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| 9704512471 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who crashed their planes into US ships, WWII | 0 | |
| 9704512472 | Kansas-Nebraska act | states that people of a territory had the right to decide own laws, decided whether or not territory was free or slave, led to Bleeding Kansas | 1 | |
| 9704512473 | Kentucky-Virginia Resolutions | 1798 by Jefferson and Madison, written to nullify Alien and Sedition Acts, also led to compact theory that gave states more power than fed gov | 2 | |
| 9704512474 | knights of labor | Labor Union of unskilled workers, their strikes led to the 8 hour work day, very large and unorganized | 3 | |
| 9704512475 | korean war | Began 1950 when North Korea (baked by Soviets) invaded South Korea, US got involved to stop communism, ended in stalemate | 4 | |
| 9704512476 | laissez-faire | Capitalist concept of government non-interference in matters of business and economics | 5 | |
| 9704512477 | lame duck | nickname for President during his last few weeks in office | 6 | |
| 9704512478 | large policy | Bold foreign policy that advocated colonizations of distant land, advocated construction of a canal through central america | 7 | |
| 9704512479 | League of Nations | Originally proposed by Wilson, tried to ensure international stability | 8 | |
| 9704512480 | Lend-Lease Act | Gave FDR the right to sell, transfer, exchange equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the Axis powers, sent $31 billion to Britain | 9 | |
| 9704512481 | levittown | William Levitt used mass production to build inexpensive homes in suburban NY after WWII | 10 | |
| 9704512482 | the liberator | anti-slavery newspaper written by William lloyd Garrison, advocated emancipation | 11 | |
| 9704512483 | loose constructionists | believe Constitution should be interpreted loosely, promoted by Hamilton | 12 | |
| 9704512484 | lost generation | refers to group of US writers who lived in Paris 20's and 30's, bitter about WWI, included Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald | 13 | |
| 9704512485 | louisiana purchase | secured US control of Mississippi River, doubled the size of the nation, Jefferson | 14 | |
| 9704512486 | manhattan project | secret project of US to develop atomic bomb | 15 | |
| 9704512487 | manifest density | said it was in the right of Americans to expand territory west | 16 | |
| 9704512488 | marshall plan | 1947, sent money to Europe to rebuild post war society (WWII) and prevent communism | 17 | |
| 9704512489 | mayflower compact | 1620, First example of self-government in America, provided law and order to plymouth colony | 18 | |
| 9704512490 | mcCarthyism | 1950's, McCarthy accused many Americans of being communist, term now associated with unsubstantiated claims and paranoia | 19 | |
| 9704512491 | mechanization | development of engine driven machines in agriculture, increased the productivity | 20 | |
| 9704512492 | mercantilism | nations economy should be coordinated for the good of the whole nation, profitable trading | 21 | |
| 9704512493 | mercenaries | profession soldier who serves in an army for pay | 22 | |
| 9704512494 | middle passage | journey across Atlantic where Africans were transported to Americas and traded for sugar and tobacco, many died | 23 | |
| 9704512495 | minutemen | Revolutionary War, local militiamen who fought against British | 24 | |
| 9704512496 | missionary diplomacy | "Moral diplomacy," foreign policy proposed by Wilson to condemn imperialism, spread democracy and promote peace | 25 | |
| 9704512497 | missouri compromise | 1820, Missouri entered as slave state, Maine entered as free, Congress made line across Mississippi saying all states north must be free | 26 | |
| 9704512498 | monopoly | exclusive control over business or industry. Carnegie, Rockefelle | 27 | |
| 9704512499 | monroe doctrine | James Monroe to Europe- no new colonies or US would respond aggressively, US wouldn't interfere in Europe's affairs | 28 | |
| 9704512500 | muckrakers | nickname for reporters who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public. Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair | 29 |
