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26 Cards in this Set
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22
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Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee (September 14
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Scopes Trial
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In 1925 John Thomas Scopes
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Second Continental Congress
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The Second Continental Congress was presided over by John Hancock
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Congress lacked the legal authority to govern
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but boldly assumed that responsibility.
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Seneca Falls
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The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840
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Shay's Rebellion
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Shays' Rebellion
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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The Sherman Antitrust Act requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts
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Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
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Adam Smith
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Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economics. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment
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Social Darwinism
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Social Darwinism is a belief
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Spanish American War
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. While many historians and experts routinely include the indigenous struggles for independence in Cuba
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Specie Circular
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The Specie Circular (Coinage Act) was an executive order issued by U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and carried out by President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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Spoils System
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Jacksonian Democracy showed its face on inauguration day when crowds of celebrating supporters stormed the White House. Muddy boots trampled the fine carpeting
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Many inauguration-day revelers were in Washington hoping to find government jobs. The term “spoils system” refers to the conferral of office on people based upon political concerns rather than fitness for office. Viewed in its best light
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it was a further expression of increased democratization in American politics—one need not be a member of the elite in order to govern. Upon assuming office
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Sputnik
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Was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
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Square Deal
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The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources
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Joseph Stalin
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In 1939
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Stalin was up to this point very wary of the Germans
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and would not permit his armies to even assume defensive positions for fear of sending the wrong signals to Hitler. Up to the final moment
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Stamp Act
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents
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Lincoln Steffens
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In 1906 Steffens joined with the investigative journalists
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Stevens served for several years in the Pennsylvania state legislature before his election to Congress in 1848 as an antislavery Whig. He opposed the fugitive slave law and the Compromise of 1850. In 1856
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Lucy Stone
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Lucy Stone
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Charles Sumner
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Sumner became a leader of the anti-slavery forces in the Senate. During the debates on slavery in Kansas in May 1856
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William Howard Taft
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His first and only term
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After leaving office
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Taft spent his time in academia
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