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HISTORY EXAM 3RD QUARTER VOCAB

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civil service
a system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military
primary
is in an election in which voters,rather than party leaders, choose their parties candidate
recall
process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from an office
initiative
is a process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature
referendum
a way for people to vote directly on a proposed law
graduated income tax
a method of taxation that taxes people by how much they make
muckraker
a term for a crusading journalist
trust buster
person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
conservation
the protection of natural resources
suffragist
people who worked for women's rights to vote
prohibition
a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
national park
a natural area protected and managed by the federal government
lynching
murder by a mob
parochial schools
schools sponsored by a church
Anti-Semitism
prejudice against Jewish people
militarism
glorification of the military
nationalism
pride in one's country
trench warfare
soldiers fire on one another from opposing lines of dugout trenches
Propoganda
is the spread of information designed to win support for a cause
mobilize
to prepare for war
illiterate
somebody who is unable to read or write
convoy
is a large group of merchant vessels moving together
communism
is an economic & political system based on he idea that social classes and the right to private should be eliminated
armistice
a halt in fighting that allows peace talks to begin
reparations
payments to cover war damages
deport
returned to their home countries
self-determination
is the right of a group to decide its own form of government
disbarment
means the reduction or limitation of military armaments.
anarchist
people who oppose all forms of government
speakeasy
illegal taverns that served liquor
bootlegers
liquor smugglers
jazz
combined rhythms from West Africa and the Caribbean, work chants and spirituals from the rural South, and harmonies from Europe into an original new style of music
installment buying
buying on credit
bull market
a period of rising stock prices
buying on margin
borrowing money in order to buy stocks
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
created the square deal
William Howard Taft
27th president of the U.S.
only person to have held both offices
served as the 10th chief of justice
Woodrow Wilson
28th president
created the new freedom program
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
founded and was president of the National Women's Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
helped found the National Women's Suffrage Association
proposed an amendment to the constitution
Carrie Chapman Catt
served as the president of the NWSA
founder of the League of Women Voters
& the international alliance of women
Alice Paul
suffragist who met with Wilson in 1913 to propose an amendment to the constitution for women's suffrage
Frances Willard
Women's Christian Temperance Union
wanted to ban the sale of alcohol which led to the 18th amendment
Booker T. Washington
An African American who believed African Americans should patiently move up in society
W.E.B. DuBois
believed African Americans should actively resist segregation
John J. Pershing
command to the American Expeditionary Force
led the pursuit of Pancho Villa.
Jeannette Rankin
1st woman elected to congress
Vladimir Lenin
part of a radical faction called the Bolsheviks seized the Russian government on November 7, 1917.
Herbert Hoover
head of a new food administration
Eugene V. Debs
five time presidential candidate of the socialist party
Henry Cabbot Lodge
a powerful republican that opposed the joining of the league of nations
Warren G. Harding
president who called for a return to normalcy following WWI
Calvin Coolidge
Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business.
Charels Lindbergh
First solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic
Sinclair Lewis
American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature.
Langston Hughes
African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance.
Henry Ford
1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
john scopes
Tennessee high school teacher who violated a state law by teaching the theory of evolution
Babe Ruth
He was a famous baseball player who played for the Yankees. He helped developed a rising popularity for professional sports.
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