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sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. -
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new imigration
The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime, and voting behavior. -
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new imigration
national origins formula was to determine how manny imigrants can allowed to enter the united states.the italians russians polands greece asians.they came for jobs safety freedom lower taxes -
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galveston tx
he Port of Galveston is the port of the city of Galveston, Texas. It was established by a proclamation issued by the Congress of Mexico on October 17, 1825, while the land known today as Texas was still part of Mexico. The Port of Galveston is the oldest port in the Gulf of Mexico west of New Orleans -
morse code
is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.Each character (letter or numeral) is represented by a unique sequence of dots and dashes. -
bessemer steel production
he Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855. The process was independently discovered in 1851 by William Kelly.made them make cheap steel -
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william m. tweed
most known as boss of tammany hall.tweed has the 3rd landowner in ny as well as a director of the erie railroad.he was elected to the us house of representatives.he took advantage of imigrants and took alot of money. -
panamal canal
was built to make a short cut instead of going around the world. the french started it but they gave up because of working conditions. -
homestead act
gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost.In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres of unappropriated federal land within the boundaries of the public land states. -
13th amendament
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cattle drive era
major activity in the american southwest 0 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and points east.The long distances covered, the need for periodic rests by riders and animals, and the establishment of railheads led to the development of "cow towns" across the American West. -
14th amendament
mendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
the revolution
was a newspaper established by women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York City. It was published weekly between January 8, 1868 and February 17, 1872. With a combative style that matched its name, it primarily focused on women's rights, especially suffrage for women. It also covered other topics, however, such as politics, the labor movement and finance. Anthony managed the business aspects of the paper while Stanton was co-editor along with Parker Pillsbury -
first transcontinental railroad in u.s.
The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,907-mile (3,069 km) contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River.it was made by hand no machines. -
15th amendament
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
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gilded age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West, but also much social conflict. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
womens christians temperance union
was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. -
open door polocy
The Open Door policy was rooted in desire of American businesses to exploit Chinese markets, though it also tapped the deep-seated sympathies of those who opposed imperialism, especially as the policy pledged to protect China's territorial integrity. While the policy was originally aimed to safeguard Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity from partition, it was mainly used to mediate competing interests of the colonial powers without much meaningful input from the Chinese. Thus, the Open -
assassination of president garfield
Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 am, less than four months into Garfield's term as the 20th President of the United States.Garfield also lived the longest after the shooting, compared to other presidents. Lincoln and Kennedy died less than a day after being shot, and McKinley died a week later. -
social darwinism
In 1883, Sumner published a highly influential pamphlet entitled "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other", in which he insisted that the social classes owe each other nothing, synthesizing Darwin's findings with free enterprise Capitalism for his justification. -
john d rockfeller
he was a known well american buisness man.he had aloto f money and helped alot of people with that money. he had started a oil cartel and a monopoly with oil changing prices to whatever he wants. -
Cornelius Vanderbilt
he bought boeats and then bought more boats sooner he would have alots of boats.then later everyone we would have to pay him to transport stuff later got into railroad -
andrew carnegie
Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. He built further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (the equivalent of approximately $13.6 billion in 2013), creating the U.S. Steel Corporation. -
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. It also required that railroads publicize shipping rates and prohibited short haul or long haul fare discrimination, a form of price discrimination against smaller markets, particularly farmers. -
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pogressive era
One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government through direct democracy, as Progressives tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting political machines, bosses. Progressives also sought regulation of monopolistic trust corporations through the antitrust laws, which were seen as a means to promote fair competition for the benefit of the consumers. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
made monopoly illegal.the goverment is taking away there private buisness making them loose money -
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People's Party
called abolition of national bannes a graduated income tax direct election of senators.baased among poor white cotton farmers south and hard pressed wheat farmers in plaint state -
red record
its a pamplet of 100 page describing lynching in the united sates since the emancipation proclamation.she explains that 10,000 negroes have been killed in cold blood,without a formality of judicial trial and legal execution. -
plessy vs ferguson
s a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
klondike gold rush
when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. The journey proved too hard for many, and only between 30,000 and 40,000 arrived. Some became wealthy, but the majority went in vain and only around 4,000 struck gold. The Klondike Gold Rush ended in 1899 after gold was discovered in Nome, prompting an exodus from the Klondike. -
spanish american war
as a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. -
rough riders
rough riders is the name bestowed on the 2st united states voluntter cavalry. it was 1/3 for the spanish american war. voluntters were gathered in four areas ;arizona,new mexico.oklahoma and texas.they were mainly coolege athletes cowboys and ranchers -
henry cabot lodge
was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. He was also a friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt.[2] He had the role (but not the official title) of the first Senate Majority Leader. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. Lodge demanded Congressional control of declarations of war; Wilson refused and blocked Lodge's move to ratify the treaty with reservations. Th -
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td roosevelt
he was elected vice president in the 1900 elcetion. september 14th 1901 was the date that theodore roosevelt first look office due to the assasination of president wiilam foreign policy of ted roosevelt was the corollary monroe doctrine. -
muckcracker journalism
exposing curruption and issues in scociety leads to alot to reform to some amendaments being changed -
the roosevelt corollary
was an amnedament to the monroe doctrine which stated that the us reserved the right to stabalize the economi9es of central american south american and carrabean nations. s -
pure food and drug act
put a food label made all the bad substance take away from products and drugs out replaced them with other products. -
the jungle
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper.The book depicts working class poverty, the absence of social programs, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among -
naacp
s an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.[3] Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".[4] Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people. -
dollar diploma
when you owe somebody you pay them back and instead of paying them back they need a favor and pay money back -
sinking of the lusitnia
north atlantic ocean near old head kinsale, ireland it caused torpedoed by german u boat u20.it pushed u.s. toward joinning the war because it killed 1,198 of the 1959 aboard.turned internationanl opinion against germany and -
zimmerman telegram
german bribed mexico with territories if mexico joined germany and the the japanese empire.mexico unable to match the us military ignory and after the us entered the war offcicially rejected it -
Schenck v. United States
s a United States Supreme Court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court, in a famous opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed leaflets to draft-age men, urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft, a criminal offense. The First Amendment did not alter the well established law in cases where the attempt was made through expressions that woul -
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National Origins Act of 1924
National Origins Act
The National Origins Act was a discriminatory U.S. immigration law passed in 1924. It established admission quotas and was designed to curtail immigration from new source countries such as Russia, Poland, and Italy by allocating them small quotas; it allowed immigration from older source countries, such as England, by allocating them large quotas. Initially the quotas were set at 2 percent of a country's foreign-born residents in the United States in 1890. In 1929 quotas we -
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transnational migration
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Red Scare
its was cause by 80 citites and bombs which caused them to make palmer raids lloking for communist -
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Roaring 20s
s a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge in New York City, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles and many other major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperity. The Roaring Twenties was a decade of great economic growth and widespread prosperity driven by recovery from wartime devastation and postponed spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consu -
harlem renisance
was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration (African American),[1] of which Harlem was the largest. -
nativism
Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and support of efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and assumptions that they cannot be assimilated. -
monkey trial
teacher tested the brutal law of prohibting the teaching evoluytion in classrooms. the belived that where once moneys and we just evolved -
19th amendament
prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. It effectively overruled Minor v. Happersett, in which a unanimous Supreme Court -
teapotdome scandal
when a secrtary fall leased potrolium to teapot wymong 2 other citites including california making low oil company rates without competition -
Emergency Quota Act
restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy"[1] because it added two new features to American immigration law: numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits. -
equal rights
designed to get women ecual rights and for women -
pledge of allegiance
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands; one Nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all." -
Eugenics
is the belief and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population.[2][3] It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of people with desired traits (positive eugenics), and reduced reproduction of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics). -
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huey long
A Democrat, he was an outspoken populist who denounced the rich and the banks and called for "Share the Wealth." As the political boss of the state he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action. He established the political prominence of the Long political family. -
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f.d. roosevelt
Historians categorized Roosevelt's program as "relief, recovery and reform." Relief was urgently needed by tens of millions of unemployed. Recovery meant boosting the economy back to normal. Reform meant long-term fixes of what was wrong, especially with the financial and banking systems. Roosevelt's series of radio talks, known as fireside chats, presented his proposals directly to the American public. -
migrating mother
umploymewnt and homeless people togethet her and paul taylor documneted rural poverty and the exploitation of share croppers and migrant laborers. -
grapes of wrath
set during the great depression farmers wherew taken out by drought ,economic changes bank foreclosures causing farmers out of work -
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allied powers
allied powers were seeking to stop germany italian and japanese agression.consisted of france,poland and great britain, canda,australia,new zealand,newfordland,southafrica -
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rock and roll
popular music genre between 1940s and 1950s combination of African-American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music,together with Western swing and country music. -
tuskegee airman
is the popular name of a group of african american piolots who fought in ww2 -
flying tygers
1st volunteer group of the chineese airforce was composed of piolots from the united states from navy marines army air corps -
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civil rights movement
African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. -
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2nd great migration
was the migration of more than five million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West.offered many skilled jobs in the defense industry. Most of these migrants were already urban laborers who came from the cities of the South. In addition, some African Americans were still treated with discrimination in many parts of the country, and many sought to escape this. -
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cold war
The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in Warsaw Pact) -
adolf hitler
was a dictator of nazi party taking over land and killing jews -
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babyboom
when the soldiers from ww2 missed they wives alot and they went home and made alot of babys -
polio vaccine by dr jonas stalk
jonas stalk discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.polio was a major virus during the cold war. -
opec
countrys are selling oil for the low and they loosing alot of money.so they start a cartel and they dont sell oil to them.causes other countrys to sell it for the high ass prices -
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vietnam polocy of president kennedy
In June 1961, he bitterly disagreed with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev when they met in Vienna to discuss key U.S.-Soviet issues. by that stop to prevent comunist from spreading.He had to manny failiures so he went to start war so he would stop looking bad. -
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Vitenam era draft
Conscientious objector the right to not to perform in front lines but they will put you as cook and be a factory making parts for military. 4-f people with disenvantage cannot join if you have a medical condition or mental isue. 40,000 were being draft. -
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vietnam polcy of president johnson
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave him power to declare war but presidents arent allowed to delcare war.has to be approved by congress. -
united states vs obrien
he burned his draft card they took him to court agianst the ainti protest of the vietnam war. they made it illegal to burn your draft card. -
Tet offensive
known as a turning point in the war where north did a suprize attack and the u.s won that fight by fighting back but lost the war. people in the u.s were getting scared because they just going to vietnam to die and cause a big ass problem. -
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vietnam polcy of president nixon
he thinks we should train the south and let them fight there own war.pull out our troops and he will still help the south and he has own doctrine -
tinker vs des moines
tinker and his siblings decided to wear balck armbands and the school suspende them for wearing them. the court said it violated the first amendament including freedom of speech.the armbands symbolized a symbolic speach. -
policy of vietnamization
nixon wanted to withdraw the u.s troops and train south vietnam to help them fight north vietnam. he didnt belive that u,s troops should be fighting this war. -
President Nixons Silent Majority
appealing to the people the majority are silent and dosent protest but small groups are the one putting in work. -
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Drama,Dept,and digital age
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President Nixon in China
nixon was anti communist went to go make peace with the chinnese make peace with them. opened up a trade with china.set up relations with chinnese communist. -
wisconsin vs yoder
the state tells them that amish children when they get to 8th grade that they cannot force them. -
watergate
nixon covered up the water gate he knew bout it and the court made him show his tapes and made nixon to resign his presidency -
war powers resolution
it put more restriction on the president and he has to tell congress and congress has to approve or deny it. -
white vs regester
they let all the low minority votes. but they got washed away so they didnt count.so they let more white people count the resoulytiom changed now everyone votes count the same as white people they got separted eQualy. -
Endagered Specieses Act.
economic growth and development, they built houses and buildings and if an exticnt animal thgey cannot build there or even change that place. if they catch you they will put you in prison for 1-2 years ans 25,000 fine. -
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gerald ford
first person to serve both vice president and president without being elected. that felll under the 25th amendament if something happended to the president the vide president takes over. -
fall of saigon
marked the end of the vietnam war the north took over the souths vietnams capital saigon. -
torrijos carter treaty
created the panama cannal then president catrter gave it back to panama and made the us look weak. -
camp david accordis
egypt and israel signed a peace treaty over land and oil they moved them and the palicytaniance was mad and they was mad and saw it as betrayel. -
nancy reagan
made a campaing to say no to drugs but it didnt go nowhere caise we stay 4.20 -
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ronald reagan
rgenas econimic poly reduce goverment spending. 2 lower taxes 3 reduce regulations 4 tighten money supply -
A.I.D.S
its came from west central africa they eat monkeys and got it. some got them from doin drugs and males. -
marines barracks in beirut
the us and french was making peace in beirut and the beirut bombed the us killing 299 people. president reagan wanted to sstay but they didnt cause congress didnt approve -
iran contral
us hostages.iran gets hostages free.us president gets guns to israel and hey gave them to iran and israle gave the money to nicaragua -
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george h w bush
bush 426 votes electoral votes 5.4 percent
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yugoslav war
the country was ran by a a guy named tito he ran the country but sooner he died. the country split up and caused manny wars over power of the country. sobodan milosevic presidency marked the wars.f-117 was mainly used in the bombings. -
contract with america
congress people making all these bills but they gotta get signed by the president. but in this case clinton was veto them because they was against him -
dayton agreement
to promote peace bosnia and herzegovina and to endorse regional balance and around republic of yugoslavia -
impeached clinton
they caught him doin the nasty in thw white house and they put himn out there like that. there was 2 groups one agaisnt him one not against him -
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george bush
first lelection bush vs argore he lost the popular vote and won electoral vote he won by 69% and florida was lasty state but the court stopped the recount bush won 500 votes.he ran again against carrey 48 to 50 -
invasion of afghanistan
the invasion started right after 9/11 when george w bush demanded to give him osama bin laden.osama bin laden later got killed by us in 2011.the cost of the war was 1.28 trillion 1 million per soldiers -
kyoto treaty
major countrys us russia makin g pollution -
gulf of tonkin incident/resolution
Incident:north vietnam fired at u.s. and u.s fired back whiped out all vietnam ships
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nixon sock
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bill gates microsoft
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G I Bill
Servicemen's Readjustment Actwas a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. -
J P Morgan
was an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company owned by William Edenborn, to form the United States Steel Corporation.