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19 Cards in this Set
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The Telegram instructed Ambassador Eckardt that if the United States appeared likely to enter the war (WWI) he was to approach the Mexican government with a proposal for military alliance.
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Zimmerman note
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It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.[
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Blues
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A risky technique involving the purchase of securities with borrowed money, using the shares themselves as collateral.
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Buying on margin
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______________ reduces or eliminates the amounts of war fighting devises and capability a country or countries have.
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Disarmament
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________ ________ or the dirty thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940).
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Dust Bowl
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This took place as the effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country, and pitted President Herbert Hoover against Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Presidential Election of 1932
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The term was originally coined to describe a narrowly defined set of beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century. It can now refer to strict adherence to a set of basic principles that are usually religious in nature.
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Fundamentalism
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The initial crash occurred on Black Thursday (October 24), but it was the catastrophic downturn of Black Monday and Tuesday (October 28 and October 29) that precipitated widespread panic and the onset of unprecedented and long-lasting economic down turn know as the depression.
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Stock market crash of 1929
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_______ ________ was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries.
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Great Depression
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This was the movement of approximately seven million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930.
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Great migration
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This refers to an era of written and artistic creativity among African-Americans that occurred after World War I and lasted until the middle of the 1930s Depression.
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Harlem renaissance
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He was the thirty-first President of the United States and is often associated with the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Herbert Hoover
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This was the popular name for a shanty towns built by homeless men during the Great Depression.
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Hooverville
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After decades of scandalous treatment by government officials, this Act proposed under the New Deal was a progressive piece of legislation benefiting Native Americans in the short-term, but some of the long-term effects can be questioned.
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Indian Reorganization Act
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Term used to describe a countrie’s international policy that severely limits or cuts off interactions with the outside world.
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Isolationism
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This is an American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
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Jazz
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Also known as the Pact of Paris, it was signed on August 27, 1928, and was an international treaty "providing for the renunciation (rejection) of war as an instrument of national policy."
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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This is a term used to denote media that is designed to reach a very large audience, and was coined in the 1920s as the radio became very popular.
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Mass Media 1920
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This was the policy of the United States at the beginning of WWI and WWII with emphasis on staying out of the conflict and not picking sides.
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Neutrality
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