated Indian attacks, and Gov. Berekley's refusal to address the matter.
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| show | In 1712, a slave revolt in New York cost the lives of 12 whites and caused the execution of 21 blacks by fire.
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| STONO RIVER REVOLT | show 🗑
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| FIRST FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA | show 🗑
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| HALFWAY COVENANT | show 🗑
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| SALEM WITCH TRIALS | show 🗑
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| LEISLER'S REBELLION | show 🗑
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| &ch4="PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH" | show 🗑
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| show | Scottish Presbyterians from Ireland after clashing with the Irish Catholics; eventually, many came to Pennsylvania; lawless groups like the Paxton Boys and Regulators caused many problems
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| show | food/materials to the Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese wine and gold to Europe, and industrial items from Europe
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| GREAT AWAKENING | show 🗑
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| show | Inventor, scientist, politician; editor of the popular newspaper Poor Richard's Almanac
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| show | This paved the way for freedom of the press and eventually the antagonisms of Revolution
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| &ch3=PURITANS | show 🗑
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| show | Puritan colony founded in 1620; first New England colony; led by William Bradford
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| MAYFLOWER COMPACT | show 🗑
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| show | Massive exodus of 20,000 Puritans to America and Barbados in 1629; to escape persecution by King Charles and Archbishop Laud
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| show | led by John Winthrop, established near Boston in 1629; heavily Puritan
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| ANNE HUTCHINSON | show 🗑
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| ROGER WILLIAMS | show 🗑
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| show | Puritan founder of Hartford, Connecticut colony in 1639
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| show | conflicts in 163637 between New Englanders and local Indians; Pequots were slaughtered at Mystic River
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| KING PHILIP'S WAR | show 🗑
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| NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION | show 🗑
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| DOMINION OF NEW ENGLAND | show 🗑
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| BERKELEY AND CARTERET | show 🗑
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| DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY | show 🗑
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| NEW NETHERLAND | show 🗑
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| show | Capital of New Netherland; home base for the Dutch West India Company; largely aristocratic
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| show | From 16381655, the Swedish trespassed on Dutch preserves by planting the anemic colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River
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| show | Director-General of New Netherland; expelled the Swedes; was defeated by the English
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| QUAKERS | show 🗑
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| show | seadog (English pirate), who circumnavigated globe and plundered Spanish ships
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| HUMPHREY GILBERT | show 🗑
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| WALTER RALEIGH | show 🗑
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| VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON | show 🗑
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| show | first permanent English settlement (1607), near Chesapeake Bay, VA; led by John Smith
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| LORD DE LA WARR | show 🗑
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| ANGLOPOWHATAN WARS | show 🗑
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| HOUSE OF BURGESSES | show 🗑
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| LORD BALTIMORE | show 🗑
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| show | As Protestants flooded into Maryland, Catholics feared a loss of religious freedom; in 1649, the local representative group in Maryland granted toleration to all Christians.
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| INDENTURED SERVITUDE | show 🗑
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| show | denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves and allowed fierce punishment for wrongdoing.
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| show | started to support Caribbean, fought with Savannah Indians, grew tobacco and rice, Charleston was a key port and aristocratic city.
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| show | Virginia outcasts who started North Carolina; many were antiChurch of England; broke from South Carolina in 1712.
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| JAMES OGLETHORPE | show 🗑
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| show | preColumbian Indian civilization in central Mexico, conquered by Cortes
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| MAYANS | show 🗑
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| INCAS | show 🗑
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| CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS | show 🗑
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| show | line of demarcation, divided New World between Spain and Portugal
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| CONQUISTADOR | show 🗑
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| show | Spanish conquistador, explored Mexico and conquered the Aztecs.
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| show | Mighty Indian nation in the northeastern United States.
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| VIKINGS | show 🗑
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| show | Europe provided the markets, capital, and technology; Africa provided the slaves; New World provided the raw materials.
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| show | explored Florida in 1513 and 1521
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| show | allowed Europeans to hold Indians with the intent to Christianize them and force them into labor
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| POPE'S REBELLION | show 🗑
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