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Unit 1-3 Vocabulary
8th grade review Units 1-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | The foreign policy of stronger industrialized nations taking over nations or territories for economic or political interests. |
| Executive Order 9066 | Issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II authorizing the relocation of Japanese Americans into internment camps on the west coast. |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections. |
| Muckrakers | Reformers in the Progressive Era who exposed corporations, institutions and leaders of unethical or corrupt practices due to industrialization. |
| Works Progress Administration (WPA) | An American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | A war strategy used by Germany during WWI that attacked and sunk merchant ships without warning to deter its enemy's from receiving necessary war materials. |
| Sharecropping | After the U.S. Civil War plantation owners "hired" tenants to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land. However this system created a cycle of poverty for the tenants. |
| Schenck v. United States 1919 | A U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled freedom of speech afforded in the U.S. Constitution's 1st Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented a “clear and present danger" to the nation or society. |
| Plessy V. Ferguson 1896 | A U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal” doctrine establishing the rights of states to pass laws allowing racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. " |
| Manhattan Project | The U.S War Department's code name for the American-led secret program to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. |
| Temperance Movement | A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants emphasized alcohol's damaging effects on society, people's health, personalities and family lives. |
| Assembly Line | A manufacturing process in which individual parts of a larger product are put together in a specific order to mass produce items. Used by The Ford Motor Company to mass produce automobiles. |
| United Nations | An international organization formed in 1945 to maintain peace and increase political and economic cooperation globally. |
| Neutrality | A foreign policy that refuses to take part in a conflicts or wars between other nations. |
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