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- Industrial Revolution (10:1)
- the change from an agrarian society to one based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the US
- brand (18:2)
- symbol to tell whos cattle were whos
- decree (12:2)
- official order
- Californios (12:3)
- mexicans who lived in California
- Conestoga wagons (9:2)
- sturdy vehicles topped with white canvases used by the settlers
- cash crops (17:4)
- crops that could be sold for money (cotton, tobacco)
- disarmament (26:2)
- giving up military weapons
- neutral rights (9:3)
- the right to sail seas and not take sides
- collective bargaining (19:4)
- unions represent workers in bargaining with management
- carpetbaggers (17:3)
- critics called northerners this because of their bag
- mergers (19:3)
- the combining of companies
- clipper ships (13:1)
- ships with sleek hulls and tall sails
- capital (10:1)
- money
- ranchos (12:3)
- mexcan settlers who bought land from the leftover Native American lands and built lasrge properties on it
- public works (25:1)
- projects such as highways parks and libraries to create new jobs
- ratify (16:3)
- approve
- assembly line (19:2)
- each worker perfoms an assigned task again adna gain in a certain stage in the production fo an automobile
- poll tax (17:4)
- a fee people had to pay before voting
- War Hawks (9:3)
- always wanted to go to war
- militarism (23:1)
- army growth
- Forty-Niners (12:4)
- people who arrived in California in 1949 (gold rush)
- seceed (9:2)
- withdraw
- expatriates (24:5)
- people who choose to live in another country
- guerrilla tactics (11:2)
- making surprise aacks and then retreating back into the forests and swamps
- entrenched (16:5)
- set up in a strong position
- philanthropy (19:3)
- the use of money to benefit the community
- border ruffians (15:2)
- the armd groups of missourians who were proslavery supporters who crossed the border just to vote
- socialists (23:4)
- people who believe industries should be publically owned
- bounties (16:4)
- payments to encourage volunteers
- integrated (17:3)
- included both whites and blacks
- convoys (23:3)
- teams
- appeasement (26:1)
- avoid war by accepting demands
- defaulted (25:1)
- fail to pay loan payment
- island hopping (26:5)
- attacking and capturing certain key islands
- vertical integration (19:3)
- acquiring companies that provided equipment and servces needed
- ethnic groups (23:1)
- people who share the same language and traditions
- embargo (9:3)
- prohibits trade with another country
- vaqueros (18:2)
- spanish cowboys
- freedmen (17:1)
- former enslaved people
- commission (17:4)
- group
- nativists (13:2)
- people opposed to immigrants
- sweatshops (19:4)
- crowded urban factories
- discrimination (13:2)
- unfair treatment of a group
- famine (13:2)
- extreme shortage of food
- prohibition (21:2)
- the passing of laws to prohibit the making or selling of alcohol
- radical (17:1)
- extreme
- dry farming (18:2)
- required to plant seeds deep in the ground so they would sprout
- quota system (24:5)
- an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
- injunction (19:4)
- court order
- Tejanos (12:2)
- mexicans who claimed Texas as their home
- vigilantes (12:4)
- people who took the law into their own hands
- holocaust (26:4)
- millions and millions of people ruthlessly killed
- autocracy (23:2)
- rule by one person with unlimited power
- Manifest Destiny (12:1)
- to overspread and possess the entire continent
- border states (16:1)
- maryland, missouri, kentucky, delaware
- pacifists (23:4)
- people opposed to the use of violence.
- nationalism (23:1)
- a feeling of intense loyalty to onescountry or group
- strikebreakers (19:4)
- replace the striking workers and federal troops restored to order. hired by the companies
- empresarios (12:2)
- a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas in the 1800s
- Rebels (16:1)
- Union (north)
- scalawag (17:3)
- term meaning scoundrel or worthless rascal
- reconstruction (17:1)
- period of time during rebuilding
- reservations (18:3)
- tracts of land set aside for Native Americans
- Nationalism (9:3)
- loyalty to their country
- total war (16:5)
- method of waging war
- grandfather clause (17:4)
- allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test tovote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before reconstruction
- patent (10:1)
- gives inventor the sole right to the invention and its profits for a certain period of time
- mountain men (12:1)
- people who spent most of their time in the mountains
- front (23:3)
- line of battle
- emigrants (12:1)
- pioneers who travelled the Oregan Trail
- blockade runners (16:2)
- confederate ships that sailed out of southern ports
- flappers (24:4)
- care free young women of the 1920s
- stock exchange (25:1)
- an organized system for buying and selling shares of stock, or blocks of investments in corporations
- alliance system (23:1)
- defense agreements among nations
- entente (23:1)
- understanding among nations
- boomtowns (12:4)
- communities built almost overnight
- capitalism (10:1)
- individuals put their money into a business with hopes to make a profit
- blockade (16:1)
- close
- corruption (17:3)
- dishonest or illegal action
- League of Nations (23:5)
- members would help preserve peace and prevent future wars by pledging to respect and protect one anothers territory and political independence
- Morse code (13:1)
- a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet
- balance of power (23:1)
- a system that prevents any one country from dominating another
- blitzkreig (26:2)
- "lightening war" Germans offensive way of fighting
- sodbusters (18:2)
- farmes of the Plains
- Lendlease act (26:2)
- allowed america to sell lend or lease arms or other warsupplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the US"
- segregation (17:4)
- separation of the races
- rendezvous (12:1)
- meeting/gathering place;; mostly by mountain men
- cotton gin (10:1)
- a simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed the seeds from the cotton fiber
- monopoly (19:3)
- almost total control by a single producer (oil industry)
- joint occupation (12:1)
- people from Britain and the US could settle here
- emancipate (16:3)
- free
- shareholders (19:3)
- partial owners
- Rancheros (12:3)
- ranch owners
- reconcilliation (17:4)
- coming together again
- privateers (9:4)
- armed private ships
- greenbacks (16:4)
- Union money
- D-Day (26:4)
- allied ships landed on the coast of Normandy (june 6, 1944)
- mass media (24:5)
- forms of communication such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people
- dictators (26:1)
- leaders who control their nations by force
- strikes (13:2)
- refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers
- lyinching (17:4)
- hanging
- habeas corpus (16:4)
- guaranteed accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed
- kamikazes (26:5)
- suicidal pilots
- trade unions (13:2)
- organizations of workers with the same trade or skill
- reparations (23:5)
- payments
- corporation (19:3)
- a company that sells shares of its business to the public
- propaganda (23:2)
- information designed to influence opinion
- dissent (23:4)
- opposition
- genocide (26:4)
- wiping out an entire group of people
- stock (19:3)
- shares
- amnesty (17:1)
- a pardon
- telegraph (13:3)
- an apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages
- open range (18:2)
- not fenced or divided into lots
- anti-semitism (26:1)
- hatred of jews
- frigates (9:4)
- warships
- espionage (23:4)
- spying
- migrant workers (25:3)
- moving from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables
- relief (25:1)
- aid for the needy
- states' rights (15:4)
- rights independent of the federal government
- interchangeable parts (10:1)
- identical machine parts that could be quickly put together to make a complete product
- on margin (25:1)
- pay for a fraction of a stock then borrow from the bank (loan)
- totalitarian (26:1)
- a single party and its leader suppress all opposition an control all aspects of peoples lives.
- tribute (9:3)
- protection money
- abstain (15:1)
- not to cast votes
- sectionalism (15:1)
- an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
- sharecropping (17:3)
- landowner rented land to sharecropper and in return profit was shared
- Yankees (16:1)
- Confederate (south)
- armistice (23:3)
- agreeent to end all fighting
- internment camps (26:3)
- located in desert areas, crowded, uncomfortable, conditions were harsh
- dividends (19:3)
- cash payments from the corporations profits
- popular sovereignity (15:2)
- allowing the people to decide
- literacy test (17:4)
- read and explain parts of the constitution before voting
- nomadic (18:3)
- travel vast distances following their main source of food (buffalo)
- prejudice (13:2)
- an unfair opinon not based on facts
- ironclad (16:2)
- Virginia, Merrimack. this type of warships were undefeatable no winner to battles
- horizontal integration (19:3)
- combining competing firms intoone corporation
- technology (10:1)
- scientific discoveries that simplify work
- annex (12:2)
- take control of
- Fourteen Points (23:5)
- peace plan designed by Wilson.
- dust bowl (25:3)
- serious drought in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas
- suffragist (21:2)
- men and women who fought for womans suffrage or womens right to vote
- inflation (16:4)
- general increase in prices
- ceded (12:3)
- to give
- sabotage (23:4)
- secret action to damage the war effort
- fugitive (15:1)
- to leave
- factory system (10:1)
- a system bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency
- draft (16:4)
- law that required men between the ages of 18-35 to serve in the army for 3 years
- secession (15:4)
- withdrawal from the Union
- mass production (19:2)
- producing large quantities of goods more quickly
- relocate (11:2)
- move
- Offensive (16:1)
- to go on the attack; southern strategy
- trust (19:3)
- a group of companies managed by the same board of directors
- nativism (24:5)
- the belief that native-born americans are superior to foreigners
- facism (26:1)
- extreme nationalism and racism
- rationed (26:3)
- consumers could buy only a limited number
- homestead (18:2)
- earn ownership of land by selling it
- evolution (24:5)
- the scientific theory that humans evolved over vast periods of time
- casualties (16:2)
- people killed or wounded
- mobilization (23:4)
- gathering of resources and the preparation for war