E.O.C Terms

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Hoovervilles

Shanty towns of depression named after Hoover

USS Maine

Ship blown up in Havana, Cuba starting Spanish-American War

Social Darwinism

Some businesses should survive and some should fail

Dove

Someone against all wars

49ers

Sought gold in California, SD, CO, & NV

Black Codes

Southern laws hurtful to blacks

"Cross of Gold"

Speech by William Jennings Bryan

Nullification

States not enforcing a federal law

Dollar Diplomacy

Taft's plan to get countries to like us

Al-Qaeda

Terrorist organization

Fundalmentalism

The Christian right

Hawk

Those who favor wars to solve problems

Scopes Trial

Trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution

Containment

Truman Doctrine to keep communism from spreading

Anaconda Plan

Union plan to strangle Confederacy

Suffrage

Voting

League of Nations

World organization founded at the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson

Muckrakers

Writers that exposed abuses by businesses and government

Harlem Renaissance

Black movement in NYC

Great Migration

Blacks moving from S to N during WWI

Manhattan Project

Built atomic bomb

Dust Bowl

Drought ridden area of America in the 1930s

Abolition

Ending slavery

Rationing

Conserving items that may be needed in wartime

Grange

Farmers grouping together to fight injustices

Red Scare

Fear in the 20s that the communist would take over the US

No Child Left Behind

Federal law to push education to teach everyone equally

Sectionalism

Feuds between parts of the country

Trail of Tears

Forced Cherokee migration to Oklahoma

Domino Theory

If 1 nation falls then another and another

Ellis Island

Immigration point for US in NY harbor

Watergate

Scandal that caused Nixon to resign

Holocaust

6 million Jews killed by Nazis in WWII

Nativism

Dislike of immigrants

Secession

A state dropping out of the US

Tariff

A tax on imports

XYZ

Affair scandal involving France and a bribe

Assimilation

Becoming a part of a larger group

Corrupt Bargain

JQ Adams cheating Jackson in election of 1824

Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

Jefferson's response to the A&S Acts

Woodstock

Largest Rock concert in history

Prohibition

Law stopping the sale or drinking of alcohol

Missouri Compromise

Law to limit slavery in western territories

Jim Crow Laws

Laws against blacks in the South

KKK

Low IQ whites in the south after Civil War

Horizontal Integration

Monopoly owning all means of production, top to bottom

Vertical Integration

Monopoly owning all the means of production of a product

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Hamilton's Economic Plan

National bank, pay off debts, taxes and tariffs

Isolationism

Not getting involved in wars

Medicare/Medicaid

Part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program for medical care

Nationalism

Pride in our country


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