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16 Cards in this Set
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13th amendment
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abolished slavery
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19th Amendment
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gave woman the right to vote
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17th Amendment
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direct election of senatore by the people
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14th amendment
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gave slaves due process and equal citizenship
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
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16th Amendment
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allows the Congress to levy an income tax without regard to the States or the Census.
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15th amendment
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no government in the United States may prevent a male citizen from voting based on that citizen's race[1], color, or previous condition of servitude
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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1963-1969. Johnson succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of President Kennedy, and after completing Kennedy's term was elected President in his own right in a landslide victory in the 1964 Presidential election."Great Society" legislation that included civil rights laws, Medicare (health care for the elderly), Medicaid (health care for the poor), aid to education, and the "War on Poverty." Simultaneously, he escalated the American involvement in the Vietnam War,
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Herbert Hoover
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1929–1933.Great Depression, which began in 1929. combat the Depression with volunteer efforts and government action, none of which produced economic recovery during his term.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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1901-1909. 1909Square Deal and regulation of industry, trust busting, Conservationist, Panama Canal, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine,
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Jimmy Carter
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1977-81. created Department of Energy and the Department of Education. the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Carter sought to put a stronger emphasis on human rights.1979 takeover of the American embassy in Iran and holding of hostages by Iranian students, a failed rescue attempt of the hostages, serious fuel shortages, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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William Taft
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1909-1913 trust-busting, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, expanding the civil service, establishing a better postal system, and promoting world peace
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Dwight Eisenhower
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1953-61. 61As President, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.
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Richard Nixon
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1969-1974. détente with the Soviet Union and by the opening of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Nixon successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam.Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974
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Grover Cleveland
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1885–1889 and 1893–1897 intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 in order to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions, and his support of the gold standard and opposition to free silverlittle imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic disasters—depressions and strikes—in his second term.
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Harry Truman
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1945–1953 end of World War II and his decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, the founding of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, the beginning of the Cold War, the creation of NATO, and the Korean War
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