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american cultures
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9th Grade
06/07/2011

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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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2 North vietnamese sank 2 american ships.
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Vietnamization
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trained the south vietnamese while u.s. withdrew
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Sit-ins
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when blacks would come in and sit in white restaurants
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Brown vs. Board
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when the surpreme court ruled for equal rights for black and whites to go to the same school
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Geraldine Ferraro
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1st woman to run for vice president
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Sandra Day O' Connor
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was the 1st woman to run in the surpreme court
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Buying on Margin
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practice of using a loan to buy stocks
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Causes of Dust Bowl
Definition
overgrazing, and overfarming
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Black Tuesday
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oct. 29, 1929, a record 16.4 million shares were sold compared to the avg. of 4 million
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ssa
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social security act
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AAA
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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CCC
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civillian conservations corps
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Nellie Bly
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did an investigation on brutality an how they neglect at an insane asylum
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Upton Sinclair
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the jungle, talks about factory and very santary. also established the food and bug admnist nation
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Ida Tarbell
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journalist wrote about d. rockfellers standard oil company
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Robber Barrons
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A capitalist who became wealthy by uneical means and explullicitation
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Muckrakers
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A journalist who investigates and expuses societal issues
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Marshall Plan
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giving aid to europe to help rebuild it
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Berlin Airlift
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For 10 months American and British planes airlifted supplies to berlin because of the berlin blockade
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NATO/Warsaw Pact
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the us, canadam and 10 nations western europe. made for mutual defense. warsaw pact was wen the ussr collapsed
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