American History Midterm

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The principles making up President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for world peace following WWI

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14 points

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President during the Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln

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Leader of the Nazi Party, wrote a book called Mein Kampf, became ruler of Germany, responsible for the Holocaust

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Adolf Hitler

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Invented the telephone along with Thomas Watson in 1876. It opened the way for worldwide communications network
Phonograph, telegraph

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Alexander Graham Bell

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In World War II, the group of nations—including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States—that opposed the Axis powers

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Allies/Allied Powers

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Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

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13th Amendment

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Amendment that makes all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.- including former slaves- citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws

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14th Amendment

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Amendment that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

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15th Amendment

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Amendment that gives the Congress power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, w/o apportionment among the several States, and w/o regard to any census or enumeration

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16th Amendment

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Amendment that provides for the election of the U.S. senators by the people rather than by the state legislatures

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17th Amendment

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Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol

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18th Amendment

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Amendment that gave women the right to vote

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19th Amendment

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Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture

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Americanization Movement

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Many Asians went through this station, but harsh questioning and long detention in filthy buildings differed from Ellis Island. It’s in the West Coast

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Angel Island

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The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace

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Apeasement

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A truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict

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Armistice

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The group of nations—including Germany, Italy, and Japan—that opposed the Allies in World War II

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Axis Powers

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A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply

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Black Tuesday

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Prominent African American educator who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society

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Booker T. Washington

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A person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition

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Bootlegger

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The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest

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Buying on Margin

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The group of nations—led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire—that opposed the Allies in World War I

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Central Power

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An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property

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Communism

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An arrangement in which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with interest charges

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Credit

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The giving of money or food by the government directly to people in need

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Direct Relief

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A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women

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Double Standard

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A measure based on the prices of the stocks of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer of the stock market’s health

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Dow Jones Industrial Average

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The region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s

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Dust Bowl

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Immigration station located in New York Harbor, where mainly European immigrants arrived

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Ellis Island

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A political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator

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Fascism

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A national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the US money supply and the availability of credit in the country

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Federal Reserve System

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One of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s

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Flapper

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A Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true

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Fundamentalism

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The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group

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Genocide

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A 1907-1908 agreement by the government of Japan to limit Japanese emigration to the United States

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Gentlemen's Agreement

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A period, lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the US economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed

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Great Depression

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The policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means

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Imperialism

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Racism dealing with the law, schools, and banks

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Institutional Racism

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A law, enacted in 1887, that established the federal government’s right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so

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Interstate Commerce Act

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President of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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Laws enacted by southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities

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Jim Crow Laws

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Ruler of the Soviet Union after Lenin died in 1924, he made both agricultural and industrial growth the prim economic goals of the Soviet Union; he abolished all privately owned farms and replaced them with collectives—large government-owned farms, each worked by 100 families

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Joseph Stalin

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—an organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality

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NAACP

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A devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation

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Nationalism

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Controlled Germany from the early 1930s until the end of World War II; the party's full name in English is National Socialist German Workers' party

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Nazi

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President Franklin Roosevelt’s program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform

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New Deal

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An 1886 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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An organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support

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Political Machine

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A country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power

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Protectorate

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Became general of the Confederate army after General Joseph E. Johnston was wounded

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Robert E. Lee

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A law, enacted in 1917, that required men to register for military service

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Selective Service Act

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A law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it legal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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A law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children

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Social Security Act

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Russia takes this name and was excluded from the peace conference and lost a lot of territory but became determined to gain it back

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Soviet Union

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An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit

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Speculation

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The right to vote

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Suffrage

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Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas were states who seceded from the United States

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The Confederate States of America

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An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines

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Emancipation Proclamation

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The large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in the early 20th century

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The Great Migration

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A flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community

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The Harlem Renaissance

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A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War

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The Ku Klux Klan

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An early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life

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Progressive Movement

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Between Cuba and the US, the US declared war on April 20

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The Spanish-American War

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Laws of the United States

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US Constitution

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The Spanish thought the American would invade Cuba, but the first battle of the Spanish American War took places in the Philippine Islands

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US in the Philippines

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Became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world’s first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He perfected the incandescent light bulb-patented in 1880- and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power

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Thomas Edison

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The 1919 peace treaty at the end of World War I which established new nations, borders, and war reparations

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Treaty of Versailles

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Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield

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Trench Warfare

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The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard (in 1895), strongly disagreed with Booker T. Washington gradual approach; he founded the Niagra Movement, which insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have a well educated leader

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W.E.B. Dubois