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Dec 17 2006
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Undergraduate 1
12/17/2006

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John F. Kennedy
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President who had VP(s): Lyndon Johnson
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Richard M. Nixon
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President who had VP(s): Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford
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Gerald R Ford
Definition
President who had VP(s): Nelson Rockefeller
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Jimmy Carter
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President who had VP(s): Walter Mondale
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Ronald W Reagan
Definition
President who had VP(s): George Bush
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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President who had VP(s): Dan Quayle
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Bill J Clinton
Definition
President who had VP(s): Al Gore
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George Walker Bush
Definition
President who had VP(s): Dick Cheney
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Martin Luther King
Definition
Assassinated by James Earl Ray
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Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin
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Founder of Russian communism
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Andrew Mellon
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Pro-business financier who advocated supply-side economic before the Great Depression
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John Maynard Keynes
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"Engineer" of the New Deal; advocated governmental direction to boost the economy
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Adam Smith
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Founder of modern liberal economics; wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776
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William Jennings Bryan
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"You shall not crucify me on a cross of gold." Free silver movement
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Roger B Taney
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Crucial ruling in Dred Scott v Sanford
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Adam Smith
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Founder of laissez-faire economics.
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Jesse Owens
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Won multiple gold medals at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, to the great embarrassment of Adolf Hitler
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Nelson Rockefeller
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Gerald Ford's VP
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Betsy Ross
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Sewed first American flag
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Francis Scott Key
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Wrote the Star-Spangled Banner
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Dred Scott v Sandford
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NAME THE COURT CASE: Did congress have constitutional authority to regulate slavery in the territories?
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McCulloch v Maryland
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NAME THE COURT CASE: Can a state institution tax a federal entity?
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Gibbons v Ogden
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NAME THE COURT CASE: Who has the authority to regulate interstate commerce?
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Fletcher v Peck
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NAME THE COURT CASE: Can a state lease land to a private corporation?
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Plessy v Ferguson
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NAME THE COURT CASE: Segragation in schools
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theocracy
Definition
Government based in religion
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kakistocracy
Definition
government by the worst people in the state
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suffrage
Definition
the right to vote
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democracy
Definition
Government by the sovereign citizens
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Germany's eastern front is destroyed, critical to destruction of the Luftwaffe and the German Military
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D-day
Definition
Successful Allied invasion of Nazi Europe begins
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
United States enters World War II
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Approximately 80,000 Americans died in this battle.
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D-day
Definition
Took place on 5 beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword
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Pearl Harbor
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Allies after U.S. enters: Great Britain, Russia
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