AP US History Unit 14 Study Packet

Post War Domestic Policy

Directions: Follow this sheet daily. The date next to the assignment indicates the night the homework must be done—all assignments are due the following class meeting. Make sure to do your IDs on a set of index cards and answer your discussion questions on paper. You must write both the question and the answer on your notebook paper.

ALL ID RESPONSES AND DISCUSSION QUESTION ANSWERS MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS—NOT COPIED VERBATIM FROM THE BOOK!

IN ADDITION, BE SURE YOUR ID NOT ONLY IDENTIFIES THE GIVEN PERSON, PLACE, OR EVENT, BUT ALSO EXPLAINS ITS IMPORTANCE.

Checklist of Assignments

Assignment Due Date Points Possible

IDs Friday 4/5 and Wednesday 4/10 73

Discussion Questions Friday 4/5 and Wednesday 4/10 76 total

Multiple Choice Packet Tuesday 4/9 20 quiz pts

Daily in-Class Cornell Notes Friday 4/5 and Wednesday 4/10 10 each

Other Unit Assignments

Reading Quiz—IDs only on 4/1, another on Friday 4/5

Test—Wednesday 4/10

DBQ—Thursday 4/11 (will use advisory time)

3/21 (and due Monday 4/1): American Life After WWII

Ch. 36 pp. 830-838, 860-864

IDs

Taft-Hartley Act

Employment Act

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

“Permanent War Economy”

Dr. Spock

The Sunbelt

Levittown

White flight

Baby boom

Cult of domesticity

Betty Freidan

Elvis Presley

John Kenneth Galbraith

Discussion Questions

1.  Why was there so much economic anxiety in the years after World War II?

2.  What was happening to organized labor after the war?

3.  What were the effects of the long economic boom, from 1950-1970?

4.  What were the opportunities for women in the new postwar economy?

5.  What were the causes of this unparalleled economic growth?

6.  What developments motivated Americans to move to the suburbs?

7.  What factors kept blacks in the inner cities?

8.  Who were the “suburbanites?” Describe the typical person or family that moved to the suburbs (use pp. 860-861)

9.  How did science and technology drive economic growth in the 1950s? (Ok to list examples)

10.  How was the nature of the work force also changing? What were the effects on the union movement? On women?

11.  What are some key examples of the new consumer culture of the 1950s? (Ok to list).

12.  What were the effects of television on American society and culture?

Monday 4/1 The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s Pt 1

pp 867-874, 880-887

IDs

Jim Crow laws

Emmett Till

Gunnar Myrdal

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

Earl Warren

Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights Commission

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Sit-ins

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Operation Wetback

Interstate Highway Act

Beat poets

Discussion Questions

1.  Why were African Americans less willing to “suffer in silence”? What were some of their early victories in the struggle for civil rights?

2.  What was Truman’s contribution to civil rights?

3.  What was Eisenhower’s attitude towards civil rights?

4.  How did World War II set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement? (see pp. 892-893)

5.  How did people in the Deep South react to the legal death of “separate but equal”?

6.  What event finally forced Eisenhower to act in support of the Civil Rights movement.

7.  What was Eisenhower’s main goal as president?

8.  What was Eisenhower’s plan regarding Native Americans? What was the end result?

9.  What sorts of literature emerged from the WWII era?

10.  Who were some of the important authors at this time?

11.  Who were some of the important poets?

12.  Important playwrights?

Tuesday 4/2: The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s Pt 2

pp. 889-891, 895-906

IDs

Robert Kennedy

Robert McNamara

Peace Corps

Freedom Riders

Voter Education Project

James Meredith

March on Washington

November 22, 1963

Civil Rights Bill of 1964

Affirmative Action

War on Poverty

The Great Society

Medicare and Medicaid

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Voting Rights Act of 1965

24th Amendment

Freedom Summer

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Watts Riots

Malcolm X

Black Panther Party

Stokely Carmichael

Discussion Questions

1. What was glamorous and notable about JFK?

2. Why was it hard for Kennedy to get many of his New Frontier plans passed?

3. What was Kennedy’s contribution to the “space race”?

4. Why was Kennedy so slow to aid in the struggle for civil rights?

5. How did MLK organize in Birmingham? What was the response of the white establishment?

6. Overall, from what you’ve just read, how involved was Kennedy in the struggle for civil rights?

7. What startling events of violence against blacks occurred in 1963?

8. Why is Kennedy still such a memorable president and inspirational figure?

9. Why does Bailey call the Election of 1964 “a historic clash of political principles”? Why did Johnson win?

10. What sorts of social reforms did Johnson implement as part of his “Great Society”?

11. In what ways were these programs effective?

12. What happened to three civil rights workers in summer 1964?

13. In what ways did the Watts uprisings herald a new phase of the black struggle?

14. What were the different interpretations of black power at the time?

15. What was the attitude of whites toward the uprisings in America’s inner cities?

16. How was the focus of the black power movement different from that of civil rights?

17. After MLK’s death in 1968, what were some signs that progress was being made?

Wednesday 4/3 (but not due until Friday 4/5): The Tumultuous 60s and 70s

pp 910-914, 916-917, 921-924, 925-933

IDs

Free Speech Movement

counterculture

Sexual Revolution

Judicial activism

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

Rachel Carson

CREEP

Spiro Agnew

Saturday Night Massacre

Helsinki Accords

Title IX

Roe v. Wade

Milliken V. Bradley

Bakke v. Regents of University of California

Discussion Questions

1. Why did young people become increasingly negative towards authority in the 1960s? What were some signs of this change?

2. What were the 3Ps behind the cultural revolutions of the 1960s?

3. What started to happen to that revolution by the 1970s?

4. After reading the Varying Viewpoints section, do you think the 60s were constructive or destructive? Discuss one of the following in your response: The struggle for civil rights, the Great Society’s War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and antiwar movement or the emergence of a “counterculture”

5. What caused the sudden slump in the economy during the 1970s? (Ok to list reasons, but put a star next to the most important one)

6. What weaknesses in the American economy were clear in the 1970s?

7. Explain the decisions of the Warren court and how the enhanced the right of the individual. (Ok to bullet point each case and explain what it did)

8. How did Nixon try to change the composition of the court? Was he successful?

9. What welfare programs did Nixon expand during his presidency?

10. How did Nixon and the Supreme Court broaden opportunities for minorities and women?

11. What was the purpose of Nixon’s “southern strategy”? What did it entail?

12. What sorts of shady actions did Nixon and his administration engage in during the Watergate scandal?

13. In what ways did Nixon withhold evidence during the Watergate hearings?

14. What did the Supreme Court rule in terms of the Watergate evidence?

15. Why did Nixon resign on August 8, 1974?

16. What did the Watergate crisis prove? (at least three things mentioned here)

17. Why was Gerald Ford considered so illegitimate when he took over for Nixon?

18. What was the first thing Ford did when president? How did Democrats respond?

19. What were some of the signs of the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s?

20. What were some of the defeats of the feminist movement at this time?

21. What were some of the victories of the Native Americans during the 70s?

22. Who won the election of 1976? Why?

Friday 4/5: Read and annotate Socratic Seminar reading, write questions

Monday 4/8: The Resurgence of Conservatism

pp. 942-946, 951-955, 961-962

IDs

New Right

Neoconservatives

Reaganomics

Yuppies

Moral majority

Savings and Loans Crisis

“Black Monday”

Americans with Disabilities Act

Clarence Thomas

Discussion Questions

1.  What did Ronald Reagan stand for? What was he against?

2.  What did Carter say in his Farewell Address? What were his strengths? Weaknesses?

3.  What did the Iranians do on Reagan’s inauguration day?

4.  What did Reagan mean when he said “Government is the problem”? Why were people so concerned about government spending in the 1980s?

5.  In what ways did Reagan create a “smaller government”? (What programs in particular did he cut?

6.  What happened on March 6, 1981? What was the response?

7.  How did Reagan use “supply-side” economics? What was the result?

8.  What happened to the US deficit under Reagan’s administration? How did this occur?

9.  In what ways did the deficits represent a failure? How did they represent a triumph?

10.  What happened to distribution of wealth in the 1980s?

11.  How did Reagan attack affirmative action?

12.  How did Reagan attack abortion? How was the Roe v. Wade decision altered?

13.  Who won in the election of 1988? Why?

14.  How did the economy begin to damage the Bush administration?

Unit 14 Multiple Choice Packet (Due Tuesday 4/9)

1.  Which of the following best characterizes the methods of Martin Luther King, Jr?

  1. Nonviolent defiance of segregation
  2. Armed violence against police and troops
  3. Patience while developing the skills that would make blacks economically successful and gain them the respect of whites
  4. A series of petitions to Congress calling for correction of racial abuses
  5. A series of speaking engagements in Northern cities in hopes of pressuring Congress to take action

2.  The term “Long Hot Summers” refers to

  1. Major outdoor rock concerts during the late 1960s and early 1970s
  2. Major Communist offensives against US troops in Vietnam
  3. Protests held in large American cities against the Vietnam War
  4. A series of warmer-than-usual summers during the 1950s, leading to speculation about climactic change
  5. Race riots in large American cities during the 1960s

3.  Which of the following best describes the methods advocated by Malcolm X?

  1. Nonviolent defiance of segregation
  2. Armed violence against police and troops
  3. Patience while developing the skills that would make blacks economically successful and gain them the respect of whites
  4. Gradual assimilation of the two races until they became indistinguishable
  5. Meek acceptance of “Jim Crowism” until increasingly enlightened Southern whites were prepared to change it

4.  After concluding its investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission announced its finding that

  1. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating the president
  2. Oswald was assisted by two other marksmen on the “grassy knoll” in front of the presidential motorcade
  3. Oswald had been the only gunman but was part of a widespread conspiracy
  4. Oswald in fact had nothing to do with the assassination
  5. The true facts of the assassination and any possible conspiracy involved with it will probably never be known

5.  The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was significant because it

  1. Prohibited prayer in public schools on the grounds of separation of church and state
  2. Legally upheld the doctrine of “separate but equal” educational facilities for blacks and whites
  3. Clarified the constitutional rights of minors and restricted the rights of school administrators to set dress codes or otherwise infringe on students’ rights
  4. Upheld school districts’ rights to use aptitude and psychological tests to “track” students and segregate them into “college prep” and “vocational” programs
  5. Ordered the desegregation of public schools, prohibiting the practice of segregation via “separate but equal” schools for blacks and whites

6.  Reaganomics is most closely associated with

  1. The “trickle down” theory
  2. The “controlled-growth” theory
  3. The “bubble up” theory
  4. New Deal reform economics
  5. Fair Deal progressivist economics

7.  The Saturday Night Massacre refers to

  1. Nixon’s firing of Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and his staff, in October 1973
  2. The bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon by a suicide truck bomber in October 1983
  3. Reagan’s bombing of military bases in Libya in April 1986
  4. Oliver North’s destruction of files related to the Iran-Contra scandal the day before his office was searched by the FBI
  5. The slaughter of Vietnamese villagers in My Lai by American soldiers under the command of Lt. William Caley

8.  “Jim Crow” laws were laws that

  1. Effectively prohibited blacks from voting in state and local elections
  2. Restricted American Indians to US government reservations
  3. Restricted open-range ranching in the Great Plains
  4. Established separate segregated facilities for blacks and whites
  5. Restricted the consumption and distribution of alcohol within the limits of pro-temperance communities

9.  The Watergate scandal led to Richard Nixon’s downfall primarily because

  1. Of his role in planning and coordinating the Watergate break-in and other illegal campaign activity
  2. The press, the Democrats and some liberal Republicans united to rid themselves of Nixon and his conservative philosophy
  3. He was already so unpopular because of his Vietnam War policies that virtually anything he did wrong would have been used as an excuse to remove him from office
  4. Of his role in directing the cover-up of the Watergate Affair
  5. Of his involvement with organized crime in carrying out political “dirty tricks” against his Democratic opponent, George McGovern

10.  The Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947 had the effect of

  1. Prohibiting strikes by government employees
  2. Granting railroad workers the right to strike and to organize unions
  3. Extending the right to strike and to organize unions, previously allowed to railroad workers only, to all workers
  4. Allowing unions to force management into binding arbitration when contract negotiations broke down
  5. Forbidding unions from closing shops to nonunion employees

11.  The first female justice named to the Supreme Court was

  1. Ann Richards
  2. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
  3. Madeline Albright
  4. Sandra Day O’Conner
  5. Dee Dee Meyers

12.  The “War on Poverty” was an attempt by