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The (blank) granted former slaves the right to own property.

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Black Codes

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This member of the US Congress proposed taking land away from disloyal planters and giving it to former slaves and migrants to the South.

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Thaddeus Steven

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This system of labor dominated the rice kingdom of South Carolina and Georgia.

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The Task System

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This piece of legislation prohibited federal and state government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race.

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13th Amendment

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What act of Congress divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments?

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The Reconstruction Act

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Who was responsible for Special Order 15?

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General Sherman

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Who was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate?

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Hiram Revels

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This piece of legislation set aside land in the South for former slaves.

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Special Order 15

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Who ordered all lands in federal hands returned to their former owners in 1865?

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President Johnson

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They provided medical care and drugs to black and white southerners.

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The Freedmen's Bureau

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What allowed electronic telegraph messages to be sent instantaneously between the United States and Europe in 1866?

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The Atlantic Telegraph Cable

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Who established a vertically integratedsteel company that controlled all aspects of production from raw materials to distribution?

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Andrew Carnegie

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Who helped lead the Pennsylvania Railroad Company into an economic empire during the nineteenth century?

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Thomas A. Scott

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John D. Rockefeller controlled which U.S. Company?

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Standard Oil

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As hundreds of thousands traveled west in the late nineteenth century, which state became the most multicultural state in the Union?

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North Dakota

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In 1877, O.O Howard led troops on a chase against which group of Native Americans?

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The Nez Perce

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The Knights of Labor excluded which group of people?

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Asians

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Which Federal Act helped create a merit system for federal employees based on a competitive examination?

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The Civil Service Act of 1883

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Which Supreme Court decision voided a state law establishing a maximum of ten hours of work per day or sixty hours of work per week for bakers?

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Lochner v. New York

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Which group of Native Americans defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn?

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The Sioux and Cheyenne

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The incident at Homestead in 1892 demonstrated which of the following?

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That neither a powerful union nor public opinion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations

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What was the major base of the People's Party in the early 1890s?

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The cotton and wheat belts of the South and West

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In 1894 a coalition of white Populist and black Republicans won control of which U.S. state?

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North Carolina

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Who was the Populist presidential candidate in1892?

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James Weaver

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What was the result of the Pullman strike in 1894?

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A) The government ordered the strikers back to work and sent in troops to restore order B) Eugene Debs was arrested for contempt of court C) Federal troops occupied railroad centers like Chicago and Sacramento

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What was used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks?

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Unequal economic status, Disenfranchisement, Inferior education and Racial segregation

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This court decision sanctioned racial segregation.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.

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The Platt Amendment

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Brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

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The Spanish-American War

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After the Spanish-American War, the United States fought a much longer and deadlier war against the Filipinos in order to subdue the island for annexation.

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True

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Caused the deaths of over a hundred people and caused a major impact on public consciousness, including the urgent need for reforms.

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The Triangle fire

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The program known as the Square Deal was implemented by which U.S. President?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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The Progressive movement drew its strength from?

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Middle-Class reformers

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Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Which amendment authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax?

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The Sixteenth Amendment

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This war brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

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The Spanish-American War

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This amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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The Eighteenth Amendment

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What did freedom mean to Garveyites?

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National self-determination

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What required Germany to pay over $33 billion in reparations.

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The Treaty of Versailles

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Senators opposing America's participation in the League of Nations

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Argued that it would threaten to deprive the country of its freedom of action.

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What act of Congress divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments?

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The Reconstruction Act

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In 1894 a coalition of white Populist and black Republicans won control of which U.S. state?

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North Carolina

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What allowed electronic telegraph messages to be sent instantaneously between the United States and Europe in 1866?

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The Atlantic Telegraph Cable

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Agreed with lower court rulings that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians.

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Elk v. Wilkins

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After the Civil War, which became symbols of a life of freedom on the open range?

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Cowboys

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Split the feminist movement into two major organizations, was bitterly opposed by the Democratic Party. Marked the end of the American Anti-Slavery Society, as its work was now complete. Left many loop holes for the South to disfranchise blacks.

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The Fifteenth Amendment

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the?

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National Woman Suffrage Association

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Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal which sensationalized events to sell papers were called?

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Yellow Journalist

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How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

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To supress the strikers on behalf of the owners

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The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was?

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Upton Sinclair

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A frank acceptance of the benefits of bigness, coupled with the intervention of government to counteract its abuses, best describes the philosophy behind.

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New Nationalism

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The painters who were part of the Ashcan School focused their art on?

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City Life

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A tragic confrontation between Colorado nine workers and militia.

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The Ludlow Massacre

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Called his foreign policy moral imperialism.

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Woodrow Wilson

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Was also known as the Great War. Introduced much new military technology. Pitted the Allies against the Central Powers. Began with the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

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World War 1

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policy tested by British and Germans

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The Policy of U.S. neutrality

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in 1916 he was reelected when he promised not to send troops to Europe.

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Woodrow Wilson

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This established the right of national self-determination.

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The Fourteen Points

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Since Reconstruction, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have had at least one black member. True or False?

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False

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Theodore Roosevelt was more active in international diplomacy than most of his predecessors True or False

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True

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John Wesley Powell warned that the western region's arid land would require large-scale irrigation projects and cooperative, communal farming to prosper. True or False

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True

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After the Haymarket Affair, employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals. True or False

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True

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3.5 million immigrants, mostly from northern and western Europe, arrived in the 1890s. True or False

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True

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The American Federation of Labor was almost identical to the Knights of Labor True or False

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True

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When Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican nomination for president in 1912, he formed his own political party. True or False

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True

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Louis Brandeis was an enemy of the labor movement and led the Supreme Court in its many pro-business decisions. True or False

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False

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Marcus Garvey launched a separatist movement, encouraging blacks to embrace their African heritage. True or False

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True

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American novelists like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were part of the?

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Lost Generation

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What Outlined inappropriate material for films.

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The Hayes Codes

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There were many forces that predisposed potential Ku Klux Klan members to accept its exclusionary message without much analysis. These forces included all of the following except the.

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Birth of Harlem Renaissance

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reflected the Progressive desire to improve the quality of democratic citizenship and to employ scientific methods to set public policy. satisfied the demands of large farmers in California, who relied heavily on seasonal Mexican labor, by not setting limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere. increased efforts to restrict immigration when large employers dropped their traditional opposition. ermanently limited immigration for Europeans and banned it for nearly all Asians.

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The 1924 Immigration Act

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Described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity.

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Cultural Pluralism

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Which city was considered the "capital" of black America?

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Harlem

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What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?

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Business

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Which 1920s presidency was plagued with scandals?

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Warren Harding

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A book ban in the city, including books by Ernest Hemingway.

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Banned in Boston

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Proposed the government purchase of farm products so as to raise prices.

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McNary-Haugen Bill

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Freedom from want Freedom of speech Freedom from fear Freedom of religion

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FDR's Four Freedoms

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Which work offered an intellectual justification for opponents of active government, laying the foundation for the rise of modern conservatism?

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Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

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The press supported the policy of internment almost unanimously. The Supreme Court refused to intervene. Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were exempt from the policy. Japan used it as proof that America was racist toward nonwhite people.

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Japanese-American internment

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The attempt to gain victory in Germany and an end to segregation in America.

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Double V Campaign

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At Yalta the Big Three met for a summit. It was here that it was finally agreed

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The Soviet Union would enter the Pacific war.

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Who is considered the founder of fascism?

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Benito Mussolini

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The policy followed by Britain and France toward Germany of giving concessions in hopes of avoiding war was called

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Appeasement

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Provided low-cost mortgage loans, job training, unemployment pay and scholarships for college education to veterans.

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The GI Bill

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In 1940 this allowed Great Britain to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.

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The Cash and Carry Plan

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This authorized military aid to those fighting Germany and Japan.

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The Lend-Lease Act

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Which civil rights measure was passed into law during Truman's administration?

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Desegregation of the armed forces

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Who did Whittaker Chambers accuse of being a soviet spy during a HUAC hearing?

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Alger Hiss

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What did Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history

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Woman's Sufferage

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What set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic?

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The Truman Doctrine

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Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?

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Philippines

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Code name for national security agencies encouraging Hollywood to produce anticommunist movies.

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Militant Liberty

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Reshaped immigration policy, promoted the rapid expansion of higher education, supported scientific research in medicine and computers and contributed to the dismantling of segregation.

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The Cold War

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His success led to the demise of the Negro Leagues. He won the Rookie of the Year award. He had promised the owner he would not retaliate when subjected to racist taunts. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Jackie Robinson

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After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was?

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The Soviet Union

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According to the policy of containment, as laid out by (blank), the United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism.

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George Kennan

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Approximately _____ persons died immediately after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

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70,000

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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were established at?

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Bretton Woods

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After a bitter civil war, Francisco Franco established in 1939 a fascist government in?

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Spain

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The program that began in 1942 that allowed experienced Mexican agricultural workers to cross the border to work under government labor contracts was called the?

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Bracero Program

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When war broke out in Europe in 1939, the Soviet Union stood virtually alone in fighting Germany. True or False

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False

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During the New Deal __________ came to be understood as active government to uplift less fortunate members of society.

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Liberalism

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The New Deal concentrated power in the hands of which government branch?

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The Executive

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What ended the Great Depression?

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WW II spending

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What was the name of Roosevelt's group of advisers who saw big business as inevitable in a modern economy?

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Brain Trust

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Which act or organization barred commercial banks from becoming involved in the buying and selling of stocks?

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The Glass-Steagall Act

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The Supreme Court ruled that the AAA was unconstitutional. True or False

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True

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Depressions in the past hurt the labor movement, but labor actually made great strides during the Great Depression. True or False

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True

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Reflected the Progressive desire to improve the quality of democratic citizenship and to employ scientific methods to set public policy. satisfied the demands of large farmers in California, who relied heavily on seasonal Mexican labor, by not setting limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere. increased efforts to restrict immigration when large employers dropped their traditional opposition. permanently limited immigration for Europeans and banned it for nearly Asians.

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The 1924 Immigration Act

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The term __________ in art meant the rejection of established stereotypes and a search for black values to put in their place.?

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New Negro

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___________'s downfall came in 1954 when the Army-McCarthy hearings were televised nationally.

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Joe McCarthy

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___________'s Long Telegram laid the foundation for the policy of containment.

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Geroge Kennan

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The Berlin Airlift made it clear that Truman was determined to deny the Soviet Union any victories in the Cold War.

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Berlin Airlift

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During WW II, They still suffered from discrimination and racial violence. left the South in large numbers seeking employment in war industries. served in segregated units in the armed forces.Received limited access to the GI Bill of Rights benefits.

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African-Americans

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The 1944 conference at Dumbarton Oaks established the?

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United Nations

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Until 1941, ___ percent of Japan's oil supply came from the United States.

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80%

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During the New Deal, _________ worked in segregated CCC camps, were mostly excluded from Social Security benefits, were discriminated against by the Federal Housing Administration and failed in getting passed a federal antilynching law.

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Africa-Americans

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Fearing the growth of the Communist Party in America, Congress passed the?

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Smith Act

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Which New Deal program put the federal government for the first time in the business of selling electricity in competition with private companies?

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The Tennessee Valley Authority

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The first thing that Roosevelt attended to as president was the

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Banking Crisis

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____________ illustrated a divide between modernism and fundamentalism.

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The Scopes Trial

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The ______________ was caused by a land speculation bubble in Florida, an unequal distribution of wealth, an agricultural recession throughout the decade and stagnated sales in the auto and consumer goods industries after 1926.

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Great Depression

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________'s response to the Depression was a tax increase, higher tariffs, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

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Hoover

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Railroads were to the late nineteenth century what _____ were to the 1920s.

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Cars

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The kitchen debates were between?

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Khrushchev and Nixon

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Fearful that nationalist forces were really the work of Soviet communists, Eisenhower frequently intervened in Third World countries. Which country did Eisenhower not get involved in during his administration?

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Angola

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Which Supreme Court decision did Brown overturn?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Bill Levitt, coupled with the GI Bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to

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Buy a home

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Many conservative businessmen found intellectual reinforcement in the writings of the economist

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John Kenneth Galbraith

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How was freedom displayed in the American National Exhibition that opened in Moscow in 1958?

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As Consumption

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The ability to influence the world with American goods and popular culture is called?

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Soft Power

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The ________________ was successful in desegregating the public buses, was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up to a white man, propelled Martin Luther King Jr. into the national spotlight as a leader in the civil rights movement.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Which Middle Eastern country did President Eisenhower use the CIA to overthrow a government in the early 1950s, in large part because it attempted to nationalize British-owned oil fields?

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Iran

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What was the organization called that Martin Luther King Jr. established after the Montgomery bus boycott?

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Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)

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The ________________________, in 1960 reflected the mounting frustration at the slow pace of racial change.

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Sit-in at Greensboro, NC

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________________ emerged as a response to the frustrations over the federal government's failure to stop violence against civil rights workers, white workers' attempts to determine the civil rights movement's strategy, the civil rights movement's failure to have any impact on the economic problems of black ghettos and the growing ideas of racial self-assertion and black self-determination.

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Black Power

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_____________________ campaigned for, an end on the mass media's false image of women, equal job opportunities for women, equal educational opportunities and equal opportunities in politics.

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The National Organization for Women (NOW)

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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring inspired the?

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Environmental Movement

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_________ seemed to accept the feminist view of the family as a collection of sovereign individuals rather than a unit with a single male head.

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The Warren Court

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Which event marked the turning point in the Vietnam conflict, forcing Lyndon Johnson to change course and pull out of the upcoming presidential race?

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The Tet Offensive

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In his 1968 election campaign Richard Nixon appealed to the?

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Silent Majority

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_______________'s 1964 campaign emphasized a reduction in governmental regulations.

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Barry Goldwater

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______________'s Letter from Birmingham Jail declared that the white moderate had to put aside his fear of disorder and commit to racial justice.

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Martin Luther King Jr

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_______________ brought the United States and the Soviets to the brink of nuclear war.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

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What sparked the student antiwar protests at Kent State that resulted in the deaths of four students by the National Guard?

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The escalation of the ware into Cambodia

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When they were arrested, the burglars at the Watergate apartment complex were breaking into ___________?

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The Democratic party headquarters

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The Church Committee revealed that since the beginning of the Cold War, they had engaged in abusive actions.

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CIA and FBI

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What caused the American economy to slip in the 1970s?

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Spending in Vietnam

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The centerpiece of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy was?

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Human rights

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In response to _______________, President Carter boycotted the Berlin Olympics, placed an embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union, withdrew the SALT I treaty from the Senate for ratification and decreased military spending.

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the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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The 1980s could easily be called the second ________

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Gilded Age

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By the end of Reagan's second term in office, he viewed the ___________ with much less suspicion.

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Soviet Union

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Which nation held fifty-three Americans hostage from November 1979 until January 1981?

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Iran

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Jerry Falwell created the _________.

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Moral Majority

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The concept of the 1990s was said to be ________

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Globalization

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By 2000, unemployment in America stood at nearly _____ percent.

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4

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The sectors of the economy that were most affected by the scandals of the late 1990s and early twenty-first century had all been _____

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Subjects of deregulation

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Which ethnic group's average family income in 2000 surpassed that of whites?

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Asian-Americans

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The battles that raged throughout the 1990s over moral values were called ________________.

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Culture Wars

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Which city witnessed riots and looting in 1992 after tensions snapped over an episode of police officers beating an unarmed African-American man?

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Los Angeles

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The 1995 truck bombing of the federal building in Okalahoma City was organized by _____________.

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A far-right private milita group

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Which of the following was a scandal of the Clinton Administration?

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Whitewater

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This court decision ordered Florida to halt its recount.

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Bush v. Gore

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Which country received permanent most favored trade status under the Clinton administration?

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People's Republic of China

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