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  1. 3. a nickname for the decorated, all-Black 369th Infantry, which served on the frontlines of France for six months, longer than any other American unit
  2. 4. unlike the secret terror group of the Reconstruction Era, the Second Ku Klux Klan was a nationwide movement that expressed racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism
  3. 6. a group of writers who came of age during World War I and expressed their disillusionment with the era
  4. 9. elementary and secondary schools that, although funded by taxpayer money, are allowed to operate independently from some rules and regulations governing public schools
  5. 10. weapons of mass destruction; a class of weapons capable of inflicting massive causalities and physical destruction, such as nuclear bombs or biological and chemical weapons
  6. 15. the first car produced by the Ford Motor Company that took advantage of the economies of scale provided by assembly-line production and was therefore affordable to a large segment of the population
  7. 16. / the pejorative name given by the press to Secretary of State Seward’s acquisition of Alaska in 1867
  8. 17. young people who must return to their parents’ home in order to make ends meet
  9. 20. rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs
  10. 21. Republicans who opposed the Treaty of Versailles on all grounds
  11. 24. / Theodore Roosevelt’s cavalry unit, which fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
  12. 26. Republicans who would support the Treaty of Versailles if sufficient amendments were introduced that could eliminate Article X
  13. 30. / a statement by Theodore Roosevelt that the United States would use military force to act as an international police power and correct any chronic wrongdoing by any Latin American nation threatening the stability of the region
  14. 31. a small town north of Los Angeles, California, whose reliable sunshine and cheaper production costs attracted filmmakers and producers starting in the 1910s; by the 1920s, Hollywood was the center of American movie production with five movie studios dominating the industry
  15. 32. the notion that African Americans had a distinct and separate national heritage that should inspire pride and a sense of community
  16. 36. gases in the earth’s atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, that trap heat and prevent it from radiating into space
  17. 39. an international agreement establishing regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the world’s industrialized nations
  18. 40. someone who lives outside of their home country
  19. 41. a civil status offered to gay and lesbian couples with the goal of securing the main privileges of marriage without granting them equal status in marriage
  20. 43. Woodrow Wilson’s policy of maintaining commercial ties with all belligerents and insisting on open markets throughout Europe during World War I
  21. 44. the name for the war bonds that the U.S. government sold, and strongly encouraged Americans to buy, as a way of raising money for the war effort
  22. 46. / the goal of foreign countries such as Japan, Russia, France, and Germany to carve out an area of the Chinese market that they could exploit through tariff and transportation agreements
  23. 47. the campaign promise made by Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920
  24. 48. a type of mortgage offered to borrowers with lower credit ratings; subprime loans feature interest rates that are higher (often adjustable) than conventional mortgages to compensate the bank for the increased risk of default
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  1. 1. the campaign for a ban on the sale and manufacturing of alcoholic beverages, which came to fruition during the war, bolstered by anti-German sentiment and a call to preserve resources for the war effort
  2. 2. the term used to describe the fear that Americans felt about the possibility of a Bolshevik revolution in the United States; fear over Communist infiltrators led Americans to restrict and discriminate against any forms of radical dissent, whether Communist or not
  3. 5. the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  4. 7. the summer of 1919, when numerous northern cities experienced bloody race riots that killed over 250 persons, including the Chicago race riot of 1919
  5. 8. the belief that the United States has the right to protect itself from terrorist acts by engaging in pre-emptive wars or ousting hostile governments in favor of friendly, preferably democratic, regimes
  6. 11. the 1925 trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in a public school; the trial highlighted the conflict between rural traditionalists and modern urbanites
  7. 12. Woodrow Wilson’s idea for a group of countries that would promote a new world order and territorial integrity through open discussions, rather than intimidation and war
  8. 13. a fundamentalist Muslim group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001
  9. 14. the telegram sent from German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador in Mexico, which invited Mexico to fight alongside Germany should the United States enter World War I on the side of the Allies
  10. 18. a group of diverse and prominent Americans who banded together in 1898 to protest the idea of American empire building
  11. 19. / Taft’s foreign policy, which involved using American economic power to push for favorable foreign policies
  12. 22. the economic recession that began in 2008, following the collapse of the housing boom, and was driven by risky and misleading subprime mortgages and a deregulated bond market
  13. 23. financial instruments that pay buyers even if a purchased loan defaults; a form of insurance for risky loans
  14. 25. / the circular notes sent by Secretary of State Hay claiming that there should be “open doors” in China, allowing all countries equal and total access to all markets, ports, and railroads without any special considerations from the Chinese authorities; while ostensibly leveling the playing field, this strategy greatly benefited the United States
  15. 27. Woodrow Wilson’s postwar peace plan, which called for openness in all matters of diplomacy, including free trade, freedom of the seas, and an end to secret treaties and negotiations, among others
  16. 28. the expression used by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the case of Schenck v. United States to characterize public dissent during wartime, akin to shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater
  17. 29. the bribery scandal involving Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1923al-Qaeda a militant Islamist group originally founded by Osama bin Laden
  18. 33. a nineteenth-century term for the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular during prohibition
  19. 34. the more permissive mores adopted my many young people in the 1920s
  20. 35. a manufacturing process that allowed workers to stay in one place as the work came to them
  21. 37. / an idea proposed by Fredrick Jackson Turner, which stated that the encounter of European traditions and a native wilderness was integral to the development of American democracy, individualism, and innovative character
  22. 38. / sensationalist newspapers who sought to manufacture news stories in order to sell more papers
  23. 42. a young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age
  24. 45. Party a conservative movement focused primarily on limiting government spending and the size of the federal government