Vocabulary Part 1
an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
embargo
to approve
ratify
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
26th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery
13th amendment
In what year did the Spanish-American War start?
1898
the mandatory enrollment of individuals into the armed forces
draft
During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered nearly six million European Jews.
The Holocaust
This amendment called for the direct election of senators.
17th amendment
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
15th amendment
What important event occurred Dec 7, 1941?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war
appeasement
This means out of many, one
E Pluribus Unum
This amendment gave women the right to vote
19th amendment
This amendment granted citizenship to African Americans.
14th amendment
-Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
-Established the Black Star Line steamship corporation
-Established the weekly newspaper Negro World for people of African descent
Marcus Garvey
the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information
Espionage
civil disobedience
This amendment create a federal income tax.
16th amendment
This amendment prohibited the manufacture, distribution and selling of alcohol.
18th Amendment
This event occurred when many African Americans moved from the South to the North.
Great Migration
an apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true.
credibility gap
a policy of non-involvement in wars or the affairs of other nations
neutrality
This amendment eliminated poll taxes.
24th amendment
This amendment granted freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
1st Amendment
set of domestic programs designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, such as the Food Stamp Act (1964), Housing and Urban Development Act (1965), Child Nutrition Act (1966), Head start (1965), Medicaid (1965), Medicare (1966), and Job Corps (1964)
Great Society