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27 Cards in this Set
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Truman Doctrine
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March 12, 1947 US Foreign Policy to stop the spread of Soviet imperialism by containing it to Greece and Turkey. |
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Marshall Plan
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The European Recovery Program (ERP) An American initiative to aid Western European economies after World War II, gave $13 Billion. |
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Joseph McCarthy
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Claimed there were communist spies in the US, more specifically the government, ushered in a time known as McCarthyism. During the Red Scare.
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Army-McCarthy Hearings
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April 1954 Televised congressional hearings accusing McCarthy of trying to win preferential treatment using improper influence. |
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GI Bill
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Veterans Benefit Administration created the bill to aid Veterans or members of the military with 90 days of active duty after September 10, 2001 and are still serving or have been discharged due to a service injury.
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Baby Boom
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A period of time after world war two were military soldiers were returning home to see their families and...having a lot of sex creating a baby boom, those people are now retired or retiring.
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Reconstruction
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Of the South in the US after the civil war in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union
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Radical Republicans
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Anti-Slavery advocates after the civil war that wanted equal rights for African americans and confederate generals to be punished.
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Andrew Johnson
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17th President Became President after Lincolns assassination and the first to become impeached but aquitted by one vote. He did not support civil rights, vetoing many acts including the Freedman's Bureau Bill, and the Civil Rights Act. Congress overrode both decisions and impeached him because he tried to fire the secretary of war. |
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The Tenure of Office Act
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The act that Johnson went against which got hi impeached. Denied the power of the pres to remove federal officials without the senates approval
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Black Codes
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designed to restrict freed blacks’ activity and ensure their availability as a labor force now that slavery had been abolished. For instance, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested as vagrants and fined or forced into unpaid labor
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Jim Crow Laws
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Stopped African americans from voting by putting ridiculous restrictions in place
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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supreme court upholds the "separate but equal" clause in public places such as; schools and transportation
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Freedman's Bureau
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Act that helped former slaves and poor whites in the south
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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19th president Helped to end reconstruction and began efforts to civil reform |
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Booker T. Washington
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An influencial African American civil rights reform leader, and advisor to the presidents
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W.E.B. Dubois
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First African American to get a degree from Harvard
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Atlanta Compromise Speech
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As separate as the fingers but must be on the same hand. Eased white tension in the south, one of the most essential speeches in American history.
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed in 1909, WEB Dubois is one of its founders |
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CORE
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Congress of Racial Equality formed in 1942 |
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SNCC
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Brown vs Board of Education
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Separate but equal is unconstitutional
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Charles Houston
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lawyer that played a pivotal role in dismantling the jim crow laws.
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Thurgood Marshall
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Supreme Court Justice responsible for striking separate but equal.
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Freedom Summer
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June 1964 campaign to register as many black voters as possible
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De Jure Segregation
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enforced by law
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De Fatco Segregation
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enforced by individual preferences backed up by private pressures
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