Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

Totalitarianism - Answer A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens. Militarism - Answer the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. Facsism - Answer a political movement that puts the needs of the nation above the need of the individual. Communism - Answer a form of socialism that abolishes p...

I can define industrialization. - Answer Producing goods by machine not by hand I can describe the negative effects of the rapid growth on cities. - Answer pollution, disease, child labor, over population I can define urbanization. - Answer More people living in cities versus the country; people moved to cities for industrial jobs I can compare and contrast the communism vs capitalism - Answer Communism = government controls everything, no classes Capitalism = individuals have freedom to p...

Agricultural Revolutions - Answer The Neolithic period when foragers started to plant food to come back and find tons of food. It was a revolution when people began to farm instead of forage. aristocracy - Answer A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility barbarian - Answer A person belonging to a tribe or group that is considered uncivilized brahmins - Answer Hindu priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans made bureaucracy - Answer...

Cold War - Answer A state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union without actual fighting. containment - Answer to restrict expansion of communism Viet Cong (VC) - Answer A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. Perestroika - Answer REFORM: an economic policy allowed some private ownership of businesses Glanost - Answer OPENESS policy that allowed people some free speech and freedom of pres...

animism - Answer This type of religious belief holds that everything--including animals and objects like rocks-- has an "anima" which is Latin for "soul" or "spirit." Animists believe that these spirits in the natural world along with various gods influence human events. Before 10,000 B.C.E., religious beliefs were likely animistic. Animistic religions are polytheistic and have been practiced almost every part of the world. hunting-foraging societies - Answer These societies were usua...

Chesapeake/New England - Answer Chesapeake was the region of Virginia and Maryland. In contrast to New England, this region was distinguished by indentured servants, cash crops, and African slavery. New England was a region of Northeastern United States comprising Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut Indentured Servants/African Slaves - Answer Indentured Servants were white Europeans working contract labor, with no associated social stigma. The reward w...

Pinckney's Treaty - Answer agreement between the united states and spain that changed floridas border and made it easier for american ships to use the port of new orleans Jay's Treaty - Answer 1794- British and us agreed- British trade w/ Americans and the british leave northwest territory Whiskey Rebellion - Answer In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve a...

what are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution? - Answer Amendments that abolished slavery, granted equal protection, and voting rights for African Americans. What is Manifest Destiny and its significance? - Answer Belief that the US was destined to expand westward; justified territorial expansion. What was the Plessey v Ferguson Supreme Court case? - Answer Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation. What is sharecropping and its impact? - Answer System where ...

Elanor Roosevelt - Answer 1st lady, acted as president's eyes and ears, fought for womens rights and African American justice. Frances Perkins - Answer U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet. Mary McLeod Bethune - Answer A leader in the struggle for women's and black equality. She founded a school for black students that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University. She also served as an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt Ors...

Herbert Hoover's action - Answer Limited government intervention during the economic downturn. Causes of Great Depression - Answer Stock market crash, bank failures, drought, unequal distribution of wealth. Black Tuesday significance - Answer Stock market crash leading to the Great Depression. Shantytowns (Hooverville) - Answer Makeshift towns for homeless during the Great Depression. Hoboes - Answer Homeless individuals, often traveling to find work during the Great Depression. Bread ...