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22 Cards in this Set
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Terence V. Powderly
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(January 22, 1849 – June 24, 1924) He was a well-known national figure as leader of the Knights of Labor from 1879 until 1893.
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Proclamation of 1763
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Issued October 7, 1763, by King George III, the purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
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Joseph Pulitzer
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(April 10, 1847–October 29, 1911) A Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism along with William Randolph Hearst.
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Pullman Strike
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A nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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(1906) A United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
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PWA
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The Public Works Administration was a New Deal agency in the United States created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 and concentrated on the construction of large-scale public works such as dams and bridges, with the goal of providing employment, stabilize purchasing power, and contribute to a revival of American industry.
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Quartering Act
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(1765) Under the terms of this legislation, each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within its borders. This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses.
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Quebec Act
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(1774) The act attempted to resolve the problem of making the colony a province of British North America and tried to build French-Canadian loyalty to the British. It also extended the borders of Quebec to include the land between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, a region claimed by American colonists.
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Radical Republicans
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A loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877 opposed to slavery and supportive of freedmen.
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A. Phillip Randolph
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(April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) A prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
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Red Scare
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The First Red Scare, from 1917 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The Scares were characterized by the fear that communism would upset the capitalist social order in the United States.
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Jacob Riis
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(May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. As one of the most prominent exponents of the newly practicable flash, he is considered a pioneer in photography.
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John D. Rockefeller
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(July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897. He became the world's richest man and first American worth more than a billion dollars
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Romanticism
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18th century European revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and natural history.
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserted a right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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(October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) The First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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(October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) The 26th President of the United States. Roosevelt attempted to move the Republican Party in the direction of Progressivism, including trust busting and increased regulation of businesses. Roosevelt coined the phrase "Square Deal" to describe his domestic agenda, emphasizing that the average citizen would get a fair shake under his policies. As an outdoorsman and naturalist, he promoted the conservation movement. On the world stage, Roosevelt's policies were characterized by his slogan, "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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(May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953), (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history.
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Rush-Bagot Treaty
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A treaty between the United States and Britain enacted in 1817 which demilitarized the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval armaments and forts still remained. The treaty laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America.
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S.A.L.T.
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union-the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control.
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S.C.L.C.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an American civil rights organization.
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S.N.C.C.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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