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Vocabulary Test review Flashcards

1
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Nativism

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Hostility towards immigrants

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Assimilate

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To absorb a group into the culture of another population

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3
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Dawes Act

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Regulated land rights on tribal territories withing in the us

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Laissez Faire

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A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy

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Tenement

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Multifamily apartments, often dark, crowded, and barely meeting the minimum living standards

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Political machine

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An orgqanization linked to a political party that often controlled local government

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16th amendment

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Income Tax

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17th amendment

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Direct election of senators

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18th amendment

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Prohibition of alcohol

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19th amendment

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women gain voting rights

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11
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21st amendment

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repeal of prohibition

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26th amendment

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The voting age is 18

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Sherman anti trust act

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Stop monopolies

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14
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Plessy v Ferguson

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Ruling that racial segregation ;aws did not violate the us constitution “Seperatre but equal”

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The jungle

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Book written my Upton Sinclair about the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing insudtry

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Shame of the cities

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Lincoln Steffens wrote book about the bad things in the citiews

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Imperialism

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The actions used by one or more nations to excersice political or economic control over a smaller weaker nation

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Yellow journalism

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Type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sakee of attracting readers

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Expanded the system of national parks and national forests, 26th president

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20
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Roosevelt Corollary

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An addition to the Monroe doctrorine

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21
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Draft

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To select a person at random for mandatory military service

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22
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Sanford Dole

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Governor of Hawaii

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Armistice

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A temporary agreement to end fighting

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24
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Flapper

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Woman who goes against norms at the time, dancers in speakeasies

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Speakeasy

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Place where alcohol beverages were sold illegaly during proibition

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26
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Assembly line

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A progress to reduce the time needed to assemble a finished good.

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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican political activits

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Charles Lindberg

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American activator

29
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New deal

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A series of programs, public work project, financial reforms and regulations enacter by FDR

30
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Over speculation

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when stocks had an excessive amount of business risk

31
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Herbert Hoover

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Blamed for the great depression , 31st president, expanded tax cuts among all income classses

32
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Franklin D Roosevelt

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32nd President, authorized the manahattan project

33
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SSA

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Social security administration

34
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Lend lease ACt

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Allow the u.s. to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defensed of the u.s.”

35
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Rosie the riveter

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Represented women working in factories and ship yards

36
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Harry S truman

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32nd President implemented the Marshall plan

37
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D-Day

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overlord invasion of Europe through france

38
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Containment

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keep communism from spreading

39
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Vietnamization

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A policy to end u.s. involvement in the Vietnam war

40
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brinkman ship

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Going to the brink of war without fighting

41
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The new frontier

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JFKs vision as president

42
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The great society

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LBJ vision as president

43
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John F Kennedy

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35th president, prioritized economic growth

44
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Lyndon B Johnson

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36th president passed the civil rights act of 1964

45
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Richard Nixon

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37th president, involvement with the Watergate scandal

46
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MLK Jr

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Pastor, local minister in the bus boycott

47
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Rosa Parls

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American activists in the civil rights movement

48
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Brown v board of education

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desegregated all public schools

49
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Civil rights act of 1964

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Landmark civil rights and labor law, out laws segregation and racism

50
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Voting rights act of 1965

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Piece of federal legislation, prohibits racism in voting

51
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NAFTA

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North marican free trade agreement

52
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Detente

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Ease tension between nations

53
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SALT I

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Limited stragetic missle defesnews

54
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EPA

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Protects the enviroment

55
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Jimmy Carter

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39th president, made the community reinvestment act

56
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Robert Johnson

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African American founder of BET

57
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George W. H. bush

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41st president, ended the cold war

58
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Barrack Obama

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44th president, Passed the ACA Obama care`

59
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USA Patriot act

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Put immigration under control of thee newly created department of home land security

60
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George W bush

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43rd president, signed the No child left behind act.

61
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Bill Clinton

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42nd president, signed the family medical leave act

62
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bitter cry of children

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book by John spargo about thee children that had to work and the things that would happen to them.

63
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How the other half lives

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Book by Jacob Riis about the immigrants in New York and how they lived.

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