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53 Cards in this Set
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abolished slavery
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13th Amendment
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made all males citizens
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14th Amendment
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gave all citizens the right to vote
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15th Amendment
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graduated income tax
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16th Amendment
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direct election of senators
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17th Amendment
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Prohibition
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18th Amendment
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women's suffrage
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19th Amendment
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160 free acres of land in the Midwest in exchange for improving it in five years
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Homestead Act
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frontierism is good for America
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Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis
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farmers got laws passed to create a maximum train fare
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Granger Movement
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graduated income tax, term limits for Congressmen
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Omaha Platform
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the rich earn their right to be rich, and therefore deserve the most power
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Social Darwinism
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group of people who are a single legal entity
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corporation
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government jobs through merit system
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Pendleton Act
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government attitude toward business being to not get involved
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laissez-faire
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craft union that used strikes to get shorter workweeks and higher wages
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American Federation of Labor
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riot started by a bombing at a protest of police brutality
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Haymarket Affair of 1886
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Ellis Island, Angel Island
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assimilation process of immigrants
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violent strike by Pullman workers, who said they should either make more money or have lower rent
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Pullman Strike of 1894
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community center providing assisstance to residents- paticularly immigrants- in a slum neighborhood
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settlement houses
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people have greater voice in government and advanced interests of farmers and laboreres
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Populist Party issues
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decreasing crop prices, railroads charging excessive prices for shipping and storage
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problems of farmers
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response to corruption in the Gilded Age
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Progressive movement
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thought black people deserved equality with whites because they lived in America too
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WEB DuBois
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thought black people should earn their equality by proving themselves financially conducive to the economy
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Booker T. Washington
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Panama gained independence from Columbia
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Panamanian rebellion
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Big Stick Diplomacy
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Teddy Roosevelt's Diplomacy
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free Cuba, the de Lôme letter, yellow journalism, explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
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causes of the Spanish-American War
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the use of sensationalized and exaggerateed reporting by newspapers and magazines to attract readers
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yellow journalism
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prime reasons for U.S. imperialism
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military strength, global competition, new markets, natural resources, belief in cultural superiority
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amendment to U.S. Constitution, stating that U.S. could intervene at any time, could buy/lease land for naval bases, and Cuba could not go into debt or make treaties with any other country
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Platt Amendment
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waterway through Panama that drastically reduced coast-to-coast overseas shipping time
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Panama Canal
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Causes of World War I
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Militarism
Alliances Imperialism Nationalism assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
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tanks, machine guns
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weapons of mechanized warfare
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France, Britain, Russia
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Triple Entente
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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Triple Alliance
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German submarines
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U-boats
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France and Belgium
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Western Front
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no secret treaties, League of Nations, lowered or abolished tariffs, freedom of seas, reduced arms
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Fourteen Points
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U.S. entering World War I
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Zimmerman note, explosion of the Lusitania
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illegal to interfere with war effort or say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
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prejudice against foreign-born people
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nativism
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limit on number of people who could immigrate from each country
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Emergency Quota Act of 1921
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Major cause for Red Scare
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revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czars, and the Bolsheviks created a Communist state
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emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
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flappers
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used assembly line to make large numbers of affordable products
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Henry Ford's impact on mass consumption
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Harding's slogan, meaning a return to isolationism
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"return to normalcy"
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literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture
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Harlem Renaissance
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fight over evolution and the roles of science and religion in public schools and in American society
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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not getting involved with foreign countries
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isolationism
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causes of economic boom in the 1920s
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installment plans, mass production
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causes of economic decline in the 1920s
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credit buying, failing businesses, falling crop prices, buying stocks on margin, uneven distribution of wealth
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October 29, 1929
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Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crashed
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