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The American Revolution Terminology
Age of Progress Terminology
Age of Progress Vocabulary
Foreign Policy Terminology
Foreign Policy Vocab
100
One of the main causes of the American Revolution because it put England in major debt, which eventually led the English to tax the Americans heavily
What is The French and Indian War
100
The popular name of an assemblage of some World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
What is Bonus Army
100
Meaning hands off in French, it was the idea that the government should not be involved in the economy
What is Laissez-faire
100
The naval officer responsible for the very large increases in the U.S navy during WWI.
What is Alfred T. Mahan
100
The debt a country is forced to pay after losing a war.
What is Reparations
200
A cultural movement during the 1600s, when philosophers used reason to try to improve society and government.
What is The Enlightenment
200
An area during the depression where people were forced to live because of their lack of money from the depression. They were called ---- because people blamed Herbert Hoover for the depression.
What is Hooverville
200
the theory created that there is one superior race that rules over the others.
What is Social Darwinism
200
A naval ship from the Spanish-American war that sank due to unpredictable error, however was blamed on the Spanish through yellow journalism.
What is Destruction of the Maine
200
when the government orders civilians in random to enlist in the army and go to war
What is Draft
300
One of the main enlightenment thinkers who tried to justify overthrowing the British government. These ideas are seen in the declaration independence and constitution
What is John Locke
300
During the early 1900s, Upton Sinclair made food distributors have labels on all products stating all the ingredients in all foods and drink
What is Pure Food and Drug Act
300
the economic system characterised by social ownership or control of the of the production and management of the economy
What is Socialism
300
The iconic representation of women during WWI that motivated women to take place of men in the labor industry while they were at war.
What is Rosie the Riveter
300
The action or process of not coming between two sides in order to prevent or alter a result or course of events.
What is Non-intervention
400
a protest against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies because of the high taxation on tea.
What is The Boston Tea Party
400
President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed for ending the depression based upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
What is Square Deal
400
Groups of workers that assembled in order to gain fair rights.
What is Union
400
The program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with material between 1941 and 1945 in order to minimally join the war.
What is Lend Lease Act
400
The action or process of coming between two sides in order to prevent or alter a result or course of events.
What is Intervention
500
a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
What is The Stamp Act
500
An event in which during the late 1800s when a supposedly peaceful protest was going to occur for an eight-hour day, a bomb went off causing endless chaos.
What is Haymarket Affair
500
: a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
What is Corporation
500
The style of reporting America used to write false, negative things about opposing countries in war.
What is Yellow Journalism
500
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is Imperialism