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11th Grade
06/06/2011

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Which President removed the federal Troops
Definition
hayes
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Which ammendment defined citizenship
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14th
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What is a pocket veto
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When a president kills a bill by not acting on it before congress adjourns
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Who founded tusgee institute
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Booker T. Washington
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Who founded tusgee institute
Definition
Booker T. Washington
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Who founded tusgee institute
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Booker T. Washington
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What is reconstruction and how long did it last
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Rebuilding the South; 12 years
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Who invented the sleeping car
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George pullman
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Who invented the air brake
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Geoge Westinghouse
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Who invented Barbed wire
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Joesph Glidden
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Who were the 2 most notorious outlaws of the 1860's West
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Josse james
Billy the Kid
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what was the last battle fought between federal troops and indians
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Battle of Wounded knee
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what are The 4 H's
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Hand
head
heart
Health
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Who Founded standard oil company
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John D. Rockefeller
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What is capitalism
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an economic system in which individuals are free to pursue economic enterprises as they see fit
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Who drilled the first oil well in the US
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Drake
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3 factors that led to america's prosperity
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New Inventions/Discoveries
Large Labor Supply
Cheap transportation
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who coined the phrase "guilded age"
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Mark twain
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Founded the hull house
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jane adams
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invented basketball
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Naismith
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Founded salvation army
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Booth
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Who was the best known political cartoonist
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Nast
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who was the only president to serve 2 non consecutive terms
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Cleveland
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which president campaigned from his front porch and was assissinatedby an anarchist?
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Mckinley
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Define Inflation
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when the supply of money increases. the value of moneydecreases and prices go up
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what is the presidential succession Act
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if both Prez and VP die in office then members of the cabinet succeed to Presidency in the order they were created
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what was the merit system
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a system of awarding gov't jobs based on qualifications
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who led rough riders
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Roosevelt
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what were rough riders
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cowboys
indians
college athletes
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who wrote a nasty letter about Mckinley that was published in the NY Journal
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Senor De lome
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what US army doctor discovered a cure for yellow fever
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Reed
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What was the monroe doctrine
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the US would oppose any european interference in Latin America
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What were the 49th and 50th states and when were they added to the Union
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Alaska and hawaii and 1959
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Who wrote the Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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Who received arms and ammo from the US and later used them to kill people in the Mexico and New Mexico
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Pancho Villa
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What was the first affordable automobile
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Model T
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What made the Model T So affordable
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it was mass produced on an assembly line
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What was T Roosevelts foreign policy slogan
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Speak Softly, carry a big stick
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who was the msot notorious gangster of the 1920s
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Al capone
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Who made the first solo flight across the atlantic
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Charles Lindbergh
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who was the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic
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Earhart
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What was teh red Scare
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when communist headquarters in 33 cities were raided and 500 were deported
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What does NAACP stand for?
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National Association for the advancement of colored people
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who was president during the early years of the great depression
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Hoover
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What was FDR's social welfare program called
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the New Deal
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What was the Dust Bowl
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name given to the great plains during a service drought
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What was the Social security Act of 1935
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A gov't fund for unemployment and old age insurance
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List 3 types of entertainment during the 1930's
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Radio
Motion Pictures
Baseball
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Which President instuted the socialistic program "Fair Deal"
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Truman
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who made accusations that the State Dept. had been infiltrated by communists
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McCarthy
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What was the first African American to play for a major league baseball team
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Jackie Robinson
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what is the cold war
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a conflic of opposing ideologies capitalism vs Communism
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Which Court Case declared racial segregation in public schools as unconstitutional
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Brown vs Board of education
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Which President sent the first combat troops to vietnam
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Johnson
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who was the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game
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Chamberlain
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Who assissinated Robert F Kennedy
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Sirhan
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who was in command of the troops in South Vietnamm
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Westmoreland
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Who won the election of 2000
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Bush
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What was one of America's first targets in the war against afghanistan
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The Taliban
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what was the major education reform implemented during bush's administration
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No Child Left behind
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What was the date of the World Trade center Attack
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Sept. 11, 2001
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What is a hanging Chad
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Paper left hanging after attempting to hole punch the ballet
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What does the USA Patriot act stand for
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Understanding and Strengthening America by providing appropriate tools Required to intercept and obstruct terrorism act
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Mexican Dictator who headed a new Gov
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Huerta
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American General who lead troops to Mexico to capture Poncho villa
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Gen. John Pershing
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Nickname Roosevelt earned aginst action of Big Business
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Trust Buster
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16 battle ships and other vessles. Painted white...Roosevelt sent them on a world tour
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Great White Fleet
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Where family life revolved
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HOME
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Prohibited the production sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages
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18th ammendment
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Repealed the prohibation of the 18th ammendment
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21 ammendment
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Baseball evangelist
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Billy sunday
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Launched the New Deal
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Roosevelt
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Installment Plan
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required a small down payment and montly installment over a period to purchase an item
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Black Tuesday
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The day the stalk market crashed and began the great depression
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Earl warren
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Chief justice who ruled in favor of desgretating the public schools in Brown vs Board of Education
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Instituted social welfare called New Frontier...Youngest President
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kennedy
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Shot and Killed Kennedy
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Oswald
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22 amendment
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president hae 2 terms in office
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Winston churchill refered to THE COMMUNIST tyranny as this
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Iron Curtain
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Desegregation
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Mixing Blacks and Whites
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Engal vs Vitale
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No Praying in School it was forbidden
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Abington school district vs Schempp
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Bible reading and prayer was banned
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Kept Berliners from escaping freedom in west berlin
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Berlin wall
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First black Asso. Justice of Supreme Court
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Thurgood Marshall
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600th home run in 1969
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Willie Mays
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Robert F Kennedy
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JFK's attorney general and brother
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VP Under Eisenhower- resigned because of watergate scandle
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Nixon
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VP under Nixon- resigned after admitting taking bribes
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Agnew
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Muslim religious leader in iran who captures the American Embasy
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Khomeini
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Provided Medical care for elders
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Medicare Act
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Conflict between communist N. Vietnam and Free South Viet.
Definition
Vietnam war
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Hippie Lifestyle
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Counter culture movement that attempted to erode the values of trad. american culture
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26th ammendment
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lowered voting from 21 to 18
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Watergate Affair
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Illegal breaks in the Democratic National HQ in 1972
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Peace agreement between Egypt and Isreal
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Camp Davis Peace Accord
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Leagalized abortion
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Roe vs Wade
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VP who succeeded lincoln after assisination
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Johnson
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Civil war hero- President
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Grant
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13th ammendment
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abolished slavery
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15th ammendment
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slaves have right to vote
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Guaranteed the basic civil rights of freedmen
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Civil rights bill
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northern politicians who went south for political opportunities
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Carpetbaggers
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White southerners who worked with carpet baggers
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Scalawags
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Secret Societies taht used illegal methods to improve the south
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KKK
Knights of White Camellia
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RailRaod magnate who organized NY central station
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Vanderbilt
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Invented steel plow in 1837
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John Deer
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Killed along with his men in the battle of little big horn
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Colonel Geoge Cluster
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Laid track for 1st continental rail raod - started in nebraska and went west
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Union Pacific RailRoad
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Laid track for RailRoad. Started from Cali going east
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Central pacific railroad
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Place 2 Rail Roads met
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Promontory Point UT
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a mine in nevada that contained alot of silver
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Comstock lode
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Fav. Cowboy Route
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Chisholm Trail
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2 common types of prairy dwelings
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Dugouts
Sod Houses
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Where most famouse battle of the Sioux was fought
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Little Big Horn
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daws Act
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160 acres of land and citizenship to indian family
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Invented the telephone
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Bell
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Invented the light balb
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Edison
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Created a way for hot hair to be removed. impurities from iron
Definition
Bessemer
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who was a steel and iron producer
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Carnegie
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Wealthiest man in finances in the 19th century
Definition
MorganDomin
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Dominated the manufacturor of the light bulb and other eletrics
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General Electric
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Act that granted 30,000 acres to make colleges
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Morrill Act
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FFA
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Future Farmers of America
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FHA
Definition
Future homemakers of America
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A system in which individuals are free to pursue econmic enterprise they see fit
Definition
Free enterprise
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A person who organizes/manaages business undertaking
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Entrepreneur
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Business thathas no competition
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Monopoly
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Most notable american architecture- known for the skyscraper
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Louis Sullivan
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Organized traveling tent service- the circus
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Barnum
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Bet known urban evangelist
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moody
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Moodys song writer
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Ira Sankey
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who wrote the first news paper to reach a large audience
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Pulitzer
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Who gave the name Guilded Age
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Mark Twain
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Bared chinese laborers from U.S for 10 years
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Chinese exlusion act
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Right to vote
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Suffrage
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YMCA
Definition
Young men Christian Association
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YWCA
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Youth Woman Christian Association
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Paper money not backed by gold but backed by the Gov.
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Greenbacks
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Black Friday
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Stalk Market Crashed
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Broke up monopolies
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Sherman Antitrust act
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Stalk Market panic that proceded depression
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Panic of 1893
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Practice of Using Gold Standard of Value and basis of basic money
Definition
gold standard
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French emperor who tried to establish french empire in mexico
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napoleon III
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ed army of french troops to mexico
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Maximilian
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commander of US Pacific fleet- destroyed spanish fleet
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Commodore George dewey
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American General who led american forces to Philipeans during WW2
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Gen. McArthur
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Settlement of disputes of persons
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Arbitration
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Snsational and unfounded stories
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Yellow Journalism
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Sunk by Explosion in havanah Harbor
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USS Maine
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