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 Pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace

Who is Jane Addams and Hull House?

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A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
What is Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
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: a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
What is Hooverville
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The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
What is Truman Doctrine?
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An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
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The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist. She wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Who was it written by?

Who is Upton Sinclair?

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An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
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Federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority?
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A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
What is Marshall Plan?
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Popular term used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.
What is Reaganomics?
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The Supreme Court case, since overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which upheld the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
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A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.
What is Social Security Act?
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Fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is Korean War?
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Refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States, the leader of the revolution, supported by various leftist and Islamic organizations.
What is 1979 Iranian Revolution?
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Principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
What is Monroe Doctrine?
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A long and severe recession in an economy or market; the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.
What is Great Depression?
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Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s.
What is The Neutrality Act?
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a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.

What is  the Cuban missile crisis?

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The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus
What is Roe v. Wade
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A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba.
What is Spanish-American War?
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An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.
What is Dust Bowl?
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A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor.
What is Battle of Midway?
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A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
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a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters 

What is Watergate scandal?