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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 and due process
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Voting for all male citizens
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- Rockefeller/Carnegie: Both robber barons and captains of industry
- Philanthropy: The desire to promote welfare of others.
- Monopoly: Business corporation that owns the industry.
- Jane Addams: Settlement activist and social worker.
- Lisssez-Faire: The belief of a free economy from the government.
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Prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers. First U.S. 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 the 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 trusts to promote economic fairness.
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- Muckrakers: People who exposed Monopolies.
- Initiative, Refunded, Recall: reforms for the economy.
- The Great Migration: African Americans move north in search of jobs. 4.NAACP: Organization to help African American rights and needs. Immigration Issues: Assimilation and Nativism/ melting pot.
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Legalized segregation, and established "separate but equal".
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- Theodor Roosevelt: President and muckraker/ army general.
- Rough Riders: Military division that ruled the Spanish American War.
- Foreign Policy: U.S. to stay out of foreign affairs.
- Immigration Quotas: Immigration #'s soar for the U.S.
- Yellow Journalism: Taking events out of context to diminish competitors.
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Initiated free trade with China.
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An addition tot he 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 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: African American war hero during the battle of the Argonne Forrest.
- Homefront: The war effort on U.S. soil and in factories.
- M.A.I.N.: The causes of WW1
- Sussex Pledge: Pledge to not blow up civilian ships.
- American Expeditionary Forces: Troops sent over seas to help the Allied powers.
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Statement of principles after WW1, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations.
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Peace treaty that ended WWI, required Germany to accept full blame and pay for the war reparations' as well as to demilitarize.
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Prohibition
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- Social Darwinism: Social natural selection. 2.The Red Scare: fear of communism
- Assembly Line: Created by Henry Ford to increase factory production for many goods.
- Return to Normalcy: The U.S. return to staying out of foreign affairs.
- Harlem Renaissance: The revitalization of culture in America.
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Woman's right to vote
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Granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States.
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- Hovervilles: Shack towns outside big cities.
- The New Deal: The new economic deal designed to help struggles for the U.S. citizens.
- Causes of the Great Depression: Speculation, over production, and over use of credit, etc..
- Court Packing: Adding seats to the supreme court in order to sway a certain decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: Teddy Roosevelts Wife/ Woman's Activist.
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Adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
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Repeals the 18th Amendment
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Established the Social Security Admin. which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old ae pensions, and insurance for families.
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1.Island Hopping: US strategy for Japan.
2.Liberation of Concentration Camps: Freeing of Jews in German camps.
3.Dwight Eisenhower: US President.
4.Douglas MacArthur: US General.
5.Chester W. Nimitz: US Admiral.
6.Navajo Code Talkers: Native Americans that helped decipher codes for the US during battle.
7.Tuskegee Airmen: First African American pilot corps.
8.Flying Tigers: Chinese Volunteer pilot corps.
9.The Manhattan Project: US nuclear project.
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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: The policy of keeping communism in its place
- Arms Race/ Space Race: Escalation in tech between the U.S. and Russia
- The USSR: Russia
- Communism: Economic similarity
- Domino Theory: Every event causes a bigger thing to happen like Dominos
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
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Limits amount of presidential terms to two
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Program to help European countries rebuild after WWII.
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Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal"
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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Authorized the building of a national highway system.
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Begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal, and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.
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Abolishes the poll tax
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
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Defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.
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Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.
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Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.
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Limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.
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- Barack Obama; President 2008-2016 - First Black President.
- al-Qaeda; Terrorist group in the Middle East - responsible for 9/11.
- No Child Left Behind; Education reform under President Bush.
- President Clinton's Impeachment; Bill Clinton impeached after corruption and affair exposed.
- President Election of 2000; George Bush elected
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Tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism.
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