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US History Word Associations 1-96
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Locke | Declaration of Independence, Social Contract Theory |
| Democracy | the people rule |
| Republic | representative government |
| House of Burgesses | first form of representative government in American colonies |
| Mercantilism | Mother country gets cheap raw materials from colonies |
| Constitution | basic set of laws |
| Great Compromise | representation |
| 3/5ths Compromise | counting slaves towards representation |
| Unwritten Constitution | early traditions and precedents |
| Federalism | Balance of power |
| Federalists | favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution |
| Anti-Federalists | wanted a Bill of Rights to protect people from government |
| Amendments | a way to change the Constitution |
| Elastic Clause | part of the Constitution that allows the government to expand its power |
| Marbury vs. Madison | Judicial Review, declaring a law unconstitutional |
| Monroe Doctrine | warning to European nations to not interfere in the Americas |
| Missouri Compromise | settled dispute over spread of slavery to western territories |
| Abolition | anti-slavery |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Scott v. Sanford | slavery, loss of citizenship and constitutional rights for African-Americans |
| Reconstruction | period after Civil War, civil rights advance for former slaves |
| Jim Crow | 70+ years of segregation after Reconstruction |
| Sharecropping | a source of cheap farm labor for southern landowners |
| Homestead Act | encouraged western settlement by giving free farmland |
| The Grange | farmers organization |
| Manifest Destiny | expanding US borders |
| Dawes Act | laws to break down native-American tribes |
| Imperialism | taking over other countries for their resources |
| Spanish-American War | US gains Guam, Philippines & Puerto Rico |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court declares Jim Crow constitutional, “separate but equal” |
| Open Door Policy | free and open trade with China |
| Laissez-faire | no government interference with business |
| Nativists | anti-immigrant |
| W.E.B. DuBois | well rounded education, NAACP founder |
| Booker T Washington | vocational Education |
| Populist Party | third party, farmers, grange |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | teacher fined for teaching evolution in school |
| Industrialization | the rise of factories, goods made by machine |
| Urbanization | the growth of cities |
| John D. Rockefeller | oil monopoly, Standard Oil v. U.S., company broken up |
| Corporations | gave businesses easy access to capital (money) |
| Trusts | monopolies |
| Progressive Era | correcting the problems caused by Industrialization |
| Muckrakers | exposed society’s problems |
| Unions | fought for 8 hr. work day/higher wages/safer conditions |
| Jacob Riis | photographs of the poor and immigrants |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Temperance | anti-alcohol movement |
| Anti-Trust Acts | laws to stop trusts and monopolies (ex. Sherman, Clayton) |
| WWI | submarine warfare, Zimmerman note |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan |
| League of Nations | opposed by US Senate |
| Schenck v. U.S. | limited free speech during wartime, “clear and present danger” |
| Red Scare | fear of communism |
| Nativists | anti-immigration |
| Sacco & Vanzetti Trial | questioned fairness of legal system |
| Suffrage | voting rights, Susan B. Anthony |
| Roaring Twenties | period of prosperity before the Great Depression |
| Harlem Renaissance | highlighted cultural achievements of African-Americans |
| Prohibition | alcohol was illegal, 18th and 21st Amendments |
| Black Tuesday | start of Great Depression, 1929 stock market crash |
| Overproduction | making more than you can sell |
| Dust Bowl | sustained drought (no water) wiped out farmers |
| Hoovervilles | tent cities during Great Depression named for President Hoover |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans wanting promised bonus money during Depression |
| The New Deal | President Franklin D Roosevelt plan for Great Depression |
| Neutrality Acts | not taking sides heading into WWII |
| Isolationism | not getting involved with foreign problems |
| Korematsu v. U.S. | internment of Japanese Americans during WWII |
| McCarthyism | communism, witch-hunt |
| Cold War | USSR, arms race |
| Containment | stopping the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | giving aid to countries to stop communism |
| Marshall Plan | gave money to European governments after WWII |
| United Nations | organization where nations can find solutions to problems |
| G.I. Bill | free education for veterans |
| Civil Rights | equal rights for African-Americans |
| Brown v. Bd. of Education | integration in public schools |
| Silent Spring | book about the environment |
| Korean War/Vietnam War | communism, containment, domino theory |
| Domino Theory | if we let one Asian country become communist, other will too |
| Mapp v. Ohio | evidence from illegal searches cannot be used in court |
| Miranda v. Arizona | being told your rights when arrested |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | right to an attorney |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | US and USSR almost have nuclear war (Pres. Kennedy) |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | increased US involvement in Vietnam |
| Great Society | government programs to eliminate poverty (Pres. Johnson) |
| Roe v. Wade | legalized abortion, privacy issue |
| Détente | Nixon improved relationship with USSR |
| Watergate | President Nixon, resignation for covering up burglary |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | US hostages for a year in Iran (Pres. Carter) |
| Camp David Accords | peace treaty between Egypt and Israel (Pres. Carter) |
| Trickle Down Economics | reducing taxes for the wealthy (Pres. Reagan) |
| Iran-Contra Hearings | illegally selling arms to Iran (Pres. Reagan) |
| TLO v. New Jersey | limited students’ privacy rights in schools |
| Persian Gulf War | US drove back an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait |
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