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New England town meetings, mayflower compact, Virginia house of burgesses

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Self rule, representative democracy

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Declaration of Independence

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Enlightened, John lock, natural righted, consent of the governed , no taxation without representation -leads to revolutionary war

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Articles of confederations

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Weak national government, protect states rights, feared strong national government , admitted new states into the union

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Constitutional convention

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Representation, three fifths compromise, revise article of confederation

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Anti-federalist

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Bill of rights , states rights

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Federalist

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Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Washington , Hamilton , Madison

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Alexander Hamilton

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National bank, pay off national debt, loose interpretation of constitution

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Federalism

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Balance of national and state government

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Electoral college

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Popular vote does not determine presidency, each states have “points” based on population of their states, majority of these points wins presidency, the “winner-take all” method can distort the relationship between the popular vote and the electoral vote

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Checks and balances

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Supreme Court, congress, executive , three branches of government, separation of powers

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Marbury v. Madison

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Judicial review

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Marshall court

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Increase the power of the federal government

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McCulloch v Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

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Supremacy of the federal government

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Washington

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Precedents, cabinet of advisors, unwritten constitution, political parties, strengthen the federal government , farewell address , neutrality , U.S. Needed time to gain economic and military strength

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John Adams

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Alien and sedition act , XYZ affair

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Thomas Jefferson

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Louisiana purchase, elastic clause, violate/contradict belief of strict interpretation of the constitution

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Mississippi

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Trade, New Orleans, westward expansion, Louisiana purchase, access to Gulf of Mexico , trade for farmers

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Manifest destiny

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Westward expansion, expand to the Pacific Ocean, Mexican war , annexation of Texas homestead act

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Monroe doctrine

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Western Hemisphere, prevent colonization by the Europeans in Caribbean/ Latin America, avoid political conflicts with Europeans

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Andrew Jackson

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Spoils system ( rewarding jobs ), expand presidential powers, end property requirements , Indian removal act

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Trail of tears

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Injustice of native Americans , Worcester v Georgia

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Homestead act

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West, Great Plains , provide free land to settlers , people pay off land

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Abolitionist

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Against slavery, William Lloyd garrison’s publication of the liberator , Underground Railroad , Harriet Beecher stowe’s uncle toms cabin

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Sectionalism

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Economic conditions and interests varied in regions ( north-industrialization v south-plantations)

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Missouri compromise
The balance between free and Slavs states was maintained, tried to solve issue on extension of slavery into western territories
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Fugitive slave act
Runaway slaves ,Canada corpus, emancipation proclamation ( frees slaves )
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Mercantilism
Raw materials (colonies), manufactured goods/finished products ( mother country), restrictions on trade
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Andrew Johnson
Allow the southern states to reenter the nation as quickly as possible , a power struggle with congress over reconstruction , impeachment
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13th 14th 15th amendments
Increased individual rights for African Americans, radical ( congressional ) reconstruction legal and political rights to African Americans
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Sharecropping
Former slaves earned a living, economically dependent
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Black codes
Deny equal rights to African Americans
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Poll tax, grandfather clause, literacy test
Limits voting rights of African Americans
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Jim Crow laws
Segregation of public facilities, limit effects of radical reconstruction, state and local governments to restrict the freedoms
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Plessy v ferguson (1896)
Racial segregation "separate but equal" base on race, separate public facilities where constitutional( allowed) , failed to protect rights of minorities
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Booker t Washington
African Americans should achieve equality by expanding their opportunities for vocational education , difference than that of WEB Dubois on how racial equality should be achieved
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W.E.B Dubois
African Americans should demand immediate participation in American society, formal education(science and literature ), difference than that of booker t. Washington on how racial equality should be achieved
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Dawes act (1887)
Native Americans to give up their culture, assimilation of native Americans
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Homestead act
Great Plains , settle west , decline the plains Indians
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Industrialization
Urbanization (cities) , increased immigration , growth of the middle class , job opportunities, expansion of the railroads, gospel of wealth, social Darwinism ( justified big business and the rich)
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Monopolies/trust
Limit competition , big business , further gap between rich and poor
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Yellow journalism
Start of Spanish American war, exaggerate events
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Laissez fair
Government should not intervene (get involved ) in business
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Progressives
Reform, social and economic changes, limit power of big business, government regulation ( control) in business , prohibition , suffrage , income tax, direct election of senators , Theodore Roosevelt
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Women's suffrage / voting rights
Susan b Anthony , Elizabeth cast Stanton , seneca falls convention, WWI working in war industries ( factories) 19th amendments
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Theodore Roosevelt
Good and bad trusts, trustbuster limit power of monopolies, imperialism , big stick policy , international police , Western Hemisphere , Latin America, Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine , Panama canal, square deal , food and drug administration , meat inspection act
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Anti-trust ( against big business) and business regulation (control )
Encourage/ increases competition, Sherman anti-trust act , Clayton anti-trust act , US V Standard oil ( breaks up Rockefeller's oil monopoly) trust busting, protect small business Ed and farmers
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Labor unions
Collectively bargain, higher wages (pay), improved hours, American federation of labor (skilled workers) , knights of labor, haymarket riots , homestead strike , Pullman strike (government is anti-unions)
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Big business leaders
John D. Rockefeller ( standard oil, railroad), Andrew Carnegie ( carnegie steel), JP Morgan , Cornelius Vanderbilt , robber barons ( ruthless business tactics against competitors ) captains of industry , philanthropic activities ( did good things for society -- Rockefeller foundation , Carnegie hall, j.p Morgan library )
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Muckrakers
Make America aware of problems in society, expose the evils in American society, expose the abuse of the government and industry Poor urban slums: Jacob Riis ( how the other half lives, Jane Addams (hull house) meat packing industry: upton Sinclair ( the jungle) Political corruption: Lincoln Steffens (the shame of cities ) standard oil: Ida Tarbell ( history of standard oil company )
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Populism and granger movement
Farmers, social and political problems
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Entrance of ww1
Sinking of the Lusitania, submarine warfare, freedom of the seas, world safe for democracy , Zimmerman telegram, Russian revolution (1917)
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Schenck v US
"Clear and present danger", don't shout fire in a crowded theater, civil liberties limited for national security , limits freedom of speech
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FDR
New deal relief (CCC, WPA, PWA-give people jobs), recovery ( AAA, NIRA-regulate prices) reform (social security act, bank holiday , SEC - regulate stock market ), pump and prime, court packing (tries to add Supreme Court justice when they declare part of new deal unconstitutional ( butler v. U.S. And schechter poultry v us - congress says "no") 12 years as president , greater involvement of federal government
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WWII
Lend lease, cash and carry (US helps England), Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese (1941) - congress declares war, D-day, atomic bomb ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki) -used to save American lives , women work in factories, Nuremberg trials ( crimes against humanity)
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Korematsu v US
Internment camps for Japanese in U.S. , "clear and present danger" (JUST LIKE SHENICK CASE), national security is more important than Civil liberties
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After WWII(1945): early Cold War
Potsdam conference sets up Cold War, superpowers ( US and USSR), containment ( stop communism from spreading- Truman doctrine and Marshall plan ( $ to Greece and turkey) , NATO (collective security), domino theory , Korean War ( congress did not officially declare war , outcome - Korean stays divided at 38th parallel) ,Berlin blockade, Berlin airlift
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JFK Cold War
Bay of pigs invasion ( try to overthrow Fidel Castro), Cuban missile crisis, early involvement in Vietnam
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Life during the 1950s
Baby boom, suburbs (automobile and interstate highway act) , social conformity, consumerism , technology, McCarthyism ( similar to Palmer raids-fear of communism in the U.S. And spies ), Cold War fear( bomb shelters , fear nuclear attack )
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Civil rights movement ( late 1950s to 1960s)
Brown v board of ed ( 1954) - ( separate but equal is inequal, overturns plessy v ferguson case) , rosa parks ( Montgomery bus boycott) Martin Luther king ( Civil disobedience) , greensborough sit-ins, freedom riders, Selma march (voting rights), million man march , NAACP, Malcolm x, black panthers and black power Achieved civil rights act 1964 (racial and gender equality) and voting rights act (1965)
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Warren court
Rights of the accused, Miranda v Arizona, mapp v Ohio, Escobedo v Illinois, Gideon v wainwright No religious in public schools -engel v vitale
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New frontier (JFK) Great society (LBJ)
Peace corps, space program ( fear of Sputnik satellite in Russia), tries to get economic and civil rights programs, but dies War of poverty ( help poor people), Medicare and Medicaid, civil rights programs, similar to FDRs new deal program and teddy Roosevelts square deal, greater involvement of federal government
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Vietnam war
Domino theory, congress did not officially declare war ( just like Korea war), Gulf of Tonkin resolution, LBJ Becomes an unpopular president, Vietnam war takes away money from great society, war protests ( Vietnam veterans against the war) , counter culture ( hippies), draft, Kent state massacre, tinker v Des Moines ( freedom of speech/arm bands allowed in school), guerrilla warfare, tet offensive, riots at the democratic national convention
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Richard Nixon
Ends Vietnam war ( Vietnamization and Nixon doctrine - peace with honor), detente ( easing of tension--USSR ), SALT agreement, visits China to ease tensions (ping ping diplomacy), watergate scandal ( Nixon resigns) --*president is not above the law* ( U.S. V Nixon , Nixon v Ny times -- limit executive power)
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Jimmy carter
Camp David accords ( peace with Israel and Egypt) , OPEC crisis ( gas) , SLAT
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Ronald Reagan
Domestic: reagonomics-- trickle down ( tax cuts), supply side economics ( like Hoover give business money to stimulate economy) Foreign: increase spending on military ( federal deficit) , puts pressure on Russia ( tension increase again ), Reagan doctrine ( support people who want to be free on communist countries ). ALL OF THIS LEADS TO FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AND THE END OFNTHE COLD WAR !!!
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George bush sr.
Persian gulf war( protects Kuwait and prevent Iraq from getting oil),third party costs him election, new world order
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Bill Clinton
NAFTA ( free trade ), impeachment trial ( vote him not guilty ), adopts republican platforms ( welfare reform)

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