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Homestead Act- 1830
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Theodore Roosevelt - 26th president of the United States
Rough Riders- member of a regiment of U.S. cavalry volunteers recruited by Theodore Roosevelt
Foreign Policy - regulation or foreigners
Immigration Quotas -limited the number of immigrants allowed entr
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13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
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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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Big five (ten)
1. Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
How different people used and came by their wealth (robber barons usually questionably and developed monopolies)
2. Philanthropy
charity and wanting to help others through money
3. Monopoly
a business with practically complete domination in a supply or commodity
4. Jane Addams
a philanthropist who established a secular settlement house
5. Laissez-Faire
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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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outlawed business monopolies
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outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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Sherman Anti-trust Act - 1890
1. Muckrakers- reform-minded journalists who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt
2. Initiative, Referendum, Recall - power to voters
3. The Great Migration - moving pull and push factors
4. NAACP - equal rights
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legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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initiated free trade with China
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an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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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 income tax
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Espionage Act - 1917
Sedition Act -1918
1. Alvin York
2. Homefront
3. MAIN
4. Sussex pledge
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direct election of U.S. Senators
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Big Five (ten)
1. Containment
policy of keeping communist influence where it is so that It doesn't spread to America.
2. Arms Race/Space Race
A race within the cold war where both powers tried to one up the other in spaceflight capability
3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The soviet union, communism.
4. Communism
An opposing government to America's democracy
5. Domino Theory
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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The conflict between the Soviet Union and America as America found missiles in Cuba and issued a quarantine.
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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Medicare and Medicaid were established
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a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks—none of which were reported in the mainstream media.
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War
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