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Key Terms
Presidents
Events
Vocabulary
100
Step down from power.
What is Abdicate?
100
A system of thought and belief.
What is Ideology?
100
He never lived in the White House.He is also the only president who didn’t represent a political party.
Who is George Washington?
100
The 1898 war between Spain and the United States.
What is the Spanish-American War?
100
Restrictions on access to ideas or information.
What is Censorship?
200
The act of freeing someone, usually from slavery or serfdom.
What is Emancipation?
200
“The draft,” which required all young men to be ready for military or other service.
What is Conscription?
200
He was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
200
Fortress in Paris used as a prison;French Revolution began when Parisians stormed it in 1789.
What is Storming the Bastille?
200
Rules discoverable by reason.
What is Natural Law?
300
State of tension and hostility between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies; rarely resulted in direct armed conflict.
What is the Cold War?
300
An economic system allowing business to operate with little or no government interference.
What is Laissez Faire?
300
He was the first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration. In the photo, he is standing near John Wilkes Booth, his future assassin.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
A war between Japan and China that broke out in 1894 due to competition between the two powers in Korea.
What is First Sino-Japanese War?
300
Payments for war damage.
What is Reparations?
400
The British naturalist who in 1859 published On the Origin of Species, in which he set forth the theory of evolution through natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
400
To withdraw; usually referring to part of a nation leaving in an attempt to gain independence.
What is Secede?
400
He was the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
A 1934–1935 retreat by Chinese Communists who were being pursued and killed by the Guomindang.
What is the Long March?
400
To cancel a law.
What is Repeal?
500
Massive aid package that funneled food and economic assistance to Europe to help with rebuilding after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
A campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance movement?
500
He worked at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager and now dislikes ice cream. He also has worked in construction.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
An incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians.
What is Amritsar massacre?
500
Movement away from one’s homeland.
What is Emigration?
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