U.S. History Vocab Final Study Guide
Questions Final: Tuesday, January 23 (regular class time)
Vocab Final: Wednesday, January 24 (1st hour: 7:20-8:50)
Thursday, January 25 (3rd hour: 7:20-8:50)
Chapter 19 Terms
- Natural Resources: things that are found in nature (water, gold, oil, trees)
- Petroleum: a liquid that can be turned into oil.
- Improve: make something better
- Entrepreneur: a person who starts a new business.
- Opportunity: Chance
- Bridge: a structure that connects two places.
- Rust: when iron turns red from water.
- Crack: break
- Flexible: able to bend
- Purify: Clean
- Produce: make
- Method: a way
- Impure: not clean or dirty
- Plant: a large factory
- Laborer: Worker
- Industry: Business
- Immigrant: a person who moves from one country to another
- Inexpensive: cheap or not expensive
- Suspension bridge: a bridge with wires, chains and 2 towers
- Skyscrapers: very tall buildings found in the city.
- Stories: levels
- Material: what something is made from
- Generous: Gives out a lot of money
- Stream: a small river
- Village: a small city
- Valuable: something that has a high price
- Attempt: to try
- Pipe: a long tube that transports water and oil
- Refinery: a factory to purify oil
- Appear: show up
- Oil well: a place where oil comes out from a pipe
- Risky: dangerous
- Refine: to make clean; purify
- Kerosene: oil used in lamps
- Gasoline: oil used in cars
- Giant: very large, HUGE
- local: inside the city or neighborhood محلي
- corporation: a large company owned by stockholders شركة
- stockholders: men and women who own a corporation and put their money into it مالكالأسهم
- simple: easy way of doing something بسيط
- criticize: to say bad things about انتقد
- critic: a person who criticizes
- monopoly: a large corporation that has little competition
- competition: to compete between two or more people منافسة
- Invest: to put money in a company for profit
- liability: risk or danger
- capital: money that stockholders use to invest in a company
- Stock: the value of a company
- Vertical integration: when one company buys all the steps to make a product
- Horizontal integration: when one company buys all the competition
- Nation: Country
- Success: to be good at what you do
- Cattle: cows and sheep
- Ranching: taking care of cattle
- Shipped: to send a large amount of something
- Hogs: Pigs
- Slaughter: to kill an animal for food
- Transported: Moved
- Refrigerator: a cold place to store food
- Construction: building
- Link: Connect
- Settle: live
- Employment: Jobs
- Invent: to make something for the first time
- Pride: to be proud
- Inventor: a person who invents
- Invention: a thing that is invented
- Wizard: a person who has magical powers
- Major: large
- Minor: small
- rural: farms and villages
- urban: large cities with skyscrapers
Chapter 20 Terms
1. dweller: a person who lives somewhere
2. rural area: areas with villages and farms
3. urban areas: cities with bridges, skyscrapers, large population
4. increase: move up
5. decrease: move down
6. push factors: reasons that force immigrants to leave a country.
7. pull factors: reasons that attract immigrants to come to a new country.
8. seaport: a place where ships stop
9. specialize: to have one or two industries only
10. isolated: separated or alone
11. rapidly: quickly
12.Mass production: producing large amounts of things in a short amount of time
13. employee: a worker
14. employer: the boss
15. employment: jobs
16. raw materials: natural resources that still have not been turned into a product
17. salary: the amount of money a person makes
18. ship (verb): to move or transport from place to place
19. condition: the way something is
20. harbor: sea port
21. seeking: looking for
22. liberty: freedom
23. steerage: the part of a ship for passengers who pay the cheapest tickets.
24. ill: sick
25. old immigrants: people who came to America before 1880
26. new immigrants: people who came to America after 1880
27. escape: run away
28. Advertise: to announce something
29. unable: not able
30. denied: refused
31. Chinese Exclusion Act: a law signed in 1882 that did not allow Chinese Immigration to America.
32. xenophobia: fear of immigrants
33. prejudice: to have bad thoughts about someone because of their race, gender, religion or age.
34. Urbanization: the growth of cities (urban area)
35. Discrimination: treating people unfairly because of race, gender, religion or age.
36. Jim Crow Laws: laws that separated African Americans and whites in public places.
37. segregation: to separate people by race, religion, gender or age
38. landlord: a person who owns a building and rents it to a family.
39. tenant: a person who rents an apartment from a landlord.
40. tenement: 5 or 6 story buildings in the cities
41. slums: a poor, dirty place to live
42. ventilation: letting fresh air come into a room
43. Sanitary: clean and healthy
44. Unsanitary: dirty and unhealthy
45. Miserable: Very sad
46. Population: the number of people living in a country
47. Overpopulated: too many people living in a place
Chapter 23 Terms
1. Compete: to fight for the same thing
2. trade market: places to sell and buy things
3. colony: a country that is controlled by another country.
4. independence: when a country is free from colonization
5. alliances: a group of countries that are friendly with each other.
6. unite: to bring together
7. Empire:a country and all of its colonies
8. rebellion: to go against the government
9. tension: bad feelings; problems
10. Emperor: the ruler of an empire
11. wounded: hurt
12. Rebel: a person who goes against the government.
13. blame: put responsibility on someone
14. chain reaction: events that are linked to each other
15. assassinate: to kill a president or government worker
16. Victory: Win
17. Defeat: Loss
18. Nation: country
19. Militarism عسكرية– rapid growth of the military and weapons
20. Trenches- خنادقdefending a place by fighting from deep underground
21. Imperialism استعمار- the practice of expanding a country by taking colonies
22. Nationalism الوطنية- each nation wanted to become independent and unite all of its people
23. neutralمحايد: not taking sides
- navy القواتالبحرية: the army that travels in the oceans and seas
- supplies اللوازم: goods, things a person needs
- Accuse اتهم: blame
- prevent يمنع: to stop something before it happens
- war zone منطقةالحرب: a place in the ocean where no one can pass
- submarine غواصة: a war ship that travels underwater; U-Boat
- concerned قلق: worried
- customs العادات: culture and traditions
- Torpedo: a bomb that comes out of a submarine
- Shocked صدمت: surprised
- Cruel قاسية: mean and heartless
- Democrats: one of the political parties حزبسياسيin America
- Republicans: one of the political parties حزبسياسيin America
37. Consumer goods: goods that a person uses, such as electronics.
38. armed forces: army
39. conserve: save
40. Produce: make something in a factory
41. Troops: soldiers
42. Draft: to force a person to join the army
43. mine: a bomb that explodes when its touched
44. fuel: things that make energy (food, gas, electricity)
45. fleet: a group of ships
46.blockade: to stop something from passing into a country
47. dough boys: the first American soldiers who arrived to Europe
48. armistice: agreement to stop fighting
49. Standstill: Something that is not changing or improving
50. Worn down: ruined, tired
51. nearly: almost
52. antiwar: against the war
53. Fourteen Points: Wilson’s plan for permanent peace after the war
54. conference: A meeting among a large group of people
55. acceptable: right; correct
56. Treaty of Versailles: changed the map of Europe and made new countries
57. peace: friendship
58. League of Nations: group of countries to settle problems peacefully
59. treaty: a written agreement
60. ratify: approve
Chapter 24 Terms (24.1-24.3)
1. decade: 10 years
2. millennium: 1000 years
3. century: 100 years
4. involve: to be a part of شارك
5. suffrage: the right to vote حقانتخاب
6. association: a group of people who work for the same thing جمعية
7. amend: change or fix تعديل
8. Congress: the part of go
9. Republican: one of the main political parties in America
10. Democrat: one of the main political parties in America
11. weary: tired مرهق
12. Elect: Vote
13. normalcy: normal times
14. landslide: a person receives majority of votes vernment that makes laws
15. imported goods: goods that come into the countryبضائعمستوردة
16. exported goods: goods that go out of the countryبضائعمصدرة
17. Veteran: a soldier who comes back from the warمحاربقديم
18. Aid: help مساعدة
19. Tariff: taxes on imported goods
20. Act: Law
21. Quota: a limited number of people
22. period: time فترة
23. thrive: grow and get better تزدهر
24. afford: able to pay for something
25. debt: to owe someone money دين
26. entertainment: having a good, fun time تسلية
27. wages: salary; how much money you make أجور
28. leisure: free time وقتالفراغ
29. mobile: able to move متحرك
30. communication: talking to people in different ways
31. automobile: car
32. Popular: famous
33. Assembly line: a line of workers make something until it is complete
34. Suburb: a small city outside of an urban area (like Dearborn)
35. expanding: increasing and getting bigger
36. flappers: young women in the 1920s who cut their hair short and wore make up and short skirts
37. Generation: people who lived during the same years and are close in age
38. Original: one of a kind
39. Improvised: to make up as you go along
40. Spiritual: a religious song
41. Concerned: worried, afraid
42. Capture: Catch
43. Shocked: Very Surprised
44. Poet: a person who writes poems
45. Impact: Effect
46. Noble: Honorable
47. foolish: stupid
48. disappoint: to hope for something and it does not happen