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81 Cards in this Set
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Conservatives |
~Less Government Involvement ~Republicans |
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Liberals |
~More Government Involvement ~Democrats |
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Immigration Back Then |
1st Wave: About the 1800's - Many came from Europe - Once arrived they had to go to Ellis Island for safety checking before allowed in the country |
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Immigration Today (3 Step Process) |
1. Get a visa 2. Get a greencard 3. Take the citizenship test |
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Urbanization |
The growth of population in Urban areas |
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Ethnic Cities |
Most immigrants lived in segregated regions of the city Example: If I am Mexican, I would go find the Mexican Ethnic City to live |
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Party Bosses |
Controlled the cities money |
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Political Machine |
Kept power in the urban areas and helped people find jobs and homes in exchange for voting for their party boss |
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Tenement |
Multi-family apartments, usually near industrial factories Very small buildings where families were expected to live |
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Civil War |
War fought between the North and the South due to Slavery and many other causes |
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Women's Suffrage |
Women's suffrage was trying to get women voting rights Seneca Falls Convention ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~ Lucretia Mott |
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Civil Rights |
Things like equality and social freedom |
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13th Ammendment |
Abolished slavery |
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19th Ammendment |
Gave women voting rights |
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Brown vs. The Board of Education |
Black children weren’t allowed to enter public schools with white children Brown won |
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Title IX |
Federal group that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any funded education program |
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Roe vs. Wade |
Roe wanted an abortion but didn’t have the money to travel all the way to a different state so she sued saying that it was her right to terminate her pregnancy, she sued Wade Therefore abortion is legal Roe won |
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Martin Luther King (MLK) |
Wanted to deal with segregation using "peaceful protest" |
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Malcolm X |
Wanted to deal with segregation using whatever had to be done "violent self-defense" |
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Sit-Ins |
A type of protest where you sit at a place and refuse to leave until your demands are met Example: Lunch Counter Sit-In |
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Boycotts |
A group of people who refuses to buy or do something in protest Example: Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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President Nixon w/ The Watergate Scandal |
Nixon's helpers broke into the offices of the Democratic party and took secret information. Nixon was involved because he ordered the cover up |
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Watergate Scandal |
A burglary happened and it had a connection to President Nixon’s reelection. |
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JFK's Assassination |
Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald during a parade in down town Dallas, Texas Many different conspiracies |
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Lee Harvey Oswald |
The person who is most believed to have shot President Kennedy, but couldn't justify because Jack Ruby shot him |
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Laissez-Faire |
The idea that government should stay out of businesses |
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Horizontal Integration |
"Monopoly" The merger of companies at the same stage of production in the same or different industries When you own all the competition Allows you to raise price |
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Vertical Integration |
When a company expands its business into areas that are at different points on the same production path, such as when a manufacturer owns its supplier and/or distributor Allows you to lower prices and still get a good profit When you don't have to pay the 'middle man' |
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Great Depression |
A long and severe depression with economics and |
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Causes |
- Long Bull Market
- Buying on Margin
- Speculation -Over Production |
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Dust Bowl |
A time of drought that destroyed all the crops |
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Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) |
Thought solving the Great Depression by using the "New Deal" was a good idea |
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Herbert Hoover |
Thought solving the Great Depression by waiting it out was a good idea |
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End of the Great Depression |
Start of World War II |
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"New Deal" |
The set of programs and policies designed to promote economic recovery and security reform introduced during the 1930’s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt A bunch of clubs and policies to try to help make money. |
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Great Recession |
Housing Market People took out loan that they couldn't pay back to get a nice house |
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Imperialism |
When bigger countries take over smaller ones Lead to the Spanish American War |
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Teddy Roosevelt |
"Big Stick Policy" |
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Big Stick Policy |
International negotiations backed by force (Our military) Speak gently and carry a big stick |
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Reasons to Imperialize |
- Military Bases - Natural Resources - Power - Land |
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WWI |
Starts: 1914 US Enters: 1917 Ends: 1919 |
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WWII |
Starts: 1939 US Enters: 1941 Ends: 1945 |
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Cold War |
1946 to 1989 |
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Causes of WWI MANIA |
- Assassination of Franz Ferdinand - Alliances - Imperialism - Militarism - Nationalism |
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US Enters WWI |
- Sinking of the Lusitania - Zimmerman Telegraph |
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WWI Ends |
Treaty of Versailles |
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Treaty of Versailles |
Germany had to give up land Pay war reparations Take Blame Give up land Reduce Military NATO was created |
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Causes of WWII |
Germany invades Poland |
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US Enters WWII |
Pearl Harbor |
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WWII Technology and Strategy |
Airplanes and Island Hopping |
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D-Day |
Water attack on Normandy, France |
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Holocaust |
Hitler killed many Jews and put them through pain and torture and eventually death |
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End of WWII |
-Dropping of the atomic bombs (Pacific) - Hitler's death - Battle of the Bulge (Europe) |
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Causes of the Cold War |
- Communism - WWII |
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Sputnik |
First rocket in space Launched by the USSR |
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Domino Theory/ Effect |
When one country falls to communism, the countries around it will fall a lot quicker as well |
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Truman Doctrine |
Basically said that we had to give money in order to fight communism |
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End of the Cold War |
Fall of the Berlin Wall |
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Manifest Destiny |
The expansion westward, which God wanted up to do If you didn't do what God wanted, you were considered a bad person |
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What caused tension between the North and the South before the Civil War? |
- Westward Expansion - Election of Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - Dred Scott Case |
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North Advantages in the Civil War |
- Larger Population - More Industry - More Railroad - More Resources - More Ships |
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South Advantages in the Civil War |
- Robert E. Lee - Familiar with the land - Defending their homeland |
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Reconstruction |
The process of rebuilding after something has been destroyed |
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After the Civil War what did most freed African Americans do? |
They became sharecroppers |
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Why did we Expand Westward? |
- Manifest Destiny - Over Crowding - Need more Resources - Gold |
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Hardships of the Westward Expansion |
- Terrain/ Environment - Native American Encounters |
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What allowed us to industrialize? |
- Natural Resources - Laissez-Faire - Immigrants for Workers - New Inventions |
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Unions |
A group of people that bond together to get better conditions Example: Higher pay Better Equipment |
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Early 1900's Cities |
- Dirty - Unsafe - Crowded - Crime |
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Spanish- American War |
We wanted to help Cuba, which got their independence Lead to the sinking of the Maine |
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Goal of the Progressive Movement |
To improve society Children's working laws Better food safety (FDA) Prohibition |
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Harlem Renaissance |
African American Cultural Movement |
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North's Plan for the Civil War |
Anaconda Plan |
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South's Plan for the Civil War |
Atrition |
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Countries we Imperialized |
- Guam - Philippines - Cuba - Puerto Rico |
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WWII Sides |
Allied and Axis |
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WWI Sides |
Allied and Central |
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WWI Allied Countries |
United States Serbia Russia Britain France |
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WWI Central Countries |
Austria-Hungary Germany Ottoman Empire |
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WWII Allied Countries |
United States France Russia Serbia Great Britain |
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WWII Axis Countries |
Germany Italy Japan Austria-Hungary |
