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First President of the United States.
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Owned most of North East railroads
Captain of Industry or Robber Barron?
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He added E Pluribus Unum: "Out of Many, One" to American coins. The Adams' were the first residents of the White House.
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He sent Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
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War declared on England on June 18 after England continued to attack U.S. ships headed to France. War of 1812.
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He was the first president to have been a U.S. senator. In the election of 1820 Monroe received every electoral vote except for one.
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Adams also urged the United States to take a lead in the development of the arts and sciences through the establishment of a national university.
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Did not defer to Congress in policy-making but used his power of the veto and his party leadership to assume command. Jackson met head-on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective tariff.
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U.S. Steel Company, revolutionized steel production in the United States
Captain of Industry or Robber Barron?
One of the reasons anti monopoly laws were made -
Van Buren's remedy to the depression deepened and prolonged the depression.Inclined more and more to oppose the expansion of slavery, Van Buren blocked the annexation of Texas because it assuredly would add to slave territory--and it might bring war with Mexico.
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helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations
Bought U.S Steel of Cash
Captain of Industry or Robber Barron?
One of the reasons anti monopoly laws were made -
founder of the Standard Oil Company
became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist.
Captain of Industry or Robber Barron?
One of the reasons anti monopoly laws were made -
The fight for women's right to vote in America.
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9th President of the United States
Delivered the longest inaugural address on March 4. It was an extremely cold day and Harrison did not wear a hat while delivering the 105 minute speech. He contracted pneumonia and died in the White House one month later. -
He was the first Vice President to succeed to the Presidency after the death of his predecessor.
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President Polk added a vast area to the United States
Last strong president before the Civil War. -
Was a general and a national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812.
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Not affiliated with either the Republican or Democratic parties.
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hoped to ease the divisions that led eventually to Civil War
President at time of tranquility. -
served immediately prior to the American Civil War
the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor. -
An era in which reform and industrialization took place; robber-barons were a key aspect to this era, placing more control in businesses than in the government.
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Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
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old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views
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commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War
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oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War
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Presidency was impactful, but cut short after 200 days when he was assassinated
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Arthur Administration enacted the first general Federal immigration law.
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American politician, diplomat and activist.
Married to Franklin D. Roosevelt
wrote a newspaper column
served at the United Nations, focusing on human rights and women's issues.
spoke out for human rights, children's causes and women's issues, working on behalf of the League of Women Voters. -
President Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later
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conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns by delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him in Indianapolis
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Became the dictator, Fuhrer over Germany, caused WWII. Wanted to create an Aryan society, and kill everyone who did´t fit his standards of perfect. Killed himself at the end of the war.
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A time in which social issues were beginning to be worked upon and solved: women's, worker's, immigrant's, African American's and children's rights. Heavy industrialization occurred during this time span.
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When America was establishing itself as a world power by helping various other countries.
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only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later
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broke baseball's most important slugging records, including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season. In all, Ruth hit 714 home runs
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lead the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and raising protective tariffs to promote American industry.
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American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment.
Disappeared July 2, 1937 while trying to fly around the world from the equator and were on the most challenging leg of their trip -
Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba
Yellow Journalism was created
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February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace.
Led to Spanish American war
Led to immense yellow journalism -
youngest President in the Nation's history
¨Speak softly and carry a big stick¨ -
by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair= muckraker portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. led to food and drug act
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later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States
the only person to have served in both of these offices. -
in New York City
the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history
led to many labor codes and fire regulations
working women unintentionally locked in burning work building -
Also known as the great War
Trench and chemical warfare introduced and banned
Ended in a stalemate because of all the trench warfare
War expanded so much because of all the alliances that had been created
Blame placed on Germany -
The type of warfare used during WWI
Caused the stalemate
months/Years of war fought over mere feet of land
People fought in trenches
Resulted in more deaths than ever before -
a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere
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established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal
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18th Amendment
Banning of the production, consumption, and sale of alcohol
Led to rise in crime through speakeasies
Corrupt government
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a leader of the Progressive Movement
Wilson led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy." -
an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms.
People from coast to coast bought the same goods (thanks to nationwide advertising and the spread of chain stores), listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same slang -
an intergovernmental organization
result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
Placed blame on Germany -
It was originally known as the Volstead Act. When the making, storage, and consumption of alcoholic beverages became illegal.
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one of the most important of the peace treaties
brought World War I to an end.
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practiced the ideology of Nazism. Lead by Hitler
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Granted women's suffrage -
The radio provided hope to the many people during the great Depression
Allowed people to escape their poverty for a moment
People would gather to listen to the radio -
Teapot Dome
Harding embraced technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women. -
preserve the old moral and economic precepts of frugality amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying during the 1920s era.
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mining engineer and worldwide gratitude as "The Great Humanitarian" who fed war-torn Europe during and after World War I
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the Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history
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An economic depression in the U.S and around the world that mainly lasted until WWII. This sparked a huge change in banking systems and how we invest our money.
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Shabby towns during the Great Depression
Homeless people lived in these
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The era in which the film industry became widely popular. Many of the most famous movies came from this time for example, Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind, Snow White, Shirley Temple
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A group of WWI veterans that wanted to redeem their $1000 certificates during the Great Depression.
They set up a town outside the capital when their request was denied. (some had gone home though)
July 28, Washington police began to clear the demonstrators out of the capital. Two men were killed as tear gas and bayonets assailed the Bonus Marchers. -
Concentration camps were torture and murder camps the Nazis used to kill Jewish and people who didn't fit the Aryan standard.
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The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories."
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a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews
Coined word genocide
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Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression
Helped America out of the Great Depression
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Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
The shortest race horse at 5´2¨ -
War Admiral was an American thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937, and rival of Seabiscuit in the 'Match Race of the Century' in 1938.
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The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party
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Night when Nazis went and destroyed the homes, shops, and lives of many Jewish residents
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hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare
The cold war was between the Soviet Union and the U.S
rivalry between the two superpowers raised concerns in the United States that Communists and leftist sympathizers inside America might actively work as Soviet spies and pose a threat to U.S. security. -
huge area of heavy fighting across Europe, from Germany's and the Soviet Union's joint invasion of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the war with the Soviet Union conquering much of Europe along with the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 (Victory in Europe Day). The Allied forces fought the Axis powers
Massive air war
Nazis
Caused by the blame and poverty placed on Germany -
allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890
allegory on the Populist movement, the agrarian revolt that swept across the Midwest in the 1890
Dorothy represents an individualized ideal of the American people
The Witch of the East represents eastern financial-industrial interests and their gold-standard political allies
The witch of the west represents forces of nature that plagued farmers in the Midwest and the power brokers of that region -
promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.
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Side during WWI
Great Britain, The United States, China, and the Soviet Union.
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consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
also known as the Quadruple Alliance
one of the two main factions during World War I -
Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death.