Vocabulary Final Flashcards
Q. A government totally controlled by a hereditary ruler, whose commands are law.
A. Absolute Monarchy
Q: An addition to the text of the U.S. Constitution.
A: Amendment
Q: An organization created in 1881 as a loose combination of unions of skilled workers, like carpenters.
A: American Federation of Labor
Q: An organization founded in 1968 to obtain fairer treatment of American Indians.
A: American Indian Movement (AIM)
Q: The former South African policy of separation of the races and oppression of South African blacks.
A: Apartheid
Q: The policy of granting concessions to a potential aggressor to avoid conflict.
A: Appeasement
Q: An act of genocide by the rulers of Ottoman Turkey during World War I against Christian Armenians, in which a half million Armenians died.
A: Armenian Massacre
Q: A strong point of view or prejudice.
A: Bias
Q: A popular uprising that sought to remove foreigners and foreign influence from China in reaction to imperialism.
A: Boxer Rebellion
Q: A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ordered racially segregated public schools to be integrated, overturning the “separate but equal” ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson.
A: Brown v. Board of Education
Q: A movement by African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against segregation, discrimination, and inequality.
A: Civil Rights Movement
Q: A Supreme Court test stating that free speech must be limited if it creates a “danger that is clear, probable, and immediate.”
A: Clear and Present Danger Test
Q: The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States that began after World War II. It was called the “Cold War” because the two superpowers never directly confronted one another in open warfare.
A: Cold War
Q: An economic system in which economic and economic decisions are made by the government.
A: Command Economy
Q: A system based on eliminating private property to end class struggles and create an ideal society. In practice, characterized by government control of all aspects of life.
A: Communism
Q: A person who opposes fighting in a war on moral or religious grounds.
A: Conscientious Objector
Q: Young people who challenged the traditional values of mainstream America in the 1960s.
A: Counter-culture of the 1960s
Q: A source that is believable and trustworthy.
A: Credible Source
Q: The U.S.-Soviet confrontation over missiles in Cuba that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
A: Cuban Missile Crisis
Q: The exchange of ideas and products between cultures.
A: Cultural Diffusion
Q: The particular point of view a person or group has based on their cultural background.
A: Cultural Perspective
Q: The number of people that die in one year out of every 1,000 people.
A: Death Rate
Q: A system in which citizens participate in government decisions by voting directly on issues or by electing people to represent them in the legislature.
A: Democracy
Q: A system in which citizens have few rights and the government is controlled by an individual or small group.
A: Dictatorship
Q: A series of thoughts that affected the American Midwest in the 1930s, drying up crops and turning the soil to dust.
A: Dust Bowl
Q: A movement of thought in the 18th century Europe and America where enlightenment thinkers believed government decisions and social arrangements should be based on the laws of nature and reason.
A: Enlightenment
Q: The guarantee in the U.S. Constitution that each person is entitled to the equal protection of the laws.
A: Equal Protection
Q: A political movement that emerged after World War I; fascists believe the state is supreme, that the interests of the state expressed the needs of the people, and that citizens should make sacrifices for the state.
A: Fascism
Q: A system established in 1913 in which a government agency oversees the nation’s money supply. Federal Reserve Banks lend money to other banks and also decide on bank reserve requirements.
A: Federal Reserve System
Q: An amendment passed after the Civil War guaranteeing that the right to vote could not be denied to any citizen on the basis of race, religion, or national origin.
A: Fifteenth Amendment
Q: A means of stimulating the economy through government spending and taxation policies.
A: Fiscal Policy
Q: Peace program proposed by President Woodrow Wilson. The Fourteen Points recommended breaking up Austria and Turkey into new national states, and creating a League of Nations.
A: Fourteen Points
Q: A revolution in France against royal authority and noble privilege, partly inspired by Enlightenment ideals.
A: French Revolution
Q: A policy of mass murder carried out against a racial, ethnic, religious, or political group, or the deliberate extermination of such a group.
A: Genocide
Q: The spread of ideas, production, and people around the globe.
A: Globalization
Q: A major economic crisis that began in the United States in the 1920s and affected most of the world; it was marked by widespread business failures, bank closures, and high unemployment.
A: Great Depression
Q: The wave of African-American migrants from the South during the early 20th century; they moved north seeking better jobs and housing.
A: Great Migration
Q: Total amount of goods and services that a nation produces in a single year; the GDP is often used to gauge a nation’s economic strength.
A: Gross Domestic Product
