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56 Cards in this Set
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pardon
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an official forgiveness of a crime
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impeach
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charging a public official with a wrongdoing in office
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Ulysses S. Grant
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18th president of the US following his success as a military commander in the American Civil War
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carpetbagger
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an insulting nickname for a northern republican who moved to the South after the civil war
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K.K.K
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Social club consisted of white people, against black people and white people who support black people
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Share cropping
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System of farming in which a farmer farms some portion of a planter's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment
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infrastructure
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The public property and services that a society uses
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tenant farming
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system of farming in which a farmer rents land to farm from a planter
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14th amendment
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constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, that guaranteed citizens equal protection of the laws
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15th amendment
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Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, that guaranteed African Americans voting rights
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Pol tax
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special fee that must be paid before a person can vote
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subsidy
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Payment made by the government to encourage the development of certain industries
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NAACP
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Organization formed in 1909 to advance the cause of black people
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`Jim Crow Laws
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Separate facilities
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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black codes
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laws that restricted freedmen's rights
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spoils system
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system or practice of a political party, after winning an election, giving government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party
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lynching
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illegal seizure and execution of person by a mob
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Freedmen Bureau
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U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen
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literacy
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ability to read and write
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Niagara Movement
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Organization, founded in 1905 by black leaders, that called for full civil liberties for blacks, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood
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Grandfather clause
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passage that exempts a group of people form obeying a law if they met certain conditions before the law was passed
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Harlem Renaissance
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African American literary awakening of the 1920s, centered in Harlem
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Scope's Trial
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1925 trial in TN on the issue of teaching evolution in schools
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speakeasy
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during prohibition, a place where alcoholic drinks were served illegally
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flapper
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term coined during the 1920's to describe a young woman with a fondness for dancing and brash actions
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Jazz age
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term used to describe the 1920's
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bootlegger
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during prohibition, a supplier of illegal alcohol
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assembly line
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manufacturing process in which each worker does one s[ecialized task n the construction of the final product
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communism
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government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property
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Black Tuesday
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10/29/29. The day on which the great crash of the stock market began
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Dust bowl
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Midwest drought- caused by bad crop rotation
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New Deal
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Roosevelt's program of relief, recovery and reform programs to combat the great depression
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100 Days
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a special session of Congress from March 9, 1933 to June 16, 1933, called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which important social legislation was enacted.
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Hooverville
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a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
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assimilation
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process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture
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Plessey vs. Ferguson
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1896 Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities were equal for both races
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Civil Rights Act 1866
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US federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of blacks, in the wake of the Civil War
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ragtime
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style of music consisting of melodies with shifting accents over a steady beat
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Blue Law
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Law the prohibits certain private activities, such as drinking alcohol on Sundays
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steerage
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large open area beneath the ship's deck, in which many poorer immigrants traveled
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Gilded Age
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Term used to describe the period from 1877 to 1900
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Law passed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country
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Yellow Journalism
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Type of newspaper coverage that emphasized sensational stories
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Rural Free Delivery
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Free delivery of packages to rural areas, begun in 1896
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Political Machine
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Unofficial organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power and usually headed by a single, powerful boss
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Prohibition
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A legal ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Sphere of Influence
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Area of economic and political control exerted by one nation over another nation or other nations
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concession
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a grant for piece of land in exchange for a promise to use the land for a specific purpose
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suburb
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residential community surrounding a city
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imperialism
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Policy by a stronger nation to create an empire by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, and militarily
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Laissez-Faire
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an government policy of not interfering in private business
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vaudeville
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variety show popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s
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Bonus Army
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Group of WWI veterans and their family who in 1932 protested in DC to receive their pensions early
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21st Amendment
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constitutional amendment ratified in 1933 that ended prohibition
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The Great Depression
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severe economic decline that lasted from 1929 until about 1939
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