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40 Cards in this Set
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Civil War ended in ____ after General ____ surrendered |
-Civil war ended 1865 -General Robert Lee |
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Reconstruction Overview |
-Occurred after the end of the civil war to rebuild America -Andrew Jackson was President, lenient on the South -Radical Rep controlled Congress and gave blacks rights and wanted more control of the unruly southern states using military forces |
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13th Amendment |
-Abolished slavery -Didn't compensate slave owners |
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14th Amendment |
-All people born/naturalized are entitled to equal rights as citizens -Due process |
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15th Amendment |
-All men can vote |
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16th Amendment |
-Allows the government to collect taxes |
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18th Amendment |
-Prohibition of alcohol in 1919 |
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19th Amendment |
-Women the right to vote in 1920 |
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21st Amendment |
-Repealed prohibition in 1933 |
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Year Reconstruction Ended and Name of Next Movement |
-Reconstruction ended 1877 -Moved into Redemption |
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Redemption Overview |
-Occurred after reconstruction -Process in which the South could be accepted and readmitted into the Union -Democrats ran the Southern governments |
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Progressive Era 1890-1920 Overview |
-Progressive movement wanted to take power away from the rich elite in order to benefit the common folk |
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3 Leaders of the Progressive Movement |
1. Roosevelt 2. Taft 3. Wilson |
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The progressive movement book: How the other half lives by _______________ |
-Jacob Riis -Pictures featuring the disgusting living conditions of the poor |
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The progressive movement book: The octopus: a story of California |
-Frank Norris -Corruption in the rail road and wheat industry |
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The progressive movement book: The jungle |
-Upton Sinclair -Corruption and unsanitary conditions of migrant workers in the meat packing industry |
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2nd Industrial Revolution 1860-1914 |
-President Rutherford Hayes
-Rail roads, electricity, steel, cars, petroleum, etc. |
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1920s & the Great Depression 1930 |
1920s: time of economic propserity and living in urban areas Great Depression 1930: caused by stock market crash of federal reserve which lead to unemployment, lowered taxes, lower profits, lower funds |
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WWI 1914-1918 Overview |
-Started by the assassination of Austria's leader Triple Alliance VS. Triple Entente/Central Powers Alliance: UK, France, Russia, US Entente/Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungry, Italy |
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WWII 1939-1945 Overview |
-US joined in 1941 -Allies VS Axis -Allies: (US, Soviet Union, Britain, France) -Axis: (Italy, Germany, Japan) |
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WWII Events |
-Invaded Czech in 1939, made secret peace agreement with Russia, conquered Poland, Britain & France declared war on Germany, Axis takes over most of Europe 1941 invades Russia, US joined, pushed out of Russia on 1942, 1944 Allies D-day in France, Allies attacked Germany from both ends surrender, US nucs Japan 2x and they surrender in 1945 |
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Cold War 1947-1991 |
-Arms race between US & Soviet Union -President John F. Kennedy |
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Korean War 1950-1953 |
-US fought North Korea to protect South Korea from communism |
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The New Deal 1933-1936 |
-President Roosevelt -After great depression -Formed social security, medicare, unemployment, food stamps, public housing, etc. |
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Plessy V Ferguson 1896 |
Separate but equal |
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Schenck V US 1919 |
Limit freedom of speech when it presents a clear danger |
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Brown V Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
-Sep but equal isn't ok |
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Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798 |
Restricted immigration from France & Ireland |
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Alice Paul |
-Fought for equal rights amendment for women |
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1964 Title XX of Civil Rights Act included Gender |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
-AKA Mark Twain Wrote adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the Prince & the pauper |
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FDR Quarantine Speech topic |
Anti-Fascism |
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Taft-Hawley Act 1947 |
Restricted the rights of unions to strike and added more regulations to unions |
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Palmer Raids |
-Occurred during red scare -4,000 suspected communists were jailed or deported |
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Robert Lafollete |
Leader of progressive movement |
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890 |
Protect against monopolies -Theodore Roosevelt |
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W.E.B. Dubois |
Founded NAACP |
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Thurgood Marshall |
-1st black supreme court justice -Head lawyer in Brown V Board of Edu |
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Conscription |
AKA the draft Mandatory military service |
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Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee |
-Founder of American Birth Control League -Now known as Planned Parenthood |
