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Question | Answer |
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habeas corpus | bring prisoner to court so the court can determine the judge ment |
holocaust | the systematic murder or genocide of jews |
H-bomb | hydrogen bomb |
ghetto | a city in which a certain minority group is forced to live |
earth day | a day set aside for environmental education |
iron curtain | used by winston churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line |
kamikaze | deliberate crashing of a bomb filled airplane into a military target |
manhattan project | the u.s program to develop the atomic bomb |
mass production | large production of goods in large quantities |
nazi | the political party of adolf hitler |
bleeding kansas | slaves or not |
underground railroad | a route that slaves used to escape |
Harriet Tubman | leader of the underground railroad |
fugitive slave act | allowed slave owners to get their slaves |
popular sovereignty | the right for a state to have slaves or not |
free-soil party | anti-slavery |