Industrialization
What was the Great Migration?
one of the largest movements of people in United States history.
What happened during July 4th, 1776?
the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence,
What is Containment?
the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
What are War Bonds?
a debt security issued by a government to finance military operations during times of war or conflict.
What is the War on Terror.
Term used to describe the American-led global counterterrorism campaign launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
What is a Tenement Housing?
Cramped, poorly lit, under ventilated, and usually without indoor plumbing.
what is a Federalists?
The supporters of the proposed Constitution
What is the Domino Theory?
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
What happened at Pearl Harbor.
was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
What is Globalization?
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is Capitalism?
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is a Social Contract?
an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits
What is McCarthyism?
also known as the second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and socialist influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
What is the Big Stick Policy?
symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary.
What was the Reagan Revolution?
Reagan's master plan to reduce inflation in the United States.
What was Haymarket Riot?
was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office determined to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America.
What was the E-Commerce?
Originated in a standard for the exchange of business documents, such as orders or invoices, between suppliers and their business customers.
What is the Jim Crow Laws?
were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation being a pejorative term for an African-American. Such laws remained in force until the 1960s.
what was the Shay’s Rebellion?
a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts
What was the Iron Curtain.
a metaphor for the extreme political and ideological division that separated Western Europe from the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the east.
What happen to the Hiroshima/Nagasaki?
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.
What happened during September 11, 2001?
Series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S.