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| The homestead Act of 1863 was an act presented to people who lived on the land for 5 years and 160 acres were available. |
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The ghost dance originated among the paiute Indians around 1870.
-the tide movement came in 1889 with paiute Shaman woroka (Jack wilson)
-Had a vision he saw the second coming of christ during an eclipse. |
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| Battle of the little big horn |
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-battle of the greasy grass.
-custer's last stand
-combined sources of the lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Ampaho tribes and the 11th cavalry regiment of the US
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| The native American chief under whom the Sioux tribes united their struggles for survival of the north American great plains. |
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| artillery and killed at least 200 sioux men, women, and children at wounded knee. |
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| major economic activity in the 19th century American west, particularly between 1866 and 1886, when 20 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas. |
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| the route followed by texas cattle raisers driving their herds north to markets at kansas railheads |
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| Progressivism/ progressive era |
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| period before ww1 when many groups sought to reshape the nations government and society in response to the pressures of industrialization and urbanizations |
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| journalism exposing economic, social, and poliitical evils, so named by teddy roosevelt for its "raking of muck" of American society |
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| After the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 demanded women's suffrage for the first time, America became distracted by the coming Civil War. The issue of the vote resurfaced during Reconstruction. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution proposed granting the right to vote to African American males. |
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| Settlement houses were important reform institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Chicago's Hull House was the best-known settlement in the United States. |
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28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)
-progressivism reform |
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| He was the heir of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He was assassinated by a serbian named princip Sarajevo in 1914. This event sparked a series of actions that led to the beginning of WWI. |
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A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. |
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| Germany and its world war allies ausrtia, turkey, and bulgaria |
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| he victorious allied nations of World War I and World War II. In World War I, the Allies included Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States. In World War II, the Allies included Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. |
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| The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. |
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| a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I. an ancient region and Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding generally to modern Portugal. |
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| Unrestricted submarine warfare occurs when submarines attack merchant ships without warning rather than following prize regulations. ... Resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany in early 1917 was a key reason the United States entered the conflict. |
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| the sussex pledge (may 4 1916) |
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| The German government responded with the so-called Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916), agreeing to give adequate warning before sinking merchant and passenger ships and to provide for the safety of passengers and crew. The pledge was upheld until February 1917, when unrestricted submarine warfare was resumed. |
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jan 18 1918
-long term objectives
-statements of principles for peace that was to be used for peace |
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| the treaty ending ww1 and creating the league of nations |
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| international organizations created by the versailles treaty after ww1 to ensure world stability |
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18th amendment
-banned alc
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| Fundamentalists believe that the statements in the Bible are literally true. Note: Fundamentalists often argue against the theory of evolution. |
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| The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. ... There are several possible explanations for the high mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic. |
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held in dayton tenessee
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| aclu (american civil liberties union) |
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| American Civil Liberties Union. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." |
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| the great depression 1929-1939 |
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| was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. |
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president during the great depression
-symbolized policies and proseperity and the new era
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elected in 1932
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| The encampments of the poor and homeless that sprang up during the Great Depression. They were named with ironic intent after President Herbert Hoover, who was in office when the depression started. |
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franklin d rooselvelt
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during roosevelts presidency
march 9- june 16 1933
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| The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. |
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| s a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. The enterprise was a result of the efforts of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society. |
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| Initially created as the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935 as part of the New Deal in the United States, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty. |
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| The doctrine that a nation should stay out of the disputes and affairs of other nations. The United States practiced a policy of isolationism until World War I and did not pursue an active international policy until after World War II. (See “entangling alliances with none.”) |
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great plains
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-kansas, oklahoma, northern texas
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| is the term used to describe a series of 30 evening radio conversations (chats) given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. |
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| 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45. |
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-began in 1939
- directed at African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans
- restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods
- denied basic citizenship rights
- "Just carve on my tombstone, 'Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man.'" |
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| in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936. |
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| Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PC PCc DL FRS RA was a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955 |
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| an aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance. |
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| Dec 7 1941; Japanese attack American naval base and airforces in Oahu; US declares war on japan, Italy and Germany declare war on US |
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| The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history. According to the census of 1940, 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived in the United States, the majority on the West Coast. |
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| A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. |
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| Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. |
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| The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. |
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| Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. Much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States. |
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| bombing happened august 6, 1945 |
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| second bomb dropping and last |
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