FRA 8th Grade American History Final Exam terms
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| 7537601 | armistice | an agreement to stop the fighting | |
| 7537602 | aggression | a warlike act by one country without just cause | |
| 7537603 | appeasement | practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war | |
| 7538498 | Black Tuesday | the day the stock market crashed signaling the Great Depression | |
| 7538499 | blitzkrieg | the swift attacks launched by Germany in Word War II | |
| 7538500 | civil service | all federal jobs except elected offices and those in the military | |
| 7538501 | civil rights | the rights due to all citizens | |
| 7538502 | collective farms | the govt. owns the land, but the people work on it | |
| 7538503 | dictatorship | government in which one person or a small group holds complete authority | |
| 7538504 | dollar diplomacy | president Taft's policy of building strong economic ties to Latin America | |
| 7538505 | imperialism | policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions | |
| 7538506 | isolationist | after WWi, American who wanted the US to stay out of world affairs | |
| 7538507 | laissez faire | idea that govt. should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs | |
| 7538508 | mass production | process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply | |
| 7538509 | militarism | the policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war | |
| 7538510 | monopoly | a company or group having control of all or nearly all of the business of an industry | |
| 7538511 | muckraker | journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of gthe late 1800s and early 1900s | |
| 7538512 | nationalism | excessive pride in one's nation | |
| 7538513 | New Deal | program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the Great Depression | |
| 7538514 | poll tax | tax required before a person can vote | |
| 7538515 | push factor | condition that drives people from their homeland | |
| 7538516 | rebates | discounts | |
| 7538517 | reparations | cash payments made by a defeated nation to a victorious nation to pay for losses suffered during a war | |
| 7538518 | Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War | |
| 7538519 | self-determination | right of national groups to have their own territory and forms of government | |
| 7538520 | Socialist | person who supports community ownership of property and the sharing of all profits | |
| 7538521 | Social Security Act | a 1935 law that set up a system of pensions for older people and set up the nation's first system of unemployment insurance | |
| 7538522 | suffragist | person who worked for women's right to vote | |
| 7538523 | Tennessee Valley Authority | New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power | |
| 7538524 | vertical integration | practice inwhich a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products | |
| 7538525 | Works Progress Administration | came into existence in 1935 to put the jobless to work making clothes and building hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds, and airports | |
| 7538526 | yellow journalism | news reporting, often biased or untrue, that relies on sensational stories and headlines |
