Final Exam Vocabulary Flashcards
The policy of giving Hitler small concessions, in the hope that German expansionist appetites could be satisfied without war.
Appeasement
Booker T. Washington’s 1895 speech where he urged African Americans to work hard and get along with others in their white communities, so as to earn the goodwill of the country.
Atlanta Compromise
Laws some southern states designed to maintain white supremacy by keeping freed people impoverished and in debt. They were designed to maintain the social and economic structure of racial slavery in the absence of slavery itself.
Black Codes
A political ideology encouraging African Americans to create their own institutions and develop their own economic resources independent of whites
Black Power
an ideology that called upon African Americans to reject integration with the white community and, in some cases, to physically separate themselves from whites in order to create and preserve their self-determination
Black Separatism
A group of World War I veterans and affiliated groups who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand their war bonuses early, only to be refused and forcibly removed by the U.S. Army
Bonus Army
A nineteenth-century term for the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular during prohibition
Bootlegging
A term of abuse applied to northerners accused of having come to the South to acquire wealth through political power at the expense of southerners.
Carpetbagger
The prolonged period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, based on ideological conflicts and competition for military, economic, social, and technological superiority, and marked by surveillance and espionage, political assassinations, an arms race, attempts to secure alliances with developing nations, and proxy wars
Cold War
Those who, for religious or philosophical reasons, refuse to serve in the armed forces.
Conscientious Objectors
A culture that develops in opposition to the dominant culture of a society.
Counterculture
A new military strategy under the Kennedy administration to suppress nationalist independence movements and rebel groups in the developing world
Counterinsurgency
An 1894 protest to advocate for public works jobs for the unemployed by marching on Washington, DC.
Coxey’s Army
The anonymous source who supplied reporters with information about White House involvement in the Watergate break-in
Deep Throat
Taft’s foreign policy, which involved using American economic power to push for favorable foreign policies
Dollar Diplomacy
The area in the middle of the country that had been badly over-farmed in the 1920s and suffered from a terrible drought that coincided with the Great Depression; the name came from the “black blizzard” of topsoil that blew through the area
Dust Bowl
The bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Enola Gay
A term used to describe African Americans who moved to Kansas from the Old South to escape the racism there.
Exodusters
A political ideology that places a heightened focus on national unity, through dictatorial rule, and militarism.
Fascism
A young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age.
Flapper
An idea that stated that the encounter of European traditions and a native wilderness was integral to the development of American democracy, individualism, and innovative character
Frontier Thesis
The period in American history during which materialism, a quest for personal gain, and corruption dominated both politics and society.
Gilded Age
The large exodus of African Americans leaving the South and moving to the Northeast and Upper Midwest in the early twentieth century.
Great Migration
This group advocated for some measure of civil service reform, and received their derogatory nickname from Stalwart supporters who considered it to be only “half-Republican.”
Half Breeds
The rally and subsequent riot in which several policemen were killed when a bomb was thrown at a peaceful workers rights rally in Chicago in 1866.
Haymarket Affair
