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Cattle Industry
Texas became independent, the Mexican left, leaving their cattle behind.Texan farmers claimed the cattle and set up their own ranches. Beef was not popular so the animals were used for their skins and tallow. In the late !850s, beef began to be more popular and its pricce rose making some rancers qutie wealthy. -
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Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic political machine that dominated New York City politics form the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello LaGaurdia in 1934 -
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Eugene V. Debs
began his rise to prominece in indians's terre haute lodge of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen. he entered polictics as a democratic city clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the indiana state assembly with braod support from terre hautes workers and businessmen. -
Compromise of 1877
a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intesley disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the reconstrucion era. -
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President Rutherford B. Hayes
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Exodusters
a name given to african americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the exoduster movement or exodus of 1879. -
James A. Garfield
20th president, Republican -
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Chester Arthur
21st president, Republican -
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Grover Cleveland
22nd president,Democrat -
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Benjamin Harrison
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McKinley Tariff
In 1890, William McKinley, a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio, introduced a tariff bill, which became known as the McKinley Tariff. -
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Grover Cleveland
24th president, democrat -
USS Maine
the first united states navy ship to be named after the state Maine. -
Spanish American War
Cuban Independence -
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William McKinley
25th president, republican -
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spanish american war
a conflict between spain and the untied states. the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban war of Independence -
Open Door Policy
a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th president, republican -
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william howard taft
27th president, republican -
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Angel Island
many chinese immigrants were forced to prove they had husband or father who was a U.S. citizen or be deported. -
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woodrow wilison
28th president, democrat -
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WW1
global war centered in Europe, Hungary assasinated by a serbain terriost, set off a chain reaction -
Lusitania
Britsih passenger ship was sunk on May 7, 1915-128 Americans killed -
Schenck v. United States
US supreme court decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during WW1 -
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Warren G. Harding
29th president, republican -
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calvin coolidge
30th president, republican -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
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Herbert Hoover
bad president, created the hoover dam -
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herbert hoover
31st president, republican -
The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agricultire of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
Sundown Town
A sundown town is a twon, city, or neighborhood in the United States that is purposely all-white, exluding people of other races. -
good neighbor policy
the foreign policy of the administration of United States president Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America. -
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The New Deal
a series of domestic programs enacted in the united states between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president, Democratic -
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WW2
global war, treaty of versailles created sepression in Europe and resentment in Germany. Countries were economically ruined and people feared communism in the East -
Lend- Lease Act
premitted president Roosevelt to sell, transfer title to exchange, lease, land or otherwise dispose of, to any such government -
War Bonds
debt securities issued by a government to finace military operations and other expenditure in times of war -
atomic bomb
US dropped atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki during the final stage of the second world war. -
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Internment Camps
Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during WW2 between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country -
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Harry S. Truman
33rd president, democratic -
Truman Docrine
an american foreign oilicy to stop soviet imperalism during the cold war -
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Cold War
a state of political and military tension after world war II between powers in the western bloc and powers in eastern bloc. -
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berlin blockade
one of the first major international crises of the cold war. durign the multinatioal occupation of post, wwII germany, the soviet union blocked the wester allies railway, raod, and canal access to the secotrs of berlin under western control -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president, republican -
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Vietnam War
long costly armed conflict that ptted the commnist regime of North Vietnam and its Southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the US -
Interstate Highway System
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States. -
U-2 incident
during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premisership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a Untied states U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace -
The New frontier
used by liberal, democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 united states presidential election to the democratic national convention at the los angeles memorial coliseum as the democratic slogan to inspire america to support him -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what ecame a botched invasion at the bay of pigs on the south coast of cuba. -
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John F. Kennedy
35th president, democratic -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
36th president, democratic party -
Immigration Act of 1965
abolished the National Origins formula that had een in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 -
voting rights act of 1965
signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising thier right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Consitution of the Untied States. -
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Richard Nixon
37th president, republican party -
Watergate
a major political scandal that occured in the united states in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the democratic national committee headquaters at the watergatre office complex in washington, D.C. -
SALT Treaties
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on may 26, 1972, in moscow. -
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Gerald Ford
38th president, republican party -
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Jimmy Carter
39th president, democratic party -
camp david accords
signed by egyptian president anwar el sadat and israeli prime minister menachem begin on 17 september 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at camp david -
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Ronald Reagan
40th president, republican party -
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George Bush
41st president, republican party -
De Jure segregation
separation enforced by law, while de facto segreagation occurs when widespread individual preferences, sometimes backed up with private pressure, lead to seperation. -
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Bill Clinton
42nd president, democratic party -
9/11 terriorts attacks
militants associated iwth the Islamic ectremist group al- Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the untied states, two of the planes were flown into the twin towers in new york city and a third plane hit the pentagon just outside washington, the fourth plane crashed in a field in pennsylvania. -
Patriot Act
Act of Congrfess that was signed into law by President George W. Bush, Uniting and Strengthening America by provididng appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruce terrorism act of 2001. -
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George W. Bush
43rd president, republican party -
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Barack Obama
44th president, democratic party -
Brown v. Board of Education
unanimously held that the racial segreation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
