Vocabulary
Banned the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
Why is the Cold War called by this name?
What is It involved confrontation without direct or actual military war?
The policy of limited involvement in world affairs.
What is Isolationism?
Typically Native plains tribes were ____________.
What is Nomadic?
The right to vote.
What is Suffrage?
A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote.
What is Poll Tax?
How would you best describe the Cold War?
What is A period of growing tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II?
Giving into unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict.
What is Appeasement?
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
What is An act which gave citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it and pay a small registration fee?
An extreme dislike of immigrants.
What is Nativism?
Information designed to influence opinion.
What is Propaganda?
What is “Mccarthyism?”
What is Political practice of public accusations of disloyalty or subversion without sufficient evidence?
The event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I was…
What is The assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary?
Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory led to…
What is Building codes requiring fire escapes?
People who oppose all forms of government.
What is an Anarchist?
Policy that the government should interfere as little as possible in the economy.
What is Laissez-Faire?
American student revolts in the 1960s were most often a response to…
What is U.S. military action in Southeast Asia?
The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of...
What is African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities?
The Progressive Movement was characterized by or can be described as…
What is Efforts to better American society through reform, expanded democracy, science, and government regulation?
Radio broadcasts made by FDR to the American people.
What are Fireside Chats?
Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
What is a Muckraker?
What put an end to the Cuban Missile crisis?
What is A series of secret negotiations that resulted in the Soviet Union pulling their missiles from Cuba and the United States agreeing not to invade Cuba?
What impact did World War II have on the American economy?
What is Permanently ended the Great Depression?
Laissez-faire relies on _____________ to regulate prices and wages.
A free market
A truce, or an agreement to stop fighting.
What is armistice?