Reconstruction/West Expansion
What did Jim Crow Laws do?
Segregate the South
Immigrants tended to settle in...
Cities
What did Jacob Riis expose?
Tenement living - "How the Other Half Lives"
What did women do during WWI?
work in factories
Why did the Depression begin?
The stockmarket crash & overuse of buying on credit
What is the supreme Court case that upheld Jim Crow laws by legalizing segregation?
Plessy v Ferguson
What were the names of the low quality apartments immigrants settled in?
Tenements
Who wrote the Jungle? What was it about?
Upton Sinclair, the meat packing industry
What was prohibition? Name 2 effects.
The ban on sale of and consumption of alcohol. Rise of speakeasies, increase in organized crime
What day would "live in infamy" according to FDR?
Pearl Harbor
What did the Homestead Act do?
Gave free land to people who were willing to move to the West
Define Nativism & provide an example
Disdain towards immigrants. "No Irish need Apply."
What was the purpose of the Progressive Era? (What was it in response to?)
the injustices of the Gilded Age
What was the Harlem Renaissance? What was it in response to?
The rebirth of African American culture, in response to the injustices face by African americans since slavery
What were FDR's programs during the Depression called? Name & define 2 of them.
New Deal, FDIC: insured banks would always keep your money safe, CCC: hired men to work in environmental jobs
"Rosa Parks Arrested"
"Supreme Court Rules Against School Segregation"
"Martin Luther King, Jr., Speaks at March on Washington"
Which movement is best represented by these newspaper headlines?
Civil Rights Movement
Name 3 benefits of the assembly line.
Lower prices of cars, cars produced faster, higher wages for workers
What is Yellow Journalism? What war did it take prominence in?
Exaggerated/ untrue journalism, The Spanish-American war.
What were the 3 reasons the United States entered WWI?
The zimmerman telegram, the sinking of the lusitania, propaganda
". . . it is known that there are Japanese residents of California who have sought to aid the Japanese enemy by way of communicating information . . ."
— Culbert Olson, Governor of California,
February 1942
What is this quote referring to?
Japanese internment camps
What did the Supreme Court Case Brown vs BOE overturn?
Plessy v Ferguson, it said separate facilities were unconstitutional
Someone who becomes rich through ruthless business practices. Carnegie-Steel, Rockefeller-Oil, Ford- Cars, Vanderbilt- Steamships/ R.R.
Describe the way China was imperialized. Make sure to include definitions.
Open Door Policy: Americans encouraged free trading rights within China for all
Spheres of Influence: Each country had it's own slices of China that couldn't be touched by other countries
Name 3 reasons for American Imperialism.
New Naval bases, spread Christianity, "civilize" other nations
Why did WWII end? What were the reasons for and against this thing?
The use of the atomic bomb: it could end the war quicker, it could kill innocent people, Japan was already going to surrender,the U.S. goal was to get the quick and complete surrender of Japan