U.S. History

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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