Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7 (1890 - 1914)
Unit 7 (1914-1945)
Unit 8
100
The document passed by President Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, that freed the slaves in all states in open rebellion against the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation
100
What was the name of the period towards the end of the 1800s, where, on the surface level, America appeared to be rich and put together, but below that was corrupt and struggling?
The Gilded Age
100
President Theodore Roosevelt gained this nickname while in office which he shares with a stuffed animal.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
100
What event happened in the early morning of December 7th, 1941, and became known as "a date that will live in infamy"
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
100
After WWII, President Eisenhower urged Congress to pass a bill allowing for the creation of a new transportation system across the country.
The Interstate Highway System
200
This painting best shows which idea about Westward Expansion in America?
Manifest Destiny
200
The law was created in response to the wave of Asian immigration on the West Coast of the US in the 1880s. Banning immigration from all of Asia.
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
200
What kind of reporting was actively promoting war fever in the United States was sensationalistic reporting that featured bold and lurid headlines of crime, disaster, and scandal.
Yellow Journalism
200
This infamous message interception between Germany and Mexico would lead the US to declare war in 1917.
The Zimmerman Telegram
200
President Eisenhower created this theory, which stated that if Vietnam were to fall into the hands of communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would fall.
The Domino Theory
300
This agreement in Congress was created admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also marked a new line at 36' 30', marking the end of slavery's creep north.
The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820
300
This animal was nearly hunted to extinction by US army troops across the Great Plains in the hope that they could starve out the Native populations that depended on the animal.
Buffalo
300
President Roosevelt was known for taking on big business while in office. He effectively took on the largest corporations and was given the title of "Trust Buster,". Which president, after him, actually broke up more trusts than Roosevelt?
William Howard Taft
300
What neighborhood in New York City became the center for African-American culture and arts during the Roaring 20s? (Some would call this a Renaissance of African-American Culture.)
Harlem - the Harlem Renaissance
300
The "Southern Manifesto" was a document drafted by Southern congress members claiming that the SCOTUS showed a clear abuse of judicial power in which landmark case about racial segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
400
What is the name of the idea created in the Antebellum period to describe allowing states and territories to determine slavery?
It allowed states or territories to have the people vote on whether they wanted to be slave or free.
Popular Sovereignty
400
The economic society of the South was largely agricultural for both white and black farmers, many of whom were dirt poor. The former plantation owners needed to work in the fields, and so this exploitative system of farming in the South was created.
Sharecropping and Tennent Farming
400
In which process did a company control every stage of the industrial process, from mining the raw materials to transporting the finished product?
Vertical Integration
400
This New Deal program became the first "safety net" program in American history. Designed to provide people with unemployment compensation and provide retirement stability for people older than 65.
The passage of this program fundamentally changed the powers of the federal government away from the states.
Social Security and the Social Security Act of 1935
400
Starting with a recession in 1970, the U.S. economy throughout the 1970s faced the unusual combination of economic slowdown and high inflation—a condition referred to as_______________.
Stagflation
500
After beating fellow senator Charles Summer within an inch of his life ON THE SENATE FLOOR in 1856, Senator Preston Brooks was not arrested but asked to leave Congress. He was also mailed hundreds of what object while he was on leave?
Walking Canes
500
What are some factors that helped settle the Great Plains after the Civil War?
Specific Laws, Acts, discoveries, movements, etc.
Homestead Act of 1862, the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, the Open Range, Gold Rush, Cattle Frontier, ...
500
What group of people in the late 1800s and early 1900s shared some basic beliefs:
Society badly needed changes to limit the power of big business, improve democracy, and strengthen social justice. Government, whether at the local, state, or federal level, was the proper agency for making these changes. Moderate reforms were usually better than radical ones.
The Progressives
500
FDR used his calming voice to join Americans in their living rooms through the radio. He would speak from the Whitehouse on issues that involved the Depression and his New Deal polices. Americans felt that he was in the room sitting with them.
What were these speeches called?
Fireside Chats
500
Jules and Ethel Rosenberg were accused and executed for their connections to communism. The period of time when Americans were in a fever pitch about Communists in the 1950s was called what?
The Red Scare or McCarthyism