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The most important advances in industrialization in the U.S.___
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Last 1/3 of the nineteenth centruy.
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The development of the nation railway system.
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led to an integrated national railway system.
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The most importan figure in American finance
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J.P. Morgan
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First billion dollar company
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U.S. Steel
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The first modern Trust
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Standard oil
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Two most importan developments of the nineteenth century
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The telephone and the lightbulb
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The development of brand names, chain stores, and mail order houses
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provided convenience and standardization
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Unlike the knights of Labor, the american federation of labor
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emphasized economic goals for workers
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Which of the following was NOT a factor in American industrial development.
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Industrialization of the south after civil war
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What does it mean to say some professions became femonized during the late 1800's
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As more women took jobs in certain field, women left them and this lowered the status of these professions.
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What was the result of the Haymaker riots
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It weakened the national labor movement.
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what was the result of the homestead strike.
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It bought national attention to the cost of industrialization
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The rise of cities and industry
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caused changes in all segments of the American society.
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Building the new Skyscrapers depended on
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Steel and Glass.
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The victorian code of morality
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strict standards of behavior should be followed.
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A founder of the national womens suffrage association was
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Susan B. Anthony
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A major difference between northern and southern schools was that
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fewer southern states had compulsory attendance laws.
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Booker T. Washington
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believed that self-help was the best plan for African Americans
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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believed educational advancement was the key to success
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What was a result of Jim Crow laws?
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racial segregation across the South
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Why did reformers turn their attention to prohibiting the sale of alcohol
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They believed that drunkenness was the cause of many social evils.
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Social Gospel was
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a religious philosophy that addressed both spiritual and social concerns .
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What was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson
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Segregation of schools and public transportation deemed legal.
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Why were many women part of the settlement house reform movement.
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It was one of the few places in the American society in which they could use their talents
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How did the role of children in American society change in the late nineteenth century
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Children were viewed less as little adults
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Lincoln Steffens did much of his researhc and writing about____
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corruption in city government
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What theory did Henry Ford use to derive his companys enormous revenues?
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Sell large volume goods with a small unit profit
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Which disaster forced states and national attention to working condition in factories and stores
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Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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The orginization that led the firght for equal rights blacks was__
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NAACP
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The violence found in ___ established NCAA
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football
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The Ashcan school of artist
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tried to reflect the reality of urban life.
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How did industrialization change as it moved into the twentieth century
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Businesses grew larger and more automated, which effected both workers and production
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Henry ford and assembly
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Ford improved on the meat packing industry's design
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Frederick Taylors management methods
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Workers had to meet specific work standards, which often led to high pay for doing monotonous jobs
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What methods were used by unions to achieve their goals
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Strikes, leading to negotations
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In the early 1900's why did the middle class have a strong effect on production
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The growing middle class had influence as consumers of mass-produced goods
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The muckrackers and progressives disagreed on what to reform first and how to do it but NOT on
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The need for reform
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How did mexican immigration in the early 1900's contribute to the change in the SW
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Many became unskilled workers
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18th Amendment
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prohibition
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19th Amendment
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women's suffrage
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To progressives, the comissions they championed offered a way to___
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end the corrupt alliance between business and politics
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The supreme court's decision in the Northern Securities case
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paved the way for several anti-trust actions
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Upton sinclairs, The Jungle led to the passage of__
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Meat inspection act
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Woodrow Wilsons new Freedom called for___
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Business competition and small government
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in 1912 Roosevelts new nationalism
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demanded a stronger role for the executive office
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The most important domestic law passed during Wilson's administration was the
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Federal Reserve Act
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In the final analysis, Wilsons domestic programs indicated____
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a blending of the two competing doctrines of progressivism
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How did social reform during the early 1900's differ from the reforms of previous eras
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During previous eras social refrom had been more simplistic and directed to one particular problem during the early 1900's reformers saw problems as complex and interrelated
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How did city governments become more like business during the early 1900's
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The created systems of managers supported by experts, stressing continuity and results
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What is NOT true about progressives
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They sought to eliminate large corporations and businesses
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What gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Latin America?
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Taft's policy of dollar diplomacy
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used economic means to increase American influence worldwide
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The Zimmerman Telegram____.
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propsed an alliance between Germany and Mexico
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As a result in their war efforts African Americans'
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were more and more inclined to fight discrimination
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What best describes Wilsons success in promoting the League of nations
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was offset by problems in other industries, such as railroads
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The______ exemplified the flowering of African American Culte of the 20's
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Harlem Renaissance
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The immigration legislation of the 1920's
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was the most enduring achievement of the rural counterattack
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John scopes was put on trial for
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teaching evolution in a Tennessee HS
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What was the significance of Fords Highland Park Plant
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It marked the maturity of mass production in Merica'
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In what way can Jazz age Activities be seen as an effect of the economic growth period
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Increased standards of living prohibited the middle class with disposable income to spend on and increasing variety of things
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What did the Red scare reveal about our society
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There was a deep undercurrent of intolerance and bigotry
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Which of the following best characterizes U.S. after WWI
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the united states emerged from the war as one of the powerful nations of the world
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The social and economic effects of the Depression
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hit the middle class especially hard
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Roosevelts' Hundred days banking legislation aime to
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remedy the banking crisis
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Tennessee Valley Authority was designed to ____
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bring modernization and jobs to desolate areas of the upper rural south
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Young men were hired to clear land, plant tress etccc
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Which of the following was advocated by Father Charles Coughlin
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The national union for social justice
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National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act
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granted workers the right to organize and collectively bargain
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How did the consumer-goods revolution contribute to the great crash of 1929
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The production of durable goods, which did no need to be replaced, outpaced and demand led to wide scale layoffs
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Why was the new deal criticized
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Many felt Roosevelts programs were not aggressive enough
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How did Huey Long's share the wealth movement reflect on the federal govt. efforts to address the Great Depression
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A large number of people felt that more should be done for those in trouble
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Why did the National Recovery Admin. fail
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Labor and management were unable to work together
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Why did FDR attempt to pack the supreme court
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He wanted to remove the final threat to the new deal
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What was the most sig. long-range effect of the New Deal on society
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certain programs have become a key part to todays society, Social Security
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Axis Power were
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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What event brought America into WWII
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Pearl Harbor
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What was the greatest advantage of the Allies
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They actually wanted to work together
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The FEPC was designed to protect who
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Minorities
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D-Day refers to
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The day the allies invaded Nazi-occupied Europe
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What was the Manhatten Project
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Atomic Bomb
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How did FDR help GB after France Fell
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Traded goods(destroyers) in exchange for land rights
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What led both LA and Detroit riots in 1943
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Racial Tensions
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Trumans primary motive for using Atomic Weapons against Japan
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End the wat as quickly as possible
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State of the nation after WWII
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most powerful country in the world
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main argument between America and Soviet Union was____
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who would control postwar Europe
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Iron Curtain
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Separation between East(Soviet) Europe and Western Europe
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Kennans containment policy
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efforts to stop communism and russian control
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Truman Doctrine
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Support and nation resisting armed minorities or agression from a foreign power
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Marshall PLan proposed
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infusing massiv amounts of American capital into Western Europe
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Berlin Airlift
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Military operation to bring supplies to troops in Berlin
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After Soviet exploded first Atomic Bomb
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we considered building Hydrogen bomb
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NSC-68
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advocated a massive expansion of the American Military
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
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were executed for passing American Atomic Secrets
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What was the biggest factor in placing the US on a collision course with Soviet Russia
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American commitment to stopping spread of communism
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What effect did the marshall plan have
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Sparked successful financial recovery of Western Europe
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NATO formed due to
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WEstern powers fear of Soviet agression
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What effect did the Formation of NATO have on the cold war
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Intensified Russian fear of the west and escalated the Cold War
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Nationalist in the Chinese civil war
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lost support due to inflation and corruption
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one effect of McCarthyism
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A political and cultural conformity that discouraged dissent
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What group was excluded from the Levittowns
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African Americans
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Most Sig. Social trend in postwar America
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Flight 2 the suburbs
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What was crucial to suburb life
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An automobile
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Dr. Benjamins Spocks book was about
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Infant and child care
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Dominant social theme of 1950's
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consumerism
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Who were the bears
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writers and poets who rebelled against materialistic Values
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by 1960's most racially integrated institution was
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the armed forces
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Brown v. Board of ED
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said segregation violated the 14th amendment
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MLK JR's philosophy
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advocated nonviolent and passive resistance
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where did theSit-In movement began
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Greensboro, NC
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Why was the student nonviolent coordinating committee founded
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to stage peaceful civil rights protests
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Why did some people criticize suburb life
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Dislike conformity and uniformity of it.
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Govt increased federal funding for science education because of
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Sputnik
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1950's american contradiction
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segregation while denouncing soviets because of their lack of human rights
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Because of Brown v. Board of Ed
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Slow process of integrating schools began.
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Why did Eisenhower send troops to Little Rock,
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So the black student could attend desegregated school
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Montgomery bus boycott
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led to MLK Jr' as a civil rights leader
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Political activism change from 50's to 60's
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direct peaceful confrontation vs. reliance on court action
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Attitude toward religion in the 50;s
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positive religious affiliation boomed
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postwar life and Women
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Many who joined work force returned to wife and mother roles
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Major factor why Kennedy beat Nixon
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Performance in first televised debate
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Failed 1961 operation
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The Bay of Pigs
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African American prominent post
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Thurgood Marshall
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1961 Freedom ride was
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A protest against the segregated bus system
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When Johnson became pres. he focused on
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Passing JFK's tax and civil rights bills
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Johnsons reform program was called the_____
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Great Society
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Most prominent student protest group fo the 1960's
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Students for a democratic society
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Main issue college students protested
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the vietnam war
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Advocated "Black Power"
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Stokely Carmichael
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Involved in conflict of N vs. S Vietnam because____
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wanted to stop the spread of communism
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Johnsons must bear great responsibilities for the American problems in Vietnam
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failed to confront the pople about the reality of the war
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African American Acitivism 1960's
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became more militant
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How did African American activism influence other ethnic groups?
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They became inspired to launch their own protests'
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Moral Majority
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a religious fundamentalist group
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SALT treaties involved
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reduction of U.S. and Soviet missiles
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Greatest economic challenge faced by Nixon
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Increase in oil prices
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First woman on Supreme court
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Sandra Day O' Conner
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birth of the gay liberation movement
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Stonewall riots
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side supply economics
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That tax cuts will lead to an economic boom
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Iran-Contra Affair
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a scandal in which the govt tried to sell weapons to both Nigeria and Iran
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Why did Nixon resume relations with China
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believed it would force better relations with Soviets
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Kent State student protested because
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The Invasion of Cambodia
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Watergate
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Nixon tried to hide his involvement with spying for his campaign
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Bill Clinton on gay and lesbian in Military
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Don't ask, Dont' Tell
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Reagen foreign approach
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Soviet Union was a deadly enemy
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What influence Reagen and Mikhail Gorbachevs meeting
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Gorbachev was interested in making peace
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Reagen vs. new deal
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thought private sector should solve Americas problems not the Govt.
