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Lincoln

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Suspend habeus corpus

Civil war

Carnegie, Rockerfeller

1st– strong, we will stay together
2nd– blame no one, charity to all
Gettysburg– to all who’ve died

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Adams

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XYZ affair

alien sedition

midnight appointments

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Jefferson

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Louisiana purchase

Embargo Act

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Jackson

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Kitchen cabinet
Spoils system

Indian Removal
Whig party

Gag rule

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Taft

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NAACP

MA intros min. wage law

Dollar Diplomacy

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Wilson

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Wins against Bull Moose

First Democratic president to serve since Civil War

Progressive ideas
Pro-unions
Not as much Big Biz
Not African American

WWI
Zimmerman Telegram

14 points

Treat of Versailles

Red Scare

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FDR

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Only pres. to serve 4 terms

New Deal

One hundred days

Wagner Act

WWII

post WWII reconstruction

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TR

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Square Deal

Direct primaries

Asian discriminatory acts

The Jungle

Carry a big stick

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Grant

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Grantism
Corrupt
War hero

Social Gospel

Greenback party

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McKinley

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Benevolent assimilation

Gentleman’s agreement

Cameras

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Monroe

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Monroe Doctrine

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12
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Kennedy

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Flexible response

in response to complete retaliation

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13
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Truman

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WWII

Korean War

Taft-Harley Act

Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift

the “accidental president” and “the average man’s average man.”

-farmer, WWI officer, then precinct-level politics to a judgeship to the U.S. Senate

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Nixon

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Landing on moon

Cambodia

Woodstock

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Eisenhower

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Vietnam

Warsaw Pact

EIsenhower Doctrine

Brown vs. Board
SNCC

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Hoover

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Great Depression

WWI food distributor

17
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Johnson

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war on poverty

civil rights acts

Malcolm X

Miranda vs. Arizona

Vietnam War