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| 625173566 | The New Deal | Franklin Delanor Roosevelt's policy to help slug the US out of the Depression , The programs and policies to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt |  |
| 625173567 | Roaring 20s | A time of booming business, lots of new entertainment like Jazz Age music, and new technologies. |  |
| 625173568 | "Big Stick" Policy | Theodore Roosevelt's method for achieving American goals in the Caribbean; it featured the threat and use of military force to promote America's commercial supremacy, to limit European intervention in the region, and to protect the Panama Canal. |  |
| 625173569 | Dustbowl | a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 |  |
| 625173570 | Women's Suffrage | Women's right to vote |  |
| 625173571 | Industrialization | Process of industrial development in which countries evolve economically, from producing basic, primary goods to using modern factories for mass-producing goods. At the highest levels of development, national economies are geared mainly toward the delivery of services and exchange of information. |  |
| 625173572 | The Gilded Age | 1877-1900; rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration; rise of big business and the labor movement; the Populist movement |  |
| 625173573 | Reconstruction | the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union |  |
| 625173574 | Free Silver | Political issue involving the unlimited coinage of silver, supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan |  |
| 625173575 | Haymarket Square Riot | A demonstration of striking laborers in Chicago in 1886 that turned violent, killing a dozen people and injuring over a hundred. | |
| 625196398 | Henry David Thoreau | United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) |  |
| 625196399 | Seneca Falls Convention | Took place in upperstate New York in 1848. 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. |  |
| 625196400 | Chicago | Most violent city in America during the 1920s because of the gangster activities that flourished there, and because of the race riots that occured there early in the era. Also remembered for large meat-packing industry and wide manufacturing districts. |  |
| 625196401 | South Carolina | a state in the Deep South; first to sucede from the Union during the Civil War. |  |
| 625196402 | Steel Industry | An example of big buisness that was made possiable by Captain of Indusry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America amd the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh. |  |
| 625196403 | Spanish-American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence |  |
| 625196404 | Mark Twain | United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) |  |
| 625196405 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States, 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War |  |
| 625196406 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. |  |
| 625196407 | Trail of Tears | The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey. |  |
| 625196408 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize |  |
| 625196409 | Wright Brothers | Credited with the design and construction of the first practical airplane. They made the first controllable, powered heavier-than-air flight along with many other aviation milestones, also showing the beginning of the individual progressive spirit. |  |
| 625196410 | Zachary Taylor | General that was a military leader in Mexican-American War and 12th president of the United States. Sent by president Polk to lead the American Army against Mexico at Rio Grande, but defeated. |  |
| 625196411 | D.W. Griffith | carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking. Motion pictures were the first truly mass entertainment medium. |  |
| 625196412 | Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North. |  |
| 625196413 | 14th Amendment | This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state and national levels. |  |
| 625196414 | Election of 1876 | Race for the presidency between Republican Rutherford B Hayes and Democrat Samuel J Tilden. The decision of the winner came down to congress but no one knew which house should vote because the Senate was Republican and the House of Reps was Democratic. Congress created a Special Electoral Commission consisting of 5 senators, 5 House Reps, and 5 justices from the Supreme court. Votes went 8-7 in favor of Hayes. |  |
| 625196415 | Grover Cleveland | 22nd and 24th president, Democrat, Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, vetoed hundreds of wasteful bills, achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform, violent suppression of strikes |  |
