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Scots-Irish who formed a vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against Indians
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Pontiac and his forces initiated a siege to go against Bristish Force
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no expanison past the Appalachian Mountains
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american revenue act that was to tax revenue on colonists
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formed to protect the rights of colonists and to fight taxation by British Government
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importation restrictions by Americans to protest British revenue
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Americans were to provide soliders with food and housing if needed
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a series of acts passed by parliments. tax
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Father of the american industrial revolution
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killing of five colonists by the royal troops. colonists were in protests
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the HMS Gaspee, a Bristish ship was harbored and SOns of Liberty group set fire to it
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tax on tea and was the final straw with the americans and started up protests with colonists
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a series of acts passed by Britian after the Boston Tea Party. meant to punish the colonists
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a tarrif to protect American industry, national bank to foster ocmmerce
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Belief that there is a higher power who created the universe but left it for humans to control
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act of taking men into the navy by force
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Piartes on the coast of africa. Seized ships, made raids on costal towns
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to King George from Second Continential Congress in last attempt to avoid war for Americas inderpendence
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Thomas Paine, pamphlet
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announced the freedom and independence form Britains control
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Large victory of the Americans against British in the American Revolution
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with France; which promised America Frances military support in case of war with Britain in future
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five person committee led by Thomas Jefferson. it estbalished a ordinance of surveying, planning, and selling townships
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how slaves would be counted in the determining of the states total population
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collectiven name of first ten amendments of the constitution
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treaty between U.S and Britain resolving navigation and commerce laws and polices
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resolved territoral disputes, America gained free naviagtion of the Mississippi River and duty free transport through New Orleans
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John Adams; problem occuring with France and US with a money scam
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known as the first bank of the united states
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passed by John Admas. Changed the laws on deporting immigrants, and making it harder for new foreginers to vote
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literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in Richmond
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when vice president Thomas Jefferson beat President John adams
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land deal between France and U.S where U.S bought land west of Mississippi for 15 million
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Expedition and mapping out of the Louisiana territory
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made all exports from the US illegal.
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people who were for the war and against Britain
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good-will visit to Boston by President Monroe. a good mood of the US
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Florida purchase treaty; between US and Spain where the florida line was ceded between the two countries
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election of 1824 ended without any majority vote, the HOuse of Represenitives awarded John Quincy Adams
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The party leadership consisted of anti-slavery former members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.
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occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
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a regulation or directive that prohibits public discussion of a particular matter, in particular.
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"Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", was mayor of Portland, Maine, as well as a General in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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holds that the country was formed through a compact agreed upon by all the states, and that the federal government is thus a creation of the states.
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Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.
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canal in New York, used to transport commerce
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political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States
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next step in President Andrew Jackson's campaign against the Second Bank of the United States after he vetoed its recharter
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Manufactured agricultural tools to help farming
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the trail that the Native Americans took to move out west
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prohibited blacks from being taken out of Pennsylvania into slavery, and overturned the conviction of Edward Prigg as a result.
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11th President of the United States
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historical name in the United States for the region of the modern day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848
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organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon
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package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states
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provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
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first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States.
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series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery
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described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
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American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums
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diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
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encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land
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American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902
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laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom
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extreme patriotism
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American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers"
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American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
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highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement.
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American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.
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succeeded his father Tuekakas as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band
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system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops
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purchase of alaska for 7 million
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promoted primarily by a group of farmers known as The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
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Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act was a United States federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.
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In 1873 Congress had discontinued the minting of silver dollars, an action later stigmatized by friends of silver
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series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877
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Lieutenant Colonel Custer and his U.S. Army troops are defeated in battle with Native American Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne
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purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South
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aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land
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argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier
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protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey
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ationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States
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journalism that is over exaggerated
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agreement struck in 1895 between Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American leaders, and Southern white leaders
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The United States could get involved with any foreign affairs they want to if need be.
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a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.
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Protestant movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada
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industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. Carnegie steele
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muckraking journalist who started a bunch of crap
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Roosevelt, "speak soft and carry a big stick"
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The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States
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independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I.
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Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines
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stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War,
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addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
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the us passenger ship that was bombed starting US involvement into the war
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portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
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preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs
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language to help increase foreign affairs with Latin America through economic power
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popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, by order of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.
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federal law passed during the Progressive Movement that extended the 1887 Interstate Commerce Act and the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission
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roosevelts progressivepolitical philosophy in the 1912 election
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a political party created by roosevelt for the republicans to have people not vote for taft
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collection of speeches Woodrow Wilson made during his presidential campaign of 1912. The speeches promised significant reforms for greater economic opportunity for all, while ensuring the tradition of limited government.
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president of the US and entered America into WW1
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is the central banking system of the United States.
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responsible agency for the administration of the U.S. army overseas and allies' food reserves
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stablished the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures
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Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade
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note from germany to mexico asking if mexico would attack US first
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statement of principals enacted by Wilson to help the world not get involved into any more wars
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probhibited the sale, manufacture, and the usage of alcohol
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peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919,
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intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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refused the denial of the right to vote based on sex. womans sufferage
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a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
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30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state
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a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s
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American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century
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e was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. Hoover dam
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American painter and muralist
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois
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American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935
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American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and United States Secretary of the Treasury
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nine black teenagers accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931
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policy of the United States federal government, enunciated in a note of January 7, 1932, to Japan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force
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programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress
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American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
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sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies
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repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933.
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bill was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on July 5, 1935. It established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
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laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.
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eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.
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United States transferred destroyers to the British Navy in exchange for leases for British naval and air bases.
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a group of experts appointed to advise a government or politician.
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United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal
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Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century. president from 1961 to 1963 election began and was assassinated
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radical civil rights activist
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volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States
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when US tried to invade Cuba and kill the ruler of their communist country
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when soviet union had sent missiles to cuba and they were pointed at the U.S. U.S was scared that Cuba would launch missiles
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American Sniper who assassinated JFK
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American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms
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President after JFK was assassinated. Didn't do very much but wanted to continue out JFKs ideas
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landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In it, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states are required under the Fourteenth Amendment
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unconditonal war on poverty. refers to a set of initiatives proposed by Johnson's administration, passed by Congress, and implemented by his Cabinet agencies
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set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65
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landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty
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liberal counter cultures who had strong beliefs on rights
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African-American political activist and revolutionary who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966
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situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high.
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American baptist minister, and activist who spoke for equal rights for blacks
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theory which argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by investing in capital, and by lowering barriers on the production of goods and services.
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proposed to the constitution to guarantee equal rights for woman
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made by supreme court on the issue of abortion
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politician who was president who didnt do very much for the country
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American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Peanut farmer and was loved
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signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
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one of the most loved Presidents of the US.Religious and Conservative, trickle down economics
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widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.
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white supremacy
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writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature