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| Explain Social Darwinism and how it reinforced the idea of individualism (essay) | + |
| Explain the accomplishments of Jane Addams and Hull House (essay) | + |
| Describe Plessy v Ferguson (1896) including the facts of the case and how the court ruled (essay) | + |
| How did Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal support the Progressives’ agenda? (essay) | + |
| In your opinion was the Sedition Act of 1918 unconstitutional? If so, how specifically did it violate the constitution? (essay) | + |
| Discuss 3 major causes of the Great depression before the stock market crash of 1929. (essay) | + |
| Name 2 Great Society programs, and tell if they are still around today and if they have been effective. (essay) | + |
| Compare/contrast the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (essay) | + |
| Describe the background, verdict and what ruling Brown v Board of Education (1954) replaced. (essay) | + |
| Discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis: What caused it? What was JFK’s reaction? How was it resolved? (essay) | + |
| Why was it so urgent that T. Roosevelt settle the coal strike of 1902, and what he threatened to do. (essay) | + |
| Movement by artists and writers to portray the world as it really is | realism |
| The “king of ragtime” music was | Scott Joplin |
| Time period 1870-1900 where cities grew, people built spectacular mansions & inventions led to rapid industrial growth | Gilded Age |
| English philosopher who wrote about “survival of the fittest” | Herbert Spencer |
| Some industrialists used Social Darwinism to justify their support of | laissez-faire capitalism |
| Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War, Cuba became an independent nation, the US agreed to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines, and the US acquired Puerto Rico and | Guam |
| When the USS Maine exploded, many Americans blamed | Spain |
| Progressives joined union leaders to pressure states for workers’ ______________laws that would establish insurance funds for injured workers. | compensation |
| Progressivism was partly a reaction against ____________ economics, which represented an unregulated, free market. | laissez-faire |
| Alice Paul was arrested after picketing the White House, an example of her attempt to | use protest to bring suffrage |
| What needed to play a more active role in solving society’s problems, according to progressives? | government |
| Roosevelt warned Taft that tariff reform would | divide Republicans |
| To restore confidence in the banking system, Wilson supported the establishment of a | federal reserve system |
| In the Northern Securities v. United States case, the Supreme Court ruled that Northern Securities | violated the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to | building codes requiring fire escapes |
| What were crusading journalists investigating social conditions and political corruption called? | muckrakers |
| A meeting in 1905 including W.E.B. DuBois and other African American leaders to demand full political rights resulted in the | Niagara Movement |
| When many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time it is called a | bank run |
| If these remain too low, banks tend to make risky loans and companies expand too much. | interest rates |
| ____________happens when companies make more goods than people can buy, causing a decrease in sales. | overproduction |
| A long period of rising stock prices is called a | bull market |
| Buying on margin was a method of buying stocks | with mostly borrowed money |
| Stockbrokers who made loans that allowed investors to buy stocks could issue this to protect their loans. | margin call |
| The stock market took its steepest dive on 29 Oct., 1929, the day known as | Black Tuesday |
| Stock prices first began to decline in 1929 because | investors sold their stock |
| The stock market crash weakened the nation’s banks because | banks had invested their deposits in the stock market |
| The depression has deep roots in the economy of the 20s, including overproduction, high tariffs, missteps by the Federal Reserve and | uneven distribution of income |
| Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose crops during the Depression because | drought dried the soil |
| To regulate the stock market, Congress created the | Securities and Exchange Commission |
| The period between March 9, 1933 and June 16, 1933 when Congress passed 15 acts to meet the crisis of the Great Depression was called the | The 100 Days |
| The Emergency Banking Relief Act helped solve the banking crisis by | issuing licenses to sound banks |
| The most visible symbol of the Cold War was the | The Berlin Wall |
| Union organizing tactic where employees stopped work inside a factory and refused to leave. | sit-down strike |
| Law providing modest payments to older Americans and the unemployed | Social Security Act |
| Guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain collectively | National Labor Relations Act |
| Practice of borrowing money to pay for programs and not balancing the budget | deficit spending |
| After the New Deal had been in effect for 2 years, the US economy | showed slight improvement |
| What did the bold series of programs & reforms that FDR launched in 1935 come to be called? | 2nd New Deal |
| This agency of the New Deal allowed workers to form unions and promoted fair competition for each industry. | National Recovery Administration |
| This New Deal program that built dams, conserved forests and brought hydroelectric power to rural areas. | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
| The National Labor Relations Act was also known as the | The Wagner Act |
| At 1st, Britain & France gave in to Hitler’s demands, a policy known as | appeasement |
| The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact provided for the division of | Poland |
| The Nazis reserved their hatred for Jews, homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies and | Slavs |
| What event in 1938 that marked a significant escalation of the Nazi persecution of the Jews? | Kristallnacht |
| The Final Solution was the Nazi plan to | exterminate Europe's Jews |
| In 1934, the Nye Committee report indicated that America’s entry into WWI was influenced by | US arms manufacturers |
| The belief by many Americans who wanted to avoid involvement in international conflicts | isolationism |
| The Pittsburgh Courier argued that African Americans should join the war effort to achieve victory over Hitler’s racism & over racism at home, a campaign called | the Double V |
| On April 18, 1942, US bombs fell on Japan for the 1st time when US carriers short-range bombers were replaced with | B-25s |
| Why were the Japanese unable to decipher the messages of the Navajo code talkers? | they used the Navajo language which had no written form |
| Capturing Stalingrad was the key to Hitler’s strategy to | destroy the Soviet economy |
| At the Tehran Conference, the Allies agreed to | help fight Japan once Germany was defeated |
| The Germans goal at The Battle of the Bulge was to cut Allied supplies coming through the port of | Antwerp |
| Invading Iwo Jima proved difficult because of the island’s rugged terrain and | Japan's vast series of bunkers |
| Mobilizing the American economy for WWII created 19million new jobs and | finally ended the Great Depression |
| Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important? | Put the Germans on the defensive for the rest of the war |
| The last, desperate German offensive of the war became known as | Battle of the Bulge |
| Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because | they could bomb Japan from there |
| The secret American program to build the atomic bomb was called | the Manhattan Project |
| The German air force in WWII was called the | the Luftwaffe |
| Yugoslavia was liberated when ____ and his partisans defeated the Nazis & Chetniks using guerrilla warfare | Tito |
| Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps were finally defeated for good at the battle of | El Alamein |
| On D-Day, the Allies met the most resistance at which beach? | Omaha |
| The Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941 that led to the US entry into WWII occurred where? | Pearl Harbor |
| The ____________ traveled into the South by bus to test compliance with laws outlawing segregation of interstate buses. | Freedom Riders |
| After Rosa Parks’ arrest, Jo Ann Robinson, head of the Women’s Political Counsel called on African Americans to | boycott Montgomery's buses |
| CORE successfully integrated many restaurants by using | sit-ins |
| The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ended racial segregation | in public schools |
| Which act did Lyndon Johnson sign into law on July 2, 1964? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| The Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the attorney general to | send federal examiners to register voters |
| The Chicago Movement was an attempt to call attention to the | deplorable housing condition in cities for African Americans |
| When the Supreme Court ordered school districts to end segregation “with all deliberate speed,” the wording was vague enough that many districts were able to | keep schools segregated for years |
| In Little Rock, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering Central High School by | deploying the National Guard |
| Dr. King believed the way to end segregation was through | non-violent protest |
| In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the 1st African American to | serve on the US Supreme Court |
| The black power movement wanted ________________ instead of adapting to the dominant white culture. | racial distinctiveness |
| Wilson’s plan for peace was known as the ________ points. | 14 |
| Wilson called for a “general association of nations” known as the | League of Nations |
| Battles in the air between airplanes with attached machine guns were called | dogfights |
| What 2 new forms of warfare were introduced in WWI? | aerial warfare & gas attacks |
| November 1917, Lenin seized power in Russia & established a | communist government |
| ___________ walked off the job in Boston in the most famous strike of 1919. | police |
| Americans often linked radicalism with | immigrants |
| One of the largest strikes in history began when steel workers went on strike for recognition of their union, higher pay and | shorter hours |
| Criticism of the war at home was silenced by | Espionage & Sedition Acts |
| The Great Migration during WWI was the flow of | African Americans to northern cities |
| Stylish, unconventional American women of the 20s who wore sleeveless dresses & short skirts were called | Flappers |
| Religious fundamentalists supported passage of which amendment banning the sale of alcohol? | 18th |
| The reduction of immigrants due to immigration laws in the 20s contributed to the decline of | the Ku Klux Klan |
| The belief that one’s land needs to be protected against immigrants is | Nativism |
| Many people viewed Sacco & Vanzetti with suspicion because | they were Italian immigrants & anarchists |
| Style of music influenced by Dixieland and ragtime | jazz |
| The flowering of African American arts in the 20s was known as the | Harlem Renaissance |
| John T. Scopes was put on trial for | teaching evolution |
| The purpose of the Volstead Act was to | enforce prohibition |
| Writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in the US. | Langston Hughes |
| By intervening in the labor dispute in the coal strike of 1902, Roosevelt took the 1st step to establishing the federal government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society. True/false | true |
| Fascism was an aggressive form of nationalism that emphasized the supreme importance of individualism & free enterprise. True/False | false. Emphasized importance of the state |
| The Red Scare was a nationwide panic caused by the fear that Communists might seize power. | true |
| The Palmer raids were in response to bombings & rising tension due to the Great Migration | false. Red Scare |
| Upton Sinclair exposed terrible conditions in the meat-packing industry in his book Red Scare. | false. The Jungle |
| Provided for the direct election of US Senators | 17th amendment |
| Made it legal for the federal government to tax income of individuals | 16th amendment |
| Guaranteed women the right to vote | 19th amendment |
| Established 5 new national parks & 51 wildlife reservations | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol | prohibition |
| Tried to open nearly a million acres of land to private development | Richard Ballinger |
| Governor of New Jersey who introduced progressive reforms | Woodrow Wilson |
| Wrote articles criticizing Standard Oil | Ida Tarbell |
| Law passed in response to The Jungle | Meat Inspection Act |
| Investigated & publicized problems with child labor | Children's Bureau |
| Leader of the SNCC who believed in black power | Stokeley Carmichael |
| Student who was denied admission to her public school | Linda Brown |
| Arrested for refusing to give up a seat on a bus to a white man | Rosa Parks |
| Became a symbol for the black power movement | Malcolm X |
| Governor of Arkansas | Orval Faubus |
| Gov.of Alabama who said, “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever.” | George Wallace |
| Along with Bobby Seale, organized the Black Panthers | Huey P. Newton |
| NAACP’s chief counsel | Thurgood Marshall |
| Executive director of the SCLC | Ella Baker |
| Head of the NAACP’s Mississippi field office, murdered by the KKK | Medgar Evers |
| The ____ Act of 1935 made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to countries at war | Neutrality Act |
| FDR supported _________, the idea that trade between nations prevents war | internationalism |
| This allowed US to send weapons to Britain if Britain paid rent or returned them after the war | Lend-Lease Act |
| FDR & Churchill came to an agreement on postwar democracy & free trade called the | Atlantic Charter |
| Who revoked landing certificates for those aboard the St Louis. | Cuba |
| Extermination camp where 1,600,000 people died | Auschwitz |
| The Nazis secret police | Gestapo |
| Took citizenship away from German Jews | The Nuremberg Laws |
| Word meaning unification, it described Germans annexation of Austria | Anschluss |
| Fascist leader who established a dictatorship in Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Policy that stopped fuel sales & scrap iron from the US to Japan | embargo |
| British prime minister who promised “peace for our time” | Neville Chamberlain |
| Symbol of the campaign to hire women in WWII | Rosie the Riveter |
| Victory in this battle kept American supply lines to Australia open | Battle of the Coral Sea |
| This battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific | Midway |
| Overall Allied commander for the invasion of France | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Area of France where the Allied invasion force landed | Normandy |
| Led the American team of scientists building the atomic bomb | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific | Admiral Chester Nimitz |
| American general who said, “I shall return” when evacuating the Philippines | Douglas MacArthur |
| American general who helped turn the German lines back in the Battle of the Bulge | George Patton |
| Highest ranking African American officer in the US military | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. |
