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Final Exam SS8
Review for the Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ended Slavery | 13th Amendment |
| Allows for due process for all citizens and the "equal protection" of laws for all citizens | 14th Amendment |
| Granted African Americans the right to vote | 15th Amendment |
| Prohibited the sale or production of alcohol (prohibition) | 18th Amendment |
| Repealed the prohibition amendment | 21st Amendment |
| Movement urging citizens to refrain from drinking alcohol | temperance |
| the right to vote | suffrage |
| Granted women the right to vote | 19th Amendment |
| writers who exposed the corruption and abuses of business, government and society | muckrakers |
| a fee that would have to be paid in order to vote | poll tax |
| Stated that if your grandfather could vote, you could vote even if you failed the literacy test or poll tax | grandfather clause |
| tests in which a person would read a part of a state or federal constitution and be asked questions about it | literacy test |
| Attempted elimination of the Jews during WWII | Holocaust |
| Rise in prices/decrease in the value of money | inflation |
| Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace following WWI in which he called for the League of Nations | 14 Points |
| Laws in the post-Reconstruction South that required segregation in public places | Jim Crow Laws |
| Event that led to the US declaring war on Japan and entering WWII | Pearl Harbor |
| Civil Rights leader known for civil disobedience and his "I Have a Dream Speech" during the March on Washington | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Incident that led to the resignation of President Nixon | Watergate |
| Book written by Upton Sinclair that exposed the abuses of the meatpacking industry | The Jungle |
| radio speeches given by FDR during the Great Depression and WWII to reassure the American people | fireside chats |
| Nickname for the communities of homeless people who lived in temporary shelter at the edge of cities at the beginning of the Great Depression | Hoovervilles |
| Idea that the United States reserves the right to intervene in the affairs of Latin America | Roosevelt Corollary |
| The breakup of this nation marked the official end of the Cold War | Soviet Union |
| US policy during the Cold War designed to stop the spread of communism. Examples: Korean War, Vietnam War, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine | containment policy |
| New Deal law that established a system of unemployment insurance and pensions for retired workers | Social Security Act |
| The US government responded to the shortages of many things during WWII by requiring Americans to do this | ration |
| Supreme Court case that stated that segregation was legal as long as facilities are "separate but equal" | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Supreme Court case that ruled that "separate but equal" had no place and that segregation was unconstitutional and overruled Plessy v. Ferguson | Brown v. Board of Education |
| Period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that began following WWII | Cold War |
| designed to limit immigrants from certain nations | quota system |
| East Coast point of entry for immigrants entering the United States | Ellis Island |
| Which group later received an apology and money from the federal government as a result of their internment during World War II? | Japanese Americans |
| Policies of FDR designed to stimulate the economy and end the Great Depression. Some disagreed with so much government involvement in the economy and peoples lives | New Deal |
| Immediate cause of WWI | Assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| Mass movement of African Americans to Northern cities in search of job opportunities | Great Migration |
| The United States built a canal here to shorten the voyage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | Panama |
| Ended WWI. Required Germany to pay reparations, accept blame for the war and disarm | Treaty of Versailles |
| One nation's control over another. It is a cause of WWI because nations fought over colonies | imperialism |
| This event was caused, in part by the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Hitler, failures of the League of Nations, and appeasement | World War II |
| reasons an immigrant left (or emigrated from) their "home" country | push factors |
| reasons an immigrant moved to a particular country | pull factors |
| a movement designed to limit immigration and promote "native" people and ideas. | nativism |
| separation of the races. Declared constitutional by Plessy v. Ferguson and, later, unconstitutional by Brown v. Board of Education | segregation |
| ban on production, distribution and sale of alcohol | prohibition |
| to conserved, people were encourage to grow these: small gardens in their homes or on their patios to save food | victory gardens |
| sold to help fund the war effort | war bonds |
| company where "shares" are sold to stockholders | corporation |
| nickname of Theodore Roosevelt. Called this because of his idea that "bad" trusts should be broken up and "good" trusts should be controlled | trustbuster |
| law passed to limit monopolies and trusts | Sherman Anti-trust Act |
| economic downturn that followed the Roaring 20s and began with the stock market crash of 1929. | Great Depression |
| giving into demands to keep peace | appeasement |
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