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UGA History Exemption TestWomen's Right Movement ✔️ Rights and entitlements claimed for women
and girls of many societies worldwide
Ku Klux Klan ✔️ Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering
and evil; established 1868
Conscription ✔️ The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of
national service, most often military service
Populist Party ✔️ U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of
farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issues, free
coinage of silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal
income tax; also called People's Party
World War I ✔️ Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914
and lasted until 11 November 1918; also known as the Great War
President: Woodrow Wilson
Jim Crow ✔️ The system of racial segregation in the South that was created
in the late nineteenth century following the end of slavery. Laws written to
separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had
unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government; 1876-
1965
Ended by Lyndon B. Johnson
Progressive Movement ✔️ General political philosophy advocating or
favoring social, political, and economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
America Prohibition ✔️ National ban on the sale, manufacture, and
transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. Ban was mandated by
the 18th Amendment to the Constitution
,Private ownership of consumable alcohol and drinking it was not made illegal.
Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th
Amendment, on December 5, 1933
Woodrow Wilson ✔️ Leader of the Progressive Movement and was the 28th
President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the
outbreak of World War I, he led America into war in order to "make the world
safe for democracy"
Treaty of Versailles ✔️ One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I;
was intended to provide a place where countries could peacefully discuss
solutions to their differences rather than go to war. It ended the state of war
between Germany and the Allied Powers.
It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Whig Party ✔️ Party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great
Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the
rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s
Mugwump Party ✔️ Republican political activists who bolted from the US
Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the
United States presidential election of 1884
Switched parties because they rejected the financial corruption associated
with Republican candidate James G. Blaine. In a close election, they
supposedly made the difference in New York state and swung the election to
Cleveland
New Deal ✔️ Series of economic programs enacted in the US between 1933
and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by
Congress during the first term of FDR
Great Depression ✔️ Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash
in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s; longest and most widespread of its
kind of the 20th century
, President: FDR
World War II ✔️ Global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945.
It involved a vast majority of the world's nations, including all of the great
powers, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the
Axis
President: FDR
Internment Camps ✔️ The relocation of about 110,000 Japanese Americans
and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the US to camps called "War
Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor;
Americans feared they might be loyal to Japan
Axis Powers ✔️ Alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War
against the Allied forces
Franklin D. Roosevelt ✔️ 32nd President of the United States 1933-1945 and
a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the
United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war
President during Great Depression and WW2
Victory Gardens ✔️ Vegetable gardens planted at private residences and
public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany
during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public
food supply brought on by the war effort
Calvin Coolidge ✔️ 30th President of the United States 1923-1929
Scopes Trial ✔️ 1925 case in which HS science teacher, John Scopes, was
accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach
evolution in any state-funded school
Father Charles Coughlin ✔️ Controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal
Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church
Tennessee Valley Authority ✔️ Federally owned corporation in the US
created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood
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