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Columbus Discovers the “New World”

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Launched centuries of European exploration and colonization of the American continent.

Conquest of Tenochtitlan

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Destroyed the Aztec empire, and the Spanish began to consolidate control over what became the colony of New Spain

Roanoke Settlement

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The first popular uprising in the American colonies. It was long viewed as an early revolt against English tyranny

King Philip’s War

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War that pitted Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies. Paved the way for additional English settlements

Bacon’s Rebellion

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Permanent North American settlement with the purpose of harassing Spanish shipping, mining for gold and silver, discovering a passage to the Pacific Ocean, and Christianizing the Indians

Civilization

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state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, and government has been reached.

Mercantilism

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An economic system built on the assumption that the world's supply of wealth is fixed and that nations must export more goods than they import to assure a steady supply of gold and silver into national coffers. Mercantile thinkers saw the inflow of such wealth as the key to maintaining and enhancing national power and self-sufficiency. Within this context, the accumulation and development of colonies was of great importance, since colonies could supply scarce raw materials to parent nations and serve as markets for finished goods.

Columbian Exchange

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The process of transferring plants, animals, foods, diseases, wealth, and culture between Europe and the Americas, beginning at the time of Christopher Columbus and continuing throughout the era of exploration and expansion.

Southern Colonies

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Colonies focused on cash crops.

Chattel Slavery

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Total ownership of one person over another.

Middle Colonies

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Colonies with a large agricultural base. Because of location they were key distribution centers in the English Mercantile System

Puritans

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Religious reform movement in the 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the church of England.

Triangular Trade

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Economic exchange amongst three markets and geographies

Encomienda System

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The government in Spain gave away large tracts of conquered land in Spanish America, including whole villages of indigenous peoples, to court favorites, including many conquistadores. These new landlords were supposed to educate the natives and teach them the Roman Catholic faith. The system was rife with abuse, however. Landlords rarely offered much education, preferring instead to exploit the labor of the local inhabitants, whom they treated like slaves.

Indentured Servant

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In an effort to entice English subjects to the colonies, parties would offer legal bonded contracts that would exchange the cost of passage across the Atlantic for up to seven years of labor in America.

New England Colonies

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Colonies founded by the Puritans for religious purposes. Goal was to create a society as God intended.

French and Indian War

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Part of the Seven Years' War in Europe. Britain and France fought for control of the Ohio Valley and Canada. The colonies fought under British commanders. Britain eventually won, and gained control of all of the remaining French possessions in Canada.

Boston Tea Party

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A group of colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773

First Continental Congress

mwayoub — 2023-09-13 20:47:14 UTC

A Philadelphia meeting that brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts."

Declaration of Independence

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A resolution created by the Continental Congress, which broke all ties between colonists and the British, creating the idea in America that the colonies were now "states"

Shay’s Rebellion

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An uprising of rural, indebted farmers in western Massachusetts, against Boston creditors. It began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation.

Constitutional Convention

mwayoub — 2023-09-13 21:06:05 UTC

A Philadelphia meeting that brought together representatives form each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Washington’s Farewell Address

mwayoub — 2023-09-13 21:09:37 UTC

Printed in newspapers, this was largely a warning against political parties and permanent foreign alliances

Proclamation Line of 1763

mwayoub — 2023-09-17 19:38:14 UTC

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east

Articles of Confederation

mwayoub — 2023-09-17 19:40:17 UTC

Before the American constitution, this established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes

Enlightenment

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An eighteenth-century philosophical movement that began in Western Europe with roots in the Scientific Revolution

Patriot

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A colonist who rebelled against British rule

Federalists

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Albany Plan of Union

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Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the (British) Crown

Great Compromise

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The decision to have a bicameral legislature, one house based on population, and one house with an equal number of representatives for every state.

Tory

mwayoub — 2023-09-17 20:04:31 UTC

A colonist who supported British rule

Anti Federalists

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Supporters of the Articles of Confederation, not the Constitution. They fear a tyrannical national government with too much power and strongly advocate for the Bill of Rights.

Northwest Ordinance

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One of the biggest accomplishments of the Articles of Confederation. This established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union

Three-Fifths Compromise

mwayoub — 2023-09-17 20:09:19 UTC

Determined that each slave would be counted as three fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation.

Salutary Neglect

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A period from the early 1600s to the mid 1700s where British Parliamentary Laws were not enforced on the colonists

Newburgh Conspiracy

mwayoub — 2023-09-17 20:13:14 UTC

Near the end of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army had not received pay for many years and threatened to abandon the fight, if they were not compensated

Louisiana Purchase

mwayoub — 2023-09-28 21:30:56 UTC

A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars

War of 1812

mwayoub — 2023-09-28 21:31:51 UTC

A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.

White House Burned

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General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg

Market Revolution

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Americans moving away from self-sufficient agriculture to production of goods for sale

Missouri Compromise

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Congress admitted Maine as a free state in 1820 so that Missouri would become a slave state and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36 30, the southern boundary of Missouri

Seneca Falls Convention

mwayoub — 2023-09-28 21:39:31 UTC

Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.

Political Party

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Group of persons organized to acquire and exercise political power

Women's Rights Movement

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The fight for the suffrage (voting) for half of the population

Canals

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Human-made waterways connecting natural bodies of water, very important for early travel

Telegraph

mwayoub — 2023-10-01 19:39:06 UTC

Machine invented by Samuel Morse that used a system of dots and dashes to send messages across long distances electronically through a wire. It connected the different hemispheres of the world, allowing for more communication between people.

Marbury vs. Madison

mwayoub — 2023-10-01 19:39:52 UTC

Landmark 1803 Supreme Court case in which Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle of Judicial Review, which grants the Supreme Court the power to declare laws unconstitutional

Cotton Gin

mwayoub — 2023-10-01 19:40:24 UTC

Eli Whitney’s 1793 invention that dramatically improved the speed for processing cotton, changing the trajectory of cotton production in the United States

Monroe Doctrine

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Warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere

Interchangeable Parts

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Uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces

Temperance Movement

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Movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of alcohol

Steam Engine

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A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion

Democratic Party

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Impressment

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The British forcibly enlisted thousands of American men into the Royal Navy from passing ships, and refused to recognize that Americans had renounced their British citizenship

Abolition Movement

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Campaign to end slavery

Factory System

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Manufacturing businesses first created in the late eighteenth century that concentrated all aspects of production under one roof, reorganized production and divided work. The key aspect was that it was under one roof and had specialized tasks. Made the production faster and more efficient.

Whigs

mwayoub — 2023-10-01 19:52:18 UTC

Opposed Jackson's strong-armed leadership style and policies, but promoted protective tariffs, federal funding for internal improvements, and other measures that strengthened the central government.

Mexican-American War

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:00:05 UTC

Sparked by a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the United States and a long-standing dispute over the southern border

Dred Scott Decision

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:01:03 UTC

Since slaves are property of their masters, a slave is not automatically granted his freedom when his master moves him to a free state or territory

Emancipation Proclamation

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:01:53 UTC

Issued by Lincoln to free all of the slaves in the Confederate states. The slaves in border states loyal to the Union, however, remained enslaved, it only applied to Confederate states in rebellion.

Appomattox Court House

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Where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865

Lincoln Assassination

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John Wilkes Booth shot this leader in the head at Ford Theater, just days after the Civil War ended

Reconstruction

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:04:38 UTC

Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union

Manifest Destiny

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19th century belief that Americans had the God given right to spread across the whole continent

Fugitive Slave Act

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Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state

Confederacy

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:10:59 UTC

Southern half of the country, a group of states trying to separate over the issue of slavery

Compromise of 1850

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:11:45 UTC

Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South, this included that the Fugitive Slave Act was amended, the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished, California entered the Union as a free state, a territorial government was created in Utah, and an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico

Sectionalism

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Freed all slaves and abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States

Kansas-Nebraska Act

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:14:49 UTC

Passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´

Secession

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When a state attempts to secede from, or leave, the nation it was once a part of

Fourteenth Amendment

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Granted African Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law

Popular Sovereignty

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People of a territory should themselves decide the issue of slavery

Union

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:19:48 UTC

Northern half of the country, a group of states that were generally anti-slavery

Fifteenth Amendment

mwayoub — 2023-10-20 19:20:36 UTC

Granted African American men voting rights

Haymarket Riot of 1886

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 16:56:41 UTC

A labor protest rally in Chicago turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing

Homestead Strike of 1892

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 16:57:56 UTC

A violent strike in Pittsburgh over a decision to cut wages by nearly 20%. This strike ended with the destruction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers, one of the largest unions at the time

Pullman Strike of 1894

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 16:58:47 UTC

A nonviolent strike that brought down the railway system in most of the West over wages. President Cleveland shut it down because it was interfering with mail delivery

Plessy v. Ferguson

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 16:59:38 UTC

U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites

The Jungle written

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:00:31 UTC

A novel by Upton Sinclair that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago

Capitalism

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:03:27 UTC

A system of economic production based on the private ownership of property and the contractual exchange for profit of goods, labor, and money

Titans of Industry

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:07:11 UTC

Positive name for wealthy business owners during the Gilded Age, implying that they helped the United States become strong through their business pursuits

Social Darwinism

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:11:33 UTC

The idea that the wealthy and powerful were naturally superior and deserved their success

Cornelius Vanderbilt

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:13:10 UTC

The railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical

Robber Barons

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:14:49 UTC

Negative term for wealthy business owners during the Gilded Age who made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through unethical business practices

Gospel of Wealth

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The idea that extremely wealthy Americans had a responsibility to spend their money in order to benefit the greater good.

Andrew Carnegie

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:16:24 UTC

Known as the steel king; he integrated every phase of his steel-making operation.He pioneered "Vertical Integration" to improve efficiency by controlling the quality of the product at all stages of production and eliminating the middleman

Unions

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:17:04 UTC

An organized group of workers that use collective bargaining to improve working conditions

Muckraking

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:17:47 UTC

When writers sought to expose corruption in big business and government

John D. Rockefeller

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:18:56 UTC

A man who started from meager beginnings and eventually created an oil empire. In Ohio in 1870 he organized the Standard Oil Company. By 1877 he controlled 95% of all of the refineries in the United States

Migration

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:19:42 UTC

Patterns of movement across the country, including waves of new immigrants and formerly enslaved people moving toward urban centers

JP Morgan

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:20:20 UTC

A banker who financed the reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks. He bought out Carnegie and in 1901 he started the United States Steel Corporation

Gilded Age

mwayoub — 2023-11-11 17:20:47 UTC

The age between the Civil War and WWI when the American economy grew rapidly and individuals were able to use monopolies to amass great wealth

USS Maine Destroyed

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:28:32 UTC

A U.S. battleship exploded and sank in Havana Harbor; 260 Americans died. Although it was later concluded that it was an internal explosion caused by a fire in the coal bunker, the sinking provided an excuse for those eager for war with Spain.

Spanish-American War

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:29:07 UTC

War over the European control of Cuba, American won and gained: Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and an alliance with Cuba

Boxer Rebellion

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:30:47 UTC

An uprising in China directed against foreign influence. It was suppressed by an international force of some eighteen thousand soldiers, including Americans. It paved the way for the revolution of 1911, which led to the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912.

Sinking of the Luisitania

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:31:21 UTC

A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat during WWI. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.

WWI

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:32:40 UTC

The first, modern global war, started by the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The war is remembered for its violence and destruction, costing over 20 million lives and billions of dollars.

Roaring 20s

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:33:44 UTC

One of the most significant decades in US History because of the great changes that came about in American society, including the rise of consumerism, technology, and social and creative expression.

Great Depression

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:34:29 UTC

The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in 1929 and approximately ending with the start of the next war.

New Deal

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:35:23 UTC

President FDR's precursor of the modern welfare state. His programs were meant to combat economic depression and it enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy.

WWII

mwayoub — 2023-11-28 21:36:30 UTC

The second, modern global war, starting less than 2 decades after the last. A significant portion of the world was involved, divided into Axis and Allied powers.

Women’s Suffrage

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:44:20 UTC

The campaign to allow female voters

Alfred Thayer Mahan

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:45:52 UTC

A captain and admiral in the Navy who was a prominent supporter of Imperialism

League of Nations

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:46:46 UTC

International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. Sometimes considered a precursor to the modern UN.

Stocks on margin

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:48:14 UTC

The practice of allowing investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest at high interest rates

Prohibition

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:49:09 UTC

The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol between 1920 and 1933

Open Door Policy

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:49:54 UTC

The principle that all countries should have equal access to any of the ports open to trade in China

Treaty of Versailles

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:51:03 UTC

The resolution to WWI that squarely blamed Germany by demanding billions in reparations and destroying German military infrastructure

Tariffs

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:54:09 UTC

Tax on imports

Isolationism

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:55:12 UTC

The traditional belief that the United States should refrain from involvement in overseas politics, alliances, or wars, and confine its national security interest to its own borders

Militarism

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:55:51 UTC

The political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

Great Migration

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:56:17 UTC

The movement of African Americans from the South to the industrial centers of the Northeast and the Midwest.

3 Rs

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:57:27 UTC

A popular way to describe the New Deal, referring to relief, recovery, and reform

Imperialism

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 21:58:16 UTC

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically

Nationalism

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 22:02:38 UTC

Political ideology that stresses people's membership in a nation

Zimmerman Telegram

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 22:03:27 UTC

A message from Germany to Mexico—decoded and shared by the British—that urged Mexico to invade the US to keep the US occupied in exchange for German support for Mexico taking back parts of the Mexican Cession

Island Hopping

mwayoub — 2023-11-29 22:04:17 UTC

American military strategy in WWII to slowly claim territory across the Pacific, leading to the eventual defeat of Japan

Holocaust

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:19:32 UTC

The death and destruction of six million jews and five million other people by the Nazis during WWII.

Brown v. Board

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:21:51 UTC

Supreme Court Case that ended the segregation of schools.

Bretton Woods System

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:23:22 UTC

Created the World Bank and IMF to solve the world’s economic problems.

Warsaw Pact

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:24:07 UTC

Military alliance between countries in Eastern Europe and the USSR.

International Organizations

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Globally centered groups that try to solve world problems.

Iron Curtain

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:28:42 UTC

Named by Winston Churchill. This is the metaphorical demarcation between communism and democracy in Europe.

Domino Theory

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:30:13 UTC

Belief that if one country becomes Communist its neighbors would also become communist.

United Nations

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:32:02 UTC

Successor to the League of Nations. Exists to solve the world’s political problems.

Containment

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:37:38 UTC

Theory that communism must be prevented from spreading to other countries and that the USA must use military force to stop it if necessary.

NATO

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:38:48 UTC

Military alliance primarily between the US and Western Europe.

Atomic Bomb

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:41:37 UTC

Significantly more powerful than past weapons. First used in Hiroshima.

Great Society

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:45:39 UTC

Created by President LBJ to improve the social welfare safety net in the USA.

Mutually Assured Destruction

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:50:02 UTC

Theory that if one country uses nuclear weapons other countries will use them as well effectively ending the world as we know it.

Nuclear Weapons

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:52:05 UTC

Vastly more powerful than atomic bombs. Capable of destroying entire cities and permanently irradiating countries.

Murder of Emmett Till

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:55:16 UTC

a 14-year-old African American, was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman, an event that played a significant role in the civil rights movement in the United States.

Greensboro Sit Ins

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:56:00 UTC

a series of nonviolent protests initiated by African American college students in 1960 at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging racial segregation and inspiring similar actions across the Southern United States during the civil rights movement.

March on Washington

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:57:02 UTC

over 200,000 participants, including Martin Luther King Jr., gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., advocating for equal rights and economic opportunities for African Americans.

Assassination of JFK

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:58:04 UTC

assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, when he was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade, sparking a wave of investigations and conspiracy theories.

Assassination of MLK Jr.

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:58:41 UTC

assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, an event that had a profound impact on the civil rights movement in the United States.

Civil Rights Act of 1968

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 21:59:35 UTC

enacted to address housing discrimination by prohibiting the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person based on race, color, religion, or national origin, aiming to ensure equal housing opportunities for all.

USA withdraws from Vietnam

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 22:02:08 UTC

marked the end of direct American involvement in the Vietnam War, following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. South Vietnam would later lose the war and Vietnam is communist to the day.

Watergate Scandal

mwayoub — 2023-12-14 22:03:54 UTC

involving the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex, leading to revelations of widespread abuses of power and subsequent resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

Iran-Contra Affair

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:19:59 UTC

a political scandal in the 1980s involving the covert sale of weapons to Iran by the U.S. government to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, leading to Congressional investigations and convictions.

NAFTA

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:20:37 UTC

a trade agreement signed in 1994 between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, aiming to eliminate barriers to trade and investment and promote economic cooperation in North America.

Clinton Impeachment

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:21:03 UTC

centered on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice related to his extramarital affair

Bush v Gore

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:22:42 UTC

The 2000 U.S. presidential election, marked by a controversial recount in Florida, legal battles culminating in the Supreme Court's decision to stop the recount, and Bush's ultimate victory despite losing the popular vote.

War on Terror

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:23:21 UTC

a global military and political campaign initiated by the United States in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, aimed at combating terrorism and its sponsors around the world.

The Patriot Act

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:24:09 UTC

a U.S. law passed in response to the 9/11 attacks, granting expanded surveillance and law enforcement powers to the government in the name of national security and counterterrorism efforts.

Reaganomics

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:27:30 UTC

refers to the economic policies of President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, emphasizing tax cuts, reduced government regulation, and a belief that stimulating economic growth among the wealthy would benefit the entire economy.

Inflation

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:29:33 UTC

the general increase in the prices of goods and services over time, reducing the purchasing power of currency.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:30:13 UTC

the total value of all goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period, serving as a key indicator of economic performance.

Liberal

mwayoub — 2024-01-07 23:31:30 UTC

individuals or policies favoring limited government intervention, traditional values, and a free-market approach to economic issues.

Monetary Policy

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actions by a central bank to control the money supply and interest rates, influencing economic activity by managing inflation, employment, and overall economic stability

Deregulation

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reducing or eliminating government restrictions and regulations on industries, with the goal of fostering competition and economic efficiency.

Conservative

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individuals or policies advocating for social and economic equality, government intervention in the economy, and progressive social values.

Fiscal Policy

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government actions related to taxation and spending to influence the economy, aiming to achieve economic goals such as full employment and stable prices.

Terrorism

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the use of violence or threats to intimidate and create fear for political, religious, or ideological purposes

Trickle down economics

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an economic theory asserting that benefits provided to the wealthy and businesses will eventually "trickle down" to the rest of the population through job creation and economic growth

Moral Majority

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a political movement in the 1980s, led by religious conservatives, advocating for socially conservative policies and seeking to influence American politics based on moral and religious principles.

Laissez-Faire

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an economic philosophy advocating minimal government interference in the marketplace, allowing natural market forces to determine prices, production, and distribution.

Globalization

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the process of increased interconnectedness and interdependence among countries, economies, and cultures through international trade, communication, and cultural exchange