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UNH-Hist406-Midterm
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History
Undergraduate 1
03/06/2007

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Term
Nye Commission
Definition
1934
Studied the US involvement in WWI. They thought that the US entered the war so that the UK wouldn't lose.
Term
America First Commitee
Definition
September 4th, 1940
Wanted to enforce the 1939 neutrality act. Defend US, No foreign power, and keep out of European affairs.
Term
The First 100 Days
Definition
1933
Emergency Banking Act
Revive Federal Reserves
Conserve economy
CCC, CWA, (federal relief)
Repeal Prohib.
Term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Definition
1933-1945
4 terms
Reconstruction, Wartimes, and Civil Rights
Term
ES Executive Order 9066
Definition
February 19, 1942
Send ethnic groups into internment camps
(Japanese)
Term
Neutrality Acts
Definition
1935
Laws passed with the turmoil in Europe. They were used to keep US out of Europe.
Term
Germany Invades Poland
Definition
1939
Term
Pearl Harbour
Definition
1941
Term
United Nations
Definition
Formed 1945
Term
Birth of a Nation
Definition
1915
Term
Harlem Renaissance
Definition
1920
Term
NAACP
Definition
1909
Term
Imperial Wars
Definition
1898
Term
14th Ammendment
Definition
1866
Blacks are citizens
Term
15th Ammendment
Definition
1870
Blacks can vote.
Term
16th Ammendment
Definition
1913
Income taxes
Term
17th Ammendment
Definition
1913
Senators by state
Term
18th Ammendment
Definition
1919
Prohibition taken away
Term
19th Ammendment
Definition
1920
Women can vote now!
Term
Dust Bowl
Definition
1931
Infertile planting caused clouds on plains.
Term
Manifest Destiny
Definition
1845 It's man's destiny to move west.
Term
14 points
Definition
1918
Wilson wanted free nations, and a general association of those nations.
Term
Big Stick Politics
Definition
1901
Use military force to get what you want
Term
Morrill Act
Definition
1862
Colleges for free land.
Term
Indian Wars
Definition
1622-1890
Wars between the US states and Indians on the land
Term
Great Depression
Definition
1929
HUGE economic depression worldwide.
Term
World's Fair 1876
Definition
1876
First worlds fair in US. Showed US power within the world.
Term
Theodore Roosevelt
Definition
1901-1909 President
Term
Woodrow Wilson
Definition
1913-1921
President.
Term
'The Jungle'
Definition
Published 1906
Term
The Red Scare
Definition
1919
Fear of Communism
Term
Immigration Acts
Definition
1921 & 1924
Forced US to close it's borders. No more Asians.
Term
Homestead Act
Definition
1862
Free land to those who improve it. 160 acres.
Term
Dawes Act
Definition
1887
Divide Native American land into family-owned portions
Term
Jim Crow
Definition
1876-1965
Separate but Equal AAs.
Term
Gospel of Wealth
Definition
1889
Andrew Carnegie states responsibility to upper class philanthropy.
Term
Black Tuesday
Definition
Oct 29 1929
Term
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Definition
1873
combat alcohol in american families
Term
Teapot Dome Scandal
Definition
1921
Fall appointed as secretary of interior through bribe.
Term
Frontier Thesis
Definition
1893
Frederick Jackson Turner
American Frontier Calling out new institutions
Term
Chinese Exclusion Act
Definition
1882
suspend immigration (chinese)
Term
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Definition
1917
Get the spys out of America! WWI!!!
Term
Zimmerman Note
Definition
1917
Germany's attempt to pull Mexico against the US as well.
Term
Alice Paul
Definition
Major player in American Women Freedom.
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