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Social Studies Vocab
Social Studies Preparation work for 2004
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aggression | a warlike movement |
| Alphabet Laws | unconstitutional laws |
| Assembly Lines | revolutionized mass production |
| Assimilation | becoming part of another culture |
| Black codes | laws keeping black from gaining power |
| Civil disobedience | testing legality of laws |
| Cold war | war of fear, no fighting |
| Communism | where government controls everything |
| Corporation | business owned by many investors |
| Dictator | total leader of a country |
| Ethnic | heritage |
| Fad | passing trend |
| Fireside chat | radio anouncement by FDR updating civilians |
| Flapper | trendy woman of twenties |
| Holocaust | mass extermination of Jews |
| Imperialism | larger countries owning smaller countries |
| Jazz | truly American music |
| Mobilization | getting ready for war |
| monopoly | owning all parts of a business |
| muckrakers | journalists who write about all the negatives |
| New Deal | programs of FDR |
| No man's land | area between trenches |
| Normalcy | what it was like before the depression and war |
| On Margin Buying | buying by credit |
| Organized crime | criminals all headed by one man |
| Prohibition | no alcohol |
| Propaganda | persuasion to change beliefs |
| Prosperity | wealth |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding after a disaster |
| Relief | helping by money |
| Reparations | repayment for damge done during war |
| Reservation | land set aside for Indians |
| Segregation | seperating races |
| Settlement house | home for rehab |
| Sodbusters | first people to move West |
| Speakeasies | illegal bars |
| Sphere of Influence | trading port owned by one country located in another |
| Suffragists | women gaining the right to vote |
| Totalitarian | total control over a country |
| Transcantinental Railroad | cross country railroad |
| Trust | group of corporations |
| Yellow Journalism | reports filles with propaganda |