Period 5
(1844-1877)
(1844-1877)
What were some consequences of the belief of Manifest Destiny?
- White supremacy, Mexican-American, Nativism
Homestead Act, Transcontinental Railroad, Dawes Act 1887,
What is the progressive era?
Bonus Question: Who were the presidents of the Progressive era?
The reformity and the fixing of problems resulting from the Gilded Age.
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
Why did the United States join WWII?
Bonus Question: Where did the U.S. drop the Atomic Bomb(s)?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor?
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
What started the Civil Rights Movement?
The death of Emmett Till
Define Sectionalism.
Identify an important supreme court case during this time.
The fight between slavery and anti-slavery between states.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
- Blacks are NOT U.S. Citizens
What were the labor movements of the Gilded Age?
The increase of Union membership. The strikes like the Homestead Strike.
What were the causes of prohibition and the effects?
The banning of alcohol caused gangs to take over liquor business. People established speakeasies and made bathroom gins. Police activity increased in urban areas.
What was the New Deal?
Bonus Question: Who passed the New Deal?
The New Deal was passed by JFK, to fix the New Deal. It included Social Security, Banking acts, FDIC, etc.
What were some key differences between Malcolm X and MLK's ideologies?
MLK was a Christian and a reverend, he believed in Civil Disobedience and peaceful resistance.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Texas was admitted as a slave state, California was admitted as a free state, Washington D.C. banned slavery, fugitive slave act
Identify some prominent figures of capitalism and their strategies of making money.
Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Morgan
Vertical Integration - Owning every step of the process
Horizontal Integration - Owning your own competitors
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Bonus Question: Who is the most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance?
The expression and the forming of Black identity through art and music.
Langston Hughes.
What are Wilson's 14 points?
Wilson established the League of Nations and addressed the 14 points of his vision for the world. Congress denied entry to the League of Nations.
What did the Watergate scandal cause for American society?
Watergate caused distrust in the American government. It made people distrust Nixon, especially.
Why did some blacks join the Union army during the Civil War?
Some blacks joined in efforts to win their freedom and establish their identity as Americans.
How did Political Machines attract immigrants?
Political Machines attracted immigrants by offering them jobs and housing as long as they voted for them. This caused mass political corruption.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The U.S. created foreign businesses to create dependency and profit. United Fruit Company.
What caused the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crash, farmer incomes drop, lack of regulations in bank.
What are the Brown Berets and what was their focus?
Bonus Question: What party inspired the Brown Berets?
The Brown Berets were Pro-chicano and believed in self-determination and self defence. They were inspired by the Black Panther Party, a party founded in CA and addressed Systemic inequality. They founded many projects to help their communities.
Who were the redeemers?
Bonus Question: What were the outcomes of the Civil War and what happened during the Era of Reconstruction?
The redeemers were groups of men in the South who came to power after the radical reconstruction.
The Civil War caused the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments; Jim Crow laws, and Sharecropping.
What was the Bargain/Compromise of 1877?
This compromise ended the reconstruction period. Democrats accepted Rutherford B. Hayes as long as he removed his troops from the South.
Two immigrants were given the death penalty for supposed robbery but there was no proof of them robbing.
What was the Four Freedoms Speech?
FDR's speech to Congress to convince the Americans to helping Allies in Europe and Asia
Bonus Question: Why did the U.S. join these wars?
The Korean and Vietnam War was lost by America, lowering the spirits of the American people.
The U.S joined the war because of the policy of containment.