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Lutheran.
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Germany.
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
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Transcontinental
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across a continent
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Article Three
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Judicial power
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discreet
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showing good judgment; cautious
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Moratorium
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a suspension of activity
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Hiroshima
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Truman dropped first Atomic Bomb
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Middle
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mix of farming and industry,
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Quakers
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Passifists; from Pennsylvania; created by William Penn; practiced tolerance for colonists; wouldn't fight; became Delaware
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WTUL
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Women's Trade Union League and National Consumers League; Gave female reformers a national stage for social investigation.
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reconstruction act
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(1867)Creation of five military districts in the seceded states not including Tennessee, which had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was readmitted to the Union
Requiring congressional approval for new state constitutions (which were required for Confederate states to rejoin the Union)
Confederate states give voting rights to all men.
All former Confederate states must ratify the 14th Amendment
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Executive
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The _____ Branch of government enforces the laws.
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Webster-Ashburton
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Treaty: established a firm boundary between the US and Canada from Maine to Minnesota
During Tyler's presidency
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NOW
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National Organization of Women which was made up to help women get the same rights as men including getting a job
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Lord NOrth
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repeals Townshend act except tea
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democrats
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supporters of andrew jackson; included frontier famers and factory workers
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Champlain
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Founded Quebec in 1608
First French colony in new world
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Vaqueros
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skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California, and the Southwest
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
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first leader of the KKK
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Industrialization
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process of social and economic change that came about at the end of the reconstruction era
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Dorothea Lange
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WPA photographer whose work captured the misery of many
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blitzkrieg*
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(FDR) , "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939
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Smith-Connally Act
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banned certain union activities during WWII
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False
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Reconstruction was a time period that was beneficial to African Americans throughout the entire country.
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Malcolm X
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Leader of the Black Muslims; assassinated
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Isaac Singer
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made improvements on Howe's sewing machine, as it was soon being used in the manufacture of ready-to-wear.
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tariff
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a government tax on imports or exports
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socialists
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People who believe that the production and distribution of goods should be controlled substantially by the government, and that cooperation rather than competition should guide economic activity. [easy answer - govt. ownership of business so that all, rather than the few, benefit; and, the community cooperates rather than competes]
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parity
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price intended to keep farmers' income steady
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SEATO
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Created by Eisenhower to establish to ensure Vietnams loyalty.
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progressivism
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group of reform movements of the late 1800's that focused on urban problems, such as the plight of workers, poor sanitation, and corrupt political machines
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A Mitchell Palmer
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Made the General Intelligence Division after several bombs exploded in the country.
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Great Migration
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the movement of nearly 20,000 Euro from Erope to New England from 1620-1643; the major relocation of African Americans from 1910-1920s to the northern cities.
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Sons of Liberty
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What the protestors called themselves to fight Stamp Act; violent group
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Sit-Down Strike
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Action in which workers stop working and lock themselves in the factory so the strikebreakers cannot take their places.
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Credit Mobilier
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construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the union pacific RR who used it fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves
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Yalta Conference
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place of meeting where Germany was divided into 4 zones
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Wabash Case
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1886 decision denying states right to regualte interstate commerce
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Who denounced Mexico's Constitution of 1824 and made himself dictator?
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President Santa Anna.
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andrew carnegie
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steel king; integrated every phase of his steel-making operation. Ships, railroads, etc. pioneered "Vertical Integration" ; his goal was to improve efficiency by making supplies more reliable controlling the quality of the product at all stages of production and eliminating the middle man
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DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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General who held out against Japanese in the Philippines helping protect that land, until he was ordered to leave
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John Smith
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English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia.
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Proprietary Colonies
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The colonies given to the supporters of Charles after he came out of exile, many owners tried to create a perfect society, many didn't work. CA, NW, PA, NJ
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"Rough Riders"
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recruited to join the army; were football players and cowboys
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Mormons
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group of people who moved west to avoid religious persecution.
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Trench warfare
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fought in long ditches to keep them out of firing view
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How did Americans gain the right to navigate the Mississippe and to use New Orleans to trade?
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Pinckney Treaty
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cuban missile crisis
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the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba
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What kind of power does the president have?
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Military control
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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FDR
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Dust Bowl
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Soil blowing out of control on the eastern and southern plane
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Roanoke Island, North Carolina
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Sir Walter Raleigh, half-brother of Humphrey
-Used his own money to create a colony in 1585, but he did not go to the New World
-Roanoke colony in North Carolina of 100 men, soldiers
-Indians were forced to help them and then left after a year
-Raleigh reorganizes another expedition, but he sends John White as the leader with women and children
-Raleigh's daughter bore the first child to be born there, Virginia Dare
-John White's ship was seized when he went back to England for supplies during the threats of the Spanish Armada, he returns after two years, but there is no one at the Roanoke Colony the word Croatian was the only clue that was carved into a tree
-Raleigh was broke after two failed colonization's he developed Joint-Stock Company, selling pieces of the goods and so, funds the project
-Queen Elizabeth, Gilbert and Raleigh made an agreement about how the people in the colonies would be treated colonists born there would have the same rights of an Englishmen born in England
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President Johnson
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Who ordered all lands in federal hands returned to their former owners in 1865?
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penny press
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news papers evolved and were no longer being read only by serious, educated philosophers, but were now read by almost everyone, mostly common people like today
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United Mine Workers
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This union's workers struck during the winter and received the government's helpful binding arbitration.
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Original 13 colonies:
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1. Viginia 16072. New amsterdam (New York) 16133. Plymoth 16204. New Hampshire 16235. Massachusetted 16236. Maryland 16347. Connecticut 16358. Rhode Island 16369. New Sweden (Deleware) 163810. North Carolina 166311. South Carolina 166312. New Jersey 166413. Pennysylvania 168114. Georgia 1733
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boston massacre
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a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
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Why was the Virginia House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compacta, and the John Peter Zenger trial were significant?
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Because all symbolized democracy.
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What mountain range was a problem for Louis and Clark?
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The Rocky Mountains
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Ft. Necessity
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a small (very small) fort set up by Washington during the French and Indian War
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IRS and national currency
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name two acts that the federal congress passed during the civil war that has economic impact upon the country that went beyond the war?
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The Townshend duties generated a great deal of opposition in the form of popular pamphlets that advocated colonial solidarity and resistance. Dickinson was a effective player in this.
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Who was John Dickinson?
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What were Martin Luther's Doctrines? (4)
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1. Predestination
2. Justification by faith alone
3. spripture alone
4. Priesthood of all believers
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Margaret Sanger + birth control
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In 1921 founded American Birth Control League; which became Planned Parenthood in the 1940s. Advocated birth control awareness.
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US v EC Knight Co
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deciscion said SATA only applied to commerce not manufactuing
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what gave the young people ofthe 1950's a non-conforming style they could call their own?
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rock n' [ elvis! ]
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What was the only reliable source of revenue to the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation?
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Sale of Western Lands
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Fought along the river named Bull Run. That's were the battle got its name.
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How was there a change in advertising in the 20's?
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before: description of productafter: image
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The growth of industries after the Civil War was fueled, in part, by
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A more available supply of natural resources
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What was one of the ways immigrants from the same country were able to find social support?
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by forming neighborhoods of the same ethnicity
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What was President Lincoln's goal in the Cilvil War?
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to preserve the union & to keep border states from suceeding
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