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US history 10 final
Strauss 10 Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Malcom X | A black activist in the Civil Rights movement |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Scolded for staying in Vietnam but one of the best domestic presidents anymore. He signed the voting rights act and the civil rights act in 1965 and 1965 respectively. |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | a court case in 1896 that said that blacks were separate but equal to whites |
| Morgan V. Virginia | In 1944, Morgan was arrested and jailed in Virginia for refusing to give up her seat on an interstate Greyhound bus to a white person. In 1946, the Supreme Court ruled 7-1 that Virginia's state law enforcing segregation on interstate buses was illegal |
| Civil Rights Act | 1964: an act that made segregation in public areas illegal |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | A civil rights activist who spoke for non-violence |
| Black Panthers | organization working for the self-defense for black people. |
| Freedom Riders | 6 white and 7 black Civil Rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia |
| March on Washington | a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. |
| Brown V. Board of Ed. | was a decision the Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white's and denying black's equal education unconstitutional. This overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which permitted segregation. |
| Bakke V. Cal Berkely | a lawsuit against Cal Berkely because he was denied from their medical school because he was a percentage black. |
| Core | Congress of Racial Equality is a civil rights organization that played a big role for blacks in the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Richard Nixon | Big w/ Nam War, escalated the conflict, overseeing incursions into neighboring countries, though the American military was gradually reduced, he successfully negotiated a ceasefire with Vietnam in 1973, effectively ending American involvement in the war. |
| Counter Culture | a term used during the Vietnam era about the change in youth and the culture |
| Dien Bein Phu | the biggest battle in the Vietnam war. It was fought btwn the Vietnamese and the French |
| My Lai | A massacre that was lead by the American army that killed off the town of My Lai and killed all the women and children |
| Vietnamization | a policy of the Richard M. Nixon administration, as a result of Tet, to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops |
| Selective service system | the draft that was held for the Vietnam war |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 1 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. |
| Freedom of Speech Movement | a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio |
| Television War | A term used because it was the first televised war |
| Teenage soldiers | self explanatory |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Is significant because it gave President Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress in Southeast Asia. The resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary to assist. This included involving armed forces. |
| Dow Chemical Company | the chemical company that supplied napalm to the military so they could put that in bombs and send it to Vietnam |
| Tet Offensive | a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. Forces of the Viet Cong, and the North Vietnamese army, fought against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. |
| Invasion of Cambodia | when America invaded Cambodia to attack the North Vietnamese in Cambodia. |
| How do the presidential elections of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson affect the civil rights movement? | It stops them: voting rights act and civil rights act |
| How do the protest during the Civil Rights Movement compare to the protest against the Vietnam War? | it was the youth fighting for what they believed in |
| How does the attack in Gulf Tonkin compare to the explosion of the USS Maine? What does this say about the US’s involvement in two different wars? | the U.S. went into war without declaring it. they also made false accusations about being attacked so they would get Americans on their side |
| How does the use of technology affect the people of America’s ideas and decisions during the 1960’s? | they could communicate with the soldiers and also realize what war actually looked like by using film |
| Panic of 1873 | a depression in the United States that lasted until 1879. The American Civil War was followed by a boom in railroad construction. 56,000 of new track was laid across the country between 1866 and 1873. The investment was driven by government land grants. |
| Panic of 1893 | Similar to the Panic of 1873, this panic was caused by railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing which set off a series of bank failures |
| Smoot Hawley Tariff | the Tariff Act of 1930) was an act signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels |
| Pullman strike | a national conflict btwn labor unions and railroads that occurred in the U.S. in 1894. The conflict began on May 11 when about 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in response to recent drops in wages. |
| Homestead strike | an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. It was one of the most serious disputes in US labor history. |
| Election of 1896 | Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history. |
| William Jennings Bryan | an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States. He lost, each time by a bigger margin. |
| Farmer's Alliance | an organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s. One of its goals was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers after the Civil War |
| Gospel of Wealth | an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1901 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class. |
| Second Industrial revolution | a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution in the period from 1820 to 1914 that saw rapid industrial development in the United States (Northeast and Great Lakes) It followed on from the first industrial revolution. |
| American railway union | the largest union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. It was founded on June 20, 1893, by railway workers gathered in Chicago, Illinois, and under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs |
| american federation of labor | one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. |
| Wagner Steagall Act | provided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies to improve living conditions for low-income families. |
| Social security act | Part of the new deal that says if working class people give money for the elderly people, they will pay them back when they are elders so when they retire, they get money |
| stock market crash | he most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.[1] The crash began a 10-year economic slump that affected all the Western industrialized countries |
| FDIC | a federal fund that insures people up to $100,000 back in case a bank ever goes under |
| New Deal Coalition | was a bunch of groups that supported the New Deal. Roosevelt created a coaltion that included the Democratic party, big city machines, labor unions, minorities, liberal farm groups, intellectuals, and the white South. |
| Bracero program | a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States |
| Bull market | A bull market is associated with increasing investor confidence, and capital gains. A bullish trend in the stock market often begins before the general economy shows clear signs of recovery. It is a win-win situation for the investors. |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18-24. From 1933 to 1942, as part of the New Deal the CCC provided relief for unemployed youth who had a very hard time finding jobs during the Great Depression. |
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | a federally owned corporation, created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley during the great depression |
| WPA/PWA | It concentrated on the construction of large-scale public works such as dams and bridges, with the goal of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, and contributing to a revival of American industry |
| SEC | an independent agency which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges |
| OPA | |
| White man's burden | a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States understood the phrase "white man's burden" as a characterization for imperialism |
| Teller amendment | An amendment, enacted on April 19, 1898. It placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba. According to the clause, the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people." |
| Platt amendment | Replacing the earlier Teller Amendment, gave America Guantanamo Bay but made American troops withdraw from Cuba |
| Paris peace talks | Intended to establish peace in Vietnam, ended direct U.S. military involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting between north and south. |
| Cuban-American treaty | in 1903 America signed a treaty w/ Cuba so they could use their sugar plantations |
| 'Splendid little war' | The term coined by Roosevelt in talking about the Cuban-American war |
| USS Maine | a ship that was sunk by an explosion. America blamed the explosion on Cuba which allowed them to go into war with them. |
| McKinley | president during the Cuba-America war |
| William Beveridge | a British economist and social reformer |
| Josaih Strong | Historians suggest it may have encouraged support for imperialistic United States policy among American Protestants |
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