Renewed Conservatism
CW & Recon
Turn of the Century
World Wars, 20s, Dep.
Cold War & Civil Rights
100

This woman opposed the Equal Rights Amendment. 

Who was Phyllis Schafly?

100

Name the group who terrorized blacks during Reconstruction and pushed Jim Crow laws. 

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

100

Upton Sinclair is a representative of what movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

What is progressivism? 

100

Name one way Americans pushed for "normalcy." 

What is constitutional conservatism, prosperity, government efficiency, tariffs, 1924 Immigration Act, Colonial Revival, nativism (2nd KKK),

100
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the protests of the Students for a Democratic Society focused on this conflict. 

What is the Vietnam War?

200

This man wrote Conscience of a Conservative and Ronald Reagan supported his 1964 presidential campaign. 

Who is Barry Goldwater? 

200

Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidency over Samuel B. Tilden due to this. 

What is the Compromise of 1877?

200

This person worked for conservation of natural resources and proposed the "Square Deal."

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

200

Name the writer who wrote these lines (and their meaning): "But I am not tragically colored" ". . . in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall."

Who was Zora Neale Hurston? 

200

Name the organization that started the push for an international Soviet republic. 

What is the Comintern?

300

These two thinkers framed the struggle against Communism as a struggle of religious faith(s). 

Who are Whittaker Chambers and Ronald Reagan?

300

Radical Republicans used this department to bolster education for freed blacks.

What is the Freedman's Bureau? 

300

Social Darwinism posited this about society. 

What is the upper class are better fit to survive than the poor? 

300

These presidents set up the War Industries Board and the War Production Board. 

Who are Woodrow Wilson and FDR?

300
Lyndon B. Johnson used community action agencies to fight this conflict in a broader social program. Give name of conflict and program. 

What is the "War on Poverty" in the Great Society?

400

The name of Richard Nixon's effort giving block grants to states.

What is New Federalism?

400

Name one way the Civil War was significant for our understanding of American government and the American story. 

What is memory of war (Liberty and Union or Lost Cause narratives); gave rise to the centralized state (federal government); changed Americans' views of death; and first modern industrialized war?

400

Large railroad and cattle companies put an end to the agrarian, small-landholder vision of this law. Name the law. 

What is the Homestead Act of 1862?

400

Name a radical part of the First Hundred Days/First New Deal and why it was radical. 

What is the TVA or the CCC and central state planning (in education, healthcare, and electricity in the the first and direct government job creation in the second)? 
400

This movement stated that legal rights were not enough; blacks must defend their communities. Stokely Carmichael was one of its leaders. 

What is Black Power?

500

Name the economic sources of a renewed conservatism in the 1970s and 1980s. 

What is industrialization in the Sunbelt states and the economic downturn of the 1970s? 

500

Name the action that began Reconstruction and what it was. 

What is Lincoln's "Ten Percent Plan," an agenda to bring a former Confederate state back into the Union when 10% of 1860 voters swore allegiance to the Union. 

500

Name the organization that opposed American expansion abroad in the 1890s and why they opposed it. 

What is the Anti-Imperialist League and its moral grounds (might does not make right) and historical basis (republican government is incompatible with an empire)?

500

Give the dates for the beginning of World War II in the Pacific and the end of the war in Europe. 

What is December 7, 1941 and May 8, 1945? 

500

Name three significant court cases in the 1960s-1970s that shifted constitutional interpretation and what changes they made. 

What is Brown v. Board, Engel v. Vitale, and Roe v. Wade?