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Popular Sovereignty

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Before the civil war, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.

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After Kansas-Nebraska act passed, northerner a head to Kansas to?

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Create antislavery territory

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In Lincoln’s inaugural speech he focused on?

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Popular sovereignty

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Compromise 1850: why did Henry clay group his resolutions in pairs?

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Make easier to pass compromise

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Browns intention in raiding harpers fairy?

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Against slave holders

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Emancipation proclamation

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Freed slaves

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13th amendment

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Banned slavery

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Anaconda plan

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Blockade South and run it out of resources

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Under reconstruction plan, before confederate stated elected ppl to congress they?

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Ratified 14th amendment (black rights)

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No clear winner if 1876 election?

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Democrats had regained power in south

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Black codes

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Limited black rights

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Laissez-faire

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State gov is to interfere as little as possible in nations economy

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Early in industrialization: members of congress believe tariffs were necessary to?

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Keep people buying American products

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2 railroads built transcontinental railroad?

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Central pacific

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Credit mobilier

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Construction company formed by insider who hired themselves to build railroad lines. Sometime paid themselves 50k for construction costing 30k

-under presidency of grant.

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Half immigrants in 1880s from?

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East/south Europe

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Reason Chinese immigrants came to US in 1860s?

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To make fortune

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Petroleum Hugh in demand for use of?

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Kerosene, oil, tar, beauty products

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Late 1800s: why workers buying power generally increase?

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Wages increase faster than prices

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William m. Tweed

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Leader of NYC democratic political machine during 1860 -70s

-corruption led to prison sentence

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Diff between north and south segregation

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North: more of a social thing
South: strict; highly enforced

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Plessy v ferguson

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(Established discrimination basis for south) plessy 1/8 African arrested 4 sitting on white sec. of bus and denying to move.

  • court allowed separation of race in public facilities (condition persisted till 1954)
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Collecting tarried in Dominican R. Using marines applied doctrine?

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Roosevelt corollary

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Hawaii monarchy overthrown by?

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Planters & US sailors

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Platt amendment

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Laws of the territory of Cuba

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Theo Roosevelt became pres. When?

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President Mckinley assassination

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Roosevelt won noble prize for peace between

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Russia and Japan

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Roosevelt corollary

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EU states not allowed to intervene w/ Latin America

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Year aquire 1st territory ou of US

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Philippines/1898

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Schenck v. US

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Curve free speech during times of war

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Event touched of declaration of war in ww1?

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Assassination of hair to Austria Hungary thrown

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“Big four”

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Britain, France, Italy, US

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Selective service act

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Require all men between 21 - 30 to resign for drags

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Espionage and sedition acts

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Prohibit interference w/ military opps. Support enemies extended by sedition act

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Organization that became the FBI was originally formed to

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Raid radical headquarter looking for evidence if a communist conspiracy

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John T Scopes

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Bio teacher from Tennessee who volunteered to be arrested for teaching evolution which was outlawed

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21 amendment

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Reversed 18th amendment which made alcohol illegal

38
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Cotton club

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Famous night club in Harlem New York included jazz music

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National origins act of 1924

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Immigrant restriction a permanent policy:

Result: new quotes deliberately favored immigrants from northwest Europe

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Us anarchists convicted of murder and in spite of world wide protest was executed

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Tea pot dome scandal

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Bribery incident took place in US 1922-1923

  • president Harding
  • navy oil leases
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The Dawes plan

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Loaned money to Germany - attempt to establish Germany’s economy

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Albert b fall

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Warren g Harding secretary on interior. Secretly allowed private interests to Keres lands containing US navy oil reserves at teapot dome

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Causes if stock market crash if 1929

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Overvalued stocks, margin buying, federal policies, bad banking

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Causes of Great Depression

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  • stock market crash
  • banks out of money
  • over production
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“Court packing plan”

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Increased court size w/ people to support new deal

47
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Roosevelt triggered economic downturn in 1937 by doing what?

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Cutting back deficit spending

48
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The new deal

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Plan to bring economy relief

49
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Riding the rails

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People who snuck into trains to find work in far away places

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