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Lincoln's plan for reconstruction
10% plan
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System of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use land for a share of crops
Sharecropping
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Amendment prohibits u.s. gov. from denying right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude
15th
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Bill that created plan of reconstruction & re-admittance of confed. states to the union
Wade-davis bill
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Law meant to counteract with the black code
Civil rights act of 1866
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White southern democrats who returned to power after 1870
Redeemers
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Someone who went to the north for jobs
Carpetbaggers
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Laws that limit the rights of blacks
Black codes
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Gov. agency that helps provide for former slaves
Freedman's bureau
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Amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizen
14th
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This gives presidency to the republicans
Compromise of 1877
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Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant
Industrialization
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This innovation extended hours Americans could work
Electricity
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The post-election practice of rewarding loyal supporters of the winning candidates and party with public offices
Spoils system
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This requires people to take a test before they get civil service jobs
Pendleton civil service act
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Requires all of the paper money in the u.s. is backed by gold
Gold standard
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A system that includes federal jobs
Civil service
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Presidential candidate for the democrats in 1896, loses to mckinley
William Jennings Bryan
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Created by Jews as a response to anti semitism
Anti-defamation league
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Political party started by Roosevelt in the election of 1912
Progressive party
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Allows citizens to remove public office holders from office
Recall
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Meant to ban the drinking of alcohol, leads to the 18th amendment
Temperance movement
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Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections
Direct primary
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Amendment that states congress has power to lay and collect taxes on income
16th
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This person created housing to help immigrants adjust to being in America
Jane Addams
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The right to vote
Suffrage
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Allows people to propose a law directly on the ballot in the next election
Initiative
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Allows citizens to approve or reject laws passed by the legislature
Referendum
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Woodrow Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations in order ti benefit small businesses
New freedom
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U.S. statement that the gov didn't want colonies in China, but favored free trade
Open door policy
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Allows the U.S. to approve treaties b/w Cuba & other nations
Platt amendment
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Demands that the U.S. can lease areas in Cuba for military bases
Platt amendment
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Reasons for U.S. imperialism
Business wanting to sell products overseas.people wanted to save religion in foreign countries
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When the U.S. buys Alaska from Russia, later finds gold & oil
Seward's folly
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Nontraditional combat methods
Guerilla warfare
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The belief that certain nations and races were superior to others
Social Darwinism
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What is the result of the 1898 Treaty of Paris?
U.S. gains control of Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. U.S. gives Spain $20 million
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The term for having a strong military to achieve foreign policy goals
Big stick diplomacy
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A region dominated and controlled by an outside power
Spheres of influence
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This person wrote many famous news paper articles during the period of imperialism
William Randolph Hearst
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What is thought of as the start of WWI?
The assassination of archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
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Who assassinated Franz Ferdinand?
The Serbian Blackack Hand Terrorists
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The Allies
France, England, and Russia
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The Axis powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
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A proposal made by Germany in 1917 for Mexico to declare war against the U.S.
Zimmerman note
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The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western cities
Great Migration
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Consequence of the Prohibition
Organized crime
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This industrial demand influenced many other industrial demands in the U.S.
Automobiles
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Legal case in Tennessee to forbid the teaching of evolution. Science vs. Religion
Scopes trial
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What two groups of people were culturally split during the 1920's?
The young and the old
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The term for the white Americans who believed they were superior to immigrants
Nativists
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Why did African Americans move north in the 1920's?
Jobs
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Small payments over a long period of time to purchase a product
Installment buying
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Allows people to purchase a lot of stock with little money
Buying on margin
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This provides new affordable goods that become available to the pubic
Consumer revolution
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October 29, 1929-16 million shares of stock were sold and the bottom falls out
Black Tuesday
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Why did banks collapse?
They wouldn't let people withdraw money because the banks were already in debt
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A cause of the Great Depression, farmers couldn't sell their products
Agricultural depression
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During the GD, what was the unemployment rate for blacks?
Two times the rate of whites
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What were Hoover's plans to fix the GD?
1.) Give $ to small businesses in hopes of more production and consumption 2.) Encourage giving to charities
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The 3 R's of the New Deal
Relief, recovery, reform
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This gives money to people who have retired
Social security act
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This person thought wealth should be distributed
Huey P. Long
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The effects of the New Deal
1. Gov starts getting involved in economy 2. Americans get help from gov 3. Rural areas get electricity & water
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The policy of giving into demands in order to keep peace
Appeasement
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Date of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
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Hitler blames ___ for Germany's misfortunes
Jews
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Governmental system where one person wants complete control
Totalitarianism
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Dictator of the Soviet Union after Lenin
Joseph Stalin
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US general in charge of the army in Asia during WWII
Douglas McArthur
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Hating Jewish people
Anti-semitic
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Lightening war
Blitzkrieg
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Leader of Italy during WWII
Benito Mussolini
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The "superior" race thought by the Germans
Aryans
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This allows congress to sell weapons to England in the condition they will return them
Lend-lease act
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People were given coupon books to buy a certain amount of food or product. Creates a black market
Rationing
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This event informally ended WWII
The dropping of the atomic bomb
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The first atomic bomb was dropped here
Hiroshima
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The second atomic bomb was dropped here
Nagasaki
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Negative term for extreme reckless charges of disloyalty
McCarthyism
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
US trained Cuban immigrants to attempt to overthrow Castro and establish a democracy in Cuba
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This ended the doctrine of "separate but equal" established by Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of education
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The lawyer who supported Brown in the Brown vs. Board case
Thurgood Marshall
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Became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
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This person coined the term "black power"
Stokley Carmichael
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Who is Floyd McKissick?
A supporter of black power
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Who killed MLK Jr.?
James Earl Ray
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Reagan's term for the Soviet Union
Evil empire
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Organization that conducts research for the government
Think tank
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Nickname for strategic defense initiative
Star Wars
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The second African American to serve on the Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas
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Clinton appoints two Surpreme Court Justices:
Ruth Bader Ginsberg & Steven Breyer
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Organization for trade without tariffs between Canada, the US, and Mexico
NAFTA
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Took the blame for the terrorist attack on 9/11
Osama bin Laden
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Current vice president of the US
Joe Biden
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Current secretary of defense, republican
Robert Gates
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VP under Bush Jr.
Dick Cheney
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Current governor of Louisiana
Bobby Jindal
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Current Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
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Current Chief Justice
John Roberts
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Targets on 9/11
Chosen by Islamic terrorist organization
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Iraqi leader, attempts to inspect his country for weapons of mass destruction
Saddam Hussein
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Cost of war on terrorism
$661 billion
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Iraq's connection to US
Al Qaeda, terrorist group
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