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| 4479895347 | Joint Stock Company | Early settlements were funded by shareholders. These companies maintained the colonies well-being. |  | 0 |
| 4479898560 | New England | Rocky soils, ship-building, fishing. Zero religious tolerance. Puritan religion. |  | 1 |
| 4479898561 | Middle Colonies | Staple Crops grown here. Also home to Quakers and other religious groups who broke away from the Puritans |  | 2 |
| 4479900010 | Southern Colonies | Cash crops grown here (Not cotton yet) Religion was not a settling factor or motive. |  | 3 |
| 4479900011 | Puritans | Lived in New England colonies. Had zero tolerance for other religions |  | 4 |
| 4479901656 | Quaker | Found throughout the middle colonies. Led by William Penn. |  | 5 |
| 4479901657 | Salutary Neglect | Great Britain's way of telling the colonies they could govern themselves as long as they cooperated economically |  | 6 |
| 4479905075 | Articles of Confederation | Established a very weak central government because of their distrust in a strong central government. |  | 7 |
| 4479906407 | Virginia Plan | Idea that representatives in the government should be based on population |  | 8 |
| 4479906408 | New Jersey Plan | Idea that representatives in the governments should be based on equal representation |  | 9 |
| 4479906409 | Great Compromise | The house is represented by population and the senate is represented equally regardless of population |  | 10 |
| 4479908634 | Federalist | Stressed a strong national government and Constitution. (James Madison, Alexander Hamilton) | 11 | |
| 4479908635 | Anti-federalist | Opposed Constitution. Favored state government over national government. |  | 12 |
| 4479911286 | Marbury v. Madison | Court case that established judicial review. This allows the courts to decide if a law is unconstitutional or not. |  | 13 |
| 4479913159 | Alien and Sedition Acts | During times of war, individual liberties may be hindered |  | 14 |
| 4479917462 | Nationalism | Having a strong sense of pride for your country. |  | 15 |
| 4479917463 | Louisiana Purchase | Land bought in 1803 for $15 million from France. It double our size and gave America access to the New Orleans port |  | 16 |
| 4479917464 | Suffrage | Voting rights |  | 17 |
| 4479919675 | Indian Removal Act | The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. |  | 18 |
| 4479919676 | Trail of tears | In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. |  | 19 |
| 4479919677 | Nullification | South Carolina's response to tariff prices. The Federal Government responded by threatening to send troops, but a they resolved the issue before that. |  | 20 |
| 4479921325 | Manifest Destiny | Belief that Americans had the natural right and God given right to settle the entire continental America. From Pacific to Atlantic. |  | 21 |
| 4479921326 | Monroe Doctrine | Document that told European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. Anyone who came across the line would be seen as a military aggressor. |  | 22 |
| 4479922985 | "54-40 or fight" | Land dispute between US and Great Britain. Oregon territory. |  | 23 |
| 4479922986 | Annexation of Texas (1845) | Texas became a state of the United States. |  | 24 |
| 4479925125 | Mexican American War (Result) | James K. Polk's belief of manifest destiny ultimately led to war with Mexico |  | 25 |
| 4479925126 | Missouri Compromise of 1820 | Agreement reached where slave states and non-slave states were divided with a line. |  | 26 |
| 4479927589 | Abolitionist | Someone who is against slavery |  | 27 |
| 4479927616 | Underground Railroad | Route taken by slaves with the aide of others to get them to freedom |  | 28 |
| 4479931154 | Mexican Cession |  | 29 | |
| 4479931155 | Harper's Ferry | Raided by John Brown in an attempt to begin a slave revolt. |  | 30 |
| 4479933469 | Popular Sovereignty | The fact that people can vote and that majority rules |  | 31 |
| 4479933470 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Repealed the Missouri Compromise. Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not their state would be a free state or a slave state. |  | 32 |
| 4479939903 | Dred Scott Decision | Ruled that any African American free or slave could not be an American citizen. Also stated that US Congress had no right to ban slavery in "slave territories" |  | 33 |
| 4479939904 | Anaconda Plan | Northern military plan against the Confederates. The idea was to squeeze the resources and ports so that the Confederates would run out of supplies |  | 34 |
| 4479941696 | Emancipation Proclamation | Document stating slaves in Confederate territories were now free. (1863) | 35 | |
| 4479941697 | Total War | General Sherman's march through the south destroying everything in his path. |  | 36 |
| 4479943528 | Appomattox Courthouse | Where Generals from both the South and North came to agree that the war was over and that the North won. |  | 37 |
| 4479943529 | Reconstruction | Era in time after the Civil War. Attempted to rebuild the south diplomatically and physically. | 38 | |
| 4479943530 | Black Codes | Attempts to limit black participation in society. | 39 | |
| 4479946384 | Freedman's Bureau | U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States |  | 40 |
| 4479948025 | Sharecropping | Process in which many former slaves would share land with land owners in order to have a place to live for them and their family. |  | 41 |
| 4479949222 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Established "Separate but equal" |  | 42 |
| 4479949223 | Jim Crow Laws | State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. | 43 | |
| 4479951214 | Poll Taxes/Literacy Tests | Ways that tried to prevent African Americans from voting |  | 44 |
| 4479951215 | Vocational Education | Booker T. Washington established the vocational training school named Tuskegee. These schools were designed to educate with a more hands on approach. |  | 45 |
| 4479953827 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | The oldest civil rights organization in the United States, founded in 1909. Among their achievements was a lawsuit that resulted in the Supreme Court 's landmark decision in Brown versus Board of Education, in 1954, which declared the segregation of public schools unconstitutional. | 46 | |
| 4479957305 | Transcontinental Railroad | Completed in 1868 at Promontory Point, Utah. This helped establish a National Market as it connected the East Coast to the West Coast. |  | 47 |
| 4479957306 | Assimilation | When one culture is made to transform into another culture. (Native American culture into "White man culture) |  | 48 |
| 4479957307 | Wounded Knee | Last battle between Native Americans and the United States military. |  | 49 |
| 4479958876 | Chinese Exclusion Act | It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |  | 50 |
| 4479958877 | Vertical Integration | the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. |  | 51 |
| 4479960804 | Horizontal Integration | is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain. A company may do this via internal expansion, acquisition or merger. The process can lead to monopoly if a company captures the vast majority of the market for that good or service. |  | 52 |
| 4479960805 | Robber Barons | a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. |  | 53 |
| 4479960806 | Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. |  | 54 |
| 4479962550 | Social Darwinism | "Survival of the fittest" |  | 55 |
| 4479964514 | Laissez-faire capitalism | Hands off approach to the economy. No government regulations | 56 | |
| 4479974292 | Granger Laws | Laws put in place to help famers from the abuses of the railroads and their high prices. |  | 57 |
| 4479974293 | Inflation | a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money |  | 58 |
| 4479976061 | Strike | a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. |  | 59 |
| 4479976062 | Nativists | a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. |  | 60 |
| 4479979460 | Muckraker | one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders |  | 61 |
| 4479981226 | Prohibition | Illegal sale/distribution of alcohol |  | 62 |
| 4479983851 | Isolationism | process in which America remained isolated from foreign affairs |  | 63 |
| 4479985657 | Yellow Journalism | journalism that often exaggerated the truth (USS Maine and the Spanish American War) |  | 64 |
| 4479985658 | USS Maine | Blew up in the Havana Harbor. Yellow Journalists wrote that Spain had blown it up in order to get Americans to want to fight Spain. |  | 65 |
| 4479987312 | Sphere of Influence | a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority. |  | 66 |
| 4479987313 | Boxer Rebellion | a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. |  | 67 |
| 4479987314 | Panama Canal | Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The United States built it from 1904 to 1914 on territory leased from Panama. |  | 68 |
| 4479989620 | Neutrality | the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality. | 69 | |
| 4479989621 | U-boats | Unrestricted submarine warfare |  | 70 |
| 4479991046 | Zimmerman Telegram | Message from Germany to Mexico asking for their support in attacking America and in return they would get their land back. |  | 71 |
| 4479991047 | 14 points | President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. | 72 | |
| 4479991048 | League of Nations | An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The League, the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like. |  | 73 |
| 4479993012 | Red Scare | is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. |  | 74 |
| 4479993013 | Treaty of Versailles | It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |  | 75 |
| 4479997604 | Good Neighbor Policy | was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America. | 76 | |
| 4479999813 | Depression | a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies. It is a more severe downturn than an economic recession, which is a slowdown in economic activity over the course of a normal business cycle. |  | 77 |
| 4479999814 | Flapper | a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |  | 78 |
| 4479999815 | Great Migration | movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. (Job opportunities and escaping Jim Crow Laws) |  | 79 |
| 4480003305 | "Birth of a Nation" | Originally called "The Clansmen" this film gave rise to the KKK once again in 1915. Helped reaffirm segregation and white supremacy. |  | 80 |
| 4480003306 | Xenophobia | Fear of foreigners. This phobia struck at the hearts of nativists. |  | 81 |
| 4480005137 | Palmer Raids | Series of raids that deported hundreds of suspected communists in America. |  | 82 |
| 4480005138 | Temperance Movement | The abstinence from alcoholic drink. |  | 83 |
| 4480006837 | Hoovervilles | Shanty towns formed during the Great Depression. |  | 84 |
| 4480006838 | Dust Bowl | Natural disaster that swept across the Mid-west of America during the 1930s causing farms and everyone to suffer even more. |  | 85 |
| 4480006839 | Court Packing | FDR's attempt to add more judges to the Supreme Court hoping he could get more legislation passed. |  | 86 |
| 4480011364 | Scarce Resources | During WW2 people had to ration these resources so the troops could have what they needed. |  | 87 |
| 4480011365 | Cold War | the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. |  | 88 |
| 4480012625 | D-Day | Largest amphibious assault in history. Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in order to help establish a 3rd front in the European theater. |  | 89 |
| 4480012626 | Battle of the Bulge | The last major offensive for the German forces in WW2 |  | 90 |
| 4480014443 | Island hopping | The US strategy of regaining territory lost to the Japanese in order to get closer to mainland Japan to set up an assault. |  | 91 |
| 4480014445 | Arms Race | The competition between America and Soviet Union to have the biggest and baddest weapons post WW2. |  | 92 |
| 4480016542 | Anti-semitism | is hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. |  | 93 |
| 4480016543 | Nuremberg Trials | Trial held to hold German leaders accountable for their actions towards the Jews during the Holocaust. |  | 94 |
| 4480019546 | Final solution | Hitler's plan to eliminate all of the Jews through death and concentration camps. |  | 95 |
| 4480019547 | "Iron Curtain" | the "barrier" separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. |  | 96 |
| 4480021065 | Truman Doctrine | the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. |  | 97 |
| 4480021066 | Sputnik | The first satellite launched into orbit. (Russia) |  | 98 |
| 4480022747 | Baby Boom | a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II. |  | 99 |
| 4480024377 | Brown v. Board of Education | Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. De-segregated schools and other public places such as restaurants and movie theaters. |  | 100 |
| 4480024378 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. |  | 101 |
| 4480025945 | Sit-in | Non-violent protests to end racial discrimination in public places. |  | 102 |
| 4480025946 | Freedom Rides | a person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race. |  | 103 |
| 4480027446 | March on Washington | was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. |  | 104 |
| 4480027447 | Selma March | triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. |  | 105 |
| 4480029480 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. | 106 | |
| 4480029481 | Voting Rights Act of 1968 | popularly known as the Fair Housing Act-prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. | 107 | |
| 4480031617 | Dixiecrats | any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights. | 108 | |
| 4480031618 | Roe v. Wade | Court case that made it illegal to tell a woman that getting an abortion is illegal. | 109 | |
| 4480033510 | Affirmative Action | state as a fact; assert strongly and publicly. |  | 110 |
| 4480033518 | War on Poverty | Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was focused on the... |  | 111 |
| 4480035843 | Hawks | Anyone in favor of Vietnam war and defense spending. |  | 112 |
| 4480035844 | Doves | Someone against military spending and the Vietnam War. |  | 113 |
| 4480037555 | The Pentagon Papers | name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Would later be connected to the Watergate Scandal. |  | 114 |
| 4480037556 | War Powers Act | federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. |  | 115 |
| 4480039296 | Reaganomics | A popular term used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. President (1981-1989), which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets. |  | 116 |
| 4480039297 | Deregulation | is the reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. |  | 117 |
| 4480041000 | Globalization | is the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen. The global economy is sometimes referred to as a globality, characterized as a totally interconnected marketplace, unhampered by time zones or national boundaries. |  | 118 |
| 4480043609 | First Persian Gulf War | US invasion of Kuwait that kicked out Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces. Hussein deliberately went against UN policy in his occupation of Kuwait. |  | 119 |
