U.S. after 1865 Vocabulary

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U.S. after 1865 Vocabulary
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Reviewing Reconstruction
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Politician from Tennessee who became President
after the assassination of Lincoln, and later
became the first President to be impeached (but
found not guilty)

• Zachary Taylor
• Woodrow Wilson
• Andrew Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson

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People who moved to the South during or following
the Civil War, helped bring Republican control of
southern state governments during Reconstruction
and were bitterly resented by most white
Southerners

• Yankees
• Carpetbaggers
• Immigrants
• Scalawags

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Laws requiring that facilities and
accommodations, public and private, be segregated
by race

• Plessy Laws
• Ferguson Laws
• Jim Crow Laws
• KKK Laws

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A secret society organized in the South after the
Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of
terrorism

• The Ku Klux Klan
• The Redeemers
• The Enforcers
• The Free Masons

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A payment meant to keep certain groups of people
(mainly former slaves and African-Americans) from
being allowed to vote

• Grandfather clause
• Literacy Tests
• Poll Tax
• Excise Tax

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II. Closing of the Western Frontier
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The nickname given to black soldiers with the
U.S. Cavalry who helped to spread the U.S.
westward in the decades following the Civil War

• Buffalo Soldiers
• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• The Massachusetts 54th

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A Native American movement in the 1890s that
believed a ritualistic ceremony would result in
reanimation of Indian dead and defeat of white
invaders in the West

• Flight of the Bumble bee
• The Ghost Dance
• Dances with Wolves
• Ode to Our Fathers

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U.S. Cavalry General whose unwise and reckless
conduct got him and over 200 soldier of the
Seventh Cavalry killed at the Battle of Little
Big Horn

• John J. Dunbar
• John J. Pershing
• George Custer
• Douglas MacArthur

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A group of American farmers who united in the
late 19th century to lobby Congress to pass laws
protecting them from unfair business practices of
large industry

• Farmers Alliance of America (FAA)
• Farmers for Rights (FFR)
• Rangers
• Grangers

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A political party formed after the civil war who
opposed reduction in the amount of paper money in
circulation

• The Grange
• The Democrats
• The Greenbacks
• The Federalists

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Legislation passed in 1862 allowing any citizen
or applicant for citizenship over 21 years old
and head of a family to acquire 160 acres of
public land by living on and cultivating it for
five years

• The Townshend Act
• The Homestead Act
• The Land Grant Act
• The Westward Act

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III. Industrialism
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Scottish-born American industrialist made his
fortune in the steel industry

• John D. Rockefeller
• Henry Ford
• William Wallace
• Andrew Carnegie

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The New York industrialist who made hundreds of
millions of dollars in the 19th century with his
Standard Oil Company and pioneered the corporate
strategy of vertical integration

• Commodore Vanderbilt
• Henry Ford
• Nelson Rockefeller
• John D. Rockefeller

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American capitalists of the latter part of the
19th century who became wealthy through
exploitation (as of natural resources,
governmental influence, or low wage scales)

• Vandals
• Socialists
• Robber Barons
• Philanthropolist

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The theory that people are subject to natural
selection and wealth was a sign of superiority

• The Gospel of Wealth
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Social Darwinism

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French term which means allow to do, the
philosophy that government should stay out of the
market

• feminin
• laissez-faire
• adieu
• souffle

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When one company controls the market for a
certain product, there is no competition

• socialism
• communism
• open market
• monopoly

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Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park, he is famous
for hundred of inventions, including the
incandescent light bulb, phonograph, the
Dictaphone, and many more

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• George Washington Carver
• Ben Franklin

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IV. Immigration
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A law, passed in 1882, forbade (disallowed) any
laborers from China to enter the United States
for 10 years

• The Gentlemens Agreement
• The Nativists Act
• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Anti-Chinese Act

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A founder of Hull House, a settlement house that
helped immigrants of the late 19th century become
acclimated to life in the United States, and was
a pioneer in the field of social work

• Jane Addams
• Marcus Hull
• Susan B. Anthony
• Edward L. Hull

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A rise in a society's city population

• Urbanization
• Suburbanization
• Immigration
• Migration

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V. Progressivism
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A political reform movement in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries to protect working class
citizens

• Progressivism
• Imperialism
• Colonialism
• Commercialism

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An American invention of John Audubon and others
who wished to protect natural habitat from man in
the 19th century. They lobbied for parks and
human exclusion from the wild

• The Conservation Movement
• The Progressive Movement
• Interventionism
• Environmentalism

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A group of authors and journalists who wrote of
horrible working conditions in American industry
in the early 20th century, resulting in more
governmental protection of workers

• The Lost Generation
• Suffragettes
• Yellow Journalists
• Muckrakers

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Laws and regulations designed to protect trade
and commerce from unfair business practices

• Muckrakers
• Anti-Imperialism
• Anti-Corporations
• Anti-Trusts

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26th President hero of the Spanish-American War
Panama canal built during his administration
said Speak softly but carry a big stick
considered by many to be the 1st conservation
President

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson

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Teddy Roosevelt's plans to help safeguard the
rights of workers

• The New Deal
• The New Frontier
• The Square Deal
• The Great Society

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28th President of the United States led the
United States in World War I and secured the
formation of the League of Nations

• William McKinley
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Howard Taft
• Woodrow Wilson

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This amendment gave women the right to vote

• The 17th Amendment
• The 18th Amendment
• The 19th Amendment
• The 20th Amendment

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This amendment made personal income tax
permanent

• The 16th Amendment
• The 18th Amendment
• The 19th Amendment
• The 20th Amendment

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This amendment provided for the direct election
of U.S. senators

• The 17th Amendment
• The 18th Amendment
• The 20th Amendment
• The 21st Amendment

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VI. Imperialism
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Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy in Latin
America

• Dollar Diplomacy
• Big Stick Diplomacy
• Interventionism
• Open Door Policy

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These are international relations influenced by
economic considerations

• Dollar Diplomacy
• Moral Diplomacy
• Interventionism
• Open Door Policy

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A U.S. foreign policy that all countries should
have equal access with China

• Open Door Policy
• Boxer Policy
• Moral Diplomacy
• Dollar Diplomacy

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Connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through
Central America

• The Suez Canal
• The Panama Canal
• The Strait of Gibraltar
• The Strait of Panama

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This policy reasserted the U.S. position as
protector of the Western Hemisphere, and stated
that the U.S. can act as a police power in that
region.

• Wilson Doctrine
• Wilson Corollary
• Monroe Doctrine
• Roosevelt Corollary

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A regiment in the Spanish-American War organized
and led by Theodore Roosevelt that included
cowboys, miners, policemen, and college athletes

• The Rough Riders
• The Buffalo Soldiers
• The Calvary Elite
• The Three Amigos

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A conflict in which the U.S. gained many island
territories, particularly Puerto Rico, Guam and
the Philippines.

• The War of 1812
• The Spanish-American War
• World War I
• World War II

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26th President hero of the Spanish-American War
Panama canal built during his administration
said Speak softly but carry a big stick
considered by many to be the 1st conservation
President

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson

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This was the use of sensationalized news in
newspaper publishing to attract readers and
increase circulation

• Muckraking
• The Dredge Report
• Yellow Journalism
• Dollar Journalism

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U.S. Since 1865 Vocabulary

• Mr. Shultz

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U.S. from 1865 Vocabulary Part II

• I. WWI
• II. 1920s
• III. 1930s
• IV. WWII
• V. The Cold War
• VI. The Civil Rights Movement
• The 1960s
• Economic Terms
• Modern Issues

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I. World War I
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This is a policy of nonparticipation in
international affairs.

• Internationalism
• Interventionism
• Isolationism
• Imperialism

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The sinking of this ship brought the U.S. into
WWI.

• Maine
• Lusitania
• Titanic
• Chesapeake

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28th President of the United States led the
United States in World War I and secured the
formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924).

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• Woodrow Wilson

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Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an
ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with
the U.S.

• Zimmerman Note
• Kaiser Note
• Roosevelt Telegram
• Bismarck Telegram

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VIII. The 1920s
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This baseball great played for the New York
Yankees, was the Home Run King until 1974, and
is often credited with saving the game of
baseball after the disgrace of the 1919 World
Series.

• Lou Gehrig
• Babe Ruth
• Charles Lindbergh
• Sammy Sosa

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This amendment prohibited the sale and use of
alcoholic beverages.

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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He was the first man to pilot the first solo
non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927
aboard his airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.

• Lou Gehrig
• Babe Ruth
• Charles Lindbergh
• Amelia Earhart

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The nickname given to women of the 1920s who wore
their dresses short, their hair shorter, and
lived a very active social life.

• Suffragettes
• Flappers
• The Feminist Movement
• The Feminine Mystique

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This was the movement in the early 1900s which
resorted to violent crime.

• Imperialism
• Nationalism
• Industrialism
• Gangsterism

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This was the period during 1920s of outstanding
creativity centered in New York's black ghetto.

• Progressivism
• Urbanism
• Black Renewal
• Harlem Renaissance

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U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s.

• Isolationism
• Collectivism
• Internationalism
• Imperialism

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This was a secret society organized in the South
after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy
by means of terrorism.

• Good Ole Boys
• Ku Klux Klan
• Skinheads
• Rough Riders

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In the late 19th century, this political and
social movement swept through the United States,
its followers believing that all people who were
not born in the U.S. and were of European
heritage should be banned from the country.

• Protectionism
• Chauvinism
• Nativism
• The Great Awakening

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This was the outlawing of the sale, production,
or transportation of alcoholic beverages.

• Inhibition
• Prohibition
• Protectionism
• Tolerance Act

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This was the period after WWI which saw massive
upheaval in the U.S. and fear of many foreigners.
It was characterized by widespread fears of
Communist influence on U.S. society and Communist
infiltration of the U.S. government.

• McCarthyism
• Anti-Communism
• The Red Menace
• The Red Scare

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This was a murder trial in Massachusetts in 1920
which stirred national emotion about the death of
two Italian immigrants. They believed themselves
to be victims of social and political prejudice.

• Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg
• Plessy and Ferguson
• Sacco and Venzetti
• Bonnie and Clyde

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This was brought about due to the teaching of
evolution in a Tennessee classroom.

• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• The Scopes Trial
• Brown v. Board of Education

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This was a movement to give females the right to
vote.

• Womens Suffrage
• Womens Rights
• Equal Rights Amendment
• The Flapper Movement

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IX. The 1930s
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During the Great Depression (specifically 1932),
this group of veterans protested in Washington,
D.C., to receive their bonus for fighting in
World War I, though payment was not required
until the next decade.

• 52nd Rainbow Division
• 101st Airborne Division
• The Bonus Boys
• The Bonus Army

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This was the term given to the area of the Great
Plains that was most greatly affected during the
Great Drought of the 1930's.

• The Cotton Bowl
• The Dust Bowl
• The Prairie
• Death Valley

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This was a period of global economic crisis that
lasted from 1929 to 1939. There was widespread
poverty and high unemployment.

• The Dust Bowl
• The Red Scare
• The Great Depression
• Prohibition

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This was the programs and policies to promote
economic recovery and social reform introduced
during the 1930's by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.

• The Square Deal
• The New Deal
• The New Freedom
• The Great Society

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This is a federal government program that
provides income support to people who are
unemployed, disabled, or over the age of 65.

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Civilian Conservation Corporation (CCC)
• Social Security

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X. World War II
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This was the totalitarian leader of Nazi Germany
during World War II.

• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Winston Churchill
• Douglas MacArthur

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This was a United States general who supervised
the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi
Germany 34th President of the United States
(1890-1961).

• Erwin Rommel
• Dwight Eisenhower
• William Westmoreland
• Douglas MacArthur

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This was a United States general who served as
chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the
South Pacific during World War II he accepted
the surrender of Japan (1880-1964).

• Erwin Rommel
• Dwight Eisenhower
• William Westmoreland
• Douglas MacArthur

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This was a British statesman and leader during
World War II.

• Nevelle Chamberlain
• Paul McCarthy
• Winston Churchill
• John Lenin

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These were the nations united against the Axis
during World War II.

• Triple Entente
• Triple Alliance
• The Central Powers
• The Allies

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This was the alliance of nations that opposed the
Allies in World War II.

• Triple Entente
• Triple Alliance
• The Central Powers
• The Axis

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This was a rapid new attack method used by Nazi
Germany in WWII.

• Blitzkrieg
• Shock and Awe
• Gutentag
• Auf Wiedersehen

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This was the act of genocide carried out by
Germany on the Jewish population of Europe.

• Krystal Nacht
• Holocaust
• My Lai Massacre
• Juden Mass Murder

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Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of
western Europe that began on June 6, 1944.

• The Battle of the Bulge
• Belgium Invasion
• Normandy Invasion
• Battle of the Marne

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Nazi World War II criminals were tried during
these before an international tribunal.

• Berlin War Trials
• Nuremberg War Trials
• Bad Godesberg War Trials
• The Inquisition

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This is the U.S. Naval base attacked by the
Japanese that brought the U.S. into WW II.

• Midway Island
• Hawaii
• Alameda Naval Air Station (NAS)
• Pearl Harbor

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This is a centralized government that does not
tolerate opposing political opinions.

• Totalitarianism
• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Republic

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XI. The Cold War
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This was a delivery of supplies in a German city
to circumvent the Soviet blockade.

• Berlin Airlift
• Munich Airlift
• Allied Transport
• Axis Transport

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This is the name given to the general reduction
in the tension between the Soviet Union and the
United States that occurred from the late 1960s
until the start of the 1980s.

• Diminution
• Détente
• Cool Down
• Adieu

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This was a national conflict in an Asian country
aided by Russia in the North and the U.S. in the
South (1950-1953).

• Russo-Japanese War
• The Vietnam War
• The Korean War
• The Persian Gulf War

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This was unscrupulously accusing people of
disloyalty to the United States (as by saying
they were Communists, usually with sketchy or no
evidence).

• McCarthyism
• Trumanism
• The Red Scare
• The Red Menace

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This was a Cold War competition between the U.S.
and Soviet powers for space exploration.

• Sputnik
• The Apollo Program
• Space Race
• Rocket Race

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This said that the United States would aid any
nation in resisting the growing threat of
communism and became the guiding force of
American foreign policy during the Cold War.

• The Monroe Doctrine
• The Truman Doctrine
• The McCarthy Plan
• The Marshall Plan

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This is an international organization created
following World War II to provide a way to
negotiate disputes.

• League of Nations
• A League of Their Own
• The United Nations
• NATO

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This was a military alliance between the Soviet
Union and the countries of Eastern Europe.

• NATO
• The Molotov Plan
• The Moscow Pact
• The Warsaw Pact

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XII. The Civil Rights Movement
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This 1954 Supreme Court case, declared that the
segregation doctrine of separate but equal, was
not Constitutional when applied to the public
school system.

• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Kramer v. Kramer

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This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that
established the legality of racial segregation so
long as facilities were separate but equal.

• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Kramer v. Kramer

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This was a U.S. educator and reformer. He became
perhaps the most prominent African American
leader of his time.

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Booker T. Washington
• Marcus Garvey
• George Washington Carver

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Signed into law by President Johnson, this bill
protected African Americans and women from job
discrimination and any discrimination in public
places.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Equal Rights Amendment 1964
• Equal Rights Amendment 1968

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Laws requiring that facilities and
accommodations, public and private, be segregated
by race.

• Grandfather Clause
• Poll Tax
• Jim Crow Laws
• Literacy Law

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Often associated with confrontational Civil
Rights protest, he was a leader in the Nation of
Islam in the United States, an early advocate of
Black Power, but became a more moderate voice
in the Civil Rights movement before his
assassination in 1965.

• Elijah Muhammad
• Malcolm X
• Dr. Martin Luther King
• W.E.B. Du Bois

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This is the oldest and largest U.S. civil rights
organization. Members of this have referred to it
as The National Association.

• ACLU
• Ku Klux Klan
• NAIA
• NAACP

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This is the movement aimed at equal rights for
women.

• Equal Rights Amendment
• The Civil Rights Movement
• The Anti-Establishment Movement
• The Feminist Movement

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XIII. The 1960s
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This is the name given to President Lyndon B.
Johnsons domestic programs, among them VISTA,
Job Corps, Head Start, the War on Poverty, and
the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

• The New Deal
• The New Freedom
• The New Frontier
• The Great Society

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The 35th President of the United States, he was
known for authorizing the failed Bay of Pigs
invasion, successfully leading the country during
the Cuban Missile Crisis, and for being
assassinated while in Dallas, Texas, in November
of 1963.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard M. Nixon

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These are people opposed to violence to attain
end goals.

• Hawks
• Conscientious Objectors
• Pacifists
• Gandhittes