Terms
People
Miscellaneous I
Miscellaneous II
Miscellaneous III
100
The practice of one nation controlling other nations through conquest and colonization.
What is imperialism?
100
The description of immigrant life in the early 1900s
What is harsh?
100
The assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
100
The cause of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
What was a severe drought and high winds?
100
A long period of economic decline.
What is a depression?
200
Control by the people; the people decide.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
A noted abolitionist before the war, he led a raid on an arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
200
Radical Republican senator was was nearly beaten to death by Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina.
Who was Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts?
200
An attempt to keep peace with an attempt to keep peace with an enemy by giving in to its demands.
What is appeasement?
200
The Federal Reserve System was a major reform of this 20th century president.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
300
A writer who brings attention to problems in society.
Who is a muckraker?
300
He was the wartime prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.
Who was Winston Churchill?
300
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel influential in causing the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
A ruler who has complete power.
Who is a dictator?
300
Income for retired workers.
What is a pension?
400
The control of free expression
What is censorship?
400
He was the dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
400
The elimination of something, in this case slavery.
What is abolition?
400
Four slave states located between the Union and The Confederacy that stayed in the Union during the Civil War.
What were the border states?
400
This couple gave plans for building to the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union and were executed for their crimes.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
500
The separation of the races
What is segregation?
500
He was the U.S. president during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
Conducting relations with the governments of foreign countries.
What is diplomacy?
500
The bombing of this facility on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.
Where is Pearl Harbor?
500
It was this president who decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II.
Who was President Harry S. Truman?
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