| A | B |
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| FDIC | Fed Depositors Ins Corp...insures bank deposits |
| CCC | Civilian Consevation Corps.....gave young men jobs planting trees and other consevation projects |
| FHA | Fed Housing Act....guaranteed loans for home builing and repairs |
| Social Security | provides security for the aged and unemployed |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority....built a series of dams along the Tenn River |
| WPA | Works Progress Admin....put many tomwork building public buildings, parks, and bridges |
| weapon used by labor unions when negotiations with business owners failed | strike |
| what are pull factors | what attracted immigrants to America such as available farmland or jobs in factories |
| what are push factors | what drove immigrants from their homeland...like the Irish Potato Famine |
| what is the theory of Social Darwinism | the best businesses run by the best people will survive |
| what is nativism | protecting the interests of native born Americans |
| America during the rise of industry where industrialists made fortunes, led glittering lives, but behind that was political corruption and social unrest, this period was known as.... | Gilded Age |
| what was collective bargaining | negotiations between employers and employee representatives |
| under this law Native American tribes could no longer own reservation lands collectively | Dawes Act |
| this reform allowed citizens of a state propose laws without state legislatures | initiative |
| why was the Federal Reserve System established | to regulate money supply and prevent future eco panics |
| this man believed that the best way to improve lives for African Am was for them to work hard and improve their eco condition | Booker T Washington |
| joining together as many firms from the same industry is known as... | horizontal integration |
| what was the Kellogg Briand Pact | outlawed war |
| the outpouring of creativity among African-American artists in the 1920s was known as | Harlem Renaissance |
| reducing production of crops to raise crop prices was an act of this New Deal program | AAA...Agric Adjustment Act |
| World War I Veterans who wanted gov promised money early during the Gr Depression were known as | the Bonus Army |
| the divide between traditional religious values and ideas of modernism were best exemplified during what.... | The Scopes Trial |
| what did the Homestead Act provide | free parcels of land to setters in the west |
| foreign policy idea that policy based on the idea of self-interest | realism |
| corporate strategy of taking control of each step in the production and distribution of a product is known as | vertical integration |
| facors thar caused WWI?.... | militarism, alliances, growing sense of nationalism |
| protecting freedom of the seas, estab League of Nations, reduction of armaments were all part of what? | Wilsons 14 Points |
| the American Continents are not to be considered as subjects of future colonization by any Eur powers is from what US foreign policy doctrine? | Monroe Doctrine |
| what is assimilation | absorption of a minority cultural group into the majority cultural group |
| Steel Tycoon.... | Carnegie |
| What did the book the Jungle expose? | conditions in the meat-packing industry |
| Reform that allowed VOTER to choose candidates for office.... | Direct Primary |
| the first 3 months of FDRs presidency when Congress passed a record number of bills to implement the New Deal to provide relief, recover, and reform was known as... | First Hundred Days |
| a place to get illegal alcohol during Prohibition was known as a..... | Speakeasy |
| Why did businesses form trusts and monopolies for what purpose? | control prices, prices, and markets |
| exaggerated style of newspaper reporting in the 1890s, helped inflame public support for war with Spain | Yellow Journalism |
| a young women during the 1920s who broke traditional expectations of women with the way they dressed and behaved | Flappers |
| Pres T. Roosevelt's strong arm approach to U.S. foreign policy emphasizing diplomacy backed by force | Big-Stick Policy |
| Pres Taft's approach to foreign policy that encouraged protecting U.S. trade an investment in Latin Am and Asia | Dollar Diplomacy |
| Pres Wilson's approach to foreign policy where the U.S. would have diplomatic ties to countries who promoted American ideals,..... | Moral Diplomacy |
| Foreign policy guided by the notion America should have interaction with nations on the idea that American ideals are the goals and objectives of our foreign policy | Idealism |
| this man believed the best way for African-Americans to gain equal rights was to push for legislation | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Who were Okies | Farmers from Oklahoma (Plains) who went west to Calif looking for work |
| Name given to the period where the Great Plains suffered severely from drought and wind erosion during the 1930s | Dust Bowl |
| the production, transport, and sale of illegal alcohol (Prohibition) | bootlegging |
| 1882 law prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years and keeping Chinese already in U.S. from becoming citizens (ex: of Nativism) | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| a culture that views the consumption of large quantities of goods as beneficial to the economy and a source for personal happiness | Consumer Culture |
| a political leader who gains power by appealing to people's emotions and prejudices, especially when times are bad....ex: Huey Long | demogogue |
| a drastic decline in the economy, marked by business failures and unemployment | economic depression |
| a law passed by Congress in 1917, making it illegal to spy, interfere with gov foreign policy, or resist the WWI military draft.... | Espionage Act |
| What is an IDEAL | a principle or standard of perfection that a person or nation consistently tries to achieve: opportunity, liberty, equality, democracy, rights |
| a company that completely dominates a particular industry is known as a what? | monopoly |
| New Deal legislation passed in 1933 to increase production while boosting wages and prices.....it also created the NRA Natl. Recovery Admin | NIRA...National Industrial Recovery Act |
| this party was founded in 1892 calling for gov ownership of Railroads and the coinage of silver.....many farmers supported this party | Populist Party |
| 1906 federal law that estab the Food and Drug Admin to test a approve drugs before they go to market | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| From 1919-20 where the Justice Dept arrested communists and other radicals who promoted Un-American ideals....this period was known as.... | the Red Scare |
| 16th Amendment passed in 1913 | income tax |
| treaty signed in 1919 ending WWI, placed reparations on Germany and formed the League of Nations | Treaty of Versailles |
