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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indian Removal Act | A Congressional act passed on May 28th, 1830, authorizing the President (Andrew Jackson) to negotiate the removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes" of Native Americans from their lands in the Southeastern Part of the US |
| Isolationism | the idea that a country should not involve itself in the political affairs of other countries |
| J.P. Morgan | Wall Street financier and banker who controlled American finance at the end of the 19th century-- helped stop the Panic of 1907. Also bought Carnegie Steel. |
| Jacob Riis | Danish-American muckraking journalist who wrote How The Other Half Lives, exposing the troubles of impoverished New Yorkers |
| Jane Addams | progressive reformer who began the Settlement House movement |
| John D. Rockefeller | American industrialist and one of the most powerful businessmen of all time-- he owned Standard Oil |
| Judicial Review | power the Supreme Court can use to declare any act of Congress or the President unconsitutional (checks and balances) |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | Agreement made in 1928 renouncing war as a means of settling differences (France, Germany, and the U.S. all signed it) |
| Kent State Shooting | event in which four college students were shot dead by National Guardsmen as the students protested the Vietnam War |
| Korean War | the first test of the policy of containment-- a war taking place from 1950 to 1953. |
| Laissez-Faire | a phrase meaning "allow to do"-- the idea that capitalism should not be influenced by government in any way |
| Lend-Lease | FDR's program giving war material to nations fighting the Nazis (such as the USSR and England) |
| Levittown | the first modern suburb-- noted for the similarity of its houses |
| Little Rock Central High | the place where the federal government tried to enforce desegregation in education and had to use federal troops to do it. |
| Lusitania | Ocean liner, the sinking of which helped drag the US into WWI |
| Manhattan Project | the massive government program to build an atomic bomb (US) |
| Medicaid/Medicare | government insurance program passed as part of the Great Society legislation that helps get medical care for the elderly and the poor |
| Militarism | the idea that the military should be venerated as one of the most worthy institutions in a country |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | an effort in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama to break segregation in public accomodations |
| Muckrakers | reporters who expose corruption and wrongdoing by corporations and government in an effort to create positive change |
| NAACP | organization founded by W.E.B. DuBois, among others, to work for equal rights for African Americans |
| Nationalism | the idea that one's country is the best and, by extension, all other countries are somehow less |
| New Deal | the series of policies passed by FDR and Congress to combat the Depression |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | the Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the U.S.-- began the doctrine of "separate but equal" |
| Populism | a political movement and party started by midwestern people (mostly farmers) to reform crop pricing, freight rates, and the American money supply |
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