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- thirteenth amendment
- ends slavery
- fourteenth amendment
- full citizenship rights to all Americans born in the US
- fifteenth amendment
- right to vote is not denied by race, color or previous condition of servitude
- black codes
- concern of white south that blacks would take over the labor
- pendleton act
- civil service exams for congress, merit vs. the spoils system
- robber barons
- rich men accused of unfair business practices
- social darwinism
- the belief that the most fit to survive are the wealthy in society
- manifest destiny
- America should expand and spread its democracy
- roosevelt corollary
- US is the policemen of western hemisphere
- populist party
- western farmers, opposition to the gold standard
- omaha platform
- adopted at the convention of populist party
- william jennings bryan
- moralistic pacifism, frowned upon use of force and US should set example for other countries
- cross of gold speech
- standardize the dollar to silver and gold
- battle of the standards
- debate over whether to use gold of silver as standard of money
- robert lafollete
- opponent of league of nations, opposed to growing dominance of corporations over government
- new freedom
- progressive congress, included income tax, underwood tariff, federal reserve act, and federal trade commision
- morgan loans
- wealthy men loaned money to france and britain, problematic for US neutrality
- zimmerman telegram
- brought US into WW, to Mexico that if they enter war they will get back the land they lost to US
- fourteen points
- if the world followed these, there would be no more world wars, no secret alliances
- washington's naval conference
- return to american isolationsim, american businessmen didn't want more money spent to back up the navy
- national women's party
- fought for women's rights to vote, bring purity back to government
- nineteenth amendment
- gave women right to vote
- scopes monkey trial
- against teaching evolution, out of touch with technology
- national origins act
- nativism, keep european immigrants from non-northern countries out
- dust bowl
- economy was ruined, dust storm that ruined the land.
- hooverviles
- place in middle class urban america that was hit by dust bowl, bread and soup lines
- bonus army
- ww1 veterans demanded pensions early, us sent troops, americans sided with the veterans
- fireside chats
- roosevelt talked to americans, restored their confidence, people started trusting him
- hundred days
- series of acts-- emergency banking act, economy act, fdic, aaa, nira, pwa, ccc, tva
- keynesisan economics
- federal government needs to put money into the system to get it started
- wpa
- work relief program, built airports, bridges, 1/3 of population put to work
- social security
- rejects notion of self help, people have something to fall back on
- wagner act
- collective bargaining, recognized unions but prohibit company unions
- kellogg-briand pact
- outlaw militarism, anti war agreement
- neutrality act
- cash and carry basis, no interaction with belligerent nations
- quarantine speech
- fascism needs to be quarantined
- pearl harbor
- attack by japan, after roosevelt stopped shipping them oil
- japanese american internment
- relocation and internment of japanese americans and nationals
- potsdam conference
- truman and the atomic bomb, don't need stalin
- hiroshima
- unconditional surrender or ruin, later was nagaski
- containment
- communism cannot be allowed to spread or expand its influence
- truman doctrine
- failure to step in with europe will endanger US
- marshall plan
- economic recovery plan for europe
- berlin airlift
- blockade city in hopes that it will fall to communism
- nsc-68
- not containment anymore, building up american forces and work on h-bomb, want to wipe out communism
- korean war
- north and south korea
- brown vs. board
- segregation unequal, schools must integrate
- montgomery bus boycott
- rosa parks, nonviolent tactics
- martin luther king jr.
- march on washington, led southern christian leadership conference
- civil disobedience
- protesting peacefully, nonviolence
- sncc
- student nonviolent coordinating committee
- great society
- welfare system, johnson's idea
- civil rights act
- no public discrimination
- malcolm x
- led black rights activists
- viet minh
- wanted sovereignty for vietnam, ho chi minh modeled after declaration of independence
- viet cong
- civilians in south that fought for north vietnam, confused with innocent
- gulf of tonkin
- president got license to do whatever he wanted with the war in vietnam
- port huron statment
- declaration of activism, from u of m
- sds
- students for democratic society, open protesting, anti war marches
- woodstock
- 3 days of peace and music
- kent state
- protesting students got shot by national guard
- tet offensive
- brought middle class america into anti war effort, thought they were being lied to
- suez canal
- nasser to revenue from here to pay for aswan dam
- eisenhower doctrine
- us will intervene miliarily if communism tries to take power
- opec
- started embargo of oil, led to energy crisis, realized had power to raise money of oil
- war powers act
- president can send us forces, 48 notification, 60 days to remove
- gamal adbal nasser
- pres of egypt, middle east into era of determinism