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Strong Central Govt.
Alexander Hamilton
Favored Tariffs
Loose Constructionists
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Thomas Jefferson
Favored States Rights
Opposed Tariffs
Strict Constructionists
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| Washington’s Farewell Address |
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| Avoid alliances and avoid political parties |
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| Hamilton decides to tax whiskey. Whiskey makers got mad (used to raise money for govt, and show power of the new army.) |
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| England and France were seizing our ships and sailors |
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Eli Whitley made it
Mad3e cotton THE cash crop of the South. South was the cotton king |
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| Marbury v. Madison/Judicial Review |
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| Estabished the right of Judicial Review for Supreme Court |
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first 10 amendments in the constitution
Define the rights of american's under the constitution |
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| Made expansion expand rapidly toward the west |
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| Samuel Morse. Made communicating faster |
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| First man to write a dictionary for American English |
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| To abolish slavery in the US |
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| Forced the 5 civilized tribes of the SE to move west. (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) |
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| Dorothea Dix/Prison Reform |
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Discovered that mentally ill people were being tortured in U.S. Prisons
Wanted hospitals for mentally ill patients |
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Moved West because of persucution.
Foudned by Joseph Smith Jr.
Brigham Young takes the Polygamous Branch to Salt Lake City |
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| Land we got from Mexico after the Mexican-American war (California, Nevada, Utah, part of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming) |
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Opposed Expansion of Slavery
Conservatives: Resurrect Missouri Compromise Line
Radicals: Abolish Slavery
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| It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the territories, and that the people of African American descent (both slave and free) were not protected by the constitution. |
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| Largest battle in the Civil War 3 days. |
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Used to cut supply lines to the south
Block all ports, send in troops, take over the Mississippi |
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| Made African American's citizens |
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| Prohibits the government from denying a citizen's right to vote due to color or race. |
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| Northerners that moved south during the reconstruction period. Bought land off poor landowners in the south for bad prices. |
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| was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. |
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| was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad/Promontory Point |
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| was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad |
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| were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. |
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| statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges |
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| a corollary to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States. |
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| Populist Party/Bimetallism |
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| a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent both to a certain quantity of gold and to a certain quantity of silver |
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| is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand |
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| Helen Hunt Jackson/A Century of Dishonor |
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| was a United States writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government Made people realize how bad they were treating the Native Americans. |
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| is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between American settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of North America before and after the American Revolutionary War. |
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| was the period following the Civil War, running from 1877 to 1893 when the next era began, the Progressive Era |
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| One company runs/ owns the entire business of a certain kind |
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| Light Bulb’s Impact on Industry |
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| Work hours are no longer governed by the day. With the help of light, the hours go even beyond the hours people had worked before |
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| is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants |
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| legally recognized as representatives of workers in many industries in the United States. |
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| opened its doors to the recently arrived European immigrants |
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| is a negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. |
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| the term was typically applied to businessmen who were viewed as having used questionable practices to amass their wealth. |
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| is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. |
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| The Influence of Sea Power Upon History/Alfred T. Mahan |
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| is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power throughout history and discusses the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet. |
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| Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded suddenly without warning and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry. |
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| Status of Cuba after the Spanish-American War |
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| Major General Brooke was appointed Governor-General of Cuba after the withdrawal of the Spanish army. |
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| He met with three annexationists from Hawaii: Lorrin Thurston, Francis March Hatch and William Ansel Kinney. After negotiations, in June 1897, Secretary of State John Sherman agreed to a treaty of annexation with these representatives of the Republic of Hawaii |
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| is a 48-mile (77.1 km) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| is a concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy in 1899 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country |
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| Annexation of Alaska/Seward’s Folly |
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| Purchase was the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from the Russian Empire in the year 1867 by a treaty ratified by the Senate. |
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| Social Darwinism/Scientific Racism |
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| the use of pseudoscientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority, or alternatively the claim of "classifying" individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races or ethnicities |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
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| was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. |
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| reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism, |
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| state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states |
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| a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods. |
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| The illegalization of any types of consumable alcohol |
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| upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. |
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| an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 |
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| was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents. He was the dominant leader in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. |
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| 4 Long-Term Causes of WWI |
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1. The alliances between the European countries, all the way from late 1800s to early 1900s
2. Militarism
3. Imperialism and Socialism Darwinism
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| was a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband and briefly the world's biggest ship. |
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| Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions |
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| the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. |
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| was the first woman in the United States Congress. |
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| authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. |
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| the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. |
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| reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. |
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| encompassed war aims as forwarded by Wilson, and a general guideline for a post-war order and frontiers. The address was intended to assure the country, and the world, that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe |
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| Causes of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 |
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| buying on the margin, buying and selling stock quickly |
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| Many dust storm in the midwest |
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| Black musicians played it. |
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| Shanty towns that popped up while Hoover was president |
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| Made private business deals not have taxes |
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| High school teacher was charged for teaching evolution in school |
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| Negative Impacts of Prohibition |
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| caused organized crime, bootlegging, and death |
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| Relief, Recover, and Reform Programs (New Deal) |
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| Relief for the poor. Recovery of the economy. Reform of the |
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| FDR's way of communicating with the public in a calming fashion |
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| Political tensions. Germany attacking other nations |
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| Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? |
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| Germany and the Soviets fought over Stalingrad. |
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| Us Navy beats the Japanese Navy when they attacked the Midway Atoll |
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| Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) |
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| When the US invaded the beaches of Normandy |
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| Supreme court case about Japanese Americans being put in internment camps during WWII |
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| Suburban towns made up of cookie cutter Levitt houses |
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| The Soviet's put missiles in Cuba facing the US |
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| What the government used to comfort kids in the event of a nuclear attack |
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| A mix of a city and the country side |
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| Wisconsin senator that accused people of being Comunists |
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| Black, non-violent civil rights movement statue. |
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| Black, violent civil rights movement statue. |
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| Concert in NY. thousands of hippies anti-war |
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| Us policy of keeping communism in the east |
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| Anti-war protesting students are shot at and several are killed and hurt |
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| Nixon attempts to cover up the break in at the Watergate building |
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| 52 Americans were taken hostage when a group of Islamist students and militants take over the US embassy building |
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| Reaganomics/Trickle-Down Theory |
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| Theory that helping the rich out will eventually help out the poor |
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| Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe |
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| were the revolutions which overthrew the communist states in various Central and Eastern European countries.The events began in Poland in 1989 |
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| Cause of the Persian Gulf War |
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| was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. |
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| is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. |
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| Widespread ethnic cleansing accompanied the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), Large numbers of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Croats were forced to flee their homes and were expelled by Bosnian Serbs;[1] and Bosnian Croats also carried out similar campaign against Bosnians and Serbs |
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| Somalia/Operation Restore Hope |
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| was an American-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia between 5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993. |
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| Reasons the US was targeted by Islamic extremists on 9-11 |
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| Our dealings in Mideastern problems |
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