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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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Rockefeller/Carnegie:engines of capitalism,Rockefeller=very cruel and mean Carnegie= nice businessman.
Philanthropy:voluntary giving by individuals or groups to promote the common good
Monopoly: dominate a sector or industry.
Jane Addams:peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America. (Poor and social reform)
Laissez-Faire:policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society. -
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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first of many settlement houses
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outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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outlawed business monopolies
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Muckrakers: journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
I,R,R: voters can adopt a change in law (an initiative), disapprove a law passed by the Legislature (a referendum), or remove an elected official from office (a recall)
The Great Migration:movement of 6 million African Americans
NAACP: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Immigration Issues: minority group=resemble a society's majority group -
1896-1899
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legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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initiated free trade with China
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1904-1914
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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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regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines
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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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direct election of U.S. Senators
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established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry
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Alvin York:the most decorated United States Army soldiers
Homefront:the people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war
M.A.I.N. Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
Sussex Pledge Germany to the United States unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning
American Expeditionary Forces formation of the United States Army on the Western Front -
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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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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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prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
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Social Darwinism biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest
The Red Scare widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
Assembly Line workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
Return to Normalcy return to the way of life before World War I
Harlem Renaissance intellectual revival of African American art and literature centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. -
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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Hoovervilles shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless(Herbert Hoover)
The New Deal series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Causes of the Great Depression Stock Market Crash, Bank Failures, less purchases, dust bowl, credit
Court Packing legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices
Eleanor Roosevelt: First lady expanded roles for women/ activism -
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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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- Hopping from island to island utilizing the land
- April 11, 1945, red army
- general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
- general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II
- commanded all land and sea forces
- Navajo tribe members who used their language as code
- African-American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II
- Volunteer Group airforce 9.first nuclear bombs
- representing the women who worked in factories
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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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Containment: Keeping communism out
Arms Race/Space Race:Race against soviets on arms
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:USSR
Communism:political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
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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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