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MTTC Social Studies Exam Questions And 100%Correct Answers 2024-2025
Abolition-the end of legal slavery
American Indian Movement (AIM)-organization founded in 1968 to advocate for Native
American rights
Americanization movement-educational program designed to help immigrants adapt to
American culture
anarchist-a person who believes in no government at all
antebellum-of a time before the Civil War
assimilation-the process whereby a minority group adopts the dominant culture
atomic bomb - ANSWER bombs using a nuclear reaction to create widespread
destruction; ended World War II
Berlin airlift - ANSWER U.S. and Britain dropped supplies into West Berlin, blockaded by
Soviets, 1948
Berlin Wall - ANSWER prevented citizens from moving between East and West Berlin,
1961-1989,
Bessemer process - ANSWER cheap, efficient way to make steel, developed c. 1850
, big stick diplomacy - ANSWER U.S. foreign policy of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt which
used threats of military intervention to exert influence over other countries, esp. in
protecting U.S. interests in Latin America
black codes - ANSWER laws, in Southern states after the Civil War, to limit rights of
African Americans
blacklist - ANSWER names of people barred from working in Hollywood because of
alleged Communist connections
Black Panthers - ANSWER militant political organization to combat police brutality and
provide services in African-American ghettos, founded 1966
Black Power - ANSWER slogan revived by Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s to encourage
black pride and leadership
Bleeding Kansas - ANSWER description of the antebellum Kansas Territory, due to
conflict over slavery
bootlegger - ANSWER smuggler of illegal alcoholic beverages during Prohibition
boycott - ANSWER refusal to have economic relations with a person or group
buying on margin - ANSWER purchasing stocks or bonds on credit
capitalism - ANSWER economic system in which private individuals and corporations
control the means of production and earn profit on them
cash crop - ANSWER one grown for sale rather than personal use
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