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US History EOI prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| outlawed slavery | 13th amendment |
| provided citizenship to former slaves | 14th Amendment |
| provided the right to vote to anyone regardless of race | 15th Amendment |
| fed and clothed war refugees in the South after the Civil War | Freedmen's Bureau |
| 1896 Supreme Court case which established the "Separate but Equal" doctrine | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| laws which enforced segregation in the South | Jim Crow Laws |
| barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the U.S. from becoming citizens (1882) | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| location of processing center for immigrants from European nations | Ellis Island |
| 1894--most famous labor conflict--Pullman Car Co. workers walked out in a dispute over wages--American Railway Union members vowed not to work for the company--boycott crippled railway traffic and govt had to intervene | Pullman Strikes |
| workers were striking over need for 8-hour workday--led to downfall of Knights of Labor | Haymarket Riot |
| refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, AL (1955) | Rosa Parks |
| labor organizer who led a strike against grape growers on behalf of farmworkers--organization became the United Farmworkers (UFW) | Cezar Chavez |
| leader of Civil Rights Movement who was assassinated in 1968--believed in non-violent protest | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1887 law alloting 160 acres reservation land to each head of household | the Dawes Act |
| process which made high-quality steel cheaply and efficiently | Bessemer Process |
| invention that led to the demise of the long cattle drives | barbed wire |
| movement to give women the right to vote | Women's Suffrage Movement |
| movement to eliminate or moderate consumption and sale of alcohol | temperance (or prohibition) |
| the People's Party which worked to increase the power of farmers | Populists |
| national farm organization that was established for educational and social purposes | the Grange |
| movement to fix the problems of society that had occured supposedly because of immigration and urbanization | Progressive Movement |
| the banking system of the U.S. | Federal Reserve System |
| economic domination of a strong nation over weaker ones | imperialism |
| US opinion that all countries should be allowed to trade with China | Open Door Policy |
| our Marines helped local planters oust their queen so we could annex this state | Hawaii |
| the idea that white-dominated countries are always helping the developing nations | White Man's Burden |
| US got involved in the war after the explosion of the Main in Havana Harbor | Spanish-American War |
| country from which the US helped Panama gain its independence so we could build the canal | Columbia |
| Theodore Roosevelt's belief that we should promote peace but keep our military so strong that no one would want to attack us | Big Stick Diplomacy |
| two events that pulled the US into World War I | Germany's submarine warfare & the Zimmerman Note |
| telegram from Germany to Mexico pledging to give them back the southwest cession lands if they helped defeat the US | Zimmerman Note |
| organization which the US Congress refused to join at the end of World War I | League of Nations |
| World War I peace treaty which stripped Germany of its army and required them to pay $33 billion in reparations, in addition to admitting it was their fault | Treaty of Versailles |
| period where African American arts were flourishing | Harlem Renaissance |
| amendment prohibiting the sale or consumption of alchohol (prohibition) | 18th Amendment |
| gave women the right to vote in 1920 | 19th Amendment |
| repealed prohibition | 21st Amendment |
| reasons preople can own their own cars in the 20s | assembly line & more disposable income |
| 1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic | Charles Lindberg |
| causes of the Stock Market Crash | long bull market, buying stocks on margin, lack of new investment |
| settlement house started by Jane Addams | Hull House |
| program providing income security for the elderly and unemployed | Social Security Administration |
| program to build dams for flood control and electricity in the South | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| New Deal program that built highways, bridges, roads, etc. | Works Progress Administration |
| New Deal program that hired young men to plant trees, fight forest fires, and build lakes | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| location of the attack which pulled the US into World War II | Pearl Harbor |
| WWII turning point in the Pacific | Battle of Midway |
| American WWII strategy of taking an island at a time until we got close to Japan | Island Hopping STrategy |
| name for the date for the invasion of Normandy, France | D-Day |
| US president who made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan | Harry Truman |
| cities bombed by the US with atomic bombs to end WWII | Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| location of the post-WWII peace conferences | Potsdam and Yalta |
| term for the separation of the E.European communist nations from the West | Iron Curtain |
| British man who coined the term "Iron Curtain" | Winston Churchill |
| reason the communists built the Berlin Wall | educated & skilled East Germans were fleeing |
| failed foreign policy fiasco where the CIA tried to oust Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba | Bay of Pigs |
| 1962 crisis when the US and USSR were on the brink of nuclear war | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| two programs where the US gave aid to eastern Europe to help them recover from WWII and keep them from becoming communist | Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan |
| reason the US fought with South Korea in the Korean War | to keep Communism from spreading (containment) |
| 1st artificial satellite to orbit the earth--sent by Soviet Union | Sputnik |
| American communists executed for being spies | the Rosenbergs |
| arms limitation talks between Pres Nixon and Soviet Brezhnev | SALT--Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
| the two post WWII mutual defense alliance entered by the US | United Nations & NATO |
| mutual defense organization consisting of the US, Canada, & western Europe | NATO |
| the idea that if one Asian nation fell to Communism, they all would | Domino Theory |
| this gave President Johnson the authority to us force to defend US troops in Vietnam | Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| surprise attacks by the VietCong on American airbases in South Vietnam and major cities | Tet Offensive |
| law stating that the president must inform Congress within 48 hours of committing troops into a hostile situation | War Powers Resolution |
| Supreme Court decision which called for desegregation of schools and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson | Brown v. Topeka Board of Education |
| location where 9 African American students had to have army escorts to go to class in 1957 | Little Rock High School |
| law reguiring that federally-funded schools cannot discriminate against girls | Title IX |
| Supreme Court decision that states cannot regulate abortion in the first 3 months of pregnancy--protects a woman's right to privacy | Roe v. Wade (1973) |
| civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| labor organizer whose strike on the behalf of California farmworkers led to the formation of the United FarmWorkers union | Cesar Chavez |
| Supreme Court case which established that even the poor must be provided a lawyer when charged with a crime | Gideon v. Wainright |
| using economics to get other countries to do what we want | Dollar Diplomacy |
| court case that established that you must be read your rights when arrested | Miranda v. Arizona |
| movement promoted by Marcus Garvey encouraging blacks to move to Africa b/c they might never find justice or true freedom in the U.S. | Back to Africa |
| African American activist after Civil War who wrote The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| helped start the American Railway Union | Eugene Debs |
| processing center for European immigrants to the US | Ellis Island |
| immigrants from western & northern Europe | old immigrants |
| immigrants from southern & Eastern Europe | new immigrants |
| attempts to make Native Americans adopt American lifestyle | Americanization |
| last Indian uprising; result of Ghost Dance | Wounded Knee |
| big businessmen known for their ruthless business practices | robber barons |
| Andrew Carnegie's belief that those who profited from society owed something back to it | Gospel of Wealth |
| election where all members/citizens can vote for a candidate to run in general election | direct primary |
| citizens can introduce legislation & require legislatures to vote on it | initiative |
| law submitted to voters for approval | referendum |
| voters call a special election to remove an elected official from office | recall |
| "silver" candidate for president in 1896; gave the "Cross of Gold" speech | William Jennings Bryan |
| thought blacks should focus on education to slowly gain equality | Booker T. Washington |
| founded Universal Negro Improvement Assn. and supported "Back to Africa" movement | Marcus Garvey |
| Americans thought we could make others more "civilized" | rationale for imperialism |
| an area where a foreign nation controls economic development | sphere of influence |
| Bull Moose party candidate for pres in 1912 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| winner of 1912 election after Republican votes split | Woodrow Wilson |
| angry veterans marched because they wanted their veterans' bonuses paid early | Bonus Army March |
| winner of 1932 election (Great Depression) | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Roosevelt's plan to add Supreme Court justices | Court Packing Plan |
| illegal to sell arms to any nation at war in an attempt to keep us out of WWII | Neutrality Acts |
| program to develop the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin argued about how to set up the government of Poland | Yalta Conference |
| led the Allied forces in Europe then went on to be president of the US | Dwight Eisenhower |
| led the Pacific fleet in WWII | Douglas MacArthur |
| formed by the Soviet Union and their satellite nations in response to NATO | Warsaw Pact |
| a willingness to go to the edge of war before backing down | brinkmanship |
| President must inform Congress in writing if he commits troops abroud; they must approve in 60 days | War Powers Resolution |
| lowered the voting age to 18 | 26th Amendment |
| one of the most violent anti-war (Vietnam) protests | Kent State |
| goals were to end lynching and segregation of blacks | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| sued OU School of Law because she was not admitted b/c she was black | Ada Sipuel Fisher |
| segregation by law | de jure segregation |
| segregation by custom/tradition | de facto segregation |
| leader of the OKC lunch counter sit-in movement | Clara Luper |
| event in 1963 organized to build momentum for the Civil Rights Bill; "I have a Dream" speech | March on Washington |
| made segregation illegal in public places | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| suspended literacy tests & other measures that kept blacks from voting | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis | James Earl Ray |
| leader in the Black Power movment | Malcom X |
| court case which keeps states from regulating abortion in the first trimester (1973) | Roe v. Wade (1973) |
| Lyndon Johnson's domestic program | The Great Society |
| Kennedy's domestic program | The New Frontier |
| author of The Feminine Mystique and leader in women's rights movement | Betty Friedan |
| a relaxation of tensions (with the USSR) | detente |
| caused by the president's men sneaking into Democratic Party headquarters | Watergate |
| document that revealed that Congress and the people had been lied to about the war in Vietnam | Pentagon Papers |
| Nez Perce chief; tried to flee to Canada; I Will Fight No More (speech) | Chief Joseph |
| Nixon chose Ford to be new VP; Ford became Pres when Nixon resigned | 1st use of 25th Amendment |
| Carter brokered this peace agreement between Anwar Sadat of Egpt and Menachem Begin of Israel | Camp David Accords |
| Reagan's monetary policies including his belief in supply-side economics | "trickle-down" theory |
| situation where the US secretly sold arms to Iran Contras who were fighting communism in Nicaragua | Iran Contra Scandal |
| a nuclear facility in Pennsylvania which had a leak and caused radiation to escape | Three Mile Island |
| relaxation of tensions; a Nixon policy to improve our relationships with China & USSR | detente |
| an organization that sells oil for its member countries | OPEC--Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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