EOC Practice Test
a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses
Interstate Commerce Act
Threat of military force to project power.
Used to prevent foreign influence in South America and the Carribean.
bigstick diplomacy
Major Shift from Isolationism
Lend-Lease Act
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Strategy
Civil Disobedience
Agency set up to aid former slaves through education.
Freedmen's Bureau
Effects of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions
Improved Productions
Urbanization
Consumer economy
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers
Yellow Journalism
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine
Justification for Supporting S. Vietnam
Domino Theory
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
Created in response to Black codes.
14th Amendment
American entrepreneur who developed cosmetics especially for black women.
Madame C.J. Walker
A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer to find and prosecute communists.
Palmer Raids
Purpose of Kellogg-Briand Pact and The Washington Conference
avoid future wares
The Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans.
Korematsu v. United States
a debt peonage system in which tenant farmers who gives a part of each crop as rent.
Sharecropping
informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan whereby the United States of America would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the U.S.Gentlemen's Agreement (1907)
Gentlemen's Agreement (1907)
Unrestricted submarine warfare ,threat to trade, Zimmermann Telegram
Reasons for US entry into WWI
President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam war.
Vietnamization
to protect domestic producers from foreign competition
to protect domestic producers from foreign competition
Consequences of the Civil War
Reconstruction
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment
In 1876, Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Custer's troops.
Battle of Little Bighorn
A Farmers' organization founded in late 1870s; worked for lower railroad freight rates, lower interest rates, and a change in monetary policy.
Farmers' Alliance
Territories gained from Spanish American War
Spanish American War
Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
How Woodrow Wilson got the U.S into WWI
the U.S into WWI
The "World must be safe for Democracy" speech