Early Units
A landmark 1896 Supreme Court Decision that upheld racial segregation. "Separate But Equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
Investigative journalists who exposed corruption, poor working conditions, and social injustices.
Muckrakers
Name an impact of the New Deal.
* It started large scale government programs
* Social Security - for older Americans
* More government involvement in the economy
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is also know as the
F_____ H_________ Act
Fair Housing
Conservatism
The process that made stronger steel
Bessemer Process
Name a Muckraker that we studied this year.
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Ida Tarbell - exposed business corruption
Post-World War II Europe was planned at this conference.
Yalta Conference
A Civil Rights Leader that was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Name one of the political beliefs of conservatives in the late 60s.
* traditional family values
* emphasis on law and order
* opposition to the federal government intervening with states' affairs
Henry Ford's process that led to more people buying cars.
The assembly line process
Name a reason why the US became involved in World War I.
* Germany resumed unrestricted Submarine Warfare.
* Zimmerman Note - Germany proposed that Mexico ally with Germany against the US.
Name of the US policy during the Cold War to prevent the spread of Communism, which led to involvement in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Containment
He would have been nominated as the Democratic Party's candidate for President but was assassinated on June 5, 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy
The "S________ M________" helped to elect Nixon. It was a reaction by voters against the events of the 1960s.
Silent Majority
Immigrants were attracted by
* Job opportunities
* land
* political and religious freedoms in the U.S.
A Tennessee teacher was arrested because he was teaching evolution in science class. He was found guilty. This was the ____________.
Scopes Trial
* Also called the "Monkey Trial"
* Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan
President Eisenhower popularized the theory that communism could spread like a chain reaction starting with one country and then spreading to other. This was called the ________________ theory.
Domino
This Supreme Court decision made helped to integrate the schools. It helped overturned the idea of "separate but equal".
Brown v Board of Education
Name 3 of the Social Movements of the 2010s. (There were 6 movements that we studied in class)
* #MeToo Movement * Black Lives Matter
* March for Our Lives * Tea Party
* Sunrise Movement * Occupy Wall Street
Two Italian immigrants and anarchists who were convicted of murder which showed the fears of immigrants and political radicals during the first Red Scare.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Name a progressive change of the 1920s
* Women's suffrage
* Prohibition
* Consumer Culture
* tension between modern and traditional values
During the Eisenhower administration the CIA used c___________ operations to help overthrow the governments in G_______________ and I________.
Covert
Guatemala
Iran
The Fair Housing Act banned discrimination in housing. It was passed after the assassinations of ________________ and _________________.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - a civil rights leader
and
Robert F. Kennedy - a strong advocate for civil rights and racial justice.
This terrorist event reshaped American foreign and domestic policy, leading to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and expanded surveillance of American citizens.
9/11