<p>These are 3 relatively broad topics, in an effort to help me and anyone else, let’s try to form a group of events/legislative acts/policies associated with each topic.</p>
<p>1. GILDED AGE
2. COLD WAR
3. IMMIGRATION</p>
<p>I’ll start off:</p>
<li><p>Mark Twain coined the term
The “forgotten presidents” </p></li>
<li><hr></li>
<li><p>“Old” - North/Western Europeans
“New” - South/Eastern Europeans
Emergency Quota Act
National Origin Act</p></li>
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<li><p>Presidents during the age: grant - credit moblier scandal, hayes - compr 1877, garfield, arthur - pendleton act, cleveland, harrison, cleveland - panic 1893</p></li>
<li><p>after wwII when the two new world powers emerged in stark contrast to each other (us vs soviet communism), berlin wall, went on for 3 decades?</p></li>
<li><p>wong kim ark v US</p></li>
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<p>Gilded Age: corruption in political offices, senate controlled by big business, political machines, Boss Tweed</p>
<p>Cold War: Berlin airlift, Berlin Wall, HUAC, McCarthyism, Cuban missile crisis, disarmament talks–SALT, Solidarity in Poland, Reagan and Gorbechev, fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Berlin wall comes down, reunification of Germany</p>
<p>Immigration: early 19th century–Irish work in industry, Germans move to Mid-West; late 19th-early 20th–more immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe; Asians and Latin Americans</p>
<p>Good idea for a thread.</p>
<p>Berlin wall was three decades (1961-1989)</p>
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<li><p>Labor reform, AFL and Samuel Gompers, Knights of Labor and subsequent Haymarket square, Carnegie and steel, vertical vs horizontal integration, homestead strike</p></li>
<li><p>subsequent wars, korea, vietnam, cuban missile crisis, detente in the 60s and 70s, nikita kruschev, mikail gorbachev (spelling?, this could help on the test tomorrow too), end of cold war in 1989, berlin airlift, star wars and reagan, mccarthyism in the 50s-60s</p></li>
<li><p>chinese exclusion act of 1882</p></li>
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<li><p>The reform movements that resulted from the Gilded Age: women suffrage, equal rights, especially for blacks, prohibition, etc. Samuel Gomper’s AFL.</p></li>
<li><p>Kenan’s containment and domino theories, McCarthyism, Caltech’s fortune, highway system, “Star Wars” and Reagan defense systems, moon race</p></li>
<li><p>Nativism, the Know-Nothing party, Ku Klux Klan revival, city slums, NINA</p></li>
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<li><p>Indian relations: Wounded Knee Massacre, Dawes Severalty Act, plains Indians, Sand Creek Massacre, homesteading + impeding on tribal lands, forced onto reservations</p></li>
<li><p>eisenhower, military industrial complex, domino theory in asia, CIA gone loco (iran, cuba, etc)</p></li>
<li><p>progressives dislike of immigrants, prohibition’s felt like a threat to many southern/eastern europeans, “scab” workers, low wages, illiterate, not WASP (white anglo saxon protestant)</p></li>
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<p>You know, my AP USH class has not done a SINGLE practice DBQ? And as far as free response, we’ve only had a few paragraph answer questions on tests.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I took AP Euro last year so I already know how to approach things, but a lot of my friends are not so fortunate.</p>