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Haymarket Riot

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labor protest
-may 4, 1886
-bomb thrown at police causing riot between police and protesters
-target anarchist for the bombing because of their belifs

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13th Amendment

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-1865
- abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

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plessy v. ferguson

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-Plessy challenged louisiana law and rode in whites only cart 1890
-1896 louisiana law set “separate but equal”

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Jim Crow laws

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-laws that enforced segregation and discrimination against AA

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disenfranchisement methods

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-Poll taxes and litercy tests

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Ellis Island

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-12 million immigrants came through 1892-1954
- medical exams very important
-if failed might get separated or sent back to europe

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Ethnic cities

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-by 1890 immigrants had a large % of major cities
- nieghborhoods often

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Nativism

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-belif that native born people are supier from immigrants

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tenements

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-most familys lived in tenements
- only hope for a home
-urban areas like NY
-often overcrowded and unsanitary

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Skyscrapers

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-design of skyscrapers from louis sullivan

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Class system

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-high class
- middle class was doctors lawyers and engineers
- working class lived in tenements

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Muckraking

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-journalists who investigated and wrote about the above and order to change

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“The Jungle”

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-Novel based on observations of a sloughter house in chicago
- novel wrote by upton sinclair called jungle

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Ida B Wells

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-an investigator and journalist

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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-4:45pm fire broke out
- all doors were lockd
- 200 women were trapped
- fewer then 20 could get out before fire escape broke
-started on 8th floor
-5:05pm people jumped from the 8th floor

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Imperialism

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-a policy or practice where a nation extends its power and dominion over other territories, often through military, political, or economic means

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Social Darwinism

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-suggesting that certain races or classes are inherently superior to others.

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Yellow Journalism

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-exaggeration in journalism

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USS Maine

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-ship randomly blows up 1889
-spanish blamed for it

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Causes

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-assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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The Schlieffen Plan

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-capture paris in 42 days
- from germany

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The Rape of Belgium

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-germany invaded belgium even though they are neutral
-this brought GB into the war
- many deaths and destruction of towns

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Trenches and new technology

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-trenches dug to protect from enemies
-poisned gas
- armored tank

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convoy system

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-groups of ships gathered
- used to esuce survivors of sunk ships
- reduced shipping loss and helped american troops

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Harlem Hellfighters
-AA gorup in combat in ww1 - earned name due to fierce fighting in trenches
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The Russian Revolution
-working class people in russia revolted against their gov
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The Great Migration
many AA moved from the south to the north and west 1910-1970
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The Treaty of Versailles
- peace agreement that ended ww1
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The Nineteenth Amendment
-guarantees women to vote ratified in 1920
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New technology
-electritcy mostly used in cities - radio very popular
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The Birth of a Nation
-movie -shows that KKK “saves” people - violence between white women and Black men -uncivilized -intermarrigae
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The Red Scare
-fear of potential communism - scared for jobs, and wages not rising
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changes for women
-gained voting rights -flappers -new freedom
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Red Summer
-many riots -many Black war heros killed, Leroy johnson -not allowed to look at white women - begged gov to stop -1919 intense racial violence
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Prohibition
-Ban of alcohol -not many people payed attention to it
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Harlem Renaissance
-Proud time to be black -new music -primary in Harlem, New york
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Causes?
-spending in the 1920s - stock market soar then crash of 1929
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The Dust Bowl
-drought brought higher temps -strong winds blew top layer of dried soil -dust storms in 1930
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The New Deal
TVA -tennesee valley authority FDIC -federal deposit insurance CCC -civilian conservation corps NRA -national recovery administration
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Berlin Olympics
Aug 1-16 1936 -jesse owens -nazi propaganda
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Appeasement
-british policy to giving Hitler what he wanted to stay out of war
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Nazi-Soviet pact
-aug 23, 1939 communism and nazism together -treaty was secret and planned to split poland with G and SU
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Miracle at Dunkirk
-operation Dynamo -evcuation of allied troops in Dunkirk
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Battle of Britain
-German airforce attacked Britain - didn't stop until fall of 1940
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Lend-Lease
-1940, policy to allow US to send aid to fellow allies in war
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Pearl Harbor
-Brought US into war -1941 january 7 - everyone was shocked
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Battle of Midway
-US knew of attack - june 4, 1942 japan launched their attack
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Stalingrad
-may 1942, Hitler orders attack on Stalingrad -both sides lost nearly million soldiers each -huge turning point in war, putting Germany of defensive
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D-Day
-June 5-7 1944 -Utah,Omaha, Gold , sword, Juno -allies invaded normandy france
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Battle of the Bulge
-suprise attack from Germans -pushed allies back in Belgium
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The Atomic Bomb
-Aug 6, 1945 little boy was dropped on Hiroshima -aug 9 Fat man was dropped on Nagasaki -aug 15 Japan surrendered
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Nuremberg Laws
-sep 1935, took laws from jews - banned marriage between jews and germans - if jewish must have to have jewish last name -soon many jews became homeless
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Kristallnacht
-broken glass litterd from streets -more than 80 dead -series of attack son jews throughout Nazi Germany
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The St. Louis Affair
-May 27, 1939 ship entered havana Cuba - cuba gov revoked certificates - passengers stuck in France, Holland, Belgium, GB -carrying 900 refugee jews
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The Final Solution
-genocide in WW2 of people who identified as jewish
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The Iron Curtain
-imaginary divide of europe between soviet and western
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The Truman Doctrine
-speech made -goal to prevent spread of communism
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NATO
North Atlantic treaty Organization
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The Marshall Plan
George marshall -send money to nations
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The Berlin Airlift
effort to send aid to west Berlin by GB and US
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The Berlin Wall
-barrier built in 1961 -seperating West, East Berlin
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Election- TV
-JFK v. Nixon - first debate broadcasted on TV
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The Peace Corps
-sending americans to volunteer in developing countries -developed by JFK
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The Bay of Pigs
eisenhower organized bay of pigs invasion -kennedy fine with it -complete fail -kennedy lies about knowing about it
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
-SU had nuclear tipped missles - 13 days -1962 –military on alert -soviets withdrew if US didn’t invade cuba
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Assassination
assinated in 1963 in dallas texas The 1950s
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The Red Scare
-fear of communism
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Suburbia
suburbs
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The Korean War
-North Korea attacks South -Wartime draft -very cold -not very popular and almost forgotten
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Isaac Woodard
-if AA how loyalty fighting will they be treated equal -white and black soliders bonding -Woodard not being respected by bus driver -gets beaten by police officer and goes blind
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Brown v. Board
-overturning separate but equal -1954 got rid of segregation in public school
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Little Rock 9
-group of 9 AA go to public school -harassment and violence
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Emmett Till
-sep 1957 -murderd by white people -broke segregation rule -open casket funeral -14 was beaten and shot at - news and tv
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
-act focused on desegregation and job discrimantion - passed off july 2 1964
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
-august 4, 1965 voting rights act was authorized this law had suspending literacy tests results ended with many people registering to vote
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Selma
-selma to montgomery, where they wanted to secure voting rights -violently attacked and called bloody sunday
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The March on Washington
-august 28 1963, speeches like Dr.King dream speech
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Black Power and Malcolm X
-early 1960s he became symbol of black movement -his ideas help black panthers -ex member of Black Muslims -killed by old islam member in 1965
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MLK assassination
-Kind went to Memphis for poor people's campaign -during this april 4, 1968 he was shot on his hotel balcony
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Sputnik
-SU launched first artificial satellite -october 4,1957
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Apollo 11
US spaceflight that successfully landed humans on the moon -july 16, 1969
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The Great Society
-domestic programs to help get rid of poverty, racial injustice, and expand social welfare in US
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drops out of race
-democrats looking for new candidate for 1968 election
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Buddhist uprising
-Quan Doc kills himself in protest -police tore flags down -Madame Nhu hated buddhist -people feared dien regime -burning monk becomes huge in media
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1968- MLK, LBJ, Bobby, DNC
-MLK and RFK die in 1968 -LBJ drops out of elections -clash between protesters and police at democratic national convention
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My Lai Massacre
-Pinkville -Nov 12 ,1969 someone shared story -in march 1968 -many women raped -97 people killed -ordered to do it -lieutenant calley main murder
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Kent State
-may 4,1970 4 deaths -protesting vietnam war -ohio national guard open fired
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Impact on America
-war shocked nation confidence -people began questionable containing communism -people felt nations leader mislead them

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