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| attacks by radical islamic group al-Qaeda on 9/11 destroying the world trade center, the pentagon, and killing lots of people |
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| anti-slavery movement growing from 1830-Civil War. some hoped for immediate emancipation, others promoted working through congress. William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass |
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| Act of Religious Toleration |
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| law guaranteeing political rights to all christians both catholic and protestant, in colony of Maryland, signed by proprietor George Calvert- 1649 |
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| treaty between US and Spain in 1819, US gets Florida and Mexican border expanded to the Pacific in exchange for US paying $5 million in Spanish debts |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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| 1933 to support farm-product prices; subsidized farms to reduce production; later found unconstitutional in 1936 over tax issue |
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| Agricultural Marketing Act |
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| 1929 created a Federal Farm Board to support agricultural commodity prices |
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| disease that attacks the immune system, started with killing homosexual men |
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| controversial passed by Federalists in 1798, Alien act made it more difficult to obtain US citizenship, Sedition act granted Adams administration more power to censor newspapers that criticized the government |
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| Kennedy initiative working to provide aid to Latin America |
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| American Federation of Labor(AFL) |
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| national labor union combining several smaller craft unions; used strikes and collective bargaining to achieve labor goals, but not affiliated with radical movements |
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| American Indian Movement(AIM) |
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| Civil rights group striving to achieve greater rights for Native Americans 1968 |
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| Henry Clay Program promoting high tariffs on imports to generate revenue to pay for internal improvements, foundation of Clay's unsuccessful bid for presidency in 1824 |
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| Union plan by General Winfield Scott in early Civil War; combination of a naval blockade and union control of the missisppi river to split the south and squeeze out its incoming resources |
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| radical supporting end of all government |
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| Pre-Columbian civilization in the Southwest; cliff dwellings called pueblos and extensive systems of roads and irrigation canals; declined by 14th century |
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| convention in september 1786 for discussing problems with interstate commerce; delegates from only 5 states; major effect was to hold Philadelphia convention in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation |
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| process of formally adding territory to a city, state, or nation |
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| want limited national government and central authority. prefer state power. prefer revision of constitution to protect state and individual power before ratification. includes samuel adams and john hancock |
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