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MIDTERM TEST REVIEW
U.S. History
Module I
SSUSH1U.S. History
Colonial Standards
A group of investors share risks & profits to settle
colonies in the new world
Joint Stock Company
Colonial Standards
Joint Stock Company that founded first permanent
English colony
Virginia Company
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First permanent English settlement in the new
world
Jamestown
Colonial Standards
Brown Gold; Cash crop that helped Jamestown survive
and become wealthy
Tobacco
Colonial Standards
Native American chief that lived near Jamestown that was
initially peaceful but relationship with colonist
worsened
Powhatan
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First representative government in the colonies
House of Burgesses
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Class conflict between frontier farmers and landed class in
Virginia that resulted in a small scale war
Bacon’s Rebellion
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Used by colonies in the South as a labor source due to the increase of labor intensive tobacco cultivation
Slavery
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War in New England that resulted in a permanent
defeat and removal of Native Americans from Massachusetts
King Phillip’s War
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Example of direct democracy and government by the people
in New England
Town Meetings
Colonial Standards
Banished from Massachusetts for religious beliefs and
settled a colony based on separation of church & state
Roger Williams
Colonial Standards
Colony established by Roger Williams that exercised
religious tolerance and paying natives for their land
Rhode Island
Colonial Standards
Puritans used this to increase the membership of their church
by allowing non-voting members that did not have a
Conversion experience
Half-Way Covenant
Colonial Standards
Series of court hearings over 150 Massachusetts colonists accused of witchcraft were
tried: 29 convicted – 19 hanged
Salem witch Trials
Colonial Standards
British king cancelled this because this colony refused to
obey Navigation Acts and argued it was a independent
Corporate Colony
Massachusetts Charter
Colonial Standards
Originally New York was known by this name
New Amsterdam
Colonial Standards
The land currently known as New York was owned by
Dutch
Colonial Standards
Colony established by Quakers escaping religious
persecution in England
Pennsylvania
Colonial Standards
Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Colonial Standards
Colony established by Catholics escaping religious
persecution in England
Maryland
Colonial Standards
Founder of Maryland
Lord CeciliusCalvert
Colonial Standards
Region of the colonies that was more commercial,
industrial, and trade based in its economy
Northern Colonies
Colonial Standards
Region of the colonies that was more agricultural,
farming, and slave based in its economy
Southern Colonies
Colonial Standards
Reason the French settled Quebec
Fur Trade
Colonial Standards
Convinced many in the colonies that the Articles were
too weak and needed to be changed
Shay’s Rebellion
Colonial Standards
Meeting held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania that eventually
ended in the creation of a new U.S. system of government.
Constitutional Convention
SSUSH2U.S. History
Colonial Standards
Economic Theory that the best way to become a stronger
nation was to acquire the most wealth.
Mercantilism
Colonial Standards
Under Mercantilism this was a favorable balance of
trade
Exports greater than Imports
Colonial Standards
Under Mercantilism, Great Britain wanted this from the
Colonies
Natural Resources
Colonial Standards
Under Mercantilism, Great Britain passed these to
control Colonial goods and trade
Navigation Acts
Colonial Standards
Under the Navigation Acts, all goods heading to or
from the colonies had to be transported this way
British Ships
Colonial Standards
Under the Navigation Acts, all goods heading to or
from the colonies had to be transported here
British Ports
Colonial Standards
British restrictions on colonial trade were
designed to keep the colonies from
Competing against Britain in trade
Colonial Standards
This concept refers to the route of trade between the
colonies and Europe
Transatlantic Trade
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This journey in the transatlantic trade carried slaves to North
America
Middle Passage
Colonial Standards
Example of social mobility and individualism in the
American Colonies
Benjamin Franklin
Colonial Standards
Christian worship that preached that Americans needed to turn
away from the corruption of English society and separate
from Great Britain
Great Awakening
SSUSH3U.S. History
Colonial Standards
War between Great Britain and France over territory in
North America in 1754
French & Indian War
Colonial Standards
This officially ended the French & Indian War
Treaty of Paris 1763
Colonial Standards
At the end of the French & Indian War, Great Britain
changed many of its policies in America because of this
Debt
Colonial Standards
First direct tax on the colonist by Britain in an attempt to pay
the war debt
Stamp Act
Colonial Standards
Colonial slogan used to express why they believed they should not have to pay
taxes
“No Taxation without Representation”
Colonial Standards
American colonist responded to the Stamp Act using this strategy and made Britain
repeal the act.
Boycott
Colonial Standards
Attempt by King George III to keep colonist from crossing
Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Colonial Standards
Reason King George III Issued the Proclamation of
1763
Keep down conflict with Native Americans
Colonial Standards
Response of colonist to the Proclamation of 1763
Went anyway
Colonial Standards
British law that required colonists to print newspapers, documents, playing cards with
a special stamp
Stamp Act
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Group formed to oppose British actions colonist felt
unfair. Dumped tea in harbor to oppose Tea Act.
Sons of Liberty
Colonial Standards
Event where Sons of Liberty dressed up like Native
Americans and dumped tea in harbor to oppose Tea Act.
Boston Tea Party
Colonial Standards
Group that helped in colonial resistance by weaving fabric
during boycotts to supply fabric to colonist.
Daughters of Liberty
Colonial Standards
Response to Boston Tea Party when Great Britain closed ports of Boston, forced troops to be
housed in colonial homes, tried accused people in British courts
Intolerable Acts
Colonial Standards
Meeting called by colonists to protest the intolerable acts. Resulted in colonial militias
formed to resist acts and an olive Branch petition sent to King
George
First Continental Congress
Colonial Standards
Groups formed from different colonies to secretly meet to deal with British actions. 1st
organization linking colonies in opposition to British rule
Committees of Correspondence
Colonial Standards
Small pamphlet that convinced many colonist to support independence form
Great Britain
Common Sense
Colonial Standards
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
SSUSH4U.S. History
Revolution Standards
Document that the colonies drafted to separate from
Great Britain
Declaration of Independence
Revolution Standards
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Revolution Standards
English Philosopher that influenced Thomas
Jefferson
John Locke
Revolution Standards
Life, Liberty, and Property given by Creator
Natural Rights
Revolution Standards
Idea that government had duty protect inalienable rights of
people or be changed
Social Contract Theory
Revolution Standards
Influential French philosopher whose ideas were checks & balances and Separation of
powers
Montesquieu
Revolution Standards
U.S. Ambassador of France that helped get French
assistance during Revolution
Benjamin Franklin
Revolution Standards
French citizen that was aide to George Washington, suffered at Valley Forge, helped Franklin
get French Assistance, and planned the Battle of Yorktown
Marquis de Lafayette
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Turning point of the Revolution. U.S. Win &
French decide to give aid afterward
Battle of Saratoga
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Soldiers starved for the winter here and went without clothes,
food, blankets, supplies.
Valley Forge
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Washington crossed the Delaware River and surprised
the British and won
Battle of Trenton
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What was the significance of Washington’s crossing of the
Delaware River
Boosted Morale of the Troops
Revolution Standards
Considered great military leader because he overcame many setbacks and didn’t give up
George Washington
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French and American forces defeat the British on this
peninsula to end the Revolution
Battle of Yorktown
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General of the British forces captured at the Battle of
Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
Revolution Standards
Document that forced Great Britain to recognize the U.S.
as an Independent nation
Treaty of Paris 1783
SSUSH5U.S. History
Constitution Standards
Document that created the first government for the U.S.
Articles of Confederation
Constitution Standards
No Executive. No Judicial. 9 of 13 to pass laws. All 13 to Amend. No power to tax.
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Constitution Standards
Convinced many in the colonies that the Articles were
too weak and needed to be changed
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitution Standards
Meeting held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania that eventually
ended in the creation of a new U.S. system of government.
Constitutional Convention
Constitution Standards
An agreement that allowed small states and large states to be equally represented in the
new legislature.
Great Compromise
Constitution Standards
Argued the need for a strong centralized government. Supported Constitution
Federalist
Constitution Standards
Written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison to convince states to ratify the
Constitution.
The Federalist
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Group of People who refused to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalist
Constitution Standards
Groups who join together to promote a certain argument and oppose different views.
Factions
Constitution Standards
Father of the Constitution, Author of the Virginia Plan
and the Bill of Rights
James Madison
Constitution Standards
Leader of the Federalist Party and opposition to
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
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Leader of the Democratic Republicans and opposition
to Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Constitution Standards
Dividing the government into three branches: Legislative,
Executive, Judicial
Separation of Powers
Constitution Standards
Principle in the Constitution that makes sure that one
branch does not overpower the other two
Checks & Balances
Constitution Standards
Influential French philosopher whose ideas were checks & balances and Separation of
powers
Montesquieu
Constitution Standards
Minimizing the powers of the national government by
listing only things it can do.
Limited Government
Constitution Standards
Agreement at the Constitutional convention to count a portion of slaves in determining state representation in the Congress
3/5ths Compromise
Constitution Standards
Agreement at the Constitutional convention that the National government could regulate slave trade but not for 20 years
Slave Trade Compromise
Constitution Standards
First ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Constitution Standards
Bill of Rights serves as a protector of these
Individual & States’ rights
Constitution Standards
First President of the United States of America
George Washington
Constitution Standards
Precedent established by George Washington were President serves 8 years
Two-Term Presidency
Constitution Standards
Speech given By George Washington when he left
the Presidency
Farewell Address
Constitution Standards
Warning given in the Farewell address not to Join
sides in foreign wars.
Non Intervention in Europe
Constitution Standards
Warning by Washington not to form certain factions.
Avoid Formation of Political Parties
Constitution Standards
Signaled to many that the U.S. government was strong
under the Constitution.
Whiskey Rebellion
Constitution Standards
Second President of the United States.
John Adams
Constitution Standards
French tried to bribe U.S. officials in John Adams
administration and eventually caused Adams to lose the
Presidency.
XYZ Affair
Constitution Standards
Laws passed by John Adams administration to
silence critics of the government.
Alien & Sedition Acts
Constitution Standards
Published argument by Jefferson and Madison that states did not have to obey
federal laws if unconstitutional
VA & KY Resolutions
Module II
SSUSH6U.S. History
Constitution Standards
Established a process whereby territories could
become a state
Northwest Ordinance 1787
Constitution Standards
Northwest Ordinance outlawed this in the Northwest territory
Slavery
Constitution Standards
Established for the survey and sale of land in the
Northwest territory
Land Ordinance 1785
Constitution Standards
Land Ordinance set aside the sell of one lot to finance
this in the Northwest Territory
Public Schools
Creating a Nation Standards
This was outlawed in the Northwest Ordinance
Slavery
Creating a Nation Standards
The sale of one surveyed section of township financed this in the Land Ordinance
Public Education
Creating a Nation Standards
This established the process a territory had to use if it
wanted to become a state
Northwest Ordinance
Creating a Nation Standards
Thomas Jefferson bought this and doubled the size
of the U.S. in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
Creating a Nation Standards
Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana from
this country
France
Creating a Nation Standards
Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana from this leader
Napoleon
Creating a Nation Standards
This is how much Thomas Jefferson paid for
Louisiana
$15 million
Creating a Nation Standards
This almost kept Thomas Jefferson from purchasing
Louisiana
Strict Interpretation
Creating a Nation Standards
These individuals were commissioned by Thomas
Jefferson to discover what was in Louisiana territory.
Lewis & Clarke
Creating a Nation Standards
Louis and Clarke were hired to look for a
route here?
Pacific Ocean
Creating a Nation Standards
With the Louisiana Purchase Thomas Jefferson acquired
possession of this
Mississippi River
Creating a Nation Standards
What did Thomas Jefferson originally want to buy from
France
Port Area of New Orleans
Creating a Nation Standards
Second War between U.S. & Great Britain when the White House was Burned
War of 1812
Creating a Nation Standards
British policy of forcing U.S. Sailors into the British Navy.
A cause of War of 1812
Impressment
Creating a Nation Standards
Great Britain forcing U.S. Commercial ships to stop in
England before going to Europe to trade. A cause of War of 1812
Interruption of Trade
Creating a Nation Standards
A cause of War of 1812 where British refused to leave a certain area of the U.S.
Forts / Ohio River Valley
Creating a Nation Standards
The U.S. and Great Britain were competing for this in
the Northwest Territory
Fur Trade
Creating a Nation Standards
U.S. Idea that the continent should belong to U.S. A cause of War of 1812 War Hawks of
Congress wanted Canada
Manifest Destiny
Creating a Nation Standards
U.S. citizens believed Britain was doing this while in
Northwest territory. A cause of War of 1812
Arming Native Americans
Creating a Nation Standards
A word that means someone is trying to get
trouble started
Inciting
Creating a Nation Standards
Americans felt this when they won the War of 1812
National Identity / Pride
Creating a Nation Standards
This was burned down during the War of 1812
White House
Creating a Nation Standards
This was what officially ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
Creating a Nation Standards
Last Battle of War of 1812 fought after Treaty of
Ghent
Battle of New Orleans
Creating a Nation Standards
Became a national hero after the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson
Creating a Nation Standards
Man made technological wonder that connected East U.S. to West U.S.
Erie Canal
Creating a Nation Standards
Erie Canal connected water transportation from
Atlantic Ocean to
Great Lakes
Creating a Nation Standards
Place that becomes a center for commerce and Trade;
banking and finance due to ports and location
New York City
Creating a Nation Standards
River that connects port of New York to Erie Canal
Hudson River
Creating a Nation Standards
This is improved when canals, bridges, roads, and river
transportation was improved in the U.S.
Infrastructure
Creating a Nation Standards
James Monroe warned European countries not to
colonize here
Western Hemisphere
Creating a Nation Standards
The name of the document the President issued in 1820 to warn European powers not to colonize
in Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
SSUSH7U.S. History
Creating a Nation Standards
Era in U.S. History when skilled labor was outpaced
by machines
Industrial Revolution
Creating a Nation Standards
Invented the Cotton Gin & Interchangeable Parts
Eli Whitney
Creating a Nation Standards
Increased the need for slaves and benefited the
South
Cotton Gin
Creating a Nation Standards
Increased the efficiency of factories, machine repair, and benefited the North
Interchangeable Parts
Creating a Nation Standards
Eli Whitney put parts of these in a box, shook the box up, took them out and
reassembled them
Muskets
Creating a Nation Standards
The cotton Gin & Interchangeable parts
contributed to this splitting of the country in two
Sectionalism
Creating a Nation Standards
An issue that was argued in Congress each time new
territory wanted to be a state
Slavery
Creating a Nation Standards
God wanted Americans to own all land from Atlantic
to Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Creating a Nation Standards
Lone Star Republic won its independence from
Santa Ana
Texas
Creating a Nation Standards
100 Americans die & 400 Mexicans; Used by Texans to
rally for winning the war
Battle of the Alamo
Creating a Nation Standards
Place where Santa Ana was captured and forced to
recognize Texas Independence
Battle of San Jacinto
Creating a Nation Standards
Nickname today for Texas
Lone Star State
Creating a Nation Standards
U.S. argued Mexico’s northern border was here
Rio Grande River
Creating a Nation Standards
Mexico argued its northern border was here
Nueces River
Creating a Nation Standards
1845-1846 war over border of U.S.
Mexican-American War
Creating a Nation Standards
California, Utah, parts of New Mexico, Colorado acquired by
U.S.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Creating a Nation Standards
U.S. paid $15 million and settled the southern border of the U.S.
Gadsden Purchase
Creating a Nation Standards
Occupied by Great Britain, U.S., Russia and was traveled
by Lewis & Clarke
Oregon Territory
Creating a Nation Standards
U.S. citizens used this to move out and settle past
the Rocky Mountains
Oregon Trail
Creating a Nation Standards
Campaign slogan used by James K. Polk to force Great
Britain out of Oregon
54 – 40 or fight
Creating a Nation Standards
Women’s movement to end the consumption of
Alcohol
Temperance
Creating a Nation Standards
Movement to end slavery
Abolitionism
Creating a Nation Standards
Horace Mann was a reformer in this
Common School
Creating a Nation Standards
The right to vote
Suffrage
Creating a Nation Standards
Female leader that fought for women’s suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Creating a Nation Standards
Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York
Seneca Falls Convention
Creating a Nation Standards
Worded much like the declaration of Independence
but included women
Declaration of Sentiments
Creating a Nation Standards
Time when white males got the chance to vote and
participate in politics
Jacksonian Democracy
Creating a Nation Standards
Removed during Andrew Jackson’s administration as a requirement to vote
Land
Creating a Nation Standards
All white males could vote even if they did not own land
Universal Suffrage
Creating a Nation Standards
Route taken by Cherokee during forced removal by
President Andrew Jackson
Trail of Tears
Creating a Nation Standards
President Jackson’s rewarding supporters and
friends with government jobs
Spoils System
Creating a Nation Standards
Type of people that benefitted under
Jacksonian Democracy
Common Man
Creating a Nation Standards
Americans experience this during Andrew Jackson’s
Administration
Nationalism
SSUSH 8U.S. History
Divided Nation
Slave rebellion in Southampton, VA in 1831 that
angered southerners
Nat Turner Rebellion
Divided Nation
White abolitionist publisher of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Divided Nation
Former slave turned abolititionist and publisher of
the North Star
Frederick Douglas
Divided Nation
Parents owned slaves but spoke out against slavery
as abolitionist
Grimke Sisters
Divided Nation
Split the country in two and disallowed slavery North of a
certain line of latitude
Missouri Compromise
Divided Nation
Line of Latitude that split the U.S. half free and half slave
36-30
Divided Nation
South Carolina refused to abide by a tariff in 1828 and President Jackson threatens military force to enforce it.
Nullification Crisis
Divided Nation
The idea that a state has more power that the national government
State’s Rights Ideology
Divided Nation
Leader from South Carolina that refused to abide by Tariff of 1832; former Vice President
John C. Calhoun
Divided Nation
Pamphlet written by John C. Calhoun arguing S.C. had the right to declare Tariff Null &
Void
South Carolina Exposition & Protest
Divided Nation
Document written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
that influences John C. Calhoun
VA & KY Resolutions
Divided Nation
Bill passed by U.S. Congress giving President Andrew Jackson authority to use
military force in the Nullification Crisis
Force Bill
Divided Nation
The division of the United States into two separate
regions
Sectionalism
Divided Nation
The idea that God wanted Americans to own all land from
Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
Divided Nation
Central argument in Congress that arose when territories
applied for statehood
Expansion of Slavery
Divided Nation
States entered either as slave or free would throw this off
Balance of Power - Congress
Divided Nation
War between the U.S. and Mexico over the border
Mexican American War
Divided Nation
Proposal in Congress to disallow slavery in the lands acquired in Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso
Divided Nation
New Mexico established, Popular sovereignty New
Mexico, California free state, fugitive slave law, slave trade
abolished in D.C.
Compromise of 1850
Divided Nation
States get to determine for themselves through elections
if they will be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
SSUSH 9U.S. History
Divided Nation
Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820 and
granted popular sovereignty to states to determine slave issue
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Divided Nation
States get to determine for themselves through elections
if they will be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
Divided Nation
An example of how popular sovereignty failed to settle
issue of expansion of slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Divided Nation
Supreme Court case that determined that no African American – even if free- could not be considered a citizen. Further, the
court determined that popular sovereignty and the Missouri Compromise of 1820
were unconstitutional.
Dred Scott Case
Divided Nation
An attempt to capture the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA to arm slaves for
rebellion
John Brown’s Raid
Divided Nation
The act of a state to separate from the United States
Secession
Divided Nation
Incident that caused South Carolina to secede from the
Unites States in 1861
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Divided Nation
Lincoln’s primary goal in the Civil War
Save (Preserve) the Union
Divided Nation
“With malice toward none, with charity for all.” Lincoln
expressed need to rebuild and not punish south.
2nd Inaugural Address
Divided Nation
“A new birth of freedom.”Speech dedicating a cemetery
on the sight of a battlefield.
Gettysburg Address
Divided Nation
Presidential emergency powers to deny possible spies
right to go before a court
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Divided Nation
General of Army of the Potomac; accepted surrender
of Gen. Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Divided Nation
Confederate General; won Battle of Bull Run; Died in battle shot by his own men
accidentally.
“Stonewall” Jackson
Divided Nation
General of the Army of Northern Virginia;
Surrendered to General U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Divided Nation
Destroyed Atlanta and went on March to the Sea to
Savannah destroying South
William T. Sherman
Divided Nation
President of the Confederate States of America (CSA). President for the South.
Jefferson Davis
Divided Nation
Place where the Civil War began
Fort Sumter
Divided Nation
Bloodiest single day battle in the Civil War. Lee’s failure to win it encouraged Lincoln to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
Divided Nation
Freed all slaves in the South to hurt the southern war effort; political strategy
Emancipation Proclamation
Divided Nation
United States split in two and the North gets control of the
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Divided Nation
Turning point of the Civil War. Last time the South would try to attack in the North. South would
not recover from loses.
Gettysburg
Divided Nation
“A new birth of freedom.”Speech dedicating a cemetery
on the sight of a battlefield.
Gettysburg Address
Divided Nation
Vitally important center of Confederate manufacturing
and railway traffic attacked by Northern Army
Battle for Atlanta
Divided Nation
After Atlanta burned to the ground, route taken to Atlantic destroying rail, roads, bridges,
crops, livestock
March to the Sea
SSUSH 10U.S. History
Divided Nation
The rebuilding of the U.S. after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Divided Nation
Plans to reconstruct by Lincoln and Johnson to
readmit southern states as fast as possible
Presidential Reconstruction
Divided Nation
Plans to reconstruct by Congress that required
southern states to ratify 13th, 14th, 15th amendments and
reapply to re-enter
Radical Republican Reconstruction
Divided Nation
Considered “Black Harvard”; established in Atlanta, GA to train African Americans in
Ministry & Education
Morehouse College
Divided Nation
Helped African Americans with food, clothing, jobs, medicine,
medical care
Freedman’s Bureau
Divided Nation
Ended Slavery in the United States
13th Amendment
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Defined Citizenship, Due Process of states, equal
protection clause
14th Amendment
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Granted suffrage to African Americans
15th Amendment
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Name used to explain 13th, 14th, 15 Amendments
purpose
Reconstruction Amendments
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Laws passed to control freed Africans; deprived them of
voting; forced freed men into forced labor
Black Codes
Divided Nation
Secret society formed to terrorize freed Africans; Murder,
arson, threats to keep them from voting
Ku Klux Klan
Divided Nation
Congress can remove the President from office for “High
crimes & Misdemeanors”
Impeachment
Divided Nation
President Impeached by Congress during Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Divided Nation
Law Johnson was accused of violating while president
Tenure of Office Act
Divided Nation
Number of votes in the senate that found Johnson
not guilty
Acquit by one vote
Divided Nation
Union troops were withdrawn from the south in this agreement to select
Rutherford B. Hayes President
Compromise of 1877
Module III
SSUSH 11U.S. History
Expansion and Reform
Was influenced by the railroads and new
technological advances
Big Business
Expansion and Reform
Railroads contribute to this happening in the U.S. after
1870 on a large scale
Westward Expansion
Expansion and Reform
This caused interruption in the lives of Native
Americans
Railroads
Expansion and Reform
New technology that made steel stronger and
cheaper
Bessemer Process
Expansion and Reform
A way to create a monopoly by buying out all
your competitors
Horizontal Integration
Expansion and Reform
A way to create a monopoly by buying not only competitors
but buying out natural resources, production, and
distribution
Vertical Consolidation
Expansion and Reform
A business arrangement where there is one owner that
sets prices, wages and controls the industry
Monopoly
Expansion and Reform
Main goal in the creation of Monopolies
Eliminate Competition
Expansion and Reform
A conglomeration of monopolies joined together to
eliminate Competition
Trust
Expansion and Reform
Used Vertical Integration to form a monopoly over
steel
Carnegie
Expansion and Reform
Railroad, completed in 1869, that run from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Transcontinental Railroad
Expansion and Reform
Main labor source on the western leg of the
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Labor
Expansion and Reform
Used Horizontal and Vertical integration to form
a monopoly on Oil
John D. Rockefeller
Expansion and Reform
The name of John D. Rockefeller’s business
Standard Oil Company
Expansion and Reform
Inventor that created the Light Bulb
Thomas Edison
Expansion and Reform
Edison invention that allowed people to work at night and see in the dark
Electric Light Bulb
Expansion and Reform
Invention of Edison’s that allowed people to enjoy
themselves at the Movies
Motion Pictures
Expansion and Reform
Edison invention that allowed people to listen to
records and recorded sound
Phonograph
SSUSH 12U.S. History
Expansion and Reform
Immigration station located in New York Harbor; entrance point for immigrants entering
on the East coast of U.S.
Ellis Island
Expansion and Reform
New Immigration after the Civil War; Immigrants did not speak
English and were Jewish or Catholics and come from
Southern & Eastern Europe
Expansion and Reform
Concept used to explain the overpopulation of cities due to
increased Immigration
Urbanization
Expansion and Reform
First organized and National labor union in the
United States
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Expansion and Reform
Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Samuel Gompers
Expansion and Reform
Strategy used by Unions to stop work by workers refusing to work until demands are met
Strike
Expansion and Reform
This grew quickly because of the Railroad
Western Population
Expansion and Reform
Sioux leader that fought U.S. soldiers; led his people in exile in Canada, and finally agreed to settle on a reservation; later shot to death by government
agents
Sitting Bull
Expansion and Reform
Massacre of Sioux in South Dakota where 300 women, children, and men killed by
U.S. Soldiers
Wounded Knee
Expansion and Reform
Congressional law that attempted to assimilate native
Americans into American Culture
Dawes Act
Expansion and Reform
Conflict that occurred when an owner of a cart company cut workers wages but did not
lower their rent
1894 Pullman Strike
SSUSH 13U.S. History
Expansion and Reform
Political reform movement where people supported increased government
regulation of business & industry
Progressive Era
Expansion and Reform
Novel that revealed the unsanitary conditions in the
Chicago meat packing industry
The Jungle
Expansion and Reform
Journalist and author of The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Expansion and Reform
Law made by Congress to force meat packers to make sure their food was safe to
consume; Influenced by The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Expansion and Reform
Female progressive that opened a settlement house in Chicago to help the inner city
poor
Jane Addams
Expansion and Reform
Settlement house that provided immigrants learn home
economics, basic medical care, English, legal rights;
established by Jane Addams
Hull House
Expansion and Reform
Concept that explains segregation laws that required
separate public and private facilities for African Americans
Jim Crow
Expansion and Reform
Court case in 1896 that ruled that segregation in public and private facilities is acceptable
Plessy v. Ferguson
Expansion and Reform
Legal standard established by Plessy v. Ferguson
Separate but Equal
Expansion and Reform
Group formed to promote full social and economic equality
for African Americans
NAACP
Expansion and Reform
NAACP stands for
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
Expansion and Reform
First African American to graduate from Harvard
University and founder of the NAACP
WEB Dubois
Expansion and Reform
Journalist that exposed the corrupt business practices of
Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell
Expansion and Reform
Title of Ida Tarbell’s novel criticizing the unfair practices used by John D. Rockefeller
History of Standard Oil
Expansion and Reform
Reform journalists that investigated and exposed
political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, social issues
Muckrakers
Expansion and Reform
A form of direct control of government by state citizens by forcing a public vote on an issue on the ballot bypassing
state legislatures
Initiative
Expansion and Reform
A process where state legislators place a proposal
for a law on the ballot to allow citizens to vote the law into
effect
Referendum
Expansion and Reform
The power of state citizens to remove public officials from
office before their term expires
Recall
Expansion and Reform
Initiative, referendum, recall increase ordinary citizens
direct control of government which is also known as
Direct Democracy
Expansion and Reform
The 17th Amendment of the United States Constitution
requires this
Direct Election of Senators
Expansion and Reform
The direct election of senators meant that who would elect
the 2 senators from each state
Voters (Citizens of the State)
Expansion and Reform
The 17th Amendment increased ordinary citizens direct control of government
which is also known as
Direct Democracy
Expansion and Reform
Before the 17th Amendment, this is who selected U.S.
Senators
State Legislatures
Expansion and Reform
Progressive era movement that reserved millions of acres
of wilderness lands, particularly in western states
Conservation Movement
Expansion and Reform
This President’s efforts led to the establishment of a national
park system that included Yosemite & Yellowstone
Theodore Roosevelt
SSUSH 14U.S. History
Expansion and Reform
American feelings caused by Chinese immigrants accepting low wages for jobs whites had held causes wages to go down
Anti-Asian sentiment
Expansion and Reform
Law passed in 1882 by Congress banning all future
Chinese Immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
Module IV
SSUSH 14U.S. History
Becoming a World Power
War 1899 that resulted from the U.S. helping Cuba against
Spain
Spanish-American War
Becoming a World Power
U.S. Ship that exploded in Cuba and blamed on Spain
U.S.S. Maine
Becoming a World Power
War in which the U.S. quickly defeated the Spanish Navy,
made the islands an American territory
War in the Philippines
Becoming a World Power
Americans were eager to spread democracy and open markets into Latin America
Expansionism
Becoming a World Power
Concept used to explain U.S. expansion into Latin America to
get raw materials and open economic markets
Imperialism
Becoming a World Power
The U.S. and President Theodore Roosevelt helped Panama separate from this
country?
Columbia
Becoming a World Power
REASON - The U.S. and President Theodore Roosevelt helped Panama separate from
Columbia
Access to Panama Canal
Becoming a World Power
Leader of the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in the war in
Cuba against the Spanish
Theodore Roosevelt
Becoming a World Power
Extension of the Monroe Doctrine that said the U.S. would get involved in the affairs of Latin
American Countries to end intervention of European
Countries.
Roosevelt Corollary
Becoming a World Power
A manmade construction that made a faster sea route from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal
Becoming a World Power
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy to implement the
Roosevelt Corollary
Big Stick Diplomacy
Becoming a World Power
Big Stick refers to what new weapon owned by the United
States
Great White Fleet (Steel NAVY)
SSUSH 15U.S. History
Becoming a World Power
War fought from 1914-1918 in Europe
WWI
Becoming a World Power
Year the U.S. Entered WWI
1917
Becoming a World Power
U.S. Policy of staying out of world wars to entering the war
as an allied power?
Neutrality to Engagement
Becoming a World Power
British cruise liner blown up by Germany without warning
killing 128 Americans?
Lusitania
Becoming a World Power
Telegram sent from Germany to Mexico to form an alliance against the U.S. during WWI?
Zimmerman Note
Becoming a World Power
German policy of attacking neutral vessels at sea
without warning?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Becoming a World Power
This concept refers to issues in the U.S. homeland during
WWI?
Domestic Impact of WWI
Becoming a World Power
Movement of African Americans during WWI to the
Northern part of U.S. to fill Jobs?
Great Migration
Becoming a World Power
Law passed during WWI that made it illegal to speak out against the government or interfere with the military
during WWI
Espionage Act
Becoming a World Power
Socialist put in Jail for 10 years during WWI for
violating the Espionage Act?
Eugene Debs
Becoming a World Power
President of the U.S. during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Becoming a World Power
President Wilson’s plan to end all world Wars and
create a worldwide peace?
Fourteen Points
Becoming a World Power
International Peacekeeping Organization formed in the 14
points?
League of Nations
Becoming a World Power
Main Reason U.S. Senators did not approve the Treaty of
Versailles?
Isolationism
Becoming a World Power
Made it illegal to make, sell, or consumer Alcohol?
Eighteenth Amendment
Becoming a World Power
Era in U.S. History when drinking Alcohol was illegal?
Prohibition
Becoming a World Power
Extended Suffrage to women?
Nineteenth Amendment
Becoming a World Power
What does suffrage mean?
Right to Vote
SSUSH 16U.S. History
Becoming a World Power
Economic system that disallowed private property; USSR in 1917 become this?
Communism
Becoming a World Power
Economic system where business are owned and
controlled by the government?
Socialism
Becoming a World Power
Fear of the spread of communism and Socialism
spreading during WWI?
Red Scare
Becoming a World Power
Used Mass Production make automobiles?
Henry Ford
Becoming a World Power
Mass Production achieved this way by Henry Ford?
Assembly Line
Becoming a World Power
Mass Production had this affect on the Automobile?
Cheap & Affordable
Becoming a World Power
Major form of communication in peoples homes in the
1920s?
Radio
Becoming a World Power
American culture was influenced by clothing,
hairstyles, etc. seen in these?
Movies
Becoming a World Power
Artistic and Music movement that celebrated African
American culture?
Harlem Renaissance
Becoming a World Power
Famous Jazz Trumpet player during the Harlem
Renaissance?
Louis Armstrong
Becoming a World Power
Music based on old slave rhythms and music from new
Orleans and the South?
JAZZ
Becoming a World Power
Most prominent poet and writer during the Harlem
Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
Becoming a World Power
A row of music production and recording houses in Harlem;
also a concept that refers to a group of composers?
Tin Pan Alley
Becoming a World Power
Most famous composer and song writer in Tin Pan Alley?
Irving Berlin
SSUSH 17U.S. History
National Crisis
A severe economic recession in the 1930s
that affected all the world’ industrialized nations?
Great Depression
National Crisis
Businesses made more products than they could
sell?
Overproduction
National Crisis
Resulted from the increase in prices of goods and the low
wages of workers?
Underconsumption
National Crisis
October 1929 the U.S. was beginning to show signs of slowing down; stockholders
panicked and sold their stock causing this?
Stock Market Crash 1929
National Crisis
Risky investments in stock to make a profit? Usually buying stock on credit or installment
plans.
Speculation
National Crisis
The practice of making a down payment on stock and
then making installment plans?
Buying on Margin
National Crisis
A labor condition brought about by the Great
Depression?
Widespread Unemployment
National Crisis
A serious drought that caused many farmers to
lose their farms?
Dustbowl
National Crisis
Farmers also caused the Dustbowl by doing this to the
land causing soil erosion?
Over-farming
National Crisis
Many farmers did this when they lost their
homes in the Dust Bowl?
Migration West/ California
National Crisis
Makeshift huts and living areas made by the homeless and
unemployed?
Hoovervilles
National Crisis
Hoovervilles were named after this individual blamed for the
Great Depression?
President Herbert Hoover
National Crisis
“There is nothing to fear, but fear itself”
President FDR, March 1933Referring to?
Great Depression
National Crisis
“There is nothing to fear, but fear itself”
President FDR, March 1933Referring to?
Great Depression
SSUSH 18U.S. History
National Crisis
President of the United States during the Great Depression and WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
National Crisis
Series of Programs established by FDR to end
the Great Depression?
New Deal
National Crisis
This was created to make jobs for the unemployed in
the South?
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Crisis
The TVA also provided this for the Rivers in Tennessee?
Flood Control
National Crisis
The TVA used dams to create this for rural people in the seven southern states?
Electricity
National Crisis
Reform during FDR’s New Deal that established collective
bargaining rights for workers and prohibited unfair labor
practices.
Wagner Act
National Crisis
What were employers prohibited from doing after passage of the
Wagner Act?
Interfere in workers right to Unionize
National Crisis
The Wagner Act is also known as?
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
National Crisis
Because laborers were protected under the NLRA this happened in the U.S.?
Industrial Unionism
National Crisis
This provided old age insurance for retirees 65 or
older, unemployment, aid for the disabled and families with
dependent children?
Social Security Act
National Crisis
Prominent first lady that became a symbol of women’s activism and social progress?
Eleanor Roosevelt
National Crisis
Louisiana Senator that became FDRs biggest critic, proposed a home, food, and clothes for every American?
Huey Long
National Crisis
Judiciary Reorganization bill of 1937 when FDR attempted to change the size of the U.S.
Supreme Court?
Court Packing Bill
National Crisis
How many Justices did FDR want to place on the
Supreme Court in 1937?
Six
National Crisis
Why did FDR want to change the size of the Supreme
Court?
The Supreme Court was declaring his New Deal
programs unconstitutional
National Crisis
Series of laws passed by Congress during WWII to
keep FDR from selling weapons to warring
countries?
Neutrality Act
SSUSH 19U.S. History
National Crisis
Threatened a march on Washington, D.C. to protest
discrimination in hiring practices in defense industries
in WWII?
A. Phillip Randolph
National Crisis
In response to Randolph’s threats FDR issued this?
Executive Order
National Crisis
FDR’s Executive Order called on employers in defense industries to stop this?
Discrimination in hiring practices
National Crisis
World War II was waged in these years?
1939-1945
National Crisis
What was the major cause of WWII?
Expansionistic policies of Germany,
Japan, Italy
National Crisis
The act of Great Britain, France, and allies allowing
Hitler to expand into the Rhineland & Sudetenland
without resistance?
Appeasement
National Crisis
The U.S. showed it’s disapproval of Japan expanding
into Manchuria by doing this?
Embargo on scrap iron, gas, and oil
products
National Crisis
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,
…” FDR Refers to?
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
National Crisis
When did the U.S. enter World War II?
1941
National Crisis
“December 7, 1941 is a day which will live in infamy”Surprise Attack by Japan
Pearl Harbor
National Crisis
Japan responded to the U.S. embargo on scrap iron, gas,
and oil products when it?
Attacked Pearl Harbor naval base
National Crisis
Geographic location of Pearl Harbor?
Pacific Ocean / Hawaii
National Crisis
These two groups were also placed in Internment Camps
during WWII by the U.S.
German- Americans & Italian Americans
National Crisis
Program created by FDR to get around the Neutrality Acts
and loan Great Britain and France Weapons?
Lend-Lease Program
National Crisis
Analogy used by FDR to get Americans to support
Lend-Lease Act?
Fire Hose
National Crisis
Turning point of WWII in the Pacific. U.S. surprise attack
on Japanese Navy destroying it?
Battle of Midway
National Crisis
After the battle of Midway, the U.S. went on the offensive doing this?
Island Hopping
National Crisis
Largest air and sea invasion in Normandy that pushed
Germany out of France?
D-Day
National Crisis
Secret name for the invasion of Normandy that resulted in
D-day?
Operation Overlord
National Crisis
Allied Commander in charge of Operation Overlord?
Eisenhower
National Crisis
May 8, 1945 when Russia invaded Berlin Germany and
ended the war in Europe?
VE-Day
National Crisis
Allied Commander over the Pacific theater of war that accepted the Surrender of
Japan?
Gen. Douglas McArthur
National Crisis
A term that refers getting soldiers, equipping them,
and moving them into war?
Mobilization
National Crisis
This expanded the draft during WWII to make more men enter
the armed forces?
Selective Service Act
National Crisis
Mandatory government system created to conserve scarce goods for Soldiers overseas during WWII?
Rationing
National Crisis
Under rationing, every family was given a book of coupons for red meat, sugar, coffee,
and gas called?
C-Books
National Crisis
Term that refers to Singer Sewing machine and other industries changing form
domestic production to making guns & ammunition?
War-time conversion
National Crisis
This government agency was created during WWII complete
war-time conversion?
War Productions Board
National Crisis
The U.S. government raised money in these three ways to
pay for WWII?
Selling war bonds, raising income taxes,
borrowing money
National Crisis
Since men were at war this group of people worked in
factories?
Women in War Industries
National Crisis
This propaganda poster figure represented women in
the war industries?
Rosie the Riveter
National Crisis
This was a group of women that filled noncombat positions in the Military otherwise filled by
men?
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACS)
National Crisis
Secret Project code that referred to the plan to develop
the Atomic Bomb?
Manhattan Project
National Crisis
Location in the U.S. where the first Atomic Bomb was
tested?
Los Alamos, New Mexico
National Crisis
Where in the World was the first two Atomic bombs
dropped during WWII?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan
National Crisis
This individual ordered the A-Bombs dropped on Japan?
President Harry Truman
National Crisis
Reason Truman believed that the U.S. Invasion of Japan
would cause?
Massive Casualties
National Crisis
Reason Truman gave for giving the order?
Save American Lives
National Crisis
Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Axis Powers
National Crisis
U.S., France, Great Britain, Russia?
Allies
National Crisis
Arena of War fought in Europe and ended with D-Day and the fall of Berlin?
European Theater
National Crisis
Arena of war fought in Pacific Ocean and ended with
Midway and bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
Pacific Theater
National Crisis
This was Germany’s systematic killing of Jewish
people during WWII?
Holocaust
National Crisis
This was what the Allies conducted to punish German
Officers for crimes against humanity?
Nuremburg Trials
SSUSH 20U.S. History
America as a World Power
Era after WWII when the U.S. and capitalist nations
competed with communist Russia over control of
Europe?
Cold War
America as a World Power
Financial program created to give money to western
European nations and other nations in rebuilding and
opposing communism after WWII?
Marshall Plan
America as a World Power
Proclamation given by President Harry Truman that
the U.S. would help any country resisting communist
control?
Truman Doctrine
America as a World Power
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of communism throughout the world?
Containment Policy
America as a World Power
U.S., Great Britain, France and other Atlantic based nations formed this after
WWII?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
America as a World Power
In response to NATO, Russia and other communist nations
formed this after WWII?
Warsaw Pact
America as a World Power
Economic system where there is no private property or
market system?
Communism
America as a World Power
The idea that if one country fell to communism those beside it
would soon fall too?
Domino Theory
America as a World Power
Asian country that fell to communism after a civil war
between nationalist and communist?
China
America as a World Power
Communist leader of China?
Mao Zedong
America as a World Power
In 1950, The U.S. went to war against the Northern
Communist half of this country?
Korean War
America as a World Power
This person come to power, as a result of fear brought
about by the fall of China and Korea to communism?
Senator Joseph McCarthy
America as a World Power
Paranoia that the U.S. government had been
infiltrated by Communist spies?
McCarthyism
America as a World Power
The fear created by McCarthyism is referred to as?
Red Scare 1950s
America as a World Power
Event when the leader of the Communist took over a country not to far from
Florida?
Cuban Revolution
America as a World Power
Communist leader of Cuba during the 1957 Revolution?
Fidel Castro
America as a World Power
Failed attempt by the CIA of the U.S. to train Cuban rebels to invade Cuba, assassinate Fidel Castro, and take over?
Bay of Pigs
America as a World Power
13 day standoff when the U.S. and Russian come close to
having a nuclear war?
Cuban Missile Crisis
America as a World Power
Two leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy & Nikita Khrushchev
America as a World Power
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the U.S.
promised to not invade Cuba and pull U.S. nuclear missiles
out of?
Turkey
America as a World Power
President of the U.S. responsible for Bay of Pigs
invasion?
John F. Kennedy
America as a World Power
U.S. War that happened in Asia from 1950-1972 because communist Ho Chi Mihn was
trying to take over?
Vietnam War
America as a World Power
Made many Americans question if U.S. should be involved in
Vietnam war because of Television coverage of
violence?
Tet Offense
America as a World Power
This happened in 1968 as a result of the Tet Offensive?
Opposition to the War
America as a World Power
This was responsible for the Anti-vietnam war movement in
1968?
Television coverage of Tet Offensive
America as a World Power
Geographic separation of North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
America as a World Power
Geographic separation of North and South Vietnam?
17th Parallel
America as a World Power
The Cuban Missile Crisis was so scary because Russian missiles were located close
to?
Florida
SSUSH 21U.S. History
America as a World Power
The first unmanned satellite put into outer space?
Sputnik I
America as a World Power
Country that launched Sputnik I?
Soviet Union
America as a World Power
Eisenhower responded to Sputnik I by establishing?
NASA
Module V
SSCG 21
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Huge growth of population after WWII from mid 1940s
– 1960s?
Baby Boom
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
First master-planned community in America located on New York’s Long Island?
Levittown
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Congressional authorized Construction of a national
network of highways to connect every major city in America?
Interstate Highway Act
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This was a major reason that Eisenhower pushed for the
Interstate Highway Act?
National Defense
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Interstate Highway Act also improve this type of
transportation?
Travel from Suburbs to City
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
For the first time in U.S. History the 1960 Presidential election
was influenced by this?
Television
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This caused many in the U.S. to become sympathetic to the
Civil Rights movement?
News Coverage
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This changed communication in the United States from home
to home?
Personal Computer / Internet
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This improved communication throughout the United States?
Cellular Phone
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Cell phone & Personal computer caused this in the
United States?
Communications Revolution
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This permitted more tolerable working conditions in
skyscrapers and other buildings used to conduct business?
Air Conditioning
SSCG 22
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
U.S. President responsible for integrating the U.S. Military
and the Federal Government?
President Harry Truman
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Organizing government jobs and military positions regardless of race?
Integration
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Harry Truman’s action integrating the federal
government?
Executive Order 9980
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Harry Truman’s action integrating the U.S. Military?
Executive Order 9981
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
First African American to integrate professional
baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Team Jackie Robinson played for when integrated professional sports?
Brooklyn Dodgers
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
U.S. Supreme Court that integrates Schools throughout
the United States?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Browned reversed the decision in this case?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1894)
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Plessy established this legal principle?
“Separate but Equal” doctrine
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Arkansas Governor that resisted the Brown decision?
Orval Faubus
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used this to keep black kids from going to
school with whites?
National Guard
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block black students
entrance to this school?
Little Rock’s Central High School
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
President that reacted to Governor Faubus’ resistance to
Brown?
President Eisenhower
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
President Eisenhower responded this way to Little Rock incident in Arkansas?
Forced Integration with U.S. Military
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Civil Rights leader from Atlanta Georgia?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed this group of people in his Letter from Birmingham
Jail?
White Ministers
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Martin Luther King, Jr. defended this in his Letter from
Birmingham Jail?
Civil Disobedience / Protest & Demonstrations
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Made by MLK, Jr. in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial asking for peace and
racial harmony?
“I have a dream” speech
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Law that prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender; Ended Jim Crow?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Outlawed literacy tests and created programs to register minority voters in the South;
Justice Department to oversee voting is fair?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
SSCG 23
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
During the 1950’s and 1960s, one of the most liberal
Supreme Courts; Issued Brown (1954), Miranda (1963)?
Warren Court
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
U.S. Supreme Court case that said police must inform
suspects of their constitutional rights at the time of arrest?
Miranda v. Arizona
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Warren Court expanded this during the 1950s and the
1960s liberal movement?
Individual Rights
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This tragedy happened in 1963 in Dallas Texas, but helped push Civil Rights legislation through Congress in 1964?
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This Vice President become President of the United States
after JFK’s assassination?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
President Johnson had this due to the assassination of JFK and
used it to push his domestic package through Congress?
Political Capital
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This is the name of President Johnson’s Domestic plan?
Great Society Program
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Great Society Program declared this throughout the
U.S.?
War on Poverty
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This was part of the Great Society Program and offered
medical help to elderly people?
Medicare
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This year was full of social and political turmoil in the United
States?
1968
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
In 1968, this televised event in Vietnam caused many to
oppose the war with public protests?
Tet Offensive
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The event resulted in many African Americans rioting in
cities across the U.S.?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This was passed by Congress one week after MLK, Jr’s death and prevented discrimination in
housing?
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This individual was killed while running for President and supported Civil Rights and withdrawal from Vietnam in
1968?
Robert F. Kennedy
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This televised riot in 1968 showed police in riot gear
beating anti-war rioters and spraying them with tear gas?
Democratic National Convention
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This made people wander if the American form of government
could tolerate dissent?
Democratic National Convention
SSCG 24
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Founded by MLK, Jr. to carry out nonviolent marches, protests, demonstrations
against racial discrimination; remains nonviolent?
SCLC
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Founded by African American college students, used sit-ins,
Freedom rides, originally nonviolent but turned militant in the “black power” movement?
SNCC
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Rides on buses in southern states to see if laws against
segregation would be enforced on buses?
Freedom Rides
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Whites and blacks would sit together at lunch counters
across south to oppose segregation in public cafes?
Sit-Ins
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Modern feminist organization created to promote equal
rights and opportunities for Women?
NOW
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Book written that stated that it was a myth that women
wanted to be a domesticated house wife and not enter
professional careers?
Feminine Mystique
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Author of Feminine Mystique and a leader of the National
Organization for Women (NOW)?
Betty Friedan
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Mexican American civil rights leader for Hispanic immigrant
farm laborers?
Cesar Chavez
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Chavez founded this movement to used nonviolent protest to
promote the rights of Hispanic workers?
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Cesar Chavez used this non-violent strategy to get grape
growers to negotiate a contract with the UFW?
Boycott
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This is the product that Cesar Chavez and UFW boycotted?
California Table Grapes
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This individual became the leader of the Modern
Environmental Movement?
Rachel Carson
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Rachel Carson was the author of this book?
Silent Spring
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Silent Spring led the environment movement by
opposing use of this in farming?
Chemicals/Pesticides
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Silent Spring led the environment movement by
opposing use of this particular insecticide?
DDT
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
April 22 intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for
the earth’s environment?
Earth Day
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Federal Agency with the purpose of enforcing laws
aimed at maintaining a safe and clean environment?
Environmental Protection Agency
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Movement to turn back (Backlash) liberal agendas by cutting social welfare, taxes,
decrease the size of government?
Conservative Movement
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This candidate won the Republican nomination for
President in 1964 signaling the rise of the Conservative
Movement?
Barry Goldwater
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This conservative won the President Election of 1968?
Richard Nixon
SSCG 25
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
1973 Supreme Court case that said women had a 4th
Amendment Privacy right to Abortion within the first trimester of Pregnancy?
Roe v. Wade
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
1978 Supreme Court case that said race could be used when
considering applications to college?
Bakke v. University of California
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Supreme Court, in the Bakke case, said that this was unconstitutional and could not be used in considering college
applications?
Quota System
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This concept refers to preferential hiring practices of African Americans and other
Minorities?
Affirmative Action
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
First U.S. President to resign from office?
Richard Nixon
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon was successful in doing this?
Opening China
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon opened China by using this foreign policy?
Detente
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon was forming good relations with China in order to
use China as?
Leverage in negotiating with Soviet Union
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Nixon tried to cover-up his advisors being involved in the
Break-in of the Democratic National headquarters?
Watergate Scandal
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
Watergate had this affect on the opinion of the U.S. people
about government?
Distrust of Government
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-Bush
This person became President of the United States when
Richard M. Nixon resigned?
Gerald Ford
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This was Ford’s first official act as President of the United
States?
Pardoned Nixon
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President Ford also did this while in office?
Granted Amnesty to Draft Dodgers
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This President tried to bring peace to the Middle East?
Jimmy Carter
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This was a meeting set up by Carter with Egyptian President
and Israeli Prime Minister in 1978 to sign a peace treaty?
Camp David Accords
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The Egyptian President that met at the Camp David
Accords?
Anwar Sadat
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The Israeli Prime Minister that met at the Camp David
Accords?
Menachem Begin
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The Shah of Iran (Friend of U.S.) was ousted by Muslim
religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini?
Iranian Revolution 1979
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President Carter allowed this person into the U.S. to receive
medical treatment which caused an outrage in Iran?
Shah of Iran
Changing Political Ideologies: Carter-BushIranian revolutionaries invaded U.S. embassy in Iran and took
52 American Captives to retaliate to the Shah in the
U.S.?
Iranian Hostage Crisis
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Conservative President in the 1980s that wanted to decrease the size and role of the federal
government?
Ronald Reagan
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Economic theory to cut social welfare programs, give tax cuts
to business, and increase Defense spending ?
Reaganomics
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In Reaganomics, this term refers to workers benefiting
from the increase in business profits?
Trickle Down Economics
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This group of people was hurt by Reaganomics Budget Cuts?
Lower income Americans
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Reagan’s biggest failure in international policy; Used profits from gun sales to Iran to fund a
rebellion in Nicaragua?
Iran-Contra Scandal
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This individual accepted most of the blame for the Iran Contra
Affair during Reagan’ administration?
Oliver North
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This was President Reagan’s biggest International success?
Collapse of the Soviet Union / End of
the Cold War
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President Reagan became friends with Soviet Prime
Minister Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan gets credit for
this?
Fall of Berlin Wall
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Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to implement
satellites in Space to be an anti-missile system defense was
called ?
Star Wars
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Second President of the United States to be Impeached?
Bill Clinton
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President Clinton and the leaders of Canada and Mexico
signed this to remove trade barriers between their
countries?
NAFTA
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NAFTA stands for this?
North American Free Trade Agreement
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NAFTA provided this to Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.?
Free Trade (tariff free) trade zone
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Opponents (people who disagreed) with NAFTA
believed it would do this?
Send Jobs to Mexico / Harm the
Environment
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This is what President Bill Clinton was impeached for?
Perjury
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Perjury means?
Lying under Oath
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President Bill Clinton was impeached for this because he
asked Monica to lie?
Obstruction of Justice
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The importance of this was emphasized in the 2000 Presidential Election?
Electoral College
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Twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, & the Pentagon were attacked
by Terrorists on this day?
September 11, 2001
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The terroristic attack in 2001 is known as?
9/11
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This Person was President of the United States during 9/11?
George W. Bush
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U.S. Congress declared war on this after 9/11?
War on Terror
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This terrorist group was responsible for 9/11 attacks?
Al Qaeda
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Leader of the terrorist group was responsible for 9/11
attacks?
Osama Bin Laden
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U.S. invaded this nation to eliminate Al Qaeda Training
Camps?
Afghanistan
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This was the name of the invasion of Afghanistan?
Operation Enduring Freedom
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U.S. invaded this nation to prevent Saddam Hussein from providing Al-Qaeda terrorists
with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?
Iraq
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This was the name of the invasion of Iraq?
Operation Iraqi Freedom