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173 Cards in this Set
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Virginia Company
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1st permanent settlement in North America |
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House of Burgesses |
1st legislative body in New World |
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Tobacco |
cash crop, "brown gold" |
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Powhaton
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native American chieftain |
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bacon's rebellion |
uprising against government |
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half-way covenant |
partial church member for puritan |
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king phillip's awar |
1675, early conflict between English and native american |
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massachussests charter |
became Massachusetts bay colony in 1691 |
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salem witch trials |
1690s, massachusetts |
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pennsylvania |
founded by William penn, quakers |
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new amsterdam |
founded by the Dutch, 1664, new york |
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quebec |
first French settlement |
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mercantilism |
wealth in gold, sell more than you buy |
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trans-atlantic trade |
mercantilism, shipping goods to/from Great Britain |
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middle passage |
slaves from Africa to new world |
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ben franklin |
American founding gather, ambassador to france |
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great awakening |
1730s/1740s, religious revival |
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French and indian war
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great britian and france, 1754, over control of land |
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treaty of paris 1763 |
ended French and indian war |
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proclamation of 1763 |
forbid setting west of Appalachian mountains |
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stamp act |
special stamps on printed documents |
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intolerable acts
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closed boston harbor for boston ta party |
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committee of correspondence |
committees formed communication publicly |
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pain/common sense |
1776, pamphlet supporting independence |
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declaration of independence |
most important document in American history |
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john locke |
English philosopher |
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Thomas jefferson
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borrowed locke's words for declaration of independence |
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washington |
commander-in-chief of continental army |
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lafayette
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French commander who fought with American troops |
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general cornwallis |
surrendered his british troops at Yorktown |
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treaty of paris 1783 |
ended American revolutionary war |
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shay's rebellion
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seize federal arsenal, American government too weak |
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great compromise |
representation in congress |
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federalist |
strong central government |
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anti-federalist |
weak central government-promised bill of rights |
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whiskey rebellion |
taxes, Washington constitutional authority |
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northwest ordinance |
admitting new states |
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Louisiana purchase |
france, doubled size of US |
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lewis and clark |
Jefferson, survey land atlantic to pacific |
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war of 1812 (causes) |
trade, impressment, british support native americans |
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war of 1812 (results) |
ended all us military hostility with great britain
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erie canal |
connects Albany to buffalo |
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Monroe doctrine |
warn European nations not to interfere in north and south america |
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eli whitney |
cotton gin, interchangeable parts |
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manifest destiny
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obvious fate to expand united states for sea to sea |
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Elizabeth c. Stanton |
women's rights |
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senecca fall convention
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first women's rights convention, NYC
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abolition |
end slavery |
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temperance |
stop selling alcohol |
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missori compromise of 1820 |
maine-free, Missouri-slave, balance-congress |
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nat turner |
preacher, killed 60 whites and executed |
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sectionalism |
regions in united states |
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Mexican-American war |
1845, texas, cali, new mexico |
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compromise of 1850 |
new mexico, cali-free state
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popular sovereignty |
rule by the people |
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dred scott decision |
sued owner for freedom-denied |
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john brown
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abolitionist, fedi arsenal, martyr |
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Lincoln
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president, preserve union |
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Gettysburg address |
dedication of cemetery |
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causes of civil war |
north-industry, railroads/south-slaves
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habeas corpus
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legal rule, imprisoned see judge |
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emancipation proclamation |
freed slaves in confederate areas |
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civil war leaders |
grant, Sherman, Jackson, lee |
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Antietam
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deadliest one-day battle |
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gettysburg |
deadliest 3-day battle of CW |
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vicksburg |
turning point of war |
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atlanta |
Sherman burnt, center for manu |
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reconstruction |
readmit southern states to union |
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13th amendment |
abolish slavery |
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14th amendment |
US citizen for all born in US
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15th amendment |
voting rights for males over 21 |
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freedmen's bureau |
help African American transition to freedom |
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black codes |
laws control lives of freed slaves |
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KKK |
society to control freed slaves |
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impeachment of Johnson |
high crimes and misdemeanors |
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trancontinental railroad |
stretch across continent-1869 |
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steel |
Carnegie-railroad |
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oil |
Rockefeller, trust/monopoly |
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sitting bull |
fought US Army troops |
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wounded knee |
sitting bull died |
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ellis island |
NY immigration station |
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Samuel gompers |
led AFL |
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American federation of labor |
employers of better conditions |
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muckrakers |
investigation of corruption |
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upton Sinclair/ida tarbell |
the jungle |
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hull house |
social service agency-chicago |
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initiative |
force public vote on issue |
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referendum |
must show public |
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recall |
removal of official from office |
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direct election-senators |
17th amendment |
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jim crow |
law resulting in restrictions |
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plessy v ferguson |
separate but equal
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NAACP |
national association for advancement of color people |
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Chinese exclusion act
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1882, banned Chinese immigrate |
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Spanish-american war |
spread democracy in Latin america |
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Roosevelt corollary |
US right intervene in latin america
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panama canal
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1914, connected atlantic to pacific |
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WW1
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started 1914, US entered in 1917 |
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neutrality
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policy to keep US out of war |
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Lusitania |
british liner sunk by germans |
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great migration
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movement of African American from south to north |
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espionage act of 1917 |
cant say against us military |
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18th amendment |
stop selling alcohol |
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19th amendment |
womens voting right |
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fourteen points |
peace plan, Woodrow wilson |
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league of nations |
post war plan that US did not join |
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communism |
single party government ruled by dictator |
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red scare |
spreading of communism |
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harlem renaissance |
wave of art/music of African American culture |
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lanston hughes |
best-known poet of harlem renaissance |
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Louis armstrong |
jazz/blues trumpet player |
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mass production |
henry ford, assembly line |
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great depression |
severe economic recession in 1930s |
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dust bowl |
ecological disaster in midwest |
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tennesse valley authority |
Roosevelt's new deal, build dams |
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wagner act |
national labor regulations act |
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security act
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1935:65 or older, unemployment, disabled |
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A. Philip Randolph |
founded sleeping car porters |
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pearl harbor |
Hawaii, bombed by Japanese, December 7, 1941 |
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lend-lease act-1941 |
lend military equipment for defense of us |
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battle of midway
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most important naval engagement of pacific |
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d-day |
allied invasion of Nazi-occupied france |
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fall of berlin |
one of bloodiest battles in WW2 history |
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Atom bomb |
2 dropped on japan in august 1945 |
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marshall plan |
us plan to rebuild west Europe after ww2 |
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NATO |
north atlantic treaty organization-noncommunist
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containment |
stop spreading of communism |
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Truman doctrine
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us aid to prevent spread of soviet influence |
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Korean war |
1950s, communist vs noncommunist, stalemate |
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bay of pigs |
1961, tried invasion by Cuban exiles |
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Cuban missile crisis |
missiles in cuba pointing toward us |
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Vietnam war |
control of Vietnam, 1960-1970 |
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tet offensive |
Viet Cong's most damaging war campaign |
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interstate highway act |
Eisenhower, construction of highway |
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kennedy/Nixon debates |
1st ever on tv |
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sputnik 1 |
soviet union launched satellite, 1957 |
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Jackie robinson |
first African American baseball player |
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harry truman |
integrated armed forces, 1948 |
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brown vs. board of education |
1954, separate is not legal |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
fought for racial segregation |
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civil rights act-1964 |
L. Johnson, no discrimination |
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voting rights act |
outlawed requirements for voters |
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warren court |
1950 to 1960, ruled on landmark cases |
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Miranda v. arizona |
police must inform of constitutional rights |
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assassination of kennedy |
November on 1963 |
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great society |
johnsons vision for america |
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medicare |
government insurance |
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democratic national convention |
on tv, everyone saw tear gas |
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anti-Vietnam war |
Americans feelings about war (burn draft card) |
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national organization for women |
1966, promote equal rights |
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cesar chavez |
leader for Latin civil rights, fruit banning
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Rachel carson |
silent spring, led to water quality act |
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earth day |
1970 led to EPA |
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environmental protection agency |
set limits on pollution, 1970 |
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Barry Goldwater |
ran for president, lost to johnson |
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Richard Nixon |
1968, conservative movement |
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roe v wade |
1973, right for abortion |
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university of California v bakke |
race used with college application |
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Watergate scandal |
cover up in democratic headquarters |
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general ford |
presidency damaged by nixon |
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jimmy carter |
tried to bring peace to middle east |
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camp david accords |
peace agreement between Egypt and israel |
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Iranian revolution |
invasion of US embassy in Iran |
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Iranian Hostage Crisis |
lasted 444 days, captives released |
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reagonomics |
econ policy, cuts/defense increase |
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iran-contra scandal |
sold weapons to iran |
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collapse of soviet union |
Reagan's biggest success |
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NAFTA |
free trade zone between Canada, Mexico, United States |
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impeachment of Clinton
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2nd in history |
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electoral college |
American vote for members, may pick president |
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George W. Bush |
Sept 11, hold foreign citizens/terrorists |
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Operation enduring freedom |
invasion of Afghanistan |
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operation Iraqi Freedom |
invasion of Iraq-weapons mass destruction |
