- Health insurance program for the elderly funded through Social Security
- Who said "ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country"
- Students often choose to sit by other students that they find to be a positive influence rather than a negative influence. In biological terms, this effect would be __________.A) ionic statusB) electrostatic pressureC) diffusionD) ionic movement
- Who was the abolitionist who led an attack in Pottawatomie, KS and then raided the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, VA?
- What political party was created by anti-slavery northerners to oppose the spread of slavery in the new territories?
- What compromise prohibited slavery north of 36 degree latitude and admitted Missouri in as slave state and Maine as a free state.
- Who was one of the two important voices in the Women's Suffrage Movement?
- Political party united against spread of slavery in the West, formed by members of Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers and abolitionists
- Which Act/Compromise was designed to eliminate the part of the previous Congressional Compromise, which restricted slavery in the North, and put together a plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories
- This person was a politician, who was pro-slavery, proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act, and supported building a railroad system that would extend to the Pacific Ocean. (aka "Little Giant")
- In calling shantytowns "Hoovervilles, " people conveyed their what?
- Who were the two US Senators involved in a fight stemming from disagreements over the issue of slavery?
- The idea that political power belongs to the people and that people should decide on banning or allowing slavery
- Within a few years, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act led to what?
- Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as down payment and borrowing the rest
- The most widely used barometer of the stock market's health
- An abolitionist who was integral to helping runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad
- When an investor bet on the market climbing and sold whatever stock they had in an effort to make
- Terrible drought in the Great Plains caused the region to become a ____
- Government would buy surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sell them on the world market