US History Regents Vocab: Buying on Margin - Civilian Conservation Corps

carpetbagger

a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money.

cash crop

a crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than for personal use, i.e. tobacco, cotton.

Chinese Exclusion Act

a racist law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States.

Civilian Conservation Corps

an agency, established as part of the New Deal, that put young unemployed men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in erosion-control and flood-control projects.

capitalism

an economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production (farms, mines, factories) and use them to earn profits.

Camp David Accords

historic agreements between Israel and Egypt, reached in negotiations at Camp David w/ Jimmy Carter in 1978.

CIA

the Central Intelligence Agency: a US agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments. Cold War.

cabinet

the group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers. Initiated by G. Washington.

Central Powers

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

checks and balances

the provisions in the US Constitution that prevent any one branch of the US government from dominating the other two branches.

buying on margin

the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest. Roaring 20s.