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USA ting Flashcards

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Freedman’s Bureau

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1865

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Civil Rights Bill

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1866

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14th Amendment

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1868

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Alaska purchase

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1867

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Johnson impeachment

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1868

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Standard Oil created

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1870

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Compromise of …

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1877

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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1883 (all fed govt jobs should be awarded on merit)

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Interstate Commerce Act

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1887….to regulate the railroad industry

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Pan-American Conference

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1889

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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1890

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Spanish-American War

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1898

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Gold Standard Act

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1900

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Great Coal Stoke

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1902

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Hepburn Act

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1906

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Panics of ….

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1873, 1893, 1907

17
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NAACP

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1909

18
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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1914

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USA enter WW1

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1917

20
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Rockefeller…

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Secured cheap transport, bought out companies, Standard Oil 1870, Controlled 85% of American oil

21
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How many immigrants came during Gilded Age ?

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10 million

Looking for American dream from GB / GER / IRE

22
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How many non-Republican presidents in our period ? And who.

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7

Johnson - Democratic Union
Cleveland - Democrat 
Wilson - Democrat
Franklin Roosevelt - Democrat
Truman - Democrat
Kennedy - Democrat
Johnson - Democrat
23
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List

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Lincoln 
Johnson 
Grant 
Hayes 
Garfield 
Arthur 
Cleveland 
Harrison 
Cleveland 
McKinley 
Theodore Roosevelt 
Taft 
Wilson 
Harding 
Coolidge 
Hoover 
FDR 
Truman 
Eisenhower 
Kennedy 
Johnson 
Nixon 
Ford
24
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In many Southern states, Radical Reconstruction was over before it began …..

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Tennessee was under Democratic control as early as 1869

By 1876 only 3 Southern states were under Republican control

25
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P v F?

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1896 Plessy vs Ferguson case - allowed seg & emphasised that facilities must be separate but equal

26
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Hawaii

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1887 acquisition of Hawaii as a naval base

27
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Interstate Highway System

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1956 - Eisenhower - the singles largest public works programme in US history
(-> transport of materials/goods across USA, provided lots of jobs in the post-war period - helped ensure economic stability continued after war whilst war industries were closing etc.)

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