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Walbash v. Illinois |
Overturned Granger Laws. Relief to farmers was provided through the Homestead Act.
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Knights of Labor
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Union that accepted unskilled, skilled, black, and female workers. Declined rapidly after the Haymarket riot
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Gospel of Wealth
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The idea, shared by Andrew Carnegie, that wealth should be used to help society
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Interlocking Directorate
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Strategy used by JP Morgan to control companies by putting officers of his bank on their board
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United States v. Knight Company
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Diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by ruling that manufacturing was not interstate commerce.
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Sherman Anti Trust Act (1890)
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Prohibits anti-competative business and requires federal governments to investigate and pursue trusts.
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Social Gospel Movement
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The belief that Christians should save the world and the industrial system
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Separate but equal
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Platt Amendment (1901)
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Allowed the US to intervene in Cuba
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Pendleton Act
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Allowed some government jobs to be filled on the basis of a competitive exam
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Hepburn Act
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Strengthened interstate commerce act by giving it the power to set the maximum rates railroads could charge
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Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom” and Teddy Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism”
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Expanded the government’s role in regulating businesses and business monopolies.
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Sedation Act
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Punished those who criticised the war effort
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Zimmermann telegram
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Proposed an alliance with Mexico if the US declared war on Germany
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Schenk v Us
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The government can restrict freedom of speech in times of war
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
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tariff reprisals from a number of foreign countries
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21st Amendment
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Repealed Prohibition
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13th Amendment
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Ended Slavery
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14th Amendment
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Civil rights act
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Compromise of 1877
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Ended reconstructionism by removing federal troops in southern states
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KKK
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Targeted republicans
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Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871
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Briefly stopped the KKK
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Vertical Integration
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Owning all aspects of production
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Horizontal Integration
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Big Firms buying up small ones
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Homestead Act
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160 acres of free land withing public domain to head of household who would settle on it and improve it over 5 years.
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Dawes Act
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Gave land to indians if they became farmers and acted white. Didn't work.
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The Cattle Boom Ended
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Severe weather conditions and overgrazing wiped out many ranchers
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The Book "A Century of Dishonor" - by Helen Hunt Jackson was about
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Broken treaties and injustices against american indians
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Tammany Hall
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name given to the Democratic political machine that dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello LaGuardia in 1934.
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Whiskey Ring
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a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.
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Gilded Age Republicans favored
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high tarrifs, low spending, paying off national debt, and reducing the amount of greenbacks
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Gilded Age Democrates were often linked to
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New York bankers
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Civil Service Act(1883)
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Created a merit system for 10% of political employees.
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Grange movement
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Farmers hoped to achieve fair railroad rates and warehouse charges. Became the Farmers Alliance.
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Sub Treasurey Plan
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Farmers would store crops in government warehouses and get low-rate loans to buy seed using the stored grain as collateral (way to bypass banks).
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Populus Party
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Stemmed from the grange movement and sub treasury plan. Struggled to unify to due racism.
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The populus party ended
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When republican Mc'Kinly was voted into office
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"The Guilded Age" of politics
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A book written by Mark Twain critized early 20th centruy politics
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Progressivism
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Dealing with social issues as a result of industrialism and immagration
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The Pure food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was a response to
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Uptin Sinclair's The Jungle
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Wobblies
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Union for unskilled immigrant workers founded 1906. Socialist.
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Taylorism
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A method of organizing work and school days to maximize efficiency
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17th Amendment
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Allowed senators to be elected directly by the people rather than the state legislatures
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Jim Crow laws
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Legalized discrimination. Allowed because the 17th amendment said nothing about the ability to read.
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Plessy vs. Fergueson
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(1896) Separate but equal
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Booker T Washington
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Freed slave that urged freed slaves to learn a skill to become respected while living in segrated societies
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WEB DuBois
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Advocated for full civil and political equality. Helped to found the NAACP
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New Imperialism
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The US's version of imperialism (outside the continental US).
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The cause of american imperialism
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America needed a place to sell its goods to get out of a depression.
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"The Influence of Seapower upon History"
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Written by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan which argued that to be a great power, the US needed to dominate the seas. Lead to the creation of the Panama canal
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Hawaii was Annexed in 1898 to...
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Avoid tarrifs on sugar
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The Spanish-American-Cuban-Fillipino War
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Native cubans resulted against spain. Many cubans died of disease and concentration camps. Mc'Kinley demanded spain get out of cuba. Then he declared war. Most successful in us history. We got the Phillipinese, puerto rico, and Guam.
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The Teller Ammendment
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Prevented Cuba from being Annexed because of feared of competition in the sugar industry.
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Sinking of the USS Maine
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Used by "Yellow Press" to support the Spanish-American-Cuban-Fillipino war efforts.
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The "Splended little war"
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The Spanish-American-Cuban-Fillipino war. Short. Few killed.
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Foraker Act (1900)
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Declared that Puerto Rico would be an insular territory. Citizens wouldn't be US and there would be no path to statehood.
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Anti Imperialism
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The result of racism and a fear that it was incompatable with democracy
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Theodor Roosevelt
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Hands on domestic and international proctices. Used the Sherman anti trust act to break up monopolies. Pissed off JP Morgan a lot. Conservationist.
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Square Deal
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Aimed to distinguish good corporations from bad corporations
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Taft
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Hardcore trust-buster that broke up standard oil in 1911.
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16th Amendment
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Allowed congress to collect an income tax
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
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Bull-Moose Party
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T. Rosevelt's progressive party used to run against Taft. Pro suffrage, federal regulation, labor and health, 8 hr days, social insurance. Lost to Woodrow Wilson because he split the republican vote with Taft.
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Clayton Act of 1914
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Exempt unions from antitrust laws and made it easier for them to strike.
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Keating-Owen Act
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Outlawed child labor in manufacturing
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Adamson Act
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which mandated an 8 hr workday for railroad workers
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The federal reserves system
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Gave government much more control of banks in response to the panic of 1907 where the us banks had to be bailed out by JP Morgan
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Added to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the US would defend Latin American states against Europe. Allowed for US trade.
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Dollar Deplomacy
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Taft's alternative to the Big Stick Policy. Capital investment is the best way to spread us influence.
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"He Kept us out of war"
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Wilson's slogan to get reelected.
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What was the event that lead to US involvement in WWI?
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1) Germans to resume unrestricted submarine warfare 2) Zimmerman Telegram 3) Fall of the Tsar in russia
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Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
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14 point program proposed to achieve world peace
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Selective Service Act (1917)
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The Draft
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Espionage Act of 1917
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Prohibited spying, interfering with the draft, and false statements
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Sedation Act
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criminalized statments which were intended to cast "contempt, scorn or disrepute" on our form of government or advocated interferiance with the war effort
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Palmer Raids
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a serious of raids during WWI by the US Dept. of Justice to capture and deport radical leftists
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Great-Migration
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Growth of blank populations in northern cities during WWI.
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The US never joined the league of nations because
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Congress didn't want to give up the ability to declare war.
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Margret Sanger and Emma Goldman
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Advocated women's right to birthcontrol
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Settlement House Movement
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Provided education, health care and daycare to low income women. Hull houses became an incubator for a new field of social work.
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19th Amendment
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Gave women the right to vote
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"The cheif business for the american people is business"
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Pres. Coolage
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Laissez-fair Capitalism
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Period of low business regulation in the 1920s
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The 1920's presidents favored regulation/business
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business
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Industry that grew dramatically in the 20's
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Automotive
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Harlem Renissance
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Rejected stereotypes and predjudice and sought to celebrate Afterican American experience.
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Near v. Minnesota
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The suppreme court struct down censorship of newspapers
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KKK Resurgence
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Occurred in the 20s due to lingering patriotism
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Immegration in the 1920's
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Decreased due to laws that enacted quotas prevented asians and eastern europeans
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The trial of John Scopes
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Fight to teach evolution in schools.
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Farms in the 1920s-1930s failed because
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Decreased demand, no government subsity, debt
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Hawley Smoot Tariff
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Raised tariffs in the 1930s to the highest level they ever had to protect american industry.
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Hover's economic policy during the great depression
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Hands off. Let state and local governments handle it. Increase taxes. Keep the gold standard.
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Revenue Act 1932
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Significantly raised taxes
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Bailout program created by Hoover
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Bonus March
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During the great Depression, vetrans marhed demanding an early bonus.
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The New Deal
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A set of government programs to fix the depression and prevent. Relief, Recovery, Reform.
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Prohibition ended...
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In the 1930's to increase tax revenue
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First New Deal
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Before 1935, first 100 days of FDR presidency. Focused on agriculture, public works. FEMA. FDIC.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Gave the government the power to set production quotas and pay farmers to make less food. Only helped land owning farmers.
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US vs. Butler
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Agricultural Adjustment Act struck down by supreme court
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The second new deal
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Shifted focus from recovery to economic security.
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Wagner Act
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national labor relations act. Guarunteed workers the right to unionize.
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Social Security Act
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Created during the second new deal. Included unemployment insurrance, disability etc...
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Cash and Carry Policy
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US would sell arms to Great Britian if they got their weapons
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FDRs Four Freedoms
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Speach, worship, from want, fear
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GI Bill of Rights
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An attempt to prevent widespread unemployment after WWII
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Zoot Suit Riot
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Race riot against mexicans in LA in 1943
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Truman Doctorine
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Pres. Truman Pledged to support freedom loving peoples from communism (Greece and Turkey). Created NSA, CIA,
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Marshall Plan
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Response to economic harsh winter. Plan to combat economic instability where communism was a threat
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1951's Denis vs. the Unitied State
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Being a communist leader is a crime
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Korean War
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1950-1953. Only time the US directly fought communism. Was actually considered a "UN Police Action"
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38th Parallel
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The line that divided north and south korea
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Geneva Accord (1954)
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Temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: North and southern vietnam
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Golf of Tonkin Incident
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Major escalation of american troops in 1965 as a result of an attack on war ships. Johnson escalated the war.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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Johnson ordered (1965) to moving more troops into Vietnam
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Vietnamization
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Gradually removing american soldiers from Vietnam
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Pentagon Papers
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Classified documents that were leaked that showed the government lied about how the Vietnam war was going
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War Powers Act
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Supposed to limit the president's ability to send troops over sea without congressional approval
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Paris Peace Agreement
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Allowed America to withdraw troops from Vietnam
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Levittown
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Where 10,000 identical homes were being built almost overnight
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A. Philop Randolph
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civil rights leader. organized an african american civil rights movement
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Double V Crusade
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Movement to decrease racism during WWII
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Mendez v. Westminister
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Ruled that Orange County had to desegregate their schools
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Hart-Cellar Act
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Got rid of national origin quotas from Asian countries
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Loving vs. Virginia
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Struck down law banning interracial marriage
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when was The US was taken off the gold standard
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1970s by Nixon
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stagflation
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inflation high, growth rate low, unemployment
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WIP
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Wip Inflation Now - Plea for americans to be better shoppers
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Accident at 3 mile Island
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Radioactive waste from nuclear energy spewed into the air. Major hit against nuclear energy in us.
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Camp David Accords
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Deal between Israel and Egypt lead by Jimmy Carter
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
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During Carter's presidency, Iran was really pissed off and held members of the US Embassy hostage for 444 days.
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Carter Docterine
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The US, would use force if necessary to protect its interests in the Persian Gulf region
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Supply Side Economics
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Belief that high interest rates and low taxes would create new jobs (trickle down economics)
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Start I and Start II Treaties
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Limitied number of nuclear missils Russia and the US could have
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Anticombination laws were a response to
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Use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies
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"Pure and Simple Unionism"
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Advocatedforming unions with skilled and unskilled workers
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Importance of the 1896 Election
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Put republicans in power
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Many Mexicans migrated to the use during WWI because
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Of a revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval
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FDR could not get support for
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englarging the supreme court
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The National Women's Party was founded by
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Alice Paul
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The regan revolution refers to his
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ability to unite traditional republicans with working-class democrats
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During the second world war, the federal government pursued all the following economic policies
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Rationing consumer goods, limiting wartime wages, limiting agricultural prices, selling war bonds
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After WWII, Truman couldn't continue the new deal programs due to
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republicans and conservative democrats in congress
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MacAurther was recalled from his command of the UN forces in Korea beause
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civilian control of the military
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Skokey Carmichael
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approved violance for civil rights
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Ngo Dinh Diem angered the US up because |
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U2 Incident
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Brought US and Soviet Union closest to the possibility of nuclear war
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American Indian Movement modeled itself after the |
Black power movement
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Ida B Wells
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Active in the antilynching movement
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Goals of populism
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Government ownership of country railroads and telegraph lines
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14th amendment
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establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of states
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The KKK of the 1920s was a ____ organization. The kkk of the 19th century was not
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national organization
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Betty Friedan wrote the 1963 book
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