WW2
The countries that were a part of the Axis Of Powers
What is Germany, Italy,and Japan?
The social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
What is Segregation?
The Survival of the Fittest theory from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species
What is Social Darwinism?
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
What is nativism?
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
What is Mercantilism?
what is American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII to prevent the spread of Communism?
What is the Marshall Plan?
The supreme court ruled that segregation in public places facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal, separate but equal.
What is Plessy-v-Ferguson?
The apartment buildings are built to minimal codes and designed to cram the largest number of people into the smallest amount of space
What was a dumbbell Tenement?
People fleeing potato famine and also looking for economic opportunity, Catholics, settled in ghettos and also migrated west
What are Irish Immirgrants?
Who wanted to have a separate, or different church. Also known as Pilgrims.
What were Separatists?
The political system based on a strong centralized government headed by a dictator
Written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other monopolies
What was the Populist Party?
The immigrant reception center is off of the New Jersey coast a mile south of Manhattan and next to the statue of liberty in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607.
What was Jamestown
The Japanese suicide pilots
What are Kamikazes?
The masked people that burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people. They are anti-black and anti-Semitic.
What is the KKK?
The 1890 law required the government to increase silver purchases sharply
What was the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
The long term visa, need a valid reason to obtain one
What is a Green Card?
The agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth was signed aboard the Mayflower. Created a foundation for self-government in the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact
The U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers.
What is The Battle of Midway?
The flowering of African American culture in 1920 instilled an interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The case found that trade crossed state lines and should be under the authority of the federal government.
What is llinois v. Wabash?
The early twentieth century, institutionalized racism forced African Americans to live in highly segregated ghettos.
The Ghettos
The three-way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa.
What was triangular trade?