1877 - 1898
Define New Immigrants vs. Old Immigrants
What is New Immigrants are from South and Eastern Europe vs. Old Immigrants are from North and Western Europe?
Identify the DATES of the Chinese Exclusion Act:
Original
Extended
Permanent
Repealed
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act was
Originally started in 1882
Extended in 1892
Became Permanent in 1902
And was Repealed in 1943
Identify the name of the war called the "Splendid Little War" and how long the war lasted.
What is 4 months long?
The term used to refer to the events that surrounded the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters housed in a hotel in Washington, D.C., during the U.S. presidential election campaign of 1972, and the impeachment and resignation of President Richard Nixon as a result of his role in the incident.
What is Watergate?
What are Fireside Chats?
THIS was a powerful Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s to 1960s. It was known for its patronage system where jobs and favors were given out in return for votes and support.
THIS Act is a law the U.S. Congress passed to prohibit trusts, monopolies, and cartels. Its purpose was to promote economic fairness and competitiveness and to regulate interstate commerce. However, this was difficult to enforce.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? (1890)
To demonstrate the Naval power of the U.S., THIS is what the U.S. sent out to encircle Japan.
What is the Great White Fleet? (This was after helping Japan advance their economy and after Japan stated that amount of time to reach the U.S. had shortened)
THIS President surprised Americans by issuing an Executive Order to desegregate the military AND what DECADE did this take place in?
Who was President Truman and what was the 1940s? (1948)
It surprised Americans because Truman was a Democrat from Missouri whose grandparents had owned slaves.
Period 7:
Identify either the Cash - Carry program prior to WWII OR the Lend - Lease program prior to WWII.
What is if a country at war wanted to purchase non-militaristic goods from the U.S., it had to pick them up in its own ships and pay for them in cash?
What is the legislation gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the powers to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the Axis powers? A sum of $50 billion was appropriated by Congress for Lend-Lease.
Destroyers for Bases came next
These were the 3 Amendments that came as a result of the Civil War AND WHAT EACH one stood for?
What is the 13th Amendment - Freedom from involuntary servitude?
What is the 14th Amendment - Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
What is the 15th Amendment - Voting cannot be denied based on race?
Define Exodusters
The first general migration of Black Americans following the Civil War - "the Great Exodus" from Jim Crow Laws and other racist changes that followed the end of Reconstruction.
Black Americans headed West along the Mississippi River to Kansas.
THIS TRIAL was representative of the cultural debate between Modern Ideas and Traditional Ideas
Bonus - if you can state what the ISSUE being debated was
What was the Scopes Trial?
What was teaching Evolution in school vs. Creationism?
The unsuccessful Soviet blockade of this city marked an early victory for the U.S.
What is Berlin?
THESE FOUR presidents were assassinated
Who were
Abraham Lincoln (1865) - Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth a white supremacist against equality
James Garfield (1881) - Assassinated by someone who believed he deserved a spot in Garfield's administration based on the "spoils system" or "patronage system"
William McKinley (1901) - assassinated by an anarchist
John F Kennedy (1963) - Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald who was then assassinated by Jack Ruby
Identify the "BIG Business" associated with each one of the following:
Carnegie
JP Morgan
Rockefeller
Vanderbilt
What is ...
Carnegie = Steel
JP Morgan = Banks
Rockefeller = Oil
Vanderbilt = Railroads
THIS Act was a result of President Garfield's assassination and created a system in which federal employees were selected based on competitive exams.
What is the Pendleton Act? (1883)
Describe the Court Packing Plan and Identify the President who attempted to use it.
What is to add 1 additional Supreme Court Justice for every Supreme Court Justice who had served at least 10 years, reached age 70, and did not step down within 6 months?
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt? (as a goal to more more liberal judges on the Supreme Court to support his New Deal programs)
THIS is the term for the relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR under Nixon's presidency
What is Detente?
SALT I - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty that limited weapons to approximately 1600 for SU and approximately 1000 for US based on the U.S having more powerful missiles. At the same time the S.U. will violate this agreementand have more warheads to their missiles.
THESE FOUR presidents either died while in office BUT were NOT assassinated
Who was ...
William Henry Harrison (1841) - only was President for 31 days
Zachary Taylor (1850) - died of cholera - today looked at as a gastro problem due to lack of sanitary conditions in Washington, D.C.
Warren G. Harding (1923) - died of a heart attack (speculation of his wife's actions)
FDR (1945)- died of cerebral hemorrhage (aneurysm) - connection to polio
What is
the American Federation of Labor organized ONLY skilled laborers (by trade) into unions with relatively high dues in case of a prolonged strike.
Whereas, the Knights of Labor welcomed all laborers into one large union and focused on broad social reforms
Identify 2 parts of the Omaha Platform supported by the Populist Party.
What is the Populist Party called for
Bimetalism (silver and gold vs. just gold)
Government regulation of railroads and industry
Graduated income tax vs. flat tax
Secret ballot
Direct Election of Senators vs. House of Representatives selecting
THIS Act followed the Sherman Anti Trust Act and gave the government power to break up monopolies based on unfair businesses practices and price fixing
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
After World War II THIS U.S.-sponsored program supplied much-needed economic aid to western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Differentiate between Alcatraz and Return to Wounded Knee.
What is occupation of an abandoned prison and claimed it as American Indian Land based on the broken treaties and the horrible conditions of the reservations?
vs.
What is the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota for 71 Days as part of the AIM and left more than 100 Indigenous Americans dead?