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What isolationism?
Policy where a nation’s interests are best served if the
nation secludes itself from other nations and avoids
forming alliances with them
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What was the Montgomery
Bus Boycott?
In December, 1955 the African American community in
Montgomery, Alabama, begins boycotting the city's
racially segregated bus system after Rosa Parks is
arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man.
The boycott lasts more than a year to December 21,
1956 and is led by local minister Martin Luther King, Jr.
The action results in the desegregation of the city’s
buses, makes King a national figure, and marks a major
step in the growing U.S. civil rights movement.
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What was the Freedom Summer?
Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States
launched in June 1964 to attempt to register to vote as
many African American voters as possible in
Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally
excluded black voters.
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What was the Civil
Rights Act of 1964?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark legislation in
the United States that outlawed segregation in the U.S.
schools and public places.
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What was the Espionage
Act of 1917?
made it a crime for a person to convey information with
intent to interfere with the operation or success of the
armed forces of the United States or to promote the
success of its enemies.
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What is the Sedition
Act of 1918?
The passing of this act forbade Americans to
use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive
language" about the United States government,
flag, or armed forces during war.
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What was the double standard
for women in the 1920’s?
Men could do just about anything, but women
had mess freedom. They had less sexual
freedom as well as freedom in society.
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What is buying on margin ?
Buying on margin is borrowing money from a broker to
purchase stock.
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What were the reactions to
Hoover’s policies during
the Great Depression?
1. He was basically hated.
2. Homeless set up "Hoovervilles" - tent cities.
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What made life so hard during
the Great Depression?
1. Unemployment
2. Homelessness
3. Poverty
4. Destruction of families
5. Farm losses
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What were the causes
of Great Depression?
•Overproduction
•Laissez Faire policies that left the economy
unregulated
•Fraud
•Over speculation on the stock market
•Decline in foreign trade
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What was the unemployment rate
during the Great Depression?
Unemployment rose to 25-35%
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What was Black Tuesday?
October 29th 1929 –
The stock market crashed
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What was the New Deal?
The New Deal was the title that President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs and
promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the
goal of giving relief to the needy, reform of the financial
system, and recovery of the economy of the United
States during the Great Depression.
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What did the Social
Security Act do?
The Social Security Act for the first time established an
economic “safety net” for all Americans, providing
unemployment and disability insurance and old-age
pensions.
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What was the National
Labor Relations Act?
A 1935 United States federal law that protects the rights
of most workers in the private sector to organize labor
unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take
part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in
support of their demands.
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What was the Works
Progress Administration?
The Works Progress Administration was the largest
New Deal agency, employing millions of people and
affecting most every locality, especially rural and
western mountain populations.
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What was the
Lend-Lease Act?
It gave President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority
to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks,
airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe
without violating the nation's official position of
neutrality.
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How did World War II
come to an end?
World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945 with the
unconditional surrender of all German troops to the
Russians, British, American, and French commanders.
The war in Japan ended on September 2, 1945 when the
representative of the Japanese government signed the
surrender document on the battleship USS Missouri.
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What was the GI Bill?
It provided for college or vocational education for
returning World War II veterans as well as one year of
unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for
returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses.
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