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14th Amendment
-All people born are naturalized
-Equal protection
-Blacks still bound to segregation and sharecropping -
Completion of Transcontinental RR
-Connected ends of America
-Beginning of government land grants
-Beginning of railroad company power/monopoly
-Crédit Mobilier -
Social Darwinism
-Economic ideal to be better than competition
-Influced future buisiness for developed countires
-Influenced monopolies + total control -
Fall Political Machines
-Works on municipal level
-Controls vote and city progression
-Gives benefits to poor and immigrants
-Boss Tweed, most notorious -
Election of 1876
-Vote unsure of
-Hayes Elected by Congress
-Said to be corrupt -
Dawes Act
-"Assimilation" and destruction of remaining native americans
-Gave citizenship and took away land -
Gospel of Wealth
-Andrew Carnegie
-Described role of new role of rich
-Wealth, given when dead or alive, should be given to charity and public institutions.
-Limit self-indulging spending -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-Prevented monopolies of growing American buisness
-Praised by Teddy Roosevelt -
Populist Party
-Anti-Elite and especially railroads
-Sided with farmers in Grange movement
-Favored Unions and Coinage of silver
-Died in late 1890's -
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Progressive Era
-Purification of government by direct democracy
-Advocated prohibition, women's suffrage, municipal reform, and destruction of monopolies
-Created Progressive Party
-FED was the biggest achievement
-Highlighted muckrackers and the Gilded Age -
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Spanish American War
-Birth of yellow journalism and imperialism
-Fought to save Spanish colonies and collapsed empire
-US gained Philipines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and part of Cuba
-Philipines later rebelled and brought a seven year war
-Influenced Roosevelts Big Stick Policy and Imperialism -
Open Door Policy
-Eliminated China's trade spheres
-Increased global cooperation and US-Asian involvement
-Implied US imperialism -
Henry Ford
-Creates factory system/assembly line
-Produces first affordable, recreational vehicle
-Creator of Ford an dthe model T
-Credited with Fordism -
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WWI
-US wanted nuetrality
-Centered inEurope
-Attack on USS Lusitania involved US
-Used harsh, some banned, tactics
+Trench Warfare
+Flamethrowers and Chemical Warfare (Mustard Gas)
+Submarines
-War Industries Board and Food Administration and publicized propaganda -
League of Nations Formed
-Highly valued by Wilson
+Part of 14 point peace plan
-Rejected by Senate, along with Treaty of Versailles
+Thought it would pull US into unnecessary coflicts -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
-Renounced the use of war and called for the peaceful settlement of disputes
-First of major international agreements
-US, France, and Germany -
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Great Depression
-Mainly caused/blamed by the stock market crash
+Uncontrollable and unanticipated high prices
-Highest unemployment ever, at 21%
-Dust Bowl attributed to worsening conditions
-Hoover relied on charity, nohing happened
-Roosevelt used New Deal, began to rise
-WWII officially saved US -
London Naval Treaty
-Agreement to reduce the number/production of warships by major world powers.
-Proposed by US, and directed toward US, UK, and Japan -
FDR Elected President
-Credited for first 100 days and New Deal
-Completed opposite of Hoover, took strides to cure depression
-Good Neighboor Policy-Non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
-Began WWII/Ended depression
-Signed Neutrality Ac ts -
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Nuetrality Acts
-1st-No trading or travelling with belligerents
-2nd-No lending money to belligerents, doesnt apply to Spanish Civil War
-3rd-Trading with Spain ceased and cash n' carry policy added -
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WWII
-Pearl Harbor bombed
-Neutraliy Acts repealed
-Japanese internment begins, ignored by Congress of Racial Equality
-Office of Price Administration and Revenue Act of 1942
-Big Three meetings
+Casablanca-No Stalin, post war strategy
+Cario-All 3, seek japanese surrender
+Tehran-All 3, seek Germany surrender
+Yalta,All 3, final war plans
-D Day-Entrance to Europe
-Midway-Foothold in the Pacific
-Atomic Bombs dropped-Axis powers surrender
-Women join workforce and advance rights -
UN Established
-Created to be worldwide peace keeping organization
-Revolved around global powers
-Fixed problems made by League of Nations -
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Cold War
-Nuclear standoff between Soviet Union and US
-No conflict erupted
-Sparked the policy of Containment
-Ended at the fall of the USSR
-Influenced propaganda and McCarthyism in US -
Berlin Airlift
-SU blocked all rail and road into Berlin
-Allies including US, UK, Canada, Australia, and S. Africa flew over the city and dropped supplies to the citizens
-Over 200,000 flights in one year. -
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Korean War
-First war of Containment
-Not popularized nor hated by the US public
-Considered a victory
-N. Korea tried to spread communism into S. Korea, so the US stepped in -
Brown v. Board of Education
-Reversed Plessy v. Ferguson
-Any and all segregation is illegal, must be erased at all "deliberate speed"
-Unanimous court decision -
Sputnik
-Lauched by SU
-First man made object in space
-Began the Space Race
-SU later put first man in space
-US later put first man on the Moon -
Cuban Missle Crisis
-SU said to have placed nuclear weapons in Cuba to threaten US
-Cuba was communist under Castro
-US did the same in Turkey and Italy
-Set the embargo on Cuba -
March on Washington
-Led by MLK jr.
-Famous 'I Have a Dream' speech
-Directly influced Congrees to write leislation
-Peaceful protest -
Civil Rights Act
-Outlawed any and all discrimination
-Ended segregation in public facilities
-Ended unequal application of voter registration -
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Vietnam War
-War of Containment
-North was communist and threatened South
-US used Gulf ofTonkin incident to enter country
-Kennedy sent minimal troops to only aid Vietnams army
-Johnson set an all out war in Vietnam
-Nixon began Vietnaminization and pulled out troops
-War highly protested against with the public
-Saw to be the most brutal, savage, and unnecessary war
