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U.S History Midterm
u.s exam vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Addams | founder of the hull house |
| Jacob Riis | photographer that photographed poor and tenaments |
| tenaments | apts. built for a family that normally housed more than maximum. usually poor areas |
| Urban Population Shift | Group of women that wanted to prohibit alcohol |
| Henry Ford | invented the assembly line |
| Meat Inspection Act | law created after the jungle was written that meat had to be inspected before put up for sale to make sure it was edible |
| Child Labor | employing children to do the same jobs as adults but they made less money |
| Womens Christian Temperance Union | Group of women that wanted to prohibit alcohol |
| Meat Inspection Act | law created after the jungle was written that meat had to be inspected before put up for sale to make sure it was edible |
| Poor Working Conditions | bad conditions, long hours, no health care |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Assembly Line | line to build stuff that broke it into steps so it was an easier process |
| Triangle short waist factory Fire | Women working in a facotry, Big fire killed all |
| Triangle short waist factory Fire | Women working in a facotry, Big fire killed all |
| Neutrality | state of being neutral |
| Panama Canal | canal connecting pacific and atlantic ocean in panama |
| Neutrality | state of being neutral |
| Zimmerman Note | note sent by germans to mexicans saying that if they helped germany attack the U.S they could get some land back, but it was intercepted by U.S |
| Mechanized Warfare | use of machines in combat |
| Lusitania | British ship sak by Germans that said it had war supplies on it |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty that ended ww1 and eventually ww2 |
| alliances | sides in a war made to help eachother |
| war of attrition | the evolution of machines and industries due to new inventions |
| industrial revolution | the evolution of machines and industries due to new inventions |
| monopoly | groups of companies that are bought by one person to take out the others |
| Speakeasies | Secret clubs that sold illegal alcohol |
| Speakeasies | Secret clubs that sold illegal alcohol |
| 19th amendment | womens suffrage |
| Roaring 20s | nickname to the 1920s |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American literature |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American literature |
| Scopes Trial | Evolution vs. Creationism and which should be taught |
| New Deal | FDRs plan to get the country out of the great depression |
| Mass Consumption | Amount Consumed |
| Jazz Age | age of jazz and blues |
| Bonus Army | veterans that wanted their money early because they were all poor |
| hoovervilles | little collections of shacks built by poor people in the depression |
| Dust Bowl | in midwest during great depressions there were dust storms |
| New Deal | FDRs plan to get the country out of the great depression |
| Unemployment | being unemployed |
| Social Security Act | money from government collected by taxes to help the elderly and the ill |
| Neutrality Act | act the made sure u.s would stay neutral during war |
| appeasement | agreeing to certain conditions in order to keep peace |
| pearl harbor | Japan bombed U.S hawaii and this was the reason u.s entered the war |
| Germany First | U.S plan in europe ww2 to take down germany and then japan |
| allied powers | alliance in ww2 consisting of britain, russia, france and u.s |
| axis powers | allince in ww2 consisting of italy, germany and japan |
| manhatten project | atomic bomb making |
| internment camps | where japanese americans were locked up during ww2 |
| rationing | not buying as much so some goods couldbe sent to soldiers |
| genocide | mass extinction of group or race |
| invasion of poland | invasion of poland |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of women that took mens jobs during the war |
| Numermburg Trials | Nazis put on trial for war crimes |
| Pacific Island Hopping | U.S strategy for pacific war againstr japan |
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