EOC Vocab Review

Question 1

Belief that if the U.S. allowed ne nation in Asia 2 fall 2 communism surrounding ones might too

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Domino Theory

Question 2

1863 Law that offered 160 acres of western lands to settlers

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Homestead Act

Question 3

1823 presidential decree that stated U.S. would oppose interference in the W. Hemisphere

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Monroe Doctrine

Question 4

Political party that advocated for a larger money supply. Base of support mostly farmers.

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Populists

Question 5

Community center organized to provide services to immigrants

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Settlement house

Question 6

LBJ's policy to end poverty that included aid for education, medical care, and the elderly

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Great Society

Question 7

First artificial satellite to orbit earth

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Sputnik

Question 8

Supreme Court decision that established "separate but equal" rule

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 9

Ended WWI. Forced GR to pay war reparations and lose land. Seen as cause of WWII.

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 10

Pd. of history in late 1800's known 4 political corruption & fancy lives of wealthy

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Gilded Age

Question 11

The encouragement of increased representation of women and minority group members

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Affirmative action

Question 12

Killing of several hundred Vietnamese villagers by American soldiers in 1968

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My Lai Massacre

Question 13

African American leader to called for African Americans to return to the "motherland" of Africa

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Marcus Garvey

Question 14

She wrote the Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

Question 15

The application of Christian principles to problems such as alcoholism, crime, and child labor

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Social Gospel movement

Question 16

Policy of using threat of nuclear war in order to protect national interests

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Brinksmanship

Question 17

Permitting secret government searches of suspected terrorists and supporters

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Patriot Act

Question 18

Federal program started by JFK to send volunteers to help developing nations around the world

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Peace Corps

Question 19

1973 law that forces the President to notify Congress within 48 hours

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War Powers Act

Question 20

Failed proposal that would allow multiple imperial powers access 2 China

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Open Door Policy

Question 21

Supreme Court case that justified the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

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Korematsu v. U.S.

Question 22

Causes were yellow journalism, USS Maine explosion, and the de Lome letter

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Spanish American War

Question 23

1910-1930 movement 1.6 million African Americans from rural south 2 northern industrial cities

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Great Migration

Question 24

The witch hunt for communists in the U.S. gov't during the 1950's

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McCarthyism

Question 25

Group of WWI Army veterans who protested in 1932 in D.C. to receive their pensions early

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Bonus Army

Question 26

Law passed in 1944 that helped returning WWII vets buy homes and pay for college

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GI Bill

Question 27

Secret American program during WWII to develop an atomic bomb

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Manhattan Project

Question 28

Gave women the right to vote

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19th Amendment

Question 29

International organization formed after WWI to promote world peace. U.S. never joined.

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League of Nations

Question 30

Name for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments (ended slavery, voting rights, equal protection)

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Reconstruction amendments

Question 31

Scandal involving illegal activities that led to the Nixon's resignation in 1974

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Watergate Scandal

Question 32

Atty. General rounded up suspected commies- done 2 ease American fears during 1st Red Scare

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Palmer Raids

Question 33

1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi- Led to deaths of three volunteers

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Freedom summer

Question 34

Progressive author who is most known for his work "The Jungle" about the meatpacking industry

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Upton Sinclair

Question 35

1925 TN court case that focused on the issue of teaching evolution in public schools

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Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 36

Type of newspaper coverage that showed sensational stories of crime and scandal

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Yellow journalism

Question 37

Latino labor leader who organized the United Farm workers

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Cesar Chavez

Question 38

19th century apartment buildings with poor standards of sanitation, safety and comfort.

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Tenement buidling

Question 39

1962 Crisis that arose between the U.S. and USSR over installment of missiles in Cuba

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 40

NY City party machine politician- symbolic of greed and corruption of the Gilded Age

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Boss Tweed

Question 41

First African American Supreme Court justice

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Thurgood Marshall

Question 42

Plan to give $ to European countries to rebuild after WWII and halt the spread of communism

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Marshall Plan

Question 43

Policy of protecting the interests of native-born Americans against those of immigrants

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Nativism

Question 44

Churchill's name for the extension of communist control over E. Europe

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Iron Curtain

Question 45

New Deal program where the gov't insured bank deposits

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FDIC

Question 46

President Taft's policy of encouraging American investment abroad

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Dollar diplomacy

Question 47

African American civil rights leader who condoned the use of violence as a means to an end

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Malcolm X

Question 48

Agreement between U.S., Mexico, and Canada to form a free trade zone

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NAFTA

Question 49

Journalists who uncover wrongdoing on the part of politicians or corporations

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Muckrakers

Question 50

Makeshift shelters of the homeless during the early years of Great Depression

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Hoovervilles

EOC Vocab Review

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EOC Vocab Review

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