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AmericanStudies10th1
Quarter One 10th Grade American Studies Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The act of moving from one country into another. | Immigration |
| Organzation of workers grouped together to negotiate with their employer for better working and living conditions . | Labor Unions |
| The process of many smaller businesses merging (combining) to form one large corporation. | Monopoly |
| Reasons that force people leave their country and immigrate to another nation. | Push Factor |
| The area where the factories and businesses are located, generally referred to as the city. | Urban |
| When a country turns from a farming based society into a society based on industries and factories. | Industrialization |
| French term meaning to let the people do as they choose. Businesses did not want the government interfering with the free market. | Laissez-Faire |
| Reasons that attract people to move a new nation. | Pull Factor |
| The area outside of cities and towns, generally referred to the country. | Rural |
| The growth of cities due to people moving from the farms to cities, in search of jobs. | Urbanization |
| Government-created laws to prevent a single company from controlling an entire industry . | Anti-Trust Legislation |
| The process that transformed this country from an agricultural country to a country based on manufacturing. | Industrial |
| This refers to the period where the majority of jobs in the country shifted from heavy industry to the service industry. | Post-Industrial |
| Reform movement that wanted to improve living and working conditions in the cities. | Progressivism |
| Reform movement that wanted to improve the lives of farmers. | Populism |
| The movement of people from the center city to areas further outside the city . | Suburbanization |
| Area taken over by an imperialistic country. | Colony |
| US policy that China could trade with all nations | Open Door Policy |
| Territory the US gained as a result of a war with Spain. | Philippines |
| A country gains control over other territories. | Imperialism |
| US built a water passage that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, in order for ships to get from one side of the US to other more easily. | Panama Canal |
| The US helped Cuba break away from Spanish control, in return, the US was able to create the US Naval base, Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. | Spanish American War |
| Formal agreements among nations to cooperate and provide for their mutual defense. | Alliances |
| A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. | League of Nations |
| Payments for war damages. | Reparations |
| A blueprint created by President Wilson for a just and lasting peace in Europe after World War I. | Fourteen Points |
| The sinking of this passenger ship was one of the reasons the US entered WWI. | The Lusitania |
| The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied Powers after the end of World War I; it placed harsh punishments on the Germans. | Treaty of Versailles |
| The large-scale movement of African American from the South to North, in the early 20th century. | The Great Migration |
| Belief that American ideals were the best and everything else should be removed from the American society. | Nativism |
| Many Americans feared that communism, political violence, and labor unrest would be the downfall to the US government and the American way of life | Red Scare |
| A Literary, artistic and intellectual movement that celebrated African-American cultural traditions | Harlem Renaissance |
| The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" within the United States. | Prohibition |
| A phrase used to describe the 1920s as a dynamic time. The 1920s is often portrayed as a period of fun and prosperity. | Roaring 1920's |
| An arrangement for making a purchase with borrowed money, that will be paid at a later date. | Credit |
| The worst economic crisis in US history, where millions of Americans were unemployed and homeless. | The Great Depression |
| A plan, given by President Franklin Roosevelt, intended to bring the country out of the great Depression by providing economic relief, recovery and reform. | New Deal |
| Making risky purchases on the stock market, in the 1920s, in the chance of quick or considerable profit. | Speculation |
| A series of dust storms in the 1930s that were caused by massive droughts and decades of inappropriate farming techniques. | Dust Bowl |
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