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This was small-level mining using picks
shovels, and panning
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Placer Mining
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These were towns that grew very quickly around
areas where gold and silver were found
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Boom Towns
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This type of mining was run by corporations and
were dug deep underground
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Quartz Mining
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Using government-owned grasslands to feed cattle
was a feature of this type of ranching
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Open-Range Ranching
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Joseph Gliddens invention changed ranching and
farming in the West forever
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Barbed Wire
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This replaced whale oil as the principal fuel for
lighting
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Kerosene
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The belief that business works best when
government keeps out of the way is known as this
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Laissez-Faire
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People that risk capital (money) in seeking
profits are called this
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Entrepreneurs
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He invented the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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These were the two railroads which combined to
create the first transcontinental railroad in the
US
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The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific
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Immigrants to the US in the latter half of the
1800s mostly came from these two European regions
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Southern and Eastern Europe
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Immigrants to the American East Coast were
processed here
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Ellis Island, New York
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Immigrants to the American West Coast, mainly
single Asian males, were processed here
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Angel Island, San Francisco, California
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They were Americans who disliked immigrants and
wanted immigration curtailed or prohibited
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Nativists
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His book, How the Other Half Lives, exposed the
harsh living conditions of New Yorks immigrant
population
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Jacob Riis
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This law attempted to reform the US Civil Service
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The Pendleton Act
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This governmental body was established in 1887 to
regulate railroad rates and other commerce issues
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The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
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Although it lacked teeth, this law was the
first to act against trusts
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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The decision by the US government to stop minting
silver coins in 1873 was decried by the Populists
as this
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The Crime of 73
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First established in Lampasas, these
organizations of farmers later came together as
the Peoples Party (Populists)
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The Alliance Movement
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He dominated the oil industry
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John D. Rockefeller
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He was the most infamous of the city bosses
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Boss Tweed (William Marcy Tweed)
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He dominated the steel industry
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Andrew Carnegie
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Her settlement house, Hull House, became the
model for others
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Jane Addams
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The Daily Double
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His stories were based on the formula of the good
man who strikes it rich due to hard work and good
character
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Horatio Alger
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The West
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Politics of 1800s
Imperialism
Progressive Movement
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The US government encouraged settlement in the
West with this 1862 law that offered free land
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The Homestead Act
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These were large, corporate owned and run,
Western farms
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Bonanza Farms
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This was the worst massacre of Indians by whites
in the American West
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The Sand Creek Massacre
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This was vital to the Indian way of life
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The Buffalo
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This law broke up reservations into individual
farming plots and expected Indians to become
farmers What it did was destroy Indian culture
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The 1887 Dawes Act
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A Socialist and leader of the American Railway
Union, he was imprisoned after the violent
Pullman Strike He was also jailed during WWI for
violation the Sedition Act He also ran for
President several times as a Socialist
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Eugene V. Debs
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African-American woman who wrote about, and
fought against, the lynching of blacks in the
South
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Ida B. Wells
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They were wealthy businessmen who, it is
believed, gained their wealth through scams,
bribes, and cheating
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The Robber Barons
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He spread the Gospel of Wealth, the belief that
the wealthy had the responsibility of
philanthropy (giving their money away for good
causes)
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Andrew Carnegie
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An architect, he was a force behind the movement
to build skyscrapers
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Louis Sullivan
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This was the major issue in the elections of 1892
and 1896
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Gold and silver
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In 1896, he was the presidential nominee for both
the Democratic and Populist Parties
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William Jennings Bryan
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He won in 1896 using his Front Porch campaign
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William McKinley
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These were the first organizations that farmers
established, hoping to secure cheaper seed prices
and railroad rates through cooperatives
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Granges
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A firm believer in the Spoils System, New York
Senator Conkling led this group of Republicans
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The Stalwarts
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In 1852, Commodore Perry used force to open this
country for trade
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Japan
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When she threatened the plantations of American
settlers, this queen was overthrown
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Queen Liliuokalani
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His book, The Influence of Sea Power on History,
argued that for a nation to be great it had to
have a powerful navy and overseas supply bases
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Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The 1898 Spanish-American War was sparked by this
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The explosion and sinking of the USS Maine
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As a result of Spains defeat in 1898, the US
acquired these three territories
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Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
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They were journalists who wrote articles exposing
social and political problems
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Muckrakers
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This state was the model for Progressive reform
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Wisconsin
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Passed in 1920, this Constitutional Amendment was
the last of the Progressive campaigns
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The 19th Amendment The right of women to vote
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His book, The Jungle, exposing the meatpacking
industry, helped spur Congress to pass the Pure
Food and Drug Act
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Upton Sinclair
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He was the last of the Progressive Presidents
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Woodrow Wilson
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US Society in the 1920s
Great Depression
WWI
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His assassination sparked WWI
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The Archduke Ferdinand Heir to the
Austro-Hungarian throne
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This German Plan, tweaked over several years, was
put into place to prevent a two-front war
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Schlieffen Plan
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These were the Triple Entente During the war they
were known as the Allies
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France, Great Britain, and Russia
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List four reasons why the United States entered
the war on the side of the Allies
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Unrestricted submarine warfare The Zimmerman
telegram British propaganda Strong economic ties
to the Allies
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Very quickly the war in Western Europe became
stagnant and the armies dug in and fought hard
for mere yards This type of warfare was called
this
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Trench Warfare
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Many thought that these two Italian immigrant
anarchists were railroaded for the crime of
murder
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Sacco Vanzetti
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Increased religious fundamentalism and Nativism
caused the rise of this organization mainly in
the Mid-West
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The KKK
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These young women dressed provocatively and
rebelled against accepted behavior
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The Flapper
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In this famous trial, the issue was whether the
subject of evolution should be taught in schools
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The Scopes Monkey Trial
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Progressives achieved a victory through this
Constitutional Amendment and the accompanying
Volstead Act
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The 18th Amendment Prohibition of Alcohol
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Tired of Progressivism and war, people voted for
Warren G. Harding for President based on his
campaign slogan
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Normalcy
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Though Harding had died before it became public,
this is considered on of the worst US
Presidential scandals
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The Teapot Dome Scandal
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This group of Americans did not find prosperity
during the 1920s
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Farmers
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Hoping to help Germany who was unfairly treated
in the Versailles Treaty, the US adopted this
plan which reduced and restructured Germanys
reparations payments
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The Dawes Plan
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The Washington Conference was the only serious
inter-war attempt at arms limitations. This was
the treaty produced by the conference that set
quotas and ratios on battleship production in the
Pacific
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The Five-Power Treaty
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October 29, 1929 Black Tuesday
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Stock Market Crash
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This high tariff hurt European economies and is
considered a contributing factor to the Great
Depression
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Drought and high winds combined to create a
disaster in states like Texas, Oklahoma, and
Kansas
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The Dust Bowl
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Wanting money promised to them in 1945, they
marched on Washington DC where they were attacked
by government troops
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The Bonus Army
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He was president as the Great Depression began
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Herbert Hoover
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He wrote Grapes of Wrath which told the story of
a family migrating from the Depression-era Dust
Bowl
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John Steinbeck
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An innovator in airplane design, he is considered
the father of American naval aviation
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Glenn Curtiss
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He was the Democratic nominee for president twice
and led the prosecution in the Scopes Trial
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William Jennings Bryan
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She was the first female pilot to attempt to fly
around the world
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Amelia Earhart
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He made history when he flew solo non-stop from
St. Louis to Paris, France in 1927 in his plane,
The Spirit of St. Louis
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Charles Lindbergh
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Acronyms
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During the Great Depression this program hired
young males to work in National Parks
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CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
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This program paid farmers NOT to grow food and
killed livestock so that prices would rise
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AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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This program constructed several dams along the
Tennessee River to provide electricity to rural
Americans
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TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
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This guaranteed that bank depositors money was
safe even if the bank failed
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FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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This union was established by John L. Lewis after
the AFL ousted several groups
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CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations
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The sinking of this passenger liner in 1915 by
the Germans shocked America
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The Lusitania
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This governmental body was established to
coordinate the production of war materiel
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The War Industries Board (WIB)
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Blacks migrated from the South to Northern cities
to work in war industries
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The Great Migration
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He headed the American propaganda effort in the
Committee on Public Information
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George Creel
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This was WWIs greatest battle for the US
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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The fight for victory over our enemies but also
over racism was embodied by this program
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The Double V Program
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FDR signed Executive Order 8802 which stated
there would be no discrimination in hiring in war
industries after he threatened to organize a
march on Washington DC by the black Sleeping Car
Porters Union
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A. Philip Randolph
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Mexicans were encouraged to migrate to the US in
this program established to provide adequate
labor on American farms
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The Bracero Program
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Ethnic tensions turned to violence in Los Angeles
between white servicemen and young Latino men
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Zoot Suit Riots
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He led the US Navy and he led the US Army in the
two-pronged Island-Hopping campaign against Japan
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US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz US Army
General Douglas MacArthur
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Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis
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President John F. Kennedy
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A one-time Collector of the Port of New York, he
signed into law the Pendleton Act which ended the
spoils system and established the US Civil
Service
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President Chester A. Arthur
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His assassination thrust Theodore Roosevelt into
the presidency which alarmed many Republicans at
the time
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President William McKinley
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His second term was marred by the economic
depression which followed the Panic of
1893 During that depression he stated that it was
the peoples responsibility to support the
government but that it was not the governments
responsibility to support the people
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President Grover Cleveland
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Presided over the US war against Spain in 1898
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President William McKinley
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This technological innovation allowed the middle
class to escape the inner cities and move to
suburbs
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Electric trolleys
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He led efforts to get rid of socialist and
anarchist immigrant radicals during the Red Scare
following WWI
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US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
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A type of journalism that is biased, and often
based on false information and sensationalism for
the sake of attracting readers
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Yellow Journalism
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This program allowed the US to supply Great
Britain and later the USSR and China during WWII
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Lend-Lease
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The guilt of the Rosenbergs for passing nuclear
secrets and other Americans spying for the
Communists were confirmed by this
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Project Venona