Social Studies Vocabulary Review Mrs. Young's 5th grade class

Question 1

type od production in which different workers do different parts of the job

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division of labor

Question 2

laws passed in 1964 that banned racial discrimination in public places and in voting

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 3

the fight to end racism and bigotry in American Society

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Civil Rights Movement

Question 4

the desire people have for a product or service

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demand

Question 5

led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 for social equality and jobs for African Americans

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March on Washington

Question 6

person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture

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entrepreneur

Question 7

barrier built after WWII by the Soviet Union that isolated West Berlin from the rest of Germany

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The Berlin Wall

Question 8

organization of terrorists responsible for September 11, 2001 attacks

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al-Qaeda

Question 9

forbade discrimination in voting for those who were allowed to vote

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15th amendment

Question 10

the first ten amendments of the Constitution

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Bill of Rights

Question 11

someone who hires and pays wages

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employer

Question 12

money that is owed

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debt

Question 13

things that are used to make other things

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capital goods

Question 14

money received over a period of time

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income

Question 15

production in which products move on a rolling platform past different workers

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assembly line

Question 16

person who wanted to end slavery

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abolitionist

Question 17

during WWII, where the Nazis sent people, mostly Jewish, to be killed via gas, shootings...

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concentration camps

Question 18

bomb that gets its destructive power from the release of nuclear energy

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atomic bomb

Question 19

any change or addition to the U.S. Constitution

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amendment

Question 20

that act of putting a person through a trial they have already been convicted or prosecuted

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double jeopardy

Question 21

agency formed by the U.S. government after the Civil War to help freed slaves

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Freedmen's Bureau

Question 22

term for 1920's America, referring to the music and fashion that was popular at that time

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Jazz Age

Question 23

body of electors chosen to elect the president and vice president of the U.S.

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Electoral College

Question 24

term used to describe the ideological barrier between the Soviet Bloc & Western Europe

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Iron Curtain

Question 25

theory that if one nations comes under communist control, neighboring countries will too

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domino theory

Question 26

cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas, north to Abilene, Kansas in use from 1860-1880

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Chisholm Trail

Question 27

member of the Electoral College of the United States

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Elector

Question 28

the term used for the systematic killing of Jews, Gypsies, disabled, and many other by Nazis

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Holocaust

Question 29

countries that fought the Axis powers during WWII

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Allied Powers

Question 30

lead to the end of WWII, Allied troops invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944

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D-Day

Question 31

Great Plains farmland that way destroyed by drought and the overplanting of crops in the 1930's

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Dust Bowl

Question 32

political tension and military rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. with no military attacks

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Cold War

Question 33

form of money

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currency

Question 34

laws that punished African Americans, usually by separating them from whites

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Jim Crow Laws

Question 35

rivalry between two entities in the same market

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competition

Question 36

ten year long period of business weakness and economic hardship

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Great Depression

Question 37

person who is not a member of the military

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civilian

Question 38

systematic plan for using a fixed income

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budget

Question 39

a national policy of staying out of political issues between other countries

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isolationism

Question 40

protesting by deciding not to use a product or service

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boycott

Question 41

annual fee on the amount of money a person makes, collected by state and federal government

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income taxes

Question 42

hired men to build and maintain state and national parks during FDR's first term

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Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 43

one of the people who helped to create the U.S. Constitution

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Framer

Question 44

name for the countries controlled by U.S.S.R. after WWII

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Eastern Bloc

Question 45

a ruler with absolute power

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dictator

Question 46

the government has complete control of the economy, and all goods are equally shared by people

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communism

Question 47

people who leave one country to settle permanently in another

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immigrants

Social Studies Vocabulary Review Mrs. Young's 5th grade class

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Social Studies Vocabulary Review Mrs. Young's 5th grade class

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