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25 Cards in this Set
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John Adams |
-Second president -Rev. War 1776 -Founding Father -Held a part in the boston massacre
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Thomas Jefferson |
-Third President2 -Founding Father -Wrote the Declaration of independence Rev War 1776 -Made Louisiana Purchase |
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Tecumseh |
-Leader of Shawnee Native Americans -Helped the British in the War of1812 -1812 |
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Andrew Jackson |
-Seventh President -Responsible for trail of tears -1820 |
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Seminole Wars |
-Seminoles (Multiethnic villages) owned by Spain, Andrew Jackson burnt them down. - 1820 |
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Trail of tears |
- A series of native American Relocations in the United States -1820 |
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Monroe Doctrine |
-American Territory is closed to british colonization -Political systems are separate from the ones in Europe -The U.S. considers it dangerous to its peace to have european influence in the western hemisphere -1820 |
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James Polk |
-11th president -Expansionist/ Imperialist -Starts Mexican American War -1845 |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
-Peace treaty that signed the end of the Mexican American War -1845 |
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The Confederacy |
-The southern Side of the U.S. -Lost the Civil War -1860 |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
-Frees slaves in rebellious states -1861 |
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Jim Crow Laws |
-Plessy v. Ferguson -Separate but equal -1865 |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
-Eventually became president -Tried to portray himself as a hero during the Spanish American War 1898 |
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Woodrow Wilson |
-President During WWI -Brings the U.S. into WWi -1914 |
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Alice paul |
-Suffrage activist -Fought for womens suffrage, and was sent to jail for protesting -1914
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Committee for Public Information |
Produces propaganda for the government, was created during WWI to get people to buy bonds and to join the army -1945 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
-Theodore Roosevelt's wife -Helped to get black people into the army, during WWII -1945 |
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A. Philip Randolf |
-African American Civil rights Activist - Fought to get AA into defense positions -Roosevelt issued an executive order to do that^ after the march on washington -1945 |
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Executive Order 9066 |
-The executive order that made it possible to detain Asian Americans in Internment Camps -1945 |
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Atlantic Charter |
-Policy made early in WWII that stated the ideal goals of war -1945 |
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Manhattan Project |
The project to help end the war in the pacific by use of atomic bomb -1945 |
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Truman Doctrine |
-The United States will come to the aid of any country that is going against communism -1945 |
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Lyndon Johnson |
-President During the Vietnam War. - When he comes into office he continues to send troops to Vietnam without congress permission. -1960 |
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Ho Chi Minh |
-Leader of the VietMinh -Communist that we supplied against Japan in WWI -Did not get elected because the U.S. instead just put in someone we backed --1960 |
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War On Terror |
-The war that we declare on Afghanistan after 9/11 -2001 |
