Period 6
Immigrants arriving from South/East Europe and Asia in the post-Civil War era
What are new immigrants?
The leader of the settlement house movement who founded the Hull House which provided services to the urban poor and immigrants
Who is Jane Addams?
The term that characterized American foreign policy during the Cold War
What is containment?
The law passed after 9/11 to increase security measures to root out terrorists
What is the PATRIOT Act?
The belief that if one nation fell to communism then the rest would follow
What is domino theory?
THIS is the type of farming most freed slaves participated in after the Civil War.
What is Sharecropping (farming) OR Tenant (Farming)?
The government program to end the Great Depression which created Social Security, the FDIC, and other programs
What is the New Deal?
LBJ's domestic program that sought to end poverty and discrimination and wanted to fund gov programs like Medicare and Medicaid
What is the Great Society?
What is the Pentagon Papers?
This trial was known for representing the divide between traditionalist and modernists in regards to whether evolution should be able to be taught in the classroom.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The idea that the wealthy had earned their money and if someone was poor it was their own fault.
What is social darwinism?
THIS event is credited with drawing America into the War of 1898 (Spanish American War)
What is the Sinking of the USS Maine?
The book written by Betty Friedan in 1963 that argued women should be given more opportunities and sparked the 2nd wave feminist movement.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
The economic policy of the 40th president which suggested low taxes and large cuts to government social programs
What is Reaganomics/trickle down economics?
This is how high unemployment reached by 1932.
What is 25% unemployment?
The term for the industrialization of the South after Reconstruction
What is the New South?
The movement of Black people to the North where they were seeking reprieve from Southern racism and better paying jobs in factories
What is the Great Migration?
The event in Arkansas where Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate schools
What is the Little Rock 9?
The war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders
The proclamation that the United States has the power to act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)?
This event led to a call for patronage reform and the Pendleton Civil Service Act
What is the assassination of President Garfield?
This is the name for the Black Americans who had to fight with France during WWI due to segregationist laws in the United States
What is the Harlem Hellfighters?
The middle class swelled to this percentage of the American people. Must be within 5%
What is 50% - Must be within 5%
The scandal during Reagan's presidency where officials gave funds to a rebel group in Nicaragua with money from illegally sold firearms to a Middle Eastern country
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
The person who coined the term Gilded Age to represent the corruption of the United States internally.
Who is Mark Twain?
This law outlawed monopolies and allowed the government to break up companies that restricted free trade; not very successful
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The term coined by TR to describe journalists who exposed the ills of society to push for reform
What is a muckraker?
THIS provided the city of Berlin with supplies for nearly a year after the Soviet Union set up a blockade to stop resources from Great Britain, France, and the U.S.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
THIS is the book written by Rachel Carson that exposed use of pesticides & helped lead to clean air & water acts.
What is "Silent Spring?"
The Supreme Court decision that argued that the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during WWII was justified by national security threats
What is Korematsu v. U.S.?
Cowboys drove herds of 2,000 to 2,500 steers on long drives to “cow towns” in Kansas along THIS trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas (4 month journey)
What is the Chisholm Trail?
The four territories the US gained after the Spanish-American War (must get all 4)
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Cuba?
The relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR under Nixon's presidency
What is detente?
The 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage in the United States
What is Obergefell v. Hodges?
The release of THESE documents revealed that the US government from JFK through Nixon had deceived the American people about the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
THIS person wrote a book titled "How the Other Half Lives" exposing the conditions of immigrants in New York City tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
THIS Supreme Court Case stated that in times of war freedom of speech can be limited because there is a "clear and present danger"
What is Schenck vs. United States?
THIS President was known for getting NASA funded in 1958 as a method to compete with the Soviet Union who had already launched their first satellite "Sputnik" into space.
Who is President Eisenhower?
This was the name of the boy who became the face of HIV/ AIDS education after being diagnosed due to blood transfusion and facing the backlash of fear.
Who is Ryan White?
THIS is the name of the suburban housing development that represented the growth of the middle class BUT also symbolized the segregation and discrimination that Black Americans faced in suburban housing
What is Levittown?