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81 Cards in this Set
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Blacks are not citizens and are therefore unable to take court action.
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Dred Scott Decision
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Warned against entangling foreign alliances.
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Washington's Farewell Address
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Issued in response to the Tarriff of Abominations by South Carolina
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Nullification Ordinance
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One judge will be added for each judge over 70 by FDR
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Court Packing Plan
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"So you're the little lady who caused this big war". Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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No new colonies shall be formed in the western hemisphere by easter hemishere powers
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Monroe Doctrie (Written mostly by Adams)
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These two states will decide the issues of slavery through popolar sovereignty. Overturned Missouri Compromise, though not formally.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Declared that colonists couldn't settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Proclamation of 1763
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John Scopes was on trial for teaching evolution instead of traditional creation.
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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Overturned Plessy V. Ferguson. Declared Seperate but equal unconstitutional.
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Brown V. Board of Education
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After the Civil War, used to help freed blacks adjust to their new life.
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Freedman's Bureau
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Involved a tariff used to raise funds for internal improments.
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American System
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Ended the war of 1812
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Treaty of Ghent
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Advocated vocational and technological schools for blacks. Established Tuskegee institute
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Booker T. Washington
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Harvard boy established NAACP.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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France required a bribe before talking with US representatives
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XYZ affair
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Advocated loose constructionism and ratification of the Constitution
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Federalists
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Required a promise of a bill of rights before ratifying the constitution
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Anti-Federalists
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Allowed Hayes to be elected president in return to an end to reconstruction
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Compromise of 1877
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Califonia in as a free state, the rest of the states of the Mexican Cession decided through popular soveriegnty, DC banned slave trade, Fugitive Slave Law enacted
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Compromise of 1850
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First State to let women vote
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Wyoming
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Described the prime cash crop in the south during the time of the new nation
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King Cotton
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Judicial Review
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Marbury v. Madison
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All states above 36'30 carved from Louisiana Purchase will be free.
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Missouri Compromise
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Included WPA, CCC etc to bring the country out of Depression
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New Deal
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Required a population of 60,000 before a territory could apply for statehood
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Northwest Ordinance
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Authorized the president to deport anyone he deemed necessary. Made it a crime to publish anything false or against the government.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Required the time needed to become a citizen increase from 5 years to 14
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Naturalization Act
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Written by the pilgrims. Sometimes reffered to as the precursor to the Constitution.
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Mayflower Compact.
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Election invoving Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party, and the winner won only 42% of the popular vote
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Election of 1912
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Written in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Started by John Browns, included five blacks and ended with state militia
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Raid on Harper's Ferry
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The idea that Darwin's theory can be extended and applied to the social realm.
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Social Darwinism
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Pursued a violent approach to Civil Rights Movement
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Malcom X
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Restricted Power of Labor Unions
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Aimed to prevent a "restraint of trade," such as contracts or trusts
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Truman's Policy of Social improvement, including an expansion of unemployment benefits.
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Fair Deal
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Involved Britain's vacation of forts on US territory.
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Jay's Treaty
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Published the abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator
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Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
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The former World War II general and soon to be retired commander-in-chief uses this opportunity to caution the American public "against the acquisition of unwarranted influence... by the military industrial complex."
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Eisenhower's Farewell Adress
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Author of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
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Fredrick Jackson Turner
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Author of "The Rise of American Civilization" which popularized the idea of the Civil War as a Second American Revolution
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Charles Beard
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Author "Civil Disobedience"- an analysis of the individual's relationship to the state which focuses on why men obey governmental law even when they believe it to be unjust.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Allowed over 120,000 people of Japanese decent to be kept in intermnet camps during WWII
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Executive Order 9066
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Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson which reflected his views on transcendentalism.
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Self Reliance
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Written by Andrew Carnegie that described responsibility of phianthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich
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The Gospel of Wealth
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Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th to early 20th century
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Social Gospel Movement
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Asserted the right of the US to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of small nations in Latin America.
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Wrote 135 dime novels, many of which have been described as rags to riches stories.
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Horatio Alger
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Founder of the first black labor union
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Asa Philip Randolph
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Paternalistic textile facory system of the early 19th century that relied almost exclusively on young, unmarried women laborors and puported to increase efficiency, productivity and profits.
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Lowell System
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American leader of organized labor and served as president of the United Mine Workers from 1920 -1960q
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John L. Lewis
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Wartime Conferences, Challenged of post war demilitarization, conflicting visions of postwar recontruction
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Break down of post war peace between USSR and US
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Defense attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial with William Jennings Bryan as prosecution
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Clarence Darrow
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Co-founded Nation Farm Workers Association. Civil rights activist for migran and farm workers
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Cesar Chavez
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Neutrality in this war lead to problems between the US and both Britain and France. Eventually lead to the War of 1812
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French Revolution
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Jackson's two week late victory over the British
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Battle of New Orleans
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A period of intense anti-communist suspicion in the US from 1940s - 1950s
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McCarthyism or the Second Red Scare
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series of controversial raids by the U.S. Justice and Immigration Departments from 1919 to 1921 on the radical left in the United States.
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Palmer Raids
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LBJ's program with goals including elimination of poverty and racial injustice
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Great Society
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Paid farmers to plant less to raise crop prices.
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AAA
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Part of FDR's new deal, authorized the president to regulate buisness to promote fair competition, creating jobs, etc.
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NIRA (NRA)
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baptized persons of moral life and orthodox belief might receive the privilege of baptism for their children and other church benefits, without the full enrolment in membership
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Half way covenant
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dispute involving Anglican clergy in colonial Virginia, arising (1755, 1758) when laws commuted clerical salaries, previously paid in tobacco, to currency at the rate of twopence a pound when tobacco was selling at sixpence a pound
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Parson's cause
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Blending statecraft and sport, table tennis matches between American and Chinese athletes set the stage for Nixon's breakthrough with the People's Republic
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Ping Pong Diplomacy
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This invention by Elie Whitney increased productivity
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Cotton Gin
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Purchase of stock with loaned money, short signed ecomomic policies, unstable economy, stock market crash
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Causes of the Great Depression
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WWII stimulated the economy ending this
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Great Depression
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When denied permission by President Truman to risk war with China, Gen. MacArthur tried to bypass the President by writing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, thinking he could obtain Congressional support for his mission. Unauthorized policy statements.
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Why Truman fired McArthur
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In fourteen hundreed and ninety two, he sailed the ocean blue and first landed in what is now cuba and the dominican republic.
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Columbus
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Because they were traditionally enemies of Britain and they saw this as a way to hurt Britain while helping themselves at the same time.
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Why France supported the colonies in the American Revolution
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Russian missiles in Cuba, Monroe Doctrine says stay out, Kennedy decides on Quarantine, it works perfectly.
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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One of the first modern preservationists. His letters and essays were read by millions.
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John Muir
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Use of Mississippi and the right of Deposit in New orleans
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Picknet Treaty, 1800
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US stopped all foreign trade in an effort to pressure Britain and France into respection our rights as neutral
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Embargo, 1807
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US declared war against Great Britain in an effort to gain Canada, an end to indian troubles on the frontier and respect for our righs as Neutral
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War of 1812
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Settled boundary or maine, ended arostook war
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Treaty of Greenville
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Spain ceded florida, gave up oregon. Us gave up Texas and $5 million in claims
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Adams-Onis treaty
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Mutual diarmament of the great lakes
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Rush-Bagot treaty
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US would remain friendly and impartial during french revolution
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Proclamation of Neurality
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US purchased land to guarantee Americans permanent use of the Mississippi
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Louisiana purchase
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