1800s
Homestead Act
Passed in 1862 - Provided 160 acres of free land in the West to to any head of household willing to settle there and develop it (improve it). Encouraged westward migration.
Monopoly
having complete control in the market place without outside competitors
Describe the multiple ways the Soviet Union and United States Competed over world power.
Space-raced to get the first person on the moon through satellites and animals
Nuclear-
New Deal
The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
Explain why Prohibition failed?
People kept selling and drinking alcohol. Did not address supply and demand.
Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US
Why are monopolies illegal?
goes against our economic system and can result in high prices because their is no competition for a good or service. They limit competition?
Hollywood Ten/HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) Trials
10 members of film industry denounced tactics by HUAC. Got jail sentences and were blacklisted.
Lend-Lease Act
policy that said it was "ok" for the U.S. to lend or lease military supplies to other nations if it helped the U.S. stay safe.
People kept selling and drinking alcohol. Did not address supply and demand.
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment. An agreement among winning nations after WWI on how to re-set the world (excluded Germany, Soviet Union, and Italy)
Manifest Destiny
A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to expand westward and rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Horizontal Integration
merging of companies to make similar products
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McCarthyism
Attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy on people suspected of being Communists
What was the ultimate goal/ intention of the Japanese when they attacked Pearl Harbor?
They were trying to knock out the U.S. fleet
Nationalism
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
Nativism
favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
Rockefeller
Captain of industry that created a monopoly in oil refineries
Cold War Ideologies
Capitalism vs. Communism
FDR's New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
civil rights
the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
17th Amendment
Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
Carnegie
A Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits.
Red Scare
fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
Allied powers
US,Britain, Soviet union
Compare the beliefs of Martin Luther King and Malcom X
MLK believed in non violent means to protest. Martin Luther King advocated non-violence, direct action and passive resistence. Malcom X violently resisted whites by any means necessary.