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11th Grade
05/23/2014

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Civil War Amendments
Definition
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments; Free Slaves, equal protection of law, voting rights
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Creation of NAACP, Great Migration, Niagara Movement were way's black opposed
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Muckraking
Definition
Journalism which led to Meat Inspectors Act and Pure Food & Drug Act
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Yellow Journalism
Definition
Journalism that led to Spanish-American War by exaggerating the truth
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Fourteen Points
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Wilson's plan for world peace called for creation of League of Nations
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Flappers
Definition
"New Women" of the 1920s
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19th Amendment
Definition
Constitutional Amendment that established women's suffrage
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Abolitionist Movement
Definition
The reform movement to end slavery
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Baby Boom
Definition
Population explosion after WW2 in the 1940s & 1950s
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Red Scare
Definition
Period of fear and paranoia of Communist takeover in US
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Jefferson Davis
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President of Confederate States of America during Civil War
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Frederick Douglas
Definition
former slave who became a leading abolitionist writer and speaker
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George Pickett
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Led Confederate charge at Gettysburg that gave Union Key victory
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Dred Scott
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Slave denied freedom by Supreme Court thus opening territory to slavery
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Won at Vicksburg - forced Lee's surrender at Appomattox ending Civil War
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Nat Turner
Definition
Directed slave rebellion that killed whites - spread fear in South
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John C. Calhoun
Definition
Senator from SC - led Souths demand for states rights
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Opposed slavery in territory - Civil War President - Emancipation Proclamation
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Eli Whitney
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Invented cotton gin - developed idea of "interchangeable part"
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Henry Clay
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3 times got North and South to solve differences - "Great Compromise"
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David Farragut
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Union naval hero in Civil War - captured New Orleans - Mobile Bay
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Abolitionist who published "The Liberator"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"- aroused anti slavery feelings in North
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John Wilkes Booth
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington
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Thomas J Stonewall Jackson
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Beat Union at Bull Run - accidentally killed by own men at Chancellorsville
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William T. Sherman
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Led destructive Union "March to Sea" - Atlanta to Savannah
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John Brown
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Abolitionist who attached Harpers Ferry, VA arsenal - hanged
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Top Confederate general in Civil War - made final surrender at Appomattox
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Harriett Tubman
Definition
Escaped slave and most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
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Stephen Tubman
Definition
Wrote Kan-Neb Act granting popular sovereignty - debated Lincoln
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Franz Ferdinand
Definition
After his assassination - Austria Hungary invaded Serbia - WW1 began
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TTheodore Roosevelt
Definition
Rough Rider - "trust buster" - Big Stick Policy - Conservation
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
President during stock market crash and beginning of Great Depression
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William Randolph Hearst
Definition
With Joseph Pulitzer used "yellow press" to arouse US before Spanish American War
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
Communist leader of North Vietnam - opposed US in Vietnam War
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James Monroe
Definition
Era of Good Feeling - added Florida - Monroe Doctrine warned Europe
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Monopolist who controlled Steel Industry
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John D. Rockefeller
Definition
Monopolist who controlled oil industry
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JP Morgan
Definition
Monopolist who controlled Banking Industry
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Langston Hughes
Definition
Famous writer/poet of Harlem Renaissance
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13th Amendment
Definition
Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Definition
Overturned Plessy. Forced integration
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Roe v. Wade, 1973
Definition
Upheld a woman's right to choose an abortion
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