| A | B |
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| abolition | act of putting an end to a condition or institution,such as slavery |
| agrarian | relatating to land or division of landed property (agricultural society) |
| appeasement | policy of giving in to an aggressor nation in the hope that this will satisfy it and encourage it to stop being aggressive & keep peace |
| Great Society | social and economic programs of President Lyndon Johnson which attempted to end poverty and racial injustice |
| Great Depression | the most severe economic crisis in US History lasting from 1929 to 1940 |
| Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920's marked by a flowering of black literature, music, and painting |
| Manhattan Project | code name for top secret plan to develop the atom bomb during World War II |
| Manifest Destiny | slogan used to justify westward expansion of the US. Asserted the belief that the US was fated to rule the continent from Atlantic to Pacific |
| melting pot | Idea that the variety of peoples of diverse nationalities and cultures which occupy the US have been blended together to create a new nationality and culutre, the Americans. |
| mercantilism | Economic policy in which a country tries to maingain a favorable balance of trade by producing goods and servcies for export and limiting imports in every way possible. |
| New Deal | FDR's domestic program to revive the country from the Great Depression of 1930's |
| Reconstruction | period between 1867-1877 during which the country tried to recover from the Civil War and deal with the problems created by the emancipation of slaves |
| Red Scare | fear and distrust of communism in the US following WWI |
| Solid South | term applied to Southern states who as a group supported the Democratic party after the Civil War |
| triangular trade | profitable trade route between the northern colonies, the West Indies and England involving slaves, sugar, molasses, and rum |
