Social Studies Vocab/ID's
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- foreclosure
- taking away land, evicting families
- hobos
- homeless people who walk across the country
- Bolshevicks
- a group of Communists who competed for the power of Russia
- WIB- War Industries Board
- coordinates production of war materials
- Conscription
- forced military service
- Nationalism
- feeling of intense pride towards one's home land
- Trusts
- merging businesses that didn't violate the law
- Victory Gardens
- what americans where persuaded to do: growing vejetable gardens
- Panama Canal
- a project to build a canal to have easier trade for the US
- "Big Stick" policy
- TR's policy. A policy to show other countries how powerful U.S. was
- GNP
- the total value of all goods and services produced by a country
- Sharecroppers
- landless farmers, always in debt
- grandfather clause
- allowed men to vote if ancestors had
- Central Powers
- Germany, A-H, O+E, Bulgaria
- Franz Ferdinand
- archduke that was shot by a Bosnian
- Temperance Movement
- a movement to moderate or eliminate alchohol
- Horizontal Integration
- combining a lot of firms working in the same buisness
- lynchings
- executions without proper court procedings
- Roosevelt Corollary
- a saying that prevented europe from sending troops to Carribean and Central America
- Corporation
- an organization
- UMW
- strike against mining coal
- propaganda
- information designed to influence an opinion
- jingoism
- an attitude of agressive nationalism
- stockholders
- people who own a corporation
- one technology invention at TOC
- fridge car- kept food cold
- party bosses
- people who ran the political machines
- U-Boats
- boats designed to block any ships going to Brittan.
- alliance
- treaty, friendship, with other countries.
- Alice Paul
- lead campaign for women's suffrage
- fixed costs
- costs a company has to pay whether or not it's working
- sugarcane
- a plant grown in spain. gave wealth to country
- USS Maine
- a US ship that exploded, blamed on Spain
- Trenches
- big holes, dug by army
- Alfred Mahan
- captain and officer in US Navy
- Dollar Diplomacy
- policy made by Pres Taft to help Latin America's well being. help reconstruct it
- Meat Inspection Act
- An act that required inspection of meat sold through interstate commerce
- arbitration
- a settlement imposed by an outside party
- segregation
- seperation of the races
- tariff
- a pay to give or receive items from other areas/countries
- Fourteen Points
- a document that Pres. Wilson made to have peace throughout countries
- TVA, WPA, CCC
- all agencies in the 1920's to help in the great depression
- Jim Crow Laws
- laws in southern states to enforce segregation
- Ida B. Wells
- young african american activist
- Great Migration
- when the african americans migrated to northern states, inorder to look for jobs
- poison gas
- a technology breakthrough-used by army men to kill other team
- convoys
- merchant ships
- Hoovervilles
- shantytowns, or villages of cardboard boxes
- "Boss" Tweed
- a politician from the Democratic party- was a criminal, stole millions from political corruption
- Pure food and drug act
- an act that prohibited the manufacture, sell, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs
- relief
- money that went directly to impoverished families
- reparations
- war damages
- NAWSA
- a fight for suffrage, made up by middle and upper class women
- suffrage
- the right to vote
- The Jungle
- a book on slaughterhouses in Chicago
- okies
- migrants from Oklahoma to California during the dust bowl
- Armistice
- a cease-fire, ends war
- Rough Riders
- group made up of cowboys, indians, policmen, and ivy leaguers who wanted to help fight in Spa-Am war.
- doughboys
- nickname for American Soldiers
- Luisitania
- a brittish passenger ship, carrying war supples. Shot down by Germany
- Square Deal
- TR's reform program
- Josiah Strong
- popular american minister in late 1800's
- laissez-faire
- a french phrase that means "let the people do as they choose"
- Yellow Journalism
- articles in newspaper, magazines, etc that are made up, and are not truthful
- protectorate
- a country that is technically independent but is actually under control of another country
- Buying on the Margain
- making a small down payment on stock
- Vertical Integration
- owning companies that the one company depends on
- Angelo- Saxonism
- idea that english speaking countries are superior
- holding company
- it owns the stock of companies that produce goods
- skyscrapers
- tall steel frame buildings-mostly found in cities
- operating costs
- costs a company has to pay when it's running
- graft
- getting money through dishonest or questionable means. also means fraud
- Liberty/Victory Bonds
- bonds to government to pay off war
- monopoly
- when one company gets to control an entire market
- self-detirmination
- an idea that people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government
- sussex pledge
- a policy that Germany had, to not shoot innocent ships, until Germany sunk Luisitania.
- literacy test
- a test to see if you could read or write, inorder to vote
- RFC
- a govenrment corporation taht loaned money to banks, railroads, and agricultural instituting
- Newlands Reclamation Act
- an act to use money for irrigation, land development, and projects. Supported by Roosevelt
- Triple Entente
- an alliance with Brittan, France, and Russia
- Bessemer Process
- a process that makes steel more efficent and cheap
- imperialism
- economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations
- No man's land
- space between opposing trenches, rough and barren
- contraband
- prohibited materials to ship from one country to another
- 15th admendment
- prohibited states from denying citizens to vote because of their color
- Bull Marker
- long period of rising stock prices
- poll tax
- a sum of two dollars to vote