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Winston Churchill coined the term “Iron Curtain” in 1946. What was the Iron Curtain?

President Taft pushed for what progressive economic measure, which was finally passed into law as a constitutional amendment under Wilson?

Where were thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent, the majority of whom lived on the west coast, “evacuated” during the war?

What term denotes the extralegal murder of individuals, whether guilty of crimes or not, by vigilantes taking the law into their own hands?

Why were the Soviets so paranoid?

The arrival of what popular black art form in northern cities like Chicago reflects the migration patterns of African-Americans from regions of the Deep South around New Orleans and the Mississippi river delta?

What senator and former Governor of Louisiana exerted pressure on FDR to adopt more and more radical programs?

What system emerged during Reconstruction as a compromise between former planters’ need for labor and former slaves’ need for land and work?

“Progressive” reformers and believers in the “Social Gospel” made the numerous problems facing African-Americans their top priority in the late 1800s.

The “Great Migration” began after the war as African-Americans: