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- abolished slavery
- 13th amendment
- ex-slaves made citizens
- 14th amendment
- lowered voting age
- 26th amendment
- gives woman consideration to make up for past discrimination
- affirmative action
- American Federation of labor and congress industrian org. - 2 major corps that combined into one
- Afl-cio
- american troops in Europe
- American expeditionary force
- org. helped native americans in 1968
- American Indian movement
- signed by roosevelt churchill in 1941 to outline the 2 nations war aims
- Atlantic charter
- failed invasion of cuba by anti-castro in 1961
- Bay of pigs
- Wall built by east germany gov. in 1961 to prevent escaping to west germany
- Berlin wall
- farm controlled by a large business and managed by professionals
- Bonanza farming
- 1954 Court case outlawing segregation in public schools
- Brown vs. bd of edu
- nickname for northern republican who moved to south after civil war
- Carpetbaggers
- industrialist who made a fortune in steel in late 1800s
- Andrew carnegie
- 42nd president, economic and health care reform
- bill clinton
- democrats agreed to give Hayes presidential victory and he agreed to remove federal troops from southern states
- compromise of 1877
- plan by fdr to add justices to supreme court to pass his own bills
- courtpacking
- 1887 law that divided native american land into private family plots
- Dawes act
- lessening of tensions between ussr and america
- detene
- 1952-1960 provide a promise of peace
- Eisenhower
- pledged military support to middle east to fight communist
- eisenhower doctrine
- 1970 monitors air and water quality and toxic waste
- Environmental protection agency
- proposed amendment to prohibit discrimination among sexes
- equal right amendment
- made it a crime to help foreigners, limited rights during wartime
- espionage act
- minimum wage and max work hours
- fair labor- standards act
- established banking
- federal reserve act
- created assembly line that made cars cheaper for the common man
- henry ford
- time when things were made to look better than they were
- gilded age
- have to have a federal balance
- gramm-rudman-hollings act
- farmers attempt to unionize
- grange
- provide 160 acres of land if you managed it after 5 yrs you got 160 more
- homestead act
- a corp. would buy out all companies of the same type
- horizontal integration
- limited number of immigrants to 2% of those that had come at the turn of the century
- immigration act of 1924
- gaining territory to increase power
- imperialism
- u.s. embassy was taken hostage 444 days
- Iran hostage crisis
- Oliver north helped to divert money for guns to the contras to be used for the release of hostages
- Iran contra affair
- way to get around black amendments
- jim crow laws
- v.p under kennedy became president /vietnam great society (war on poverty)
- Lyndon b. johnson
- new frontier/ volunteerism (space/peace corp)
- john f kennedy
- north korea invaded south korea and u.n went to defend south. 1954 we agreed to stop fighting
- korean conflict
- doctrine says an economic system functions best with no government interference
- Laissez-faire
- first to fly transatlantic solo
- Charles linbergh
- attempt to keep former slaves/ all blacks from voting
- literacy test
- atomic bomb
- manhattan project
- marshalls plan to feed europe after world war 2
- marshall plan
- mass hysteria against communism
- mccarthyism
- reporters and writers who exposed corruption
- muckrakers
- national association and advancement of colored people
- naacp
- national aueronautics and space administration
- nasa
- fdr plan to get us out of depression
- new deal
- wilsons progressive plan
- new freedom
- trade w/ china
- open door policy
- war to remove iroquies from quawait
- operation desert storm
- dec 7, 1941 attack by japs
- pearl harbor
- stolen and published papers showing that our envolvement in vietnam was not legitament
- pentagon papers
- led the AEF in europe during world war 1
- john j pershing
- money paid to be able to vote to keep blacks from voting
- poll tax
- movement in art using everyday things (campbell soup)
- pop art
- ideaoligy of the common man
- populist
- to better mankind (jail, asulum, school)
- progressivism
- "trinkle down theory" helping rich with tax breaks will help the poor
- reaganomics
- bring south back to union after civil war
- reconstruction
- fear of communism
- red scare
- standard oil guy
- rockefeller
- legalize abortion
- roe v wade
- brought us out of depression/ first and second new deal
- fd roosevelt
- stay out of our way theory
- roosevelt corollary
- bad name for a southern attemption to take advantage of other southerners
- scalawags
- evolution in school
- scopes trial
- seperation
- segregation
- pool of male names for army draft
- selective service act
- former slaves work on someone elses land for a share of the profit
- sharecropping
- break up monopolies
- sherman anti-trust act
- sought to apply "golden rule" to society
- social gospel
- provide benefits to elderly, handicapped and dependent children
- social security act
- 1898 get spanish out of cuba
- spanish american war
- teddy roosevelts program to treat everyone fairly
- square deal
- talks to limit nuclear weapons
- strategic arms limitations talk
- scandal about selling oil lease rights to friends to make them money
- teapot dome scandal
- vietnamese new year where we fought
- tet offensive
- sunk ship caused spanish american war
- the maine
- native american excelled in athletic events
- jim thorpe
- gave us right to be involved in vietnam
- tonkin gulf resolution
- stay out of the western hemisphere warning
- truman doctrine
- made decision to drop atomic bomb
- harry s truman
- gary powers crashed u-2 spy plane in russia
- u-2 incident
- chavez led migrant workers to form a union
- united farm workers
- white male sued school for discrimination
- university of california vs bakke
- buying all companies used in your production
- vertical integration
- helped south vietnam fight the north
- vietnam conflict
- nixons plan to get out of vietnam
- vietnazation
- founded niagra foundation and naacp
- web dubois
- limits what a president can do
- war powers act
- scandal that caused nixon to resign
- watergate
- music group festival
- woodstock
- 2 people have 2 children
- zero population
- caused us to get in world war 1
- zimmerman note