history row 4

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

The idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.

Question 2

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 2

Any African American could be accused of being a runaway and captured

Question 3

Laissez-faire

Answer 3

A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy.

Question 4

Entrepreneurs

Answer 4

One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.

Question 5

Suffrage

Answer 5

The right to vote.

Question 6

Imperialism

Answer 6

The actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller or weaker nation.

Question 7

Open Door Policy

Answer 7

A policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other nations spheres of influence.

Question 8

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 8

A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests aboard.

Question 9

Fourteen Points

Answer 9

Peace plan.

Question 10

Fireside chats

Answer 10

Radio broadcasts made by Roosevelt to the American people to explain his intiatives.

Question 11

Speculation

Answer 11

The act of buying stocks at great risks with the anticipation that the prices will rise.