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TAKS Places & Events
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Railroad connecting US from East to West; started in Omaha in East and Sacramento in West | Transcontinental Railroad (first 1869) |
| Center for processing immigrants from Europe 1892 | Ellis Island |
| Union that worked for better wages and working conditions, Samuel Gompers made it a success by operating like a business | American Federation of Labor |
| Area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, breadbasket of the US | Great Plains |
| The final battle between Americans and the Native Americans, a massacre of the Sioux, markded the end of the Indian Wars | Wounded Knee |
| W.E.B. DuBois led early Civil Rights Movement (1905); forerunner of the NAACP | Niagara Movement |
| Shortened the route between the Atlantic and Pacific, TR's administration | Panama Canal |
| US warship sunk in Havana Harbor, one of the causes of the Spanish-American War | U.S.S. Maine |
| US capitalists (bankers and businessmen) invest in latin America | Dollar Diplomacy |
| US insisted on equal trading priviledges for foreign powers in China | Open Door Policy |
| During and after World War One, African-Americans moved from rural areas in the South to urban areas in the North for economic opportunities | Great Migration |
| John Scopes was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution | Scopes Monkey Trial |
| A burst of African-American literature, art, and music in the 1920's. | Harlem Rennaissance |
| Outlawing sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages (Volstead Act); repealed at the beginning of the Depresssion to raise revenue | Prohibition |
| Area of severe drought during the 1930's, area covered portions of 9 states, caused many farmers to leave for California | Dust Bowl |
| FDR's program of relief, recovery, and reform to end the Great Depression | New Deal |
| African-American advisers to FDR on his unofficial cabinet | Black Cabinet |
| Surprise attack by the Japanese, immediate cause of US entering World War Two, Dec. 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
| The strategy used by the US in the Pacific, consisted of capturing a key island in a chain of islands held by the Japanese, then using it as a base to capture the next set of islands | Island Hopping |
| largest military invasion ever, Allies invaded the coast of France, beginning of the end of the European war | D-Day (Operation Overlord) |
| German Nazi's systematic murder of six million Jews | Holocaust |
| Name of the secret project to build the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| Names of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to end the war started the Nuclear Age | Little Boy Fat Man |
| Surprising victory of Truman over Dewey in spite of Democratic party split | Election of 1948 |
| The uneasy peace after world War Two, marked by an intense rivalry between the US and USSR; included an arms race and space race | Cold War |
| US sending supping supplies to West Berlin following the Berlin Blockade (1948-49) | Berlin Airlift |
| 1960, American spy plane shot down over the USSR; increased Cold War tensions | U-2 Incident |
| April 1961, US backed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles to overhtrow Castro, failed | Bay of Pigs Incident |
| Extreme opposition to communism; ruined many public figures that were blacklisted, guilt by association and fear tactics were used | McCarthyism |
| Final battle between the french and the Vietminh (1954)in French Indochina War; our treaties with France entangled US in Vietnam | Dien Bien Phu |
| 1961 Seperated and completely closed off East and West Berlin; became the most visible symbol of the Cold War | Berlin Wall |
| 1962 JFK and Khrushchev faced off over Soviet missiles in Cuba; very tense time, brought world very close to war | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 US citizens show support for JFK's civil rights bill; the occassion of MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech | March on Washington |
| LBJ's program to end poverty and racial injustice in America | Great Society |
| The January 1968 attack by the Vietcong and north Vietnamese on more than more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam; turning point of the war | Tet Offensive |
| Secret government documents showing the history of US involvement in Vietnam, exposed cover-up | Pentagon Papers |
| Building up South Vietnamese forces while gradually withdrawing us forces | Vietnamization |
| 1970 College protest of the war, most tragic event of the "Vietnam War in US, four students were killed by National Guardsmen | Kent State |
| Worked for equal opportunity in employment | NOW- National Organization for Women |
| 1979 Islamic revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran, Iran and took 52 Americans hostage; they were held for 444 days, a low point in US foreign policy | Iran Hostage Situation |
| 1991 UN Coalition of nations against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, GHW Bush administration | Desert Storm (Gulf War) |
| The 1972 break-in of the Democratic National headquarters; burglars aim was to plant listening devices, Supreme Court orders release of tapes of conversations from White House, prospect of Nixon impeachment, resigns | Watergate Scandal |
| The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies near Pine Ridge Reservation to protest federal government, 71 day standoff ensues | Wounded Knee |
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