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| 9805615050 | Aliies | WWI group of nations originally consisting of Great Britain, France, Russia and later the U.S. | 0 | |
| 9805630834 | American Federation of Labor | Union that focused on collective bargaining, wages, hours and working conditions | 1 | |
| 9805647257 | American Indian Movement (AIM) | formed in 1968 to work for Native American rights | 2 | |
| 9805661888 | Americanization Movement | Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture | 3 | |
| 9805676169 | Anarchist | A person who opposes all forms of government | 4 | |
| 9805685481 | Anasazi | Native American group that lived in the southwest in cliff sides and on the mesa tops | 5 | |
| 9805718005 | Antifederalist | opposed a strong central government | 6 | |
| 9805833867 | Appeasement | Granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace. Such as what England did with Hitler in WWII | 7 | |
| 9805847210 | Appomattox Court House | Town where Lee surrendered to Grant | 8 | |
| 9805859961 | Armistice | A truce or agreement to end an armed conflict | 9 | |
| 9805871177 | Assimilation | 10 | ||
| 9807239239 | Axis Powers | Group of nations including Germany, Italy and Japan in WWII | 11 | |
| 9807253403 | American System | An economic system that was meant to unify the nation through the use of protective tariffs, a national bank and internal improvements such as roads and canals | 12 | |
| 9807316252 | Aztecs | A Native American people that settled in the valley of Mexico in the 1200's and developed a powerful empire | 13 | |
| 9807324452 | Baby Boom | Steep increase in the birth rate post WWII | 14 | |
| 9807334158 | Battle of the Bulge | A month long battle of WWII in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last offensive of Germany in WWII | 15 | |
| 9807349021 | Battle of Midway | WWII battle in 1942 where the allies destroyed part of the Japanese fleet and it allowed the allies to go on the offensive in WWII | 16 | |
| 9807487867 | Battle of Wounded Knee | Massacre of 300 unarmed Native Americans by U.S. soldiers | 17 | |
| 9807499632 | The Beatles | A British band that had an enormous influence on popular music in the 1960s | 18 | |
| 9807514600 | Beat Movement | A social and artistic movement of the 1950s stressing non conformity and self expression | 19 | |
| 9807616740 | Berlin Airlift | A 327 day operation in which the U.S. and British flew supplies and food into West Berlin | 20 | |
| 9807631877 | Bessemer Process | A cheap and efficient process for making steel developed around 1850 | 21 | |
| 9807641144 | Black list | A list of about 500 actors , writers, producers and directors who were suspected of being communists | 22 | |
| 9807656890 | Black Panthers | A militant African American organization formed to fight police brutality and provide services to the impoverished community | 23 | |
| 9807673962 | Black Power | A term used that encouraged African American pride and political and social leadership | 24 | |
| 9807681942 | Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929..when stock prices fell sharply | 25 | |
| 9807691496 | Blitzkrieg | Sudden massive attack that combined air attack with ground forces | 26 | |
| 9807706707 | Bonanza Farm | Enormous farm that produces a single crop | 27 | |
| 9807712958 | Bonus Army | WWI veterans that marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand payment of money they had been promised by the government | 28 | |
| 9807726145 | Bootlegger | Person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the U.S during prohibition | 29 | |
| 9807731126 | Boston Massacre | clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770 in which five colonists were killed | 30 | |
| 9807746768 | Boston Tea Party | The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea in the harbor | 31 | |
| 9807759078 | Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 rebellion in which members of a Chinese secret society sought to free their country from Western influence | 32 | |
| 9820044581 | Bread Line | A line of people waiting for free food | 33 | |
| 9820054859 | Brinkmanship | The practice of threatening an enemy with military retaliation for any aggression | 34 | |
| 9820072317 | Bull Moose Party | Progressive Party formed to support Theodore Roosevelt for Pres in 1912 | 35 | |
| 9820078240 | Buying on Margin | The purchasing of stocks by using borrowed money | 36 | |
| 9820083321 | Cabinet | Group of department heads who serve as advisors to the President | 37 | |
| 9820091102 | Carpet Bagger | A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War. A lot of them were teachers | 38 | |
| 9820106891 | Checks and Balances | the provisions in the US Constitution that prevent any branch of the US government from dominating the other two branches | 39 | |
| 9820112306 | CIA | A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments | 40 | |
| 9820117764 | Civilian Conservation Corps | An agency, established as part of the New Deal, that put young unemployed men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees | 41 | |
| 9820124163 | Civil Service | The nonmilitary branches of government administration | 42 | |
| 9820128318 | Cold War | The state of hostility without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II | 43 | |
| 9820133951 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer - beginning with Columbus's first voyage - of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere. | 44 | |
| 9820140087 | Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) | An organization formed to run President Nixon's 1972 re election campaign, which was linked to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that set off the Watergate scandal | 45 | |
| 9820143423 | Communism | An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property | 46 | |
| 9820151102 | Concentration Camp | A prison camp operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved or murdered | 47 | |
| 9820154847 | Confederacy | The Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union | 48 | |
| 9820162579 | Conquistador | One of the Spaniards who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conqueror in the 16th century | 49 | |
| 9820170490 | Concription | The drafting of citizens for military service | 50 | |
| 9820174055 | Consumerism | Preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. | 51 | |
| 9820179666 | Containment | The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence--especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940's and early 1950's | 52 | |
| 9820182298 | Contras | A member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that was supported by the US | 53 | |
| 9820189644 | Convoy System | The protection of merchant ships from U-boat attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships | 54 | |
| 9820193411 | Counter Culture | The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960s, seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love, and individual freedom | 55 | |
| 9820201882 | Credibility Gap | A public distrust of statements made by the government | 56 | |
| 9820205893 | Credit | An arrangement in which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with interest charges | 57 | |
| 9820209602 | Credit Mobilier | A construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad, who used it to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves | 58 | |
| 9820212681 | D-Day | A name given to June 6, 1944‒ the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II. | 59 | |
| 9820223238 | Deficit Spending | A government's spending of more money than it receives in revenue. | 60 | |
| 9820226076 | Democratic-Republican | Political party known for its support of strong state governments, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1792 in opposition to the Federalist Party | 61 | |
| 9820233522 | Deregulation | The cutting back of federal regulation of industry | 62 | |
| 9820238062 | Detente | A policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions | 63 | |
| 9820242700 | Direct Relief | Cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor | 64 | |
| 9820245722 | Dollar Diplomacy | the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. | 65 | |
| 9820256095 | Domino Theory | Theory that likened the countries on the brink of communism to a row of dominoes waiting to fall one after the other | 66 | |
| 9820265720 | Dove | A person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed that the U.S should withdraw from it | 67 | |
| 9820269356 | Draft | Required enrollment in the armed forces | 68 | |
| 9820269357 | Dust Bowl | The region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico , that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s. | 69 | |
| 9820279230 | Egalitarianism | The belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social, and civic rights. | 70 | |
| 9820285878 | Encomienda | A system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forced laborers | 71 | |
| 9820289980 | Enlightenment | An 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge | 72 | |
| 9820297808 | Entrepreneur | A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. | 73 | |
| 9820302607 | EPA | A federal agency established in 1970 for the regulation of water and air pollution, toxic waste, pesticides, and radiation | 74 | |
| 9820307356 | Exoduster | An African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years | 75 | |
| 9820521890 | Fair Deal | President Harry S. Truman's economic program‒ an extension of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal‒ which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families | 76 | |
| 9820532241 | Fascism | Political philosophy that stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of the individuals. | 77 | |
| 9820556566 | Federal Communications Commission | An agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, including radio and television broadcasting | 78 | |
| 9820579974 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | An agency created in 1933 to insure individual bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures | 79 | |
| 9820585759 | Federalist | A supporter of the Constitution and of a strong national government | 80 | |
| 9820593126 | Federal Reserve System | A national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country | 81 | |
| 9820601639 | Federal Trade Commission | A federal agency established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices. | 82 | |
| 9820610489 | Feminism | The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men. | 83 | |
| 9820622265 | Flapper | Free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s | 84 | |
| 9820627602 | Freedmen's Bureau | A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War | 85 | |
| 9820632135 | Free Enterprise | The economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production | 86 | |
| 9820635484 | Free Speech Movement | An anti-establishment New Left organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the University of California at Berkeley. | 87 | |
| 9820639028 | French and Indian War | A conflict in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763, that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain and that ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain. | 88 | |
| 9820648941 | Fundamentalism | A protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true. | 89 | |
| 9820654219 | Genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, nationality, or religious group | 90 | |
| 9820659610 | Glasnost | The open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in the 1980's | 91 | |
| 9820663144 | Gold Standard | A monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is defined in terms of a set amount of gold | 92 | |
| 9820669522 | Graft | The illegal use of political influence for personal gain | 93 | |
| 9820680749 | Grandfather Clause | A provision that exempted whites from the strict voting requirements used to keep African Americans from the polls | 94 | |
| 9820684598 | The Grange | The Patrons of Husbandry- a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century | 95 | |
| 9820690346 | First Great Awakening | A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s | 96 | |
| 9820696697 | Great Depression | a period, lasting from 1929 to 1940 in which the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed | 97 | |
| 9820701350 | Great Migration | The large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in the early 20th century | 98 | |
| 9822264007 | Great Plains | The vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains | 99 | |
| 9822273735 | Great Society | President Lyndon B. Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the United States | 100 | |
| 9822282989 | Harlem Renaissance | A flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of New York City | 101 | |
| 9822289761 | Hawk | A person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and believed that the United States should use increased military force to win it | 102 | |
| 9822293765 | H-Bomb | Hydrogen bomb-a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb | 103 | |
| 9822302304 | Holocaust | The systematic murder- or genocide- of Jews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and during World War II | 104 | |
| 9822307615 | Horizontal Integration | The merging of companies that make similar products | 105 | |
| 9822318494 | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II | 106 | |
| 9822329505 | Impressment | The forcible seizure of men for military service | 107 | |
| 9822337664 | Indentured Servant | A person who has contracted to work for another for a limited period, often in return for travel expenses, shelter, and sustenance | 108 | |
| 9822344562 | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) | A labor organization for unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in 1905 | 109 | |
| 9822352990 | Inflation | An increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money | 110 | |
| 9822358881 | Iron Curtain | A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe | 111 | |
| 9822362597 | Iroquois | a group of Native American peoples inhabiting the woodlands of the Northeast | 112 | |
| 9822371645 | Isolationism | Opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries | 113 | |
| 9822378647 | Joint Stock Company | Businesses in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose | 114 | |
| 9822382345 | Judicial Review | The power of the courts to declare laws of the legislative branch and acts of the executive branch unconstitutional | 115 | |
| 9822400563 | Judicial Review | The power of the courts to declare laws of the legislative branch and acts of the executive branch unconstitutional | 116 | |
| 9822409094 | Kent State University | Where a massive student protest against the Vietnam war occurred, requiring the presence of the National Guard | 117 | |
| 9822416310 | King Phillips War | A conflict, in the years 1675-1676, between New England colonists and Native American groups allied under the leadership of the Wampanoag chief Metacom. | 118 | |
| 9822424072 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War | 119 | |
| 9822432928 | League of Nations | An association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace | 120 | |
| 9822443857 | Louisiana Purchase | The 1803 purchase by the United States of France's Territory - extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains - for $15 million. | 121 | |
| 9822453396 | Lowell Textile Mills | 19th century mills for the manufacture of cloth, located in Massachusetts, that mainly employed young women | 122 | |
| 9822460420 | Loyalist | A colonist who supported the British government during the American Revolution | 123 | |
| 9822465175 | Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a german U-boat in 1915 | 124 | |
| 9822471026 | Manhattan Project | The U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II | 125 | |
| 9822477257 | Manifest Destiny | The 19th-century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory | 126 | |
| 9822508291 | Market Revolution | The major change in the U.S. economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves | 127 | |
| 9822522473 | McCarthyism | The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s | 128 | |
| 9832583156 | Medicaid | A federal program, established in 1965, that provides health insurance for people on welfare | 129 | |
| 9832588715 | Medicare | A federal program, established in 1965, that provides hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 and over. | 130 | |
| 9832633410 | Melting Pot | A mixture of people from different culture and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures | 131 | |
| 9832641642 | Mercantilism | wealth is generated via trade and commerce with the colonizing nation | 132 | |
| 9832663723 | Mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry | 133 | |
| 9832666677 | Middle Passage | The voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America | 134 | |
| 9832676587 | Moral Majority | A political alliance of religious groups, consisting mainly of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, that was active in the 1970s and 1980s | 135 | |
| 9832690141 | Muckraker | Journalists of the 1900s who exposed corrupt business practices | 136 | |
| 9832698046 | NAACP | An organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality | 137 | |
| 9832706758 | NAFTA | 1993 treaty that lowered tariffs and brought Mexico into the free-trade zone established by the United States and Canada | 138 | |
| 9832711705 | Napalm | A gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungle | 139 | |
| 9832714637 | Nationalism | A devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation. | 140 | |
| 9832717447 | National Labor Relations Board | An agency created in 1935 to prevent unfair labor practices and to mediate disputes between workers and management | 141 | |
| 9832721436 | Nativism | Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people | 142 | |
| 9832726771 | NAWSA | organization founded in 1890 to gain the vote for women | 143 | |
| 9832734505 | Nazism | Extreme nationalism, racism and militaristic expansionism used by Hitler | 144 | |
| 9832738497 | New Deal | FDR's program to provide relief, economic recovery and financial reform | 145 | |
| 9832745379 | New Federalism | Nixon's program to turn some power of the Federal Government over to the state and local governments | 146 | |
| 9832756546 | New Frontier | Kennedy's programs to provide medical care for the elderly, to rebuild blighted urban areas, to aid education, to bolster the national defense, to increase international aid, and to expand the space program. | 147 | |
| 9832767956 | Niagara Movement | Founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1905 to promote the education of African Americans in the liberal arts | 148 | |
| 9832773206 | Nullification | A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional. | 149 | |
| 9832776104 | Nuremberg Trials | The court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes | 150 | |
| 9832780460 | Ohio Gang | A group of close friends and political supporters who President Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet | 151 | |
| 9832783957 | OPEC | The organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries-an economic association of oil-producing nations that is able to set oil prices. | 152 | |
| 9832786133 | Operation Desert Storm | A 1991 military operation in which UN forces, led by the United States, drove Iraqi invaders from Kuwait | 153 | |
| 9832789092 | Oregon Trail | A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory | 154 | |
| 9832791560 | Panama Canal | An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opened in 1914 | 155 | |
| 9832794616 | Patronage | An office holder's power to appoint people - usually those who have helped him or her get elected - to positions in government | 156 | |
| 9832799408 | Peace Corps | An agency established in 1961 to provide volunteer assistance to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America | 157 | |
| 9832803553 | Perestroika | the restructuring of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s | 158 | |
| 9832817345 | Political Machine | An organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support | 159 | |
| 9832820384 | Poll Tax | An annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote | 160 | |
| 9832824583 | Popular Sovereignty | A system in which the residents vote to decide the issue | 161 | |
| 9832829601 | Populism | A late-19th-century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers. | 162 | |
| 9832833840 | Progressive Movement | Movement seeking to return control of the government to the people and correct injustices | 163 | |
| 9832842679 | Prohibition | The banning of all alcoholic beverages | 164 | |
| 9832850926 | Protective Tariff | A tax on imported goods | 165 | |
| 9832856832 | Pueblo | A group of Native American peoples - descendants of the Anasazi - inhabiting the deserts of the Southwest | 166 | |
| 9832859565 | Puritan | A member of a group that wanted to eliminate all traces of Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England | 167 | |
| 9832865352 | Quaker | A member of the Society of Friends, a religious group persecuted for its beliefs in 17th-century England | 168 | |
| 9832867729 | Quota System | A system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year | 169 | |
| 9832870751 | Ratification | The official approval of the Constitution or an amendment by the states | 170 | |
| 9833304201 | Reaganomics | The economic policies which were focused on budget cuts and the granting of large tax cuts in order to increase private investment | 171 | |
| 9833311089 | Recall | A procedure for removing a public official from office by vote of the people | 172 | |
| 9833316402 | Reconstruction | The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union. | 173 | |
| 9833319336 | Referendum | A procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people | 174 | |
| 9833323352 | The Reformation | A religious movement in 16th century Europe, growing out of a desire for reform in the Roman Catholic Church and leading to the establishment of various protestants churches. | 175 | |
| 9833326974 | The Renaissance | A period of European history lasting from about 1400-1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world. | 176 | |
| 9833330815 | Reparations | The compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during war | 177 | |
| 9833335178 | Republic of California | The nation proclaimed by American settlers in California when they declared their independence from Mexico in 1846 | 178 | |
| 9833339277 | SALT I | A five-year agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972, that limited the nations' numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles | 179 | |
| 9833346651 | Satellite Nation | A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation | 180 | |
| 9833350908 | Scalawag | A white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War | 181 | |
| 9833358083 | Scopes Trial | A sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution | 182 | |
| 9833360888 | Search and Destroy Mission | A U.S. military raid on a South Vietnamese village, intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong but often resulting in the destruction of the village and the displacement of its inhabitants | 183 | |
| 9833368038 | Secession | The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union | 184 | |
| 9833374963 | Security and Exchange Commission | An agency, created in 1934, that monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds | 185 | |
| 9833382097 | Seneca Falls Convention | A women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 | 186 | |
| 9833389829 | Settlement House | A community center providing assistance to residents—particularly immigrants | 187 | |
| 9833393572 | Shanty Town | A neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks | 188 | |
| 9833398449 | Shays Rebellion | An uprising of debt ridden Massachussetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787 | 189 | |
| 9833414796 | Sit Ins | A form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served. | 190 | |
| 9833419653 | Social Darwinism | An economic and social philosophy- supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection- holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest | 191 | |
| 9833423430 | Social Gospel Movement | A 19th-century reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty | 192 | |
| 9833428279 | Speakeasy | A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition. | 193 | |
| 9833430367 | Speculation | A risky business transaction that usually involved borrowing money to invest | 194 | |
| 9833434436 | Square Deal | President Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big businesses | 195 | |
| 9833440813 | Supply Side Economics | The idea that a reduction of tax rates will lead to increases in jobs, savings, and investments, and therefore to an increase in government revenue | 196 | |
| 9833444707 | Tenement | A multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary | 197 | |
| 9833447292 | TET Offensive | A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968 | 198 | |
| 9833454156 | Tiananmen Square | The site of 1989 demonstrations in Beijing, China in which Chinese students demanded freedom of speech and a greater voice in government | 199 | |
| 9833461703 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | A resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam | 200 | |
| 9833467007 | Trail of Tears | The marches in which the cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory in 1838-1840, with thousands of Cherokee dying on the way | 201 | |
| 9833470311 | Transcendentalism | A philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination | 202 | |
| 9833473381 | Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869 | 203 | |
| 9833477924 | Trench Warfare | Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield. | 204 | |
| 9833480815 | Triangle Trade | The transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America. | 205 | |
| 9833486968 | Tuskegee Institute | Founded in 1881, and led by Booker T. Washington, to equip African Americans with teaching diplomas and useful skills in the trades and agriculture | 206 | |
| 9833491048 | Underground Railroad | A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states | 207 | |
| 9833495127 | United Nations | An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development. | 208 | |
| 9833499170 | USS Maine | A U.S. warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898 | 209 | |
| 9833501976 | U-2 Incident | downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960 | 210 | |
| 9833504959 | V-E Day | A name given to May 8, 1945, "Victory in Europe Day" on which General Eisenhower's acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe | 211 | |
| 9833509138 | Vertical Integration | A company's taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product | 212 | |
| 9833512959 | Vietcong | the South Vietnamese Communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. | 213 | |
| 9833517798 | Vietminh | An organization of Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups that between 1946 and 1954 fought for Vietnamese independence | 214 | |
| 9833521229 | Vietnamization | President Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces | 215 | |
| 9833525099 | Warren Commission | A group, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was alone responsible for it. | 216 | |
| 9833532590 | Warren Court | The Supreme Court during the period when Earl Warren was chief justice, noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech | 217 | |
| 9833535585 | Watergate | A scandal arising from the Nixon administration's attempt to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex. | 218 | |
| 9833540535 | WAAC | The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was a US army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions. | 219 | |
| 9833544207 | Woodstock | A free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969 | 220 | |
| 9833548810 | XYZ Affair | A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats | 221 | |
| 9833551792 | Yellow Journalism | The use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers | 222 | |
| 9833554999 | Zimmerman Note | A message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona is the United States entered world War I. | 223 |
