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14 Cards in this Set
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Japanese suicide pilots in WWII
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kamikaze
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Only 1 political party (Democratic-Republican), during the presidency of James Monroe, everyone getting along and high feelings of nationalism
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Era of Good Feelings
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the belief that the United States should stretch from one ocean to another and expand across the continent.
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Manifest Destiny
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Roosevelt’s talks to Americans over the radio
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Fireside chats
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1920 were also called the ________________________Twenties or the Jazz Age.
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Roaring
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Herbert Hoover believed in _______________ individualism. You can solve your problems yourself. In other words, the people can and will right the failing economy.
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rugged
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illegal hidden bars during Prohibition
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speakeasies
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people who made and smuggled alcohol into the United States during Prohibition
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bootleggers
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extermination of, among others, 6 million Jews by the German Nazis during WWII
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Holocaust
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Henry Clay called for a stronger America in his _______________ – said the U.S. needed a strong tariff to protect its industries, internal improvements such as better roadways and canals, and a national bank to bind the United States together economically.
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American system
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being forced to house British troops in colonists’ homes.
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quartering
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German war tactic which means “lightening warfare”
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blitzkreig
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means to fit in or adopt a culture
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assimilation
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It is a refusal to sell (the opposite of a boycott which is a refusal to BUY). The U.S. threatened to use this against Britain and France prior to the War of 1812 if they did not stop the impressment of U.S. sailors into their navies. France complied; Britain didn't.
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embargo
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