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24 Cards in this Set
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What did FDR do to try and protect his New Deal legislation?
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Pack the court (increas the number of Supreme Court Justices)
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What did agencies like the Food Administration and the Fuel Administration do during WW1?
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Rationing/Conservation of resources for the troops
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What acts were passed in 1935 and 1937 in an effort to keep the US out of WW1?
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Neutrality Acts
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What was the invasion of Normandy on June 6 1944 called?
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D-day
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The women working in indutrial jobs during WW11 were nicknamed what?
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Rosie the riveter
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What was the immediate cause of the US entry into WW11?
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Pearl Harbor
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This was one of the earliest suburbs of mass-produced simple and similar looking homes built 10 miles East of New York City in the late 1940s early 1950s
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Levittowns (after Bill Levitt)
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What election in 1948 was extremely close?
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Dewey/Truman
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What system in our constitution ensures that no one branch of government gains too much power?
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Checks and Balances
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What civil Rights leader of the 1960s was a part of the Black Muslims?
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Malcolm x
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Was Earl Warren Court liberal or conservative?
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Liberal
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What does S.E.A.T.O stand for?
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Southeast Asia treaty Organization (Regional defense agreement founded in 1954 in response to communist expanism in Southeast Asia)
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What idea advocated "survival of the fittest?"
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Social Darwinism
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What was the idea of preventing the spread of communism called?
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Containment
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What was LBJ's domestic policy called?
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Great Society
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What was the free state in the Missouri Compromise?
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Maine
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What precedent was set with the Northwest Ordinance?
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How a territoy became a state.
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What rights did John C. Calhoun fight for?
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States Rights
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Who did most of the work on the railroad?
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Irish and Chinese
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What was the free state added in the compromise of 1850?
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California
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British film director of sophisticated suspense thrillers such as Pscho and Rear Window?
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Who was the expansion president who advocated manifest destiny?
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James K. Polk
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What was margaret Sanger famous for advocating?
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Birth Control (founded the first birth control clinic in North America)
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What court case legalized "seperate but equal"
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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