Industrialization
The mass movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
A theory that advocates the elimination of private property.
What is Communism?
An international organization formed after WWI, which intended to prevent future wars and promote international cooperation.
What is the League Of Nations?
Strategic foreign policy the US used to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is Containment?
The period of significant economic prosperity.
What was the Age of Affluence?
An economic system where businesses and individuals own and control the means of production to make profit.
What is Capitalism?
A policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.
What is Nativism?
A policy that was Named by Theodore Roosevelt that asserted the US's dominance.
What is the Big Stick policy?
The imaginary line dividing Europe and the Soviet Union
What is the Iron Curtain?
A series of domestic policy initiatives aimed at addressing poverty, inequality, also other social problems.
What was LBJ's great society?
A major early American Labor organization founded in 1869
What are The Knights of Labor?
The way people lived in a wild and lively way. Also, when social norms were being eliminated.
What is the Roaring 20's?
A debt security issued by a government to finance military operations during times of war or conflict.
What are War Bonds?
A period of intense anti-communist fear and political repression.
What was the Second Red Scare?
The US Supreme Court decides that the segregation of public schools is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection Clause.
What is Brown v. Board?
The movement of 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and West.
What is the Great Migration
A shantytown of temporary dwellings during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
A series of US laws that passed in the 1930s to prevent the country from being drawn into another World War
What are the Neutrality Acts?
When one nation falls to communism, other nations may fall to communism after the first nation.
What is the Domino Theory?
A landmark piece that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, and national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A system where a landlord or planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is Sharecropping?
The belief that buying and consuming goods and services is essential for happiness and success.
What is consumerism?
Vegetabel gardens planted during both world wars to ensure an adequate food supply for cvilians and troops.
What are Victory Gardens?
Lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Supreme Court case that established a woman's right to an abortion, based on the right to privacy in the Due Process Clause.
What is Roe v. Wade?