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69 Cards in this Set
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Gilded Age
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American society in late 1800's-looked prosperous on the outside but the core was rotten
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Free Silver Movement
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Populist party attempt to create inflation by using both silver and gold to back up the US currency
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Which groups made up the Progressive movement?
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Both political parties, came from all social and economic classes
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Supreme court case that stated separate but equal was legal.
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What was the most significant gain women made during the Progressive Era?
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The right to vote
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Civil Disobedience
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Peaceful Protest against unjust laws
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Temperance Movement
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Attempt to outlaw alcohol
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Imperialists
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The desire for a powerful country to expert their political, military and economic control over less powerful nations
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What were the goals of the Progressive movement?
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Wanted to reform government to make it more honest and efficient and bring about social change
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What are the reason American wanted to become an imperialist power?
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We had a surplus of consumer goods that needed to be sold.
Crop prices had fallen. The belief that american culture was superior to all others |
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Yellow Press
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The media exerted it's influence over the American public to gain support for the Spanish-American war.
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Open Door Policy
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America's attempt to gain access tot he market of China
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Big Stick Diplomacy
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Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy that relied on the threat of force.
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What was Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
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Put forth by President Monroe that discouraged European intervention in the western hemisphere if any European power pushes us or anyone surrounding, we will take military action.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Cut off immigration from china
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Why did the US become involved in WWI?
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Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand, German U-Boat activity, and the Zimmerman act.
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Why did the Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles?
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Because the US did not want to be involved in the League of Nations.
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Schenk vs. US
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Said that individual freedoms can be limited in a time of war i there is a clear and present danger.
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What was the impact of WWI on post war America?
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Flu Pandemic
US became world power The red scare |
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Who was the Triple Entente? (Allies)
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Great Britain
France Russia (leaves because of revolution) And later the US |
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Who was the Triple Alliance?
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Germany
Austria Hungry Ottoman Empire |
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Harlem Renaissance
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American American Literacy artistic movement
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Who was Langston Hughes?
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African American poet during the Harlem Renasissance
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What is a Flapper and what impact did they have on American Society?
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Young Women in urban areas who challenged the social norms
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!8th Amendment
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Probation of alcohol
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19th Amendment
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Women's right to vote
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How did Henry Ford change America?
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Moving assembly line
Fair treatment of workers Affordable cars Jobs |
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Compromise of 1850
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California entered as a free state.
Popular Sovereignty, the state/people vote. Fugitive slave act: if a slave escaped from the south, their owner could go up to the North and get them back |
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Dred Scott decision
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African Americans were not citizens
Congress did not have the power to ban slaver The Missouri compromise was unconstitutional |
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Sectional Conflict
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The conflict between the North and the South
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What are the causes of sectional conflict prior to the Civil War?
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Nullification: States rights
Kansas-Nebraska Act: Popular sovereignty Dred Scott Decision Formation of the Republican Party: Anti Slavery Uncle Toms Cain: Harriet Bitrostow |
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What was Lincolns view of Slaver and what the federal government could do about it?
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Lincoln was opposed to extending slavery out west, but the government couldn't end slavery in states where it already existed.
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What caused Southern states to being seceding form the Union?
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Lincoln was voted as President and they felt that their state rights were being taken away.
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What justification did the southern states give for leaving the Union?
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Lincoln was taking their state rights away
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Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
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Jefferson Davis
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What was the first battle of the Civil war?
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The south attacks fort sumter in South Carolina, which stated the war.
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At the start of the war what was the justification for the North to fight?
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To preserve the Union
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What was Lincoln trying to accomplish with the Emancipation Proclamation?
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He was trying to hurt the south's economy and encourage slaves to run away
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What was the role of the Federal government during the Civil War?
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The Federal Government's power expands. Lincoln enforces hapeous corpous, takes.
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Who became President after Lincoln's Assassination?
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Andrew Johnson
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Who was the first President to be impeached?
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Andrew Johnson
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Reconstruction
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An attempt to get the South back on its feet economically.
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13th Amendement
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Ended slavery
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14th Amendement
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Gave citizenship to anyone born in the US
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15th Amendment
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Gave the right to vote to all male US citizens
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Jim Crow laws
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Laws that separated races, and limited voting .
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Why did Reconstruction ultimately end and fail?
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Northern White began to focus on other issues.
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John Rockefeller
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Standard oil Monopoly
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel Monoply and noted Philanthropist
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Robber Barons
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Made a lot of money, paid their workers very little.
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Regulate the Railroad industry
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Sherman Anti Trust act
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Tried to put an end to monopolies
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WEB Dubois
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Demand Freedom
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Booker T Washington
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Earn Freedom
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Susan B Anthony
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Leader of Womens movement
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Nativism
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Only people who were born in the US were true Americans
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What was one result of Nativism?
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Restriction immigration, Chinese Exclusion act
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New Immigrants
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Southern and Eastern Europe. Poor and not Educated
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Push Factors
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Religious Persecution
Poverty Lack of opportunity |
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Pull Factors
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Religious freedom
Economic Opportunity |
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Exodusters
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Newly freed African Americans who fled the South to the North and settled in kansas.
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Indian Territory
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A Reservation that indians would be relocated.
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Why did this view of "Indian Territory" Change?
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The desire of White Americans to move West
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What was the most important resource in the west?
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Water
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Sharecropping
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The practice of land owners renting farm land to tenant farmers and they shared the profit
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Open Range
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When a rancher would let their cattle run free for most of the year
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Vaqueros
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Mexican Cowboys
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Wounded Knee
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Massacre that took place in SD and Marked the end of the plains Indian war
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Battle in which General Custer lost his life and marked a turning point in the plains Indian wars
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