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American History EOC
EOC #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Society | This is the name given to President Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic programs, among them VISTA, Job Crops, Head Start, the " War on Poverty," and the Medicare and Medicaid programs |
| Gross Domestic Product | The total value of all the goods and services produced within a country in a given year |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | This was an agreement in Congress that facilitated an increase of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War |
| Hawley - Smoot Tariff | This 1930 tariff was passed with the goal of protecting the American economy, but in reality in reduced U.S. imports and exports by as much as 50% |
| Hoovervilles | This is the name given to the depression-era villages, comprised of shacks built with leftover wood, crates, and sheet metal. They were usually havens for disease and represented the desperation of the masses after the collapse of the stockmarket |
| Hull House | This is one of the first settlement houses in the US established in 1889 by Jane Addams in Chicago, Illinois |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | This act limited the number of immigrant who could be admitted from any country to 2% from the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States |
| Imperialism | This is a policy of countries to extended their political and economic control over distant lands |
| Indian Removal Act | This granted tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their territories within state borders, mainly in the Southeast |
| Isolationism | This is a policy of nonparticipation in international affairs |
| J.P. Morgan | He was a U.S. banker and financier who was a leader in corporate finance and industrial mergers in the late 1800s and early 1900s |
| Jacob Riis | Influenced the progressive movement through exposing the conditions of New York's working class in " How the Other Half lives" |
| Jane Addams | She was the founder of Hull Houses, a settlement house that helped immigrants of the late 19th century become acclimated to life in the United States, and was a pioneer in the field of school work |
| John D. Rockefeller | The New York industrialist who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the 19th century with this Standard Oil Company and pioneered the corporate strategy of vertical integration |
| Judicial Review | This is the power of a court to review a law or an official act of a government employee or agent for constitutionality or for the violation of basic principles of justice |
| Kellogg- Brand Act | This agreement, signed by 65 nations in 1928, prohibited the use of war as an " instrument of national policy" |
| Kent State Shooting | This was the site of a series of student shootings, and 4 deaths, by the Ohio National Guard during a protest of the US invasion of Cambodia |
| Korean War | This was a national conflict in an Asian country aided by Russian in the North and the U.S. in the South (1952-1953) |
| Laissez-faire | French term which means "allow to do ", the philosophy that government should stay out of the market |
| Lend- Lease | This was a program of the U.S. government during WWII which provided allies with the war material while keeping the U.S. from actively engaging in combat |
| Levittown | This was the first mass-produced suburb in the United States, constructed on Long Island, New York, from 1947 to 1951 |
| Little Rock Central High | in 1957, this was the school that was integrated by nine black students who were escorted by troops from the United States Army |
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