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History 10 Question Stack
Term | Definition |
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Union and Confederacy | The two opposing forces during the American Civil War. |
Filibuster | is a type of parliamentary procedure where debate is extended, allowing one or more members to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal. |
Muckraking | the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. |
J. Edgar Hoover | First director of the FBI of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. |
Monopolies | exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity, thus controlling the market. |