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John Adams
Second president, american patriot, first vice president. -
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Informally known as Commodore Vanderbilt, american business magnate, philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. -
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George Washington
The first president, was one of the founding fathers, was a soldier and an american politician -
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Thomas Jefferson
Third president, founding father, author of the declaration of independence, -
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James Madison
Fourth President, american statesman, founding father -
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James Monroe
fifth president, american statesmen -
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Temperance Movement
social movement against the consumption of alcohol -
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John Quincy Adams
sixth president, american statesmen who served as a diplomat, US senator, member of the house of representatives -
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Andrew Jackson
seventh president, american soldier and statesman -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-american industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the american steel industry. -
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Martin Van Buren
eighth president, founder of the democratic party, served a number of senior roles, eighth vice president and tenth secretary of state, both under Andrew Jackson -
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JP Morgan
American Financier, and banker, who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation -
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John D. Rockefeller
An american oil industry business magnate, industrialist, philanthropist -
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Women's Suffrage
wanted the legal right for women to vote, Women's rights -
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William Henry Harrison
Ninth president, american military officer, principal contributor to the war of 1812, shortest presidency -
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John Tyler
Tenth president, elected to the latter office on the 1840 Whig ticket with president William Henry Harrison -
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Communism
An economic political policy -
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Communism
An economic political policy -
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Communism
An economic political policy -
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James K. Polk
Eleventh president, previously served as the 13th speaker of the house of representatives and as the governor of Tennessee -
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Zachary Taylor
Twelfth president, before he was a career officer in the US army, rose to the rank of major -
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Millard Fillmore
thirteenth president, the last to be a member of the Whig party while in the white house -
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Franklin Pierce
fourteenth president, northern democrat, he saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation -
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James Buchanan
fifteenth president, served immediately prior to the american civil war -
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Abraham Lincoln
sixteenth president, american statesman, and lawyer, assassinated on April 15, 1865 -
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Andrew Johnson
seventeenth president, was vice president when Lincoln was assassinated -
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KKK
They advocate extremist reactionary positions like white supremacy -
Farmers revolt
The government was taking their land so they started to revolt and burn their crops so no one could have them -
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Ulysses S. Grant
eighteenth president, commanding general of the US army at the end of the american civil war -
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Gilded Age
Rapid economic growth, Americans were getting paid more so there was a lot of Europeans that came to America, Railroads were the major growth industry. Poverty and inequality was a very large subject for the immigrants. -
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Nineteenth president, became president at the end of the reconstruction era of the US through a complex compromise -
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James A. Garfield
twentieth president, assassinated the same year he was elected -
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Chester A. Arthur
twenty-first president, american attorney and politician, -
Invention of the machine gun
A fully automatic portable gun used in trench warfare -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, Diplomat, and activist. Longest serving first lady of the united states. -
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Grover Cleveland
twenty-second president, american politician, lawyer, the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office -
USS Maine Explosion
Exploded in February killing 268 men and shocking the american populace -
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Benjamin Harrison
twenty-third president, american politician and lawyer, the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison -
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Adolf Hitler
German politician, Leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany and Fuhrer of the Nazi Germany. Killed so many Jews -
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Progressive Era
Widespread social activism and political reform. Wanted to eliminate corruption in the government, targeted political machines and their bosses. -
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Grover Cleveland
twenty-fourth president, only president to serve two non-consecutive terms -
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Babe Ruth
American Professional baseball player, he holds the record for the most seasons -
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William McKinley
Twenty-fifth president -
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Amelia Earhart
American Aviation pioneer and author. she was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. -
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Spanish American War
The war was between the United States and Spain, started because of the USS Maine explosion, America won. -
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Imperialism era
Aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the world. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Twenty-sixth president. american statesman, author, explorer, and naturalist, -
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William Howard Taft
Twenty-seventh president. 10th chief of justice -
Triangle Shirt Waste Factory
killed 146 people, the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and the US -
Child Labor Laws Written
Restricts the employment and abuse of children -
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Woodrow Wilson
Twenty-eighth president, american statesmen and academic -
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World War I
It was called the war to end all wars, -
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Trench warfare
Soldiers would dig trenches then they would be at a standstill wth whoever they were fighting, there was a space between called no mans land -
Invention of poison gas
Poisonous gas used to fight against the other side -
Treaty of Versailles
World war l ended with the signing of this document -
Roaring Twenties
the nations wealth doubled, there were flappers, women could now vote -
Jazz Age
began at the end of the great depression, like the roaring twenties just with jazz music and different dances -
League of Nations
Was founded as a result of the Paris peace conference -
Prohibition
The ban of alcohol -
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Nazi Party
The Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party, A far right political party. Practiced the ideology of Nazism -
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Great depression
a worldwide severe economic depression. Lots of homeless people, there was little people could afford, No one was thriving everyone had something going on economically. -
Hollywood's Golden Age
People would go to see films at least once a week, It was a way to distract themselves from the hardships they were facing -
Hoovervilles
Place where the homeless would stay -
Concentration camps built
Camps for Jews where hitler would kill them -
Bonus army
43,000 marchers, 17,000 war veterans, their families and affiliated groups, they demanded back pay -
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Sea-Biscuit
Champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the US. He became a symbol of hope to many Americans during the great depression -
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Holocaust
A genocide during World War II, in which Adolf Hitler and his followers killed some 6 million Jews -
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War Admiral
American thoroughbred racehorse, the fourth winner of the american triple crown, horse of the year. rival of sea-biscuit. -
Kristallnacht
Thousand of Jews lost their lives -
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World War II
was a global war whose conflicts were from much earlier -
Killing centers
Places where hitler would kill millions of people -
People moved to ghettos
A place for Jews to live while they were awaiting their terrible fate -
Nuremberg trials
Trials after the Jews were saved from hitlers wrath -
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Cold War
geopolitical tension between the powers in the eastern and western bloc -
Alaska joins the union
President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska as the 49th largest state -
Hawaii joins the union
it is still the most recent state to join the United States