E.O.C Terms
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