Chapter 16 Vocabulary

A person who has fought in a war.

• baby boom

• veteran

• society

• Berlin Wall

To bring charges of wrongdoing against a high government official by the House of Representatives.

• declaration

• arrest

• credit card

• impeach

A community outside of a city, but not far into the countryside.

• declare

• gold rush

• suburb

• topic

A plan established by some businesses and educational organizations to make up for past discrimination against minorities or women by hiring or admitting more minorities or women than in the past.

• controversy

• affirmative action

• Great Society

• diversity

Basic legal freedoms and protections, such as the right to a fair trial.

• civil rights

• gold rush

• advocate

• confederacy

A group that is different than the majority of society.

• boycott

• abundant

• minority group

• cattle drive

Unfair treatment of people based on their race, gender, age, or other characteristic.

• suffrage

• recession

• official

• discrimination

A set of programs begun by President Lyndon Johnson and Congress in 1965 to improve the lives of Americans by working to end poverty and racial injustice.

• Allied Powers

• The Great Society

• Confederacy

• Central Powers

The mixing of different groups, usually of different races.

• concentration camp

• unemployment

• refugee

• integration

A form of protest in which African Americans and whites rode the buses together to integrate bus lines.

• strike

• freedom ride

• Homestead Act

• embargo