Period 5
President elected in 1844.
Who is James K. Polk
Define monopolies.
What is a company that has total control over an industry?
Two sides during WW1.
What is the Allied Powers- (great Britain, France, U.S and USSR) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan)?
The reason the U.S joined WW2.
What is the Pearl Harbor?
Reason Bill Clinton was impeached.
What is the Lewinsky scandal?
Define the Compromise of 1850.
What is the fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty, slave ban in Washington DC and California a free state.
Specific examples of horrible working conditions in factories.
What is unsanitary areas, machines unsafe/ high injury rates, long hours, and no insurance?
Cause of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash and government ignoring problem?
The difference between the U.S economy before and during WW2.
What is Great Depression v. economy boomed?
What was the war of Terror in response to.
What is 9/11 and terrorism from Islamic extremist organizations.
Define the Mexican Cession.
What's the land U.S gained after the Mexican-American War?
Specific examples of Nativism.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act, Dawes Act, Xenophobia, Carlisle Indian School.
Executive Order 9066, FDR ordered over 117,000 Japanese Americans to relocate to isolated camps.
What is the Japanese internment?
The reason the U.S decide to drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is wanted to leave Japanese with no other choice but to leave war and to end war before conflict with USSR.
The reason the Cold War ended.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union?
Define the Civil Rights Acts of 1875.
What's the response to African Americans civil rights being violated during the Reconstruction Era?
The difference between Washington's and W.E.D Du Bois' strategies to approach discrimination set against African Americans discrimination.
What is Washington wanted to accommodate the white and long term results, while Du Bois wanted legal activism and immediate results.
FDR's series of federal programs, public work projects and financial reforms enacted in response to the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The book Betty Friedan wrote being critical of 1950's housewife conformity.
What is "The Feminine Mystique"?
Did Reaganomics actually help the poor, if not then who actually benefited?
The poor didn't actually benefit, they got poorer while the rich got richer, so only the rich really benefited.
Supreme Court decision to Dred Scott v. Sanford.
What is slaves aren't U.S citizens and could not use in federal courts?
The 4 reform amendments and what they were for.
What is 16th, income taxes.
What is 17th, direct election of Senates by popular vote?
What is 18th, prohibit drinking of alcohol?
What is women can vote?
Prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the gov't of the U.S..
What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
The amendment that lowered voting right to 18 due to criticisms that Americans had to be 21 to vote but 18 to be drafted to fight in war during the Vietnam War.
What is the 26th amendment?
Goal of Obamacare/ Affordable Care Act.
What is expanding health insurance coverage, attempting to reduce healthcare costs and creating new marketplaces and subsidies?