American History 2 test 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Clarence Darrow | lawyer from Ashtabula, Ohio, felt isolate and over whelmed when he moved to Chicago |
| suburbs | residential communities adjacent to urban areas that were originally connected to city centers by streetcar or subway lines and later by highways |
| muckrakers | Journalists in the early twentieth century whose stock-in-trade was exposure of the corruption of big business and goverment |
| political machine | nineteenth-century term for highly organized groups operating within and intending to control political parties |
| social settlement | it was an urban institution invented in the late nineteenth century. |
| william shepard | reporter |
| Stephen Wise | Rabbi |
| Rose Schneiderman | trade unionist |
| Max Steuer | Lawyer |
| progressives | a loose term for political reformers, used especially during the progressive era to describe those workering to improve the political system, fight poverty, and increase goverment involvment in the economy |
| spoils system | the widespread award of public jobs to political supporters after an electoral victory. |
| patronage | the power of elected officials to grant goverment jobs and favors to their supporters; also the jobs and favors themselves |
| grand-father clause | a law permitting citizens to register as voters only if their grandfathers had been eligible to vote |
| literacy tests | the requirement that an ability to read be demonstrated as a qualification for the right to vote |
| tariffs | a tax on imports |
| states' rights | an interpretation of the constitution that exalts the sovereignty of the states and circumscribes the authority of the national government |
| direct primary | the selection of party candidates by a popular vote rather than by the party convention. |
| Jim Crow | a term drawn from a satirical character, who appeared in antebellum minstrel shows, also used in the age of segregation to describe facilities designated for blacks |
| recall | a law that permits voters to remove an elected official from his post and elect a replacement, if they are dissatisfied with his or performance, befor the official has completed the full term for which he or she was elected |
| referendum | a direct vote on whether or not to adopt a particular law or government policy |
| Du Bois | black civil rights leader, wrote soul of Black Folk |
| Ida Wells | thrown out of a train, Black woman, civil rights leader |
| voluntarism | the view that citizens should themselves improve their lives, rather than rely on the efforts of government |
| syndicalists | members of a revolutionary movement that, like socialists, believed in the Marxist principle of class struggle and advocated the organization of society on the basis of industrial unionism |
| general strike | a strike that draws in all the workers in a society, with the intention of shutting the entire system down |
| imperialism | imposition of military, political, and economic control over another nation or people |
| American exeptionalism | ...the belief that the United States, as the first modern republic, has a mission and destiny distinct from that of all other nations |
| war of attrition | a military strategy of small-scale attacks used, usually by the weaker side, to sap the resources and morale of the stronger side |
| Jacob Lawrence | the labor agent in the south, black artist |
| welfare capitalism | a system of labor relations that stresses management's responsibility for employees' well-being |
| ideology | a systematic philosophy or political theory that purports to explain the character of the social world or to prescribe a set of values or beliefs |
| Ben Shahn | Artist, "the Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" |
| dollar diplomacy | policy adopted by President Taft connecting U.S economic and political interests overseas |
| nativism | antiforeign dentiment in the United States that fueled anti-immigrant and immigration-restriction policies against the Irish and Germans inthe 1840s and 1850s, the Chinese and Japanese in the 1880s and 1890s |
| pan-africanism | the political argument that people of African descent, in all parts of the world, face related problems, particulary racial discrimination, and sharecommon goals |
| Augusta Fells Savage | African American Sculptor |
| oligopoly | in economics, the situation in which a given industry is dominated by a small number of large-scale companies |
| soft power | in diplomacy, the influence of U.S cultural institutions, particularly those with broad popular appeal |
| Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogen | starred in "The Kid" 1921 silent film |
| business cycle | the periodic rise and fall of business activity characteristic of market-driven capitalist economies |
| social-welfare liberalism | the liberal ideology implemented in the United States during the New Deal of the 1930s and the GreatSociety of the 1960s |
| deficit spending | high government spending in excess of tax revenues; the practice is based on the ideas of British economist John Maynar Keynes, who proposed in the 1930s that governments should be prepared to go into debt to stimulate a stagnant economy |
| Keynesian economics | The theory, developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s, that purposeful government intervention in the economy can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation |
| Mary Mcleod Bethune | first building at the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girl, became Bethune-Cookman College |
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