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Close advisors. Toresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the early days of his first term whose policy suggestions influenced much New Deal legislation.
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The leader of the Mormon church following Joseph Smith's murder, Young led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to the Great Salt Lake.
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Group of unemployed World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D. C. , in June 1932 to ask for immediate payment of their war pensions.
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October 29,1929, the day of the stock market crash that initiated the Great Depression.
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Laws passed by Southern state legislatures during Reconstruction, while Congress was out of session. These laws limited the rights of former slaves and led Congress to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
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A rallying cry for more militant blacks advocated by younger leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, beginning in the mid 1960s. It called for African Americans to form their own economic, political, and cultural institutions.
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The proclaimed foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt, it was based on the proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," and advocated the threat of force to achieve the United States' goals, especially in the Western Hemisphere.
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Author of The Feminine Mystique, the. 1963 book that articulated the discontent among white middle class housewives in the "Baby Boom" era. She founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
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A cultural style and artistic movement of the 1950s that rejected traditional American family life and material values and celebrated African American culture. They tapped an underground dissatisfaction with mainstream American culture.
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Republican residential candidate in 1964, Goldwater spearheaded an emergent conservative drive out of the South and West. Unhappy with the nation's path toward liberalism, Goldwater called for more limited taxes, a reduction in legislation aiding farmers and organized labor, and a reduction of federal spending.
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