Unit 1: Founding
To win support for the Constitution, the Federalist party pledged to add this to the document.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The two sides of the Civil War?
Who are the Union + the Confederacy?
Term for the late 19th century for looking good on the outside but having internal problems
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
10+ year long downturn in the American economy
What is the Great Depression?
During the Red Scare, Americans were afraid of this
What is Communism?
Another name for Reaganomics
What is Trickle-Down Economics?
This pup stole everyone's heart (especially Ms. Wescott's) and was almost named Boomer
Who is Wally?
The authors of the Constitution built in this system to prevent any one branch of government from controlling any other branches
What is Checks + Balances?
This suspended trade by ordering American shops to stay in port
What is an embargo?
Idea that led to a rise in anti-immigration groups + demand for immigration restrictions
What is Nativism?
This organization was founded in 1909 and fought for African American rights in the legal system, originally focused on ending lynching, segregation, and voter suppression
What is the NAACP?
The president during the great depression and WWII, who served for an unprecedented total of 3 terms, and created the New Deal
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The mass movement of people from cities into suburbs from 1945-present day
What is Suburbanization?
Nixon's impeachment was ultimately the result of this scandal
What is Watergate?
We should all aim to do this everyday
Possible Answers:
-What is Live, Laugh, Love?
-What is have a good day, make good choices, be sweet to ourselves?
This population counting law resulted in more representation in congress for southern states
What is the Three-Fifths compromise?
The belief that God wanted all of North America to belong to the United States
What is the Manifest Destiny?
A system in which indigenous groups are forced to give up their culture and way of life in favor of white culture
What is assimilation?
This supreme court case limited freedom of speech during war time
What is Schenck v. United States?
Secret operation to build an atomic bomb to win the war against Japan
What is the Manhattan Project?
Types of protests most well known from activists like SNCC + Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is nonviolent direct action?
A peace agreement negotiated by President Carter between Israel + Egypt
What are the Camp David Accords?
Which war did my dad's parents serve in?
What is WWII?
This part of the Constitution focuses on Individual Rights
What is the Bill of Rights?
A line north of which any new states would be free states + south of which any new states would be slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This landmark supreme court case legalized segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Journalists who exposed corruption in government, business and society in order to acheive change
What are Muckrakers?
Set of acts passed from 1935-37 that said No US citizen could sail on ships of nations at war, Outlawed weapons sales to nations at war, and No loans to nations at war
What are the Neutrality Acts?
Method of voter suppression primarily used in the south against black voters who could not prove a 5th grade education
What are Literacy Tests?
This event inspired the passing of the Patriot Act
What is 9/11?
What was ONE of Dusty's methods to potentially avoid the Vietnam War draft?
Possible Answers:
-denounce american citizenship
-he was blind and had literal tuberculosis in his wrist
-he was going to give the doctor a little kiss
These three acts taxed sugar and molasses, nearly all paper products, and allowed soldiers to live in peoples homes rent free.
What is the Sugar, Stamp, and Quartering acts?
Gives the courts power to review the acts of congress and of the president to determine if they were constitutional
What is Judicial Review?
Labor Unions fought for these protections (list 3)
Possible Answers:
-8-hour workday
-weekends
-overtime pay
-child labor
The names of T. Roosevelt, Wilson, and Tafts diplomacies
What is Big Stick, Moral, and Dollar?
Supreme court ruled that Japanese internment camps were allowed by the Constitution because they were created on the basis of national security and not on the basis of race
What is Korematsu v. US?
Reasons people were protesting the Vietnam War (3)
- The draft
-American war tactics
-People did not understand why the US was involved
The AIDS crisis was initially ignored by the Reagan admin because it largely affected this group
What is the Queer community?
What furry creature was Dusty recently battling with slinkies?
What are Squirrels?