Unit 6
The practice perfected by John D, Rockerfeller of dominating a particular phase of the production process in order to monopolize a market, often by forming trusts and alliances with competitions.
Horizontal Integration
A system that allows voters privacy in marking their ballot choices. Developed in thee 1850's
Australian Ballot
The dark, panicky day of October 29, 1929, when over 16,410,00 shares of stock were sold on Wall Street. It was a trigger that helped bring on the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
Series of scandals that resulted in President Nixons resignation in August 1974 amid calls for his impeachment.
Watergate
Economics policies of President Ronald Reagan in the 1980's designated to combat 1970's stagflation through supply-side economics.
Reaganomics
The practice perfected by Andrew Carnegie of controlling every step of the industrial production process in order to increase efficiency and limit competition.
Vertical integration
Supreme court case affirming that the 1st amendment freedom of speech can be instriated
Shenk v. U.S.
Program established by agreement with the Mexican government to recruit temporary Mexican agricultural workers to the US to make up for wartime labor shortages in the far west.
Bracero Program
A militant native American civil rights organization founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to address systemic issues, including police brutality, poverty, and treaty violations
Brown v. Board of Education
September 11-12 2012 assault by militant groups on US diplomatic and CIA facilities
Benghazi Attacks
A term used to describe political organizations that flourished in urban centers that captured the immigrant vote by promising them municipal jobs, housing and rudimentary social services.
Political Machines
This law est. quotas for immigration to the US. Immigration from southern and eastern Europe was sharply cortailed while immigrants from Asia were shut out altogether
Immigration Act of 1924
An American naval base in Hawaii where Japanese warplanes destroyed numerous ships and caused three thousand casualties on December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
A 1961 diplomatic and economic initiative launched by President John F. Kennedy to foster cooperative between the US and Latin America.
Alliance for Progress
Free trade zone encompassing Mexico, Canada and the US. An increased reality of a globalized marketplace.
North American free trade agreement
A battle between the US army and the Dakota Sioux in which 200 native Americans, 29 US soldiers died,
Wounded Knee
Signed into lawyer by Presdient Calvin Coolidge, the act granted citizenship to all American Indians born in US territory.
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Military alliance of western European powers and the US and Canada established in 1949 to defend against the common threats from the Soviet Union making a giant stride forward for european unity and American internationalism
North Atlantic treaty organization
Landmark supreme court decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and abolished racial segregation in public schools.
American Indian Movement
$700 billion legislative response to 2000 financial crisis. Signed by president George W. Bush
Emergency economic stabilization act of 2008
Congressional legislation that established the interstate commerce commission, compelled railroads to publish standard rates, and prohibited rebates and pools.
Interstate Commerce Act
A progressive edomestic program design to provide fairness and equality from all Americans often summarizes by conservation of natural resources.
Roosevelts square deal
American startegy against the Soviet union based on ideas of George Kenhan. The doctrine declared that the Soviet union and communism were expanding and had to be stopped throguh military and political pressure.
Containment doctrine
March on Washington
Major political scandal of Ronald Reagan's second term that was recorded in 1986. An illicit arrangements of selling "arms for hostages"
Iran-Contra Affair