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