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32 Cards in this Set
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Spanish conquerors searching for the 3 G’s (gold, glory, God/gospel). Pizarro- Incas. Cortez- Aztecs
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Conquistadors
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_________________________ a group of investors pooled resources to establish colonies for the British in the New World. They agreed to share in the profits and losses of the colonies.
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Joint Stock company
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Unlike the British who came to colonize the New World, the _________________ were mainly fur trappers. Others from this country came to convert Native Americans to Christianity. Famous explorers- Marquette and Joliet, LaSalle
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French
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Established a colony at Plymouth, group left England for Holland, then left Holland, seeking religious freedom in the New World
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Pilgrims
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Militiamen trained to be ready at a moment’s notice to defend the colonies.
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Minutemen
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A revolutionary group headed by Samuel Adams. They led the Boston Tea Party.
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Sons of Liberty
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people who became servants for seven years to pay their passage to the colonies.
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Indentured servants
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The Second _______________ was our government during the Revolutionary War.
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Continental Congress
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those who supported the Constitution
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Federalists
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officially chooses the President of the US
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the Electoral College
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They came from the North to work with the Republicans in the South during Reconstruction.
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Carpetbaggers (brought suitcases made of carpet scraps).
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Southerners who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction. They were viewed by Southerners as traitors.
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Scalawags
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The first farm organization. Farmers formed cooperatives and pooled resources and worked together for better shipping rates from the RRs.
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The Grange
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Wealthy industrialists (factory owners) who used ruthless business methods to achieve their wealth. “Took” from the poor.
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Robber barons
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Journalists who wrote about and exposed the evils of industrialization/urbanization at the beginning of the Progressive Era.
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Muckrakers
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Originally formed during Reconstruction, the newly formed group in the 1920s targeted blacks, immigrants, and Catholics.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Women in the 1920’s who broke with tradition and wore cosmetics, smoked, wore new (shorter) fashions, and danced the new dances (Charleston)
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Flappers
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WWI Allies: (1.) Great Britain (2.) France (3.) ____________ (4.) United States (Italy switched sides and joined the Allies in 1915)
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Russia
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Central Powers: (1.) ____________ (2.) Austria- Hungary (3.) Ottoman Empire
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Germany (remember Germany was never on the same side as the U.S.- we don't want "germs" LOL)
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Unemployed group of WWI veterans who wanted but were denied the release of their funds for their service in WWI early. Hoover ordered them cleared from Washington, D.C. by the U.S. army (who had horses and teargas.)
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Bonus Army
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Opposed passage of the Constitution (until they were promised a Bill of Rights protecting citizens from the government would be added.)
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Anti-Federalists
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Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States
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Allies or Allied Powers in WWII
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Germany, Italy, Japan (It’s a Jap. Germ)
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Axis Powers in WWII
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Black combat pilots who were trained in Alabama during WWII. Highly decorated unit. (1st group of black pilots)
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Insects that destroyed cotton forcing the Alabama farmers to diversify/grow different crops. (in other words, turned out to be good for Alabama- made us realize we couldn't depend on one crop for our whole economy.)
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Boll weevil
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Midwestern, Great Plains farmers whose land “blew” away because of drought and wind erosion in the 1930’s.
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Okies
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U.S. never signed the Treaty of Versailles nor did we join the _______________, an organization created to keep the peace.
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League of Nations
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Political party founded based on the opposition to slavery.
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Republican Party
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Provided food, clothing, and education for ex-slaves and poor whites.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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A group in the Senate led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner that wanted to punish the South after the Civil War.
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Radical Republicans
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Native Americans depended on these for food, clothing, and shelter on the Great Plains and the American West.
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Buffalo
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Nickname of African American soldiers who fought the Native Americans in the Frontier Wars and with the Rough Riders in Cuba at San Juan Hill.
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Buffalo Soldiers
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