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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jim Crow laws | made racial segregation legal |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th amendment | granted citizenship to all people born in the US |
| 15th amendment | granted black men the right to vote |
| 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy | A deadly fire in the Triangle Waist factory in 1911, that killed 146 garment workers, unable to escape because factory owners locked doors to prevent work breaks; led to improved factory safety standards and working conditions. |
| Mass production | Making large quantities of the same product, usually using an assembly line, in order to keep costs low |
| Assembly line | putting together a product in a factory, by moving it along a line of workers, who each add a part until the product is finished |
| Big Stick Policy | President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy, "speak softly, carry a big stick - you will go far", meaning negotiate with other nations, using the threat of military. |
| Seward's Folly | Purchase of Alaska in 1867 by William Seward, for $7.2 million, which many Americans believed to be a huge mistake (also known as "Seward's Icebox") |
| nationalism | extreme love, loyalty, and devotion to one's country |
| nativism | the policy of protecting native inhabitants over immigrants |
| racism | prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. |
| imperialism | taking over other governments or countries for your own, usually by force |
| temperance | not drinking any alcohol (or reducing amount) |
| suffrage | right to vote in elections |
| primary source | original source or evidence; an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study |
| secondary source | source that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in events, such as scholarly books and articles |
| return to normalcy | returning to the "way of life" before WWI |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 - stock market crash which led to the Great Depression |
| yellow journalism | news/information based on sensationalism and exaggeration of facts |
| Open Door Policy | US policy that allows for trading with China to be open to all countries equally |
| Muckrakers | journalists who exposed corruption in big business and government |
| Lusitania | a British ocean liner sunk by the Germans, which indirectly contributed to the US entering WWI |
| Prohibition | the ban of producing, importing, transporting, selling, and drinking alcohol from 1920-1933. |
| isolationism | policy that a nation should stay out of the affairs of other nations |
| Marshall Plan | American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe, whose main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation. |
| Truman Doctrine | policy issued by President Harry S. Truman, stating that the US would go to whatever lengths possible to stop the spread of communism/Soviet Union |
| Plessy v Ferguson | a United States Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal, as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. |
| New Deal | a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. |
| internment camp | the relocation and imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, for fear these people may be spies |
| strike | to stop working at a job until demands are met |
| Rosa Parks | an activist in the Civil Rights Movement who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus sin Montgomery, Alabama |
| Teddy Roosevelt | 26th president; nature lover; Big Stick policy; regulated/broke apart monopolies, such as the railroad |
| Heroshima | City in Japan destroyed by an atomic bomb, dropped by the US, during WWII |
| Rosie the Riveter | poster girl recruiting female workers to assist during WWII |
| Nagasaki | Another city in Japan destroyed by an atomic bomb, dropped by the US, during WWII. |
| 18th amendment | Prohibition of alcohol |
| 21st amendment | Undid the prohibition of alcohol (18th amendment) |
| Brown vs Board of Education | court ruling that made the racial segregation of schools against the law in US schools |
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