US Policies
These laws were designed to keep Black People from becoming equal citizens.
Jim Crow Laws
Workers in different industries join together to halt production until their demands are met.
General strike
This popular social media has become a way for presidents to communicate directly with the public.
In addition to Hiroshima, this city was the only other place to suffer a nuclear attack.
Nagasaki
This tribe made significant contributions to the Allied efforts during World War II when some of its members helped create a code that was never broken
Navajo
The practice of "separate but equal" which was not at all equal.
Segregation
This practice offered passage to the new world (or some other promise) in exchange for a set amount of time as an unpaid worker.
Indentured Servitude
When a person tries to convince others to vote for a political candidate.
Campaigning
This is the name given to the large plot of land purchased from France in the early 19th century.
Louisiana Purchase
This group of tribes in New York helped inspire some of the features of the United States government with its system of decision making.
Iroquois Confederacy
A ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks that lasted the whole decade of the 1920s.
Prohibition
This phenomenon makes your pay worth less than it used to be; it is the reason the minimum wage is raised periodically.
Inflation
This technology allowed leaders to communicate with troops across vast distances during the Civil War.
Telegraph
Issued by James Monroe, this policy made it clear that Europe was not welcome in the western hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine.
This tribe took drastic measures to avoid removal including creating a written language, publishing newspapers, and adopting slaveholding.
Cherokee
This presidential power is being used more often than it used to; it allows the president to create a law which will last until the end of his time in office.
Executive Order
This government program offered work for millions of people, unemployment benefits, and social security; it helped the US get out of the Great Depression.
New Deal
Upton Sinclair used this type of journalism to expose the nasty conditions of Chicago meat factories.
Muckraking
Named for the president who issued it, this policy stated that the US would intervene in other American countries affairs if it felt it was necessary to secure peace and prosperity.
Roosevelt Corollary
This tribe fought fiercely against US forces in the American west after the Black Hills were taken from them.
Sioux
This policy was put into place by the Truman Doctrine; it requires that the US stop communism from spreading.
Containment
This arrangement was popular after the Civil War; workers would rent a plot of land from a landowner. In exchange they would give a large portion of their harvest to the landowner.
Sharecropping
Franklin Roosevelt called his informal radio addresses to the people of the United States this.
Fireside Chats
Created shortly after World War I, this early version of the United Nations was the first modern Intergovernmental Organization.
League of Nations
King Philip's War is named after a chief from this tribe.
Wampanoag