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Agricultural Areas in 1850s |
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Corn and Wheat: Missouri and Arizona Mines in North East Textiles in the north Rice in Lousiana Tobacco in East Cotton in South |
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Major Urban Areas in 1880s |
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Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans |
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Where did immigrants come from |
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First group was from Europe. Second group was from Asia |
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Differences between old and new immigrants |
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Old Immigrans came from N. and Central Europe for new land. New immigrans from South Europe for economic opportunity |
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Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise |
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African American who delivered speech to an almost all white audience encouraging equality |
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Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth |
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Carnegie wrote this article to convince the rich to inves money where it would be productive |
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Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman Speech |
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Former slave, gave a speech promoting women's rights at a womens rights convention |
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founded this settlement to support mothers and the needs of children |
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heldped improved poor living conditions by exposing them through photography and writing. |
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worker forced to work for little pay and harsh conditions in a factory |
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built his wealth from a monopoly on railroads -started with steamboats |
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Electric company found by George Westinghouse to improve long-distance communication |
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Car company that manufactured railroad cars initially in planned worker community -sleeping car |
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Milton S. Hershey founded chocolate company in 1894.largest north american chocolate manufacturer |
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chemical copany founded in 1802 as a gunpowder mill; still large company today -dynamite |
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scientist an inventor who developed the first telephone |
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inventor responsible for inventing the phonograph and practical light bulb |
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american industrialist dominating the oil industry. contributed to philanthropy |
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founded meat-packign firm and promosted refrigerated train car |
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meatpacking industrailist who is considered a robber baron |
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urges social and political changes. favor common people over rich business owners |
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1887; authorized President to survey and divide Indian tribal land |
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President Grant bough large amounds of gold altering stock market. 2 congressman charged |
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construction company building western portion of transcontinental raildroad distributed stock to other congresmen |
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scandal involvign politicians and whiskey distributors using tax revenues |
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New York City political organization founded by Boss Tweed; political machine |
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City Boss and Political Machine |
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represent corrupion in early political system invoving "favors' in return of support |
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shot less than 4 months into his term by his stalker Charles Guiteau |
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Pendelton Civil Service Act |
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ruled that government jobs be awarded based on merit; improved civil service |
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promoted farmers by regulating fare prices of railraod companies |
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regulated railroad industry by controlling monopolies |
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belief system of a group of people who identify strongly with a nation |
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supported American involvement if European nations attempted to colonize North or South America |
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conflict between Spain and the U.S. over revolts in Cuba against Spanish rule |
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"yellow press" has no well-researched or legitimate news |
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right of women to vote and run for office |
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idea of one country maintaining power through force over foreign countries |
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enables citizens to bypass state legislature by statutes and amendments |
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allows citizens to remove and replace public official before the end of a term |
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measure that appears on a ballot 1) legislature refers measure to voters 2) measure appears due to petition |
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Food and Drug Administration |
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protects public health by regulating food safety, tobacco, drugs, etc. |
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journalists who supported reform by exposing poor conditions to the wealthy |
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4 years long; triple alliance and tripel entente; allies won resulting in strict Treaty of Versailles |
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addressed Congress with speech on world peace; Great War fought for moral cause |
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outlawed alcohol which directly increased the organized crime rate; prohibition |
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Tennessee the last and 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment-women's vote |
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Nashville Equal Suffrage League; helped pass 19th Amendment; women's rights activist |
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encourage passage of the 19th Amendment being youngest member of legislature |
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governor of TN who called teh session that ratified the 19th amendment |
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buying stock on margin; risky loans; run on banks; overproduction of crops |
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government is not involved in economy or affairs of individuals |
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cultural movement in the 20s; "New Negro Movement"; New York City |
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writers in the 20s who considered America to have lsot morals |
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wrote The Jungle that encouraged regulation of food safety |
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civil rights activist; NAACP; opposed Booker; insisted on FULL civil rights |
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Atlanta Compromise; wanted ACCOMADATION of African Americans |
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Jamaican political leader; Back-to-Africa movement |
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peace treaty after WWI that was so strict it caused WWII |
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government has total rule over society; no individual freedom |
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radical authoritarian nationalsim. control by one party -Nazis |
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state controls everything including economy |
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handmade shelters built to accomodate low income families suffering from the Depression |
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hatred of Jews that to WWII and the Holocaust |
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war veterans who protested to receive money before they were supposed to |
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FDR wins 1932 election, after which Democrats control for 62 years |
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Social Security Act; permanent system of retirement pensions, unemployment insurance and welfare |
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employed unskilled workers and redistribute food, clothing, and housing |
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Tennessee Valley Authority; provided flood control, electricity, and economic development to the South |
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Indian Reorganization Act |
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force Native Americans onto reservations; must obey state and federal laws |
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insured band deposits to $100,000 in case of bank failures |
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Civilian Conservation Crops; provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to conservation of natural resources |
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guaranteed better working conditions for actory workers |
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Axis and Allied Powers WWII |
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Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan Allies: France, Britain, U.S., Russia |
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provided military benefits to veterans returing from the war |
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President Roosevelt's secretary of state who helped carry out foreign policy including United Nations |
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one of three sites used in Manhattan Project to Congruct bombs |
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atomic bomb project in 1942; contructed three bombs at three different sites |
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relief-jobs and loans recovery- aid to workers reform- eliminate abuses in economy |
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Capitalists v. Communists |
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Cold War; free enterprise and citizen rights vs. control of everythign |
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Russian Satellite Nations |
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easter european countries given money from Russia to be communists |
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U.S. in a race with Russia to see who could land on the moon first |
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movement during the Cold War inspired by extreme fear of communists in America |
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Eisenhower Interstate Highway System |
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inspired by Hitler's Autobahn. Allows easy transportation of supplies |
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Truman established policy delcaring that the U.S. will not allow communism to spread |
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U.S. fought North Korea in order to stop communism from spreading to South Korea |
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U.S. fought North Vietminh to prevent South Vietnam from becoming communists |
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Russia moved missiles to Cuba. U.S. blockaded Cuba and told Russia to move missiles or we would nuclear strike -brinkmanship |
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Germany was split into four parts after WWII to prevent them from regaining power. U.S. had West Germany |
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Plessy, African American, sat in whites only train car and is arrested. upheld segregation; "seperate, but equal" |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
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African American girl applied to all white school and denied; ends segregation |
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Miranda accused of kidnapping and rap but conviction overturned because he wasn't aware of his rights |
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Gideon accused of theft, judge doesn't give him attorney. S.C. overturns conviction because he should have had attorney |
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AFrican American students enrolled in whites only high school in support of desegregation |
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protest against the ploicy of racial segregation on the public transit system in Alabama |
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civil rights protesters who rode buses into segregated south; local violence used |
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nonviolent campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, TN |
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civil rights activist. first African American student admitted to University of Mississippi; pressured Kennedy |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968 |
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enforce desegregation and ensure fair voting; prohibitted discrimination in public places |
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domestic programs by Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty and racial injustice |
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U.S. trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and take down Castro in 1961. It was a failure |
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post World War II generation with high birth rates |
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subculure whose values and norms of behavior deviate from those of mainstream socity -rock n roll -hippies |
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president of The Trump Organization; TV personality |
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invented Micrsoft; one of the world's wealthies people |
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engineered Ford Mustang and Pinto Cars; revived Chrysler Corporation in the 80s |
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online bookstore into Amazon.com |
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two Washington Post reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal |
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U.S. senator from Tennessee; involved in Watergate |
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white house counsed to Nixon; involved in Watergate |
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started in 1950, 1961 Kennedy sent troops, Johnson declared war in 1964, 1970 Nixon drew out troops, 1974 all troops gone |
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Reaganand Bush vs. Clinton |
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Reagan and Bush were republican, but Clinton was a Democrat. All 3 pushed party's agenda and moved toward prosperous time |
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North American Free Trade Agreement 1994; U.S. Mexico and Canada do not charge tarrifs on each other |
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