Settling the West (Westward Expansion)- time period- 1865-1900
1. What act gave away “FREE” LAND to encourage moving West? (2_p 94, 103-105) / Homestead Act (Great Plains)
Becoming a World Power (Imperialism)- time period- 1898-1914
1. How was Hawaii acquired by the United States? / Monarchy (Queen Lilioukalani) overthrown by Hawaiian planters
2. Why was Hawaii acquired? / As a naval base in Pacific
3. What did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (Teddy Roosevelt) vow to protect? / Latin America and Western Hemisphere
4. Why was the Panama Canal necessary? / To connect oceans through South America for navy, faster trade and travel
5. What are the main reasons Imperialists wanted to Imperialize? / Territory, naval bases, resources, power, wealth, trade
Industrialization and Urban America (GildedAge/ Industrialization)- time period- 1870-1900
1.What positives did political bosses provide for communities? (Notes) / built community projects, schools, parks, roads, etc. to improve conditions (helped urban infrastructure)
helped immigrants get food and jobs
2. How did political bosses have a negative impact on society? (Notes) / Stole money from community projects
Bribed immigrants for votes using food and jobs
3. What major population shift happened during industrialization? People went from______to ______
(4_p 152-153) / Rural (farms) to Urban (cities) looking for better work
Progressive Era- time period- 1900-1920
1. What group of people did Jane Addams’ Settlement Houses provide aid to? (4_p 159) / immigrants
2. What types of aid did Jane Addams provide? (4_p 159-160) / Community center, education classes, daycare, soup kitchen
3. What problem did Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle bring to light? What was the solution? / Meat packing conditions (unsanitary) resulted in FDA and meat inspection act
4. How did each Increase the Power of the Voter:(6_p204) / ALL INCREASE POWER OF VOTER!!!!!! And influence in government!!!!
-Recall-
-Referendum-
-Initiative- / Take a vote to remove official from office
Add an issue to a voting ballot for people to vote on
Propose to add new issues to voting ballot to address people’s concerns
5. What is the 19th Amendment? (6_p201, 207) / WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE (increased opportunity to influence government)
6. What impact did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act have on businesses? (6_p212-214, 216, 218) / Broke up monopolies—fair business practices
7. What President was nicknamed “Trust Buster” and was the most successful and breaking up trusts? (6_p212-213) / Theodore Roosevelt
8. Why were monopolies harmful to the economy? (6_p212) / Limited competition
WW I and Its Aftermath (WW I)- time period- 1914-1918
1. Selective Service Act- (7_p240) / Picked soldiers for military through draft (selecting service men)
2. New technology, including machine guns and flamethrowers, led to what type of warfare? (7_p234, 243-244) / Trench warfare caused stalemate on Western Front
3. What was the Espionage Act? (7_p239) / Offering important information to the enemy illegal (spies) and dissenters (disagree) with war effort prosecuted
4. How did the Espionage Act suspend your freedom of speech? (7_p239) / Not legal to criticize war effort—will inhibit government ability to protect nation
5. Why was John J Pershing’s (Black Jack) effort to train the American soldiers in the American Expeditionary Force vital to the Allies winning the war? (7_p245) / American forces were inexperienced and he was able to train them quickly and prepare them for battle
6. The Zimmerman Telegram helped bring America into the war. What did it say? (7_p236) / Germany wanted to ally with Mexico—promised Mexico land that had been taken by US
The Jazz Age (Roaring 1920s)- time period- 1920-1929
1. What system for the mass production of automobiles did Henry Ford create that eventually expanded into other industries? (8_p265-266) / Assembly line
2. How did the automobile affect daily life? / Transportation, suburbs
3. What was Monkey Scopes Trial about? (8_p273) / Teaching evolution in public schools; modernism (evolution) v traditionalism (creation)
4. Which side did William Jennings Bryan support? Clarence Darrow support? / WJB-creation
Darrow-evolution
5. Did Prohibition (the 18th Amendment) Increase or Decrease organized crime (mobsters/gangsters)? (8_p274_*speakeasies) / Increase
(Great Depression), Roosevelt and the New Deal and A World in Flames-
time period- 1929-1940
1. Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt create the following as part of his new deal?
-Tennessee Valley Authority- (10_p315) / Built dams and provided electricity to the south
-Social Security Act- / Provided old age pensions(money) to those over 65
2. How did each event drive America into the Great Depression:
-Over-speculation in the stock market- / Predicting the stock market would never crash—buy! Buy! Buy!
-Bank failures- / Banking practices were bad—put deposits into stock market, interest rates very low
-Hawley Smoot Tariff- / High taxes on imported goods, started a trade war with other countries, limited foreign trade
3. What impact did FDR’s fireside chats have on society during the Great Depression? / Calmed them, reassured them, provided information over the radio
4. How many justices did FDR try to add in his Court Packing Scheme? / 6
5. So many people opposed FDR’s Court Packing Scheme and New Deal programs because they would increase the power of what branch of government? / executive
6. What 2 principles of government would Court Packing disregard? / Separation of powers and checks and balances
World War II- time period-1939-1945
- Why were ration books necessary during wartime? What types of goods were rationed?
2. How did the Tuskegee Airmen (all African American troop) benefit all African Americans in the armed forces? / Were successful and honorable—led to integration of armed forces after war
3. What happened to American and Filipino POWs in the Bataan Death March? / Marched by Japanese in Phillippines to a prison camp with no food or water—many died
4. What events ended the war in the pacific with Japan in 1945? / Atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
5. What type of government systems did Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini adopt during the 1930s? / Totalitarian … caused Franklin Roosevelt to eventually declare war
Cold War- time period- 1945-1991*
1. What was McCarthyism (Joseph McCarthy)? / Accusing someone without evidence (Red Scare!)
2. Why was a Berlin Airlift necessary? / Soviet Union blockade in response to the union of West Germany by Br, Fr, and US
3. America emphasized math and science when the Soviets launched what satellite in 1957? / Sputnik
4. Describe Harry Truman’s policy of containment. / Stop the spread of communism by providing aid to other countries
5. Describe what is meant by a Red Scare in the 20s and the 50s. / Fear of communism infiltrating American systems
6. Why did America adopt in God We Trust in 1956? (think about what communism limited…) / show that we provided religious freedom and did not limit Americans rights like communism in SU
Postwar America and The New Frontier and the Great Society (1950s Society)- time period- 1945-1969
1. What did the older generation (conservative generation) think about Rock & Roll and the evolving teenager? / Rebellious, loose
2. What effect did Television have on society? / Brought families together, spread news, advertisements to increase spending, conservative television shows, reduced radio
3. What did Jonas Salk create a vaccine to fight? / polio
4. How did the Highway Act and the Baby Boom effect the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s? / Lots of families and kids being born
Transportation easy from urban to suburban areas
Car culture developed
Civil Rights- time period- 1950s and 1960s
1. W.E.B. Du Bois help found what organization in the early 1900s that fought for the Advancement of colored people. / NAACP
2. Significance of: Jackie Robinson / First black MLB player
Thurgood Marshall / Lawyer for NAACP during Brown v Board trial
3. How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 impact African Americans? / Ended discrimination in public places and places of employment
4. What did the 24th Amendment eliminate? / Poll taxes
5. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminate? / Poll taxes and literacy tests
6. What was Martin Luther King Jr.’s idea of civil disobedience?
Give an example / Non-violence
Sit-ins, demonstrations, marches, freedom rides
7. What did the Brown vs Board of Education decision ultimately accomplish? / Desegregation of schools
8. The Plessy vs Ferguson decision legalized what? / segregation
9. What is the famous phrase for Plessy vs Ferguson? “______but ______” / Separate but equal