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provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
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abolished slavery
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citizenship & due process
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voting for all male citizens
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1) Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons): COI helped give back to the community with their businesses while RB only cared for money and their own businesses
2) Philanthropy: the desire to promote the welfare of others
3) Monopoly: control of the supply of commodity or service
4) Jane Addams: american reformer who was an important leader in women's suffrage in the us
5) Laissez-Faire: a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course without interfering -
prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
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awarded government jobs based on merit
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ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business
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gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
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1) Muckrakers: journalists who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt
2) Initiative, Referendum, Recall: people have right to propose a new law/a law passed needs people for approval/the people can vote to have an elected official out from office
3) The Great Migration: movement of 6 million A.A. out of south to north
4) NAACP: organization created to advance justice for A.A.
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outlawed business monopolies
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outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
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1) Theodore Roosevelt: 26th US president
2) Rough Riders: 1st US volunteer cavalry in Spanish-american war
3) Foreign Policy: a government's strategy in dealing with other nations
4) Immigration Quotas: limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
5) Yellow Journalism: journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration -
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initiated free trade with China
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an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines
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law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat
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Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America
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established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry
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1) Alvin York: one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I
2) Homefront: people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country
3) M.A.I.N. (Causes of WW1): Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism
4) Sussex Pledge: German promise not to bomb american passenger boats
5) American Expeditionary Forces: fatigued British and French troops who sorely needed the relief offered by the American forces -
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statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations
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prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
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peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize
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1) Social Darwinism: the theory that human groups & races are subject to the laws of natural selection
2) The Red Scare: promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state
3) Assembly Line: series of workers & machines in a factory by which identical items are assembled
4) Return to Normalcy: a return to the way of life before World War I & the Spanish flu pandemic
5) Harlem Renaissance: a golden age in African American culture for arts & music -
women are given the right to vote
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granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States
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1) Hoovervilles: shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States
2) The New Deal: designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
3) Causes of the Great Depression (5): stock market crash, bank failures, reduced buying, US economic policy w/ Europe, dust bowl
4) Court Packing: practice of changing the number or composition of judges on a court to make favorable to goals or ideologies
5) Eleanor Roosevelt: activist & former 1st lady -
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adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
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repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends
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established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families
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Island Hopping: strategy targeted key islands
Liberation of Concentration Camps: prisoners taken away on death marches
Dwight Eisenhower: an US politician & soldier/ 34th president
Douglas MacArthur: Chief of Staff of the US Army during 1930s
Chester W. Nimitz: fleet admiral of US navy
Navajo Code Talkers: secret line of communication
Tuskegee Airmen: 1st black aviators in US
Flying Tigers: pilots commanded to bomb Japan
The Manhattan Project: nuke bomb project
Rosie the Riveter: icon of WWII -
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incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII
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gives military veterans financial and educational benefits
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1) Containment: policy using strategies to prevent spread of communism
2) Arms Race/Space Race: competition between US & USSR for superiority in the development of weapons/ technology
3) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a former union of 15 republics comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire
4) Communism: a system in which all goods are owned by the government
5) Domino Theory: theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries -
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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authorized the building of a national highway system
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