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Great Britain and France
- Ended with the Treaty of Paris
- "7 year war"
- Fought over land (Upper Ohio River Valley) |
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British soldiers kill civilians
- Growing tensions between Great Britain and American colonies |
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| No taxation without representation |
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Main concern of American colonists against Great Britain in the American Rev
- Stated in the Magna Carta |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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First frame of gov
- Functions of the gov
- After America gained independence |
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Applied restrictions to immigration and hateful speech against the gov
- Passed in prep for the war with France |
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| Process of changing from agricultural society to industry/machine focused |
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Passed because of the argument about (not) expanding slavery
- Line through America (South-Slave)
- Balance power in Congress |
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Political movement towards a better democracy for the common man
- Andrew Jackson
- Voting to white men over 21 |
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Deadly route when Native Americans were displaced
- Cherokee cleared for land for white settlers
- The Indian Removal Act |
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Promoted moderating and banned alcohol
- Started because of overindulgence and abuse |
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Supporting needs/wants of natural-born citizens over immigrants
- Racist views and competition for jobs |
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Movement to end slavery and free slaves
- Books about the brutality of slavery |
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Belief that settlers were destined to expand West
- Created tensions over slavery which led to the Civil War |
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War between anti-slavery and pro-slavery
- Helped cause the Civil War
- Crazy J. Brown and his 5 sons killed pro-slavery advocates |
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Prevented American citizenship to black people
- Could not enjoy the rights of the Constitution
- Could not sure (property v.s. citizen) |
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J. Brown's attack on the National Armory
- Largest surrender of Federal troops in the Civil war |
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Citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the US"
- Included former slaves |
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Prevented discrimination when it came to voting
- Left open voter qualifications however |
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Worker works on an owner's farm and gets living accommodations and a cut of the profits
- Legal slavery |
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Gain benefits from trusts while being protected from individual liability
- Reduced company competition |
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Wanting to take more and more
- Industrial rev
- Nationalism
- Growth of pop
- Discovery of new routes |
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Ended Spain's power in the West and secured the US as a Pacific power
- After internal explosion of US ship |
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Negotiating peacefully while making it known you have a bigger power (stick/military)
- Used by Roosevelt |
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| Using America's financial power v.s. military (Big Stick) to extend influence abroad |
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Exposed problems and tried to fix them in the Progressive Era
- H. George
- F. Norris
- T. Veblein
- I. Tarbell
- J. London
- L. Steffens
- D. G. Phillips
- U. Sinclair |
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Movement of social activism and political reform
- Eliminate corruption in gov
- Focus on basic cores (family, education) |
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| Causes of US entry into WW1 |
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Germany sub attacks on passenger and merchant ships
- Zimmerman Telegram |
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A widespread panic about the possible rise of communism
- Bolshevik Rev in Russia led to many fearing immigrants would take over the gov |
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Young, Western women who went against social norms
- Short hair/skirts, listened to jazz, drank |
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| Causes of Great Depression |
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| Economic crashes by overproduction and under consumption |
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Alcohol (wets v.s. drys)
Religious modernists v.s. fundamentalists
Urban ethnics v.s. KKK |
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Helped America recover from the Great Depression
- Relief for the needy
- Economic recovery
- Financial reform |
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| African Americans moved from the South to other parts of the US to escape racial violence and Jim Crow |
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| A cultural revival of black music, dance, art, and fashion |
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Worked in shipyards and factories, basically all the jobs men usually did
- Rosie the Riveter |
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| Moved Japanese-Americans out of their homes and into camps because people feared they were spies during the war |
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| Post WW2 Economic Development |
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| GDP skyrocketed making the US the richest and most powerful nation in the world |
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| Post WW2 peacekeeping organizations |
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| Created the United Nations made up of 51 countries that maintained international peace and security |
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American support for democracies against authoritarian threats
- Tried to contain communism |
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| Helped revive the economies of European countries to create stable conditions for democracies |
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Pacifying an aggressive country with negotiations to prevent communism
- Abused |
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| Communism in one nation would continue to spread to others so it had to be contained |
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| Eisenhower’s Cold War Strategy |
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| America built up nuclear weapons to deter military threats while saving money on expensive Army combat units |
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McCarthy claimed to have a list of communist spies in the US gov which led to a lot of distrust in the gov
- The Second Red Scare |
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| Civil Rights Activism, 1945-1960 |
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Sit-ins, boycotts, protest marches
- Major drive was Rosa Parks |
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| Cuba/Soviet Union found out that Kennedy could make nuclear missiles which started the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Social rights activist for African American rights
- I Have a Dream Speech |
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Activist for the migrant American farm workers
- Created the National Farm Workers Association |
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| Hippies who opposed the war in Vietnam, commercialism, and most societal norms |
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Set of domestic programs to help better America
- Aid to education
- Attack on disease
- Medicare |
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Time in which the court was the most liberal
- Ended segregation (in schools)
- Brown v.s. Board |
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Outlawed discrimination when it came to voting
- Prevented literacy tests as a prerequisite |
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Co-founder of the National Organization for Women
- Helped lead the Women's Rights Movement |
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| Wrote Silent Spring to advocate for nature and harmful chemicals |
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| Political activist who helped pass the Clean Water Act, Consumer Product Safety Act, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
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Movement to emphasize racial pride
- Opened up institutions without white people
- Encouraged colleges to start black study programs |
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Opposition to the women's Equal Rights Amendment
- Led by Schlafly |
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Nixon's corrupt actions
- Bugging political opponents offices
- Unauthorized investigations |
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Limited the presidents authority to wage war and over the military
- Nixon tried to veto the bill |
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Time where Nixon tried to ease Cold War tensions between the US and the Soviet Union
- "Calm" |
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Combating inflation and unemployment
- Started because of lower interest rates, the oil embargo, high gov spending |
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Someone who was not accepted as a member of a particular social group
- Ex: Carter |
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| Cooling malfunction caused a nuclear reactor to melt down |
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A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
- 12 days of secret negotiations at Camp David |
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Iran citizens stormed the US Embassy and held 70 Americans hostage
- Protest against normalizing relations with the US |
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Economic policies created by Reagan
- Tax cuts
- Less regulations
- Noninflammatory money growth
- Restrained gov spending |
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Allowed for Germans to escape communism and marked civil unrest
- Created a depression in Europe |
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| Immigration and Reform Control Act |
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Prohibited employers from hiring an alien who is unauthorized to work
- Used to deter illegal immigration |
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| Social and Demographic Changes 1980-2000 |
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| Socially more accepting of minority groups which allowed for a more Demographic shift to allow for immigrants |
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| Persian Gulf War, 1991-1992 |
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| 35 Nations led by the US against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait |
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Clinton beat Bush
- In that time, US was in a recession so people resonated with Clinton's promises of economic change and stability |
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People who believed both sides of the parties had to work together to combat upcoming challenges
- "Clinton Democrats" |
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| Globalization and other 1990s economic changes |
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Trade, investment, migration, and culture exchange increased
- Steady jobs and rising productivity |
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| Conservative Backlash to Clinton |
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| He denied having an affair with Lewinsky which lead to his impeachment |
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| Free-trade zone in Canada, Mexico, and the US which lifted tariffs on the majority of goods produced |
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Shift from mechanical devices to digital tech
- Changes in consumer demands (online shopping) |
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Promoting democracy where terrorists are to prevent attacks
- Following the 7/11 attack |
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Conservative disagreed with a lot of his good policies such as tax cuts and immigration
- Mishandled the Great Recession and Katrina |
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| Court Decisions between 2010 and 2020 |
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Courts allow unlimited money to be used in campaigns
Courts overturn parts of the Voting Rights Act by requiring IDs |
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