WWII , Jacksonian Era, anything else we may have missed
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| What have historians often called the period in American history from 1824 to 1850? | show 🗑
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| show | President Andrew Jackson
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| What did the Age of Jackson witness? | show 🗑
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| show | 1828
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| What group participated in the electoral process for the first time during the Age of Jackson? | show 🗑
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| Before the Age of Jackson, with whose rule had the mass of American people been content? | show 🗑
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| show | an aristocracy = a gov’t. in which power is given to those believed to be best qualified to rule
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| show | an aristocrat = a member of the ruling class
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| show | the aristocrats
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| show | because new states were providing for universal white manhood suffrage
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| Define suffrage. | show 🗑
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| Define universal white manhood suffrage. | show 🗑
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| What two types of voting requirements did universal white manhood suffrage eliminate? | show 🗑
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| During the Jacksonian period, what action did many of the older states take regarding voter qualifications? | show 🗑
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| show | national nominating conventions
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| What is a national convention? | show 🗑
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| show | Democratic
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| show | the spoils system
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| What was the spoils system? | show 🗑
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| show | it failed to put the most qualified people in government jobs
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| What type of reform did Jackson consider the spoils system? | show 🗑
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| What did Jackson call the spoils system, and why did Jackson believe it benefited a democracy like the United States? | show 🗑
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| How else did Andrew Jackson champion democracy? | show 🗑
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| Why did Jackson distrust the Bank of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | wealthy businessmen
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| show | vetoed it
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| What is a presidential veto? | show 🗑
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| How did President Jackson’s veto of the bank recharter bill differ from all previous presidential vetoes? | show 🗑
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| What right did Jackson claim for the president in his message vetoing recharter of the Second BUS? | show 🗑
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| How did Andrew Jackson’s bank veto make the presidential veto part of the legislative or lawmaking process? | show 🗑
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| show | later presidents could veto any bill they didn’t like
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| show | Jackson’s bank veto
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| show | Henry Clay; National Republican
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| show | Clay supported the BUS.
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| show | the Whig Party
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| Who won an overwhelming victory in the 1832 presidential election? | show 🗑
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| How did President Jackson interpret his overwhelming victory in the 1832 presidential election? | show 🗑
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| show | to destroy the power of the BUS
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| What action did President Jackson take against the BUS? | show 🗑
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| show | brought an end to the Second Bank of the United States
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| show | a major economic depression, which led to the Panic of 1837
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| show | Panic of 1837 = an economic situation that resulted from reckless land speculation, which led to bank failures and dissatisfaction with the use of state banks as depositories for public funds
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| What group of Americans was particularly hurt by the reforms of Jacksonian democracy? | show 🗑
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| As white Americans moved westward during the Jacksonian period, what two things happened to the American Indians? | show 🗑
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| What president proposed the Indian Removal Act in 1830? | show 🗑
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| show | required the forced relocation of the Southeastern Indians to a new Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma
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| show | the forced journey of Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to a new Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma
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| What happened to nearly one-fourth of the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears? | show 🗑
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| show | either relocated from Atlantic Coast states to Oklahoma or confined to (made to stay on) reservations
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| show | forcibly removed from their ancestral lands; kicked off their land
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| show | women’s rights movement
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| What was the main goal of the women’s rights movement? | show 🗑
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| show | 1848; Seneca Fall, New York
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| show | women’s suffrage or the right to vote
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| show | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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| Did the women’s suffrage movement continue after the Civil War? | show 🗑
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| When did World War II begin ? | show 🗑
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| show | Its policy was to remain neutral although FDR slanted that policy to the favor of Great Britain
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| What were the major events of the war in Europe before the United States entered? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) FDR exchanged military equipment and old destroyers for bases in the Carribean and Bermuda.2) FDR used the Lend Lease act to sell or lend equipment to the countries that were being attacked by the Germans and Japanese.
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| show | He compared Lend Lease to "lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire".
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| show | The United States adopted policies such embargoing raw material against the Japanese. It also aided countries that were at war with Germany
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| show | The progress of the war. The Germans were making significant gains.
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| show | The Japanese conquered Manchuria and invaded China.
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| What was the response of the United States to these actions? | show 🗑
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| What happened on December 7, 1941? | show 🗑
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| What did FDR call December 7, 1941? | show 🗑
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| show | He declared war on the United States.
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| What was the strategy of America and its allies, Britain and the Soviet Union, during World War II? | show 🗑
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| What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific? | show 🗑
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| show | The Germans wanted to take control of the oil fields and other resources of the Soviet Union. They also wanted to force the British out of the war before America could come with her industrial power. To achieve this goal the Germans would use air raids a
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| show | The Japanese conquered the American possession of the Philippines along with the British colony of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. They also planned to invade Hawaii and Australia
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| What was the Japanese strategy? | show 🗑
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| What battles were the major turning points in the European theater? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) Midway: US navy carriers sank four Japanese carriers stopping an attempt at capturing the island as a prelude to invading Hawaii.2) Iwo Jima and Okinawa: Two large American armies suffered heavy casualties when these two islands near Japan were ca
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| How did minority participation in World War II reflect social conditions in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) The Tuskegee airmen, African-American members of the US army air corps, served in the European theater with distinction2) Nisei regiments: These units made up mostly of Japanese Americans earned a large number of decorations in the European theater.
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| In what other ways did minorities contribute to Allied victory? | show 🗑
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| show | Its purpose was to ensure the fair treatment of all prisoners of war.
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| How did the treatment of prisoners of war differ? | show 🗑
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| Did this treatment differ in the European theater? | show 🗑
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| show | The holocaust was the genocide of mostly Jews but also including Poles, Slavs, Gypsies and other "undesirables". Undesirables in this case mean homosexuals, mentally ill and political dissidents.
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| show | The systemic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious or cultural group.
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| show | Germany's decision to exterminate all European Jews.
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| show | Nazi leaders and others were convicted of war crimes.
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| show | 1) The trials emphasized individual responsibility for actions during war regardless of orders. 2) The trials also led to increased demands for a Jewish homeland.
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| show | Economic resources: Rationing was used to make sure that the military had resources. War bonds and taxes were used to finance the war. Business was retooled to wartime production. Human resources: Women and minorities entered the labor force as men e
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| show | Women: They joined the workforce replacing the men. (Rosie the Riveter). Many also participated in non combat military roles. African-Americans: They migrated north to work in war plants. African-Americans also campaigned for victory in war and equa
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| show | Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast of the United States were relocated to internment camps. Some reasons for the relocation include strong anti-Japanese prejudice on the west coast of the United States and the false belief that they were aidi
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| Did the United States government eventually apologize for this action? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) The US government maintained strict censorship of reporting of the war.2) Public morale and ad campaigns kept Americans focused on the war effort.3) The entertainment industry produced movies, plays, and shows that boosted morale and patriotic suppor
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