Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture.
What is Americanization?
100
A court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board?
100
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states
What is Compromise of 1850?
100
A period in 1964 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to annoy and scare the United States.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
What is Domino Theory?
200
An outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
What is an Anaconda Plan?
200
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
What is Capitalism?
200
A propaganda committee that built support for the war effort in Europe among Americans.
What is Committee on Public Information?
200
Famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan; in support of bimetallism.
What is Cross of Gold Speech?
200
Black- Americans campaign to earn victory in the home front (fight discrimination at home) and victory overseas ( fighting the enemy Axis powers)
What is "Double V Campaign"?
300
Labor and Civil Rights leader in the 1940s who led the brotherhood of sleeping car porters.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
300
Policy adopted by the U.S in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain and France could buy goods from the U.S if they paid in full transported them.
What is Cash and Carry?
300
An economic and political system
based on one-party government and state ownership of property.
What is Communism?
300
A law, enacted in 1887, that was intended to “Americanize” Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners.
What is Dawes Act?
300
11 Southern states seceded from the union, 4 slave states stayed with the union and were called border states.
What is Election of Lincoln?
400
Any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate.
What is Baby Boom?
400
The unemployment of children at regular and sustained labor.
What is Child Labor?
400
The planned management of natural resources, involving the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good.
What is Conservatism?
400
The cutting back of federal regulation of industry.
What is Détente?
400
Two laws, enacted in 1917 and 1918, that imposed harsh
penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in World War I.
What is Espionage Act?
500
The practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.
What is Brinkmanship?
500
1964- end segregation in all public places.
1968- end banning in houses.
What is Civil Rights?
500
A person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare.
What is Conscientious Objector?
500
The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
What is Domino Theory?
500
A political philosophy that advocates a
strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a
powerful dictator.