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A popular leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
A surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base by Japanese forces. This occured on Dec 7th, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor
The policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
What is Laissez Faire
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended
What are Jim Crow Laws
A group that used violence in the South to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What is the KKK
Owner of the largest oil company during the Industrial Revolution
Who is John D. Rockefeller
In 1919, the Communist Party was gaining strength in the U.S., and Americans feared Communism. In January, 1920, Palmer raids in 33 cities broke into meeting halls and homes without warrants. 4,000 "Communists" were jailed, some were deported.
What is the 1st Red Scare, Palmer Raids
The separation of blacks and whites, mostly in the South, in public facilities, transportation, schools, etc.
What is Segregation
1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
Name given to the makeshift shanty towns built in vacant lots during the Depression.
"Hooverville"
A political activist and author of "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis".
Who is Thomas Paine
Colonial uprising that took place in 1676 in the Virginia colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. Virginians resented William Berkeley's friendly policy towards Native Americans. This was the first rebellion in American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
What is Social Darwinism
A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
What is D-Day
A rising politician during the early 20th century who delivered the "Cross of Gold speech" and was often referred to as the "Great Commoner".
Who is William Jennings Bryan
A series of forced displacements of approximately 100,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
What is the Trail of Tears
1920's - Women started wearing short skirts and bobbed hair, and had more sexual freedom. They began to abandon traditional female roles and take jobs usually reserved for men.
What is the New Woman, Flappers
1934 - Created to supervise stock exchanges and to punish fraud in securities trading. This created through the New Deal along with many other systems.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
In his acceptance speech for his nomination to the Senate in June, 1858, Lincoln gave a speech explaining how the nation can't stand if it remains half slave and half free.
What is the "House Divided" Speech
Was one of the Leaders in creating the NAACP and was behind the Niagra Movement during the early 1900s.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois
October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday
The persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country's economy.
What is Stagflation
The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting. In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the people would decide whether a territory allowed slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
Most critics regard this as F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest work. Written in 1925, it tells of an idealist who is gradually destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
What is The Great Gatsby