Reconstruction
During the time of reconstruction, big farms were called
Plantations
Early settlers are called
pioneers
an agreement among nations to defend each other
alliance
A ruler who has total power
dictator
to make large quantities of the same product quickly
mass production
Nazis rounded up Jews and put them in prisons called
Concentration Camps
a long decline in the country's economy became known as the
Great Depression
The rivalry was between
The US and the Soviet Union
Someone who buys or uses goods
consumer
The United States was referred to as the ______________ during Reconstruction, where states would have the same rights
Union
The idea and the belief that the United States should keep moving west
Manifest Destiny
The main powers
Allied Powers and Central powers
A movement that gives all power to the government and does away with individual freedoms.
Fascism
large-scale demand for goods
mass consumption
The murders of an entire group of people
Genocide
The condition of being out of work
unemployment
What the Soviet Union tried to spread
Communism
a device that sends out little burst of electricity
telegraph
When each side gives a little to reach an agreement
Compromise
a traveling system that stretched across the country
Transcontinental Railroad
the policy of trying to take control of lands and people
imperalism
Main powers during World War II
Allied powers and Axis powers
The era where jazz music became popular
jazz age
The period where Germany's genocide against the Jews
Holocaust
Where buy and sell stocks
the stock market
The US tried to _________ communism
contain
someone who puts money into a business
investor
An organized secret system set up to help enslaved people escape
Underground Railroad
Attracted people to California to find gold
The gold rush
a strong feeling of pride in ones country
nationalism
This bill allowed the US to lend, sell, or gives ships and planes and tanks and other equipment to allies
Lend-Lease Act
African American writers, musicians, and painters gathered in Harlem to share ideas
Harlem Reniassance
Who was Germany's leader during the Holocaust
Hitler
borrowed money
credit
Where the government creates an economic system, the people do not own land, factories or machinery, they have to share the wealth
communism
the money an investor makes from a business
profit
This person help slaved people find freedom by using the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Cowboys guiding herds of cattle
cattle drives
the policy of staying out of other countries' affairs
isolationism
This country invaded Normandy
Germany
The flow north of many African Americans
Great Migration
an area on a city whee members of certain minority groups are forced to live
ghetto
a tax on imports, or goods from other countries
tariff
the Red Scare was named after this man
McCarthy
The growth of cities
urbanization
Someone who wanted to abolish slavery was called an
abolitionist
New settlers received 160 acres of land for a small fee
Homestead Act
the policy in which a country builds up its rooms and makes plans for war
militarism
an electronic system that uses sound to identify objects from a distance
Radar
Workers who came to American to harvest crops
migrant workers
Hatred of Jews
anti-Semitism
topsoil blown away and nothing could grow
Dust Bowl
There was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea and between ___________ and___________
North Vietnam and South Vietnam
People are free to start their own businesses
free enterprise
the separation of states was called
secession
Had to build homes on land given to them by the Homestead act within 6 months
Homesteaders
One of the reasons the US entered world War 1
The sinking of the Lusitania
a complex Navajo language system
code- talkers
Name one reason why African Americans moved north
higher paying jobs, more jobs, voting rights
What emotion did Hitler have for the Jews?
Hate
People who moved around with no jobs and no place to live
Hobos
Was built the keep East Berlin from crossing into West Berlin
The Berlin Wal
a business owned by investors
corporation
The setting free of slaves
emancipation
Long periods without rain
drought
The treaty signed at the end of World War 1
The treaty of Versailles
What Japan did to cause the US to enter World War II
bombed Pearl Harbor
African American famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance era
Langston Hughes
Hitler's goal was to create the perfect
Race
Why the country went into a depression
stock market crash
Who was the first to put a satellite into space
Soviet Union
a share of a company, to become partial owners
stock
murdered for political reasons
assassination
Native Americans lived on this type of land
Reservations
Submarines were also called
Uboats
What the US did to Japan in retaliation to the bombing of Pearl Harbor
bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Atomic Bomb
What help create a national popular culture
radio and movies
Concentration camps were similar to
Prisons
october 24, 1929
Black Tuesday
Who was the first to put a man on the moon
United States
a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers
assembly line
A system in which someone who owns land lets someone else rent the land to farm it
Sharecropping
natural products used in manufacturing
raw materials
What country actually started World War 1?
Germany
Allies invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944
D-Day
This helped create increased production and consumption
New Technology
Hitler knew he had been defeated and
committed suicide
Who was president during the Great Depression
President Hoover
The results of the Korean War
South Korea surrendered and became a communist country.
a company that has control of an entire industry
monopoly