Though the geographic impact cannot be denied, the loss of 30,000+ soldiers here was a major blow to the CSA's war effort
What is Vicksburg?
Control of all aspects needed for production process
What is vertical integration?
What is self-determination?
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s successfully eliminated this
What is legal segregation (aka Jim Crow laws)?
“[T]his administration [Reagan] ... sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities—the institutions that foster ... concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God."
1980-present trend discussed in the above excerpt
What is political participation by Christian groups/resurgence of conservatism?
Brings an end to Reconstruction by appeasing Democrats with the end of military rule in SC, LA, and FL, and the Republicans by ending Democratic opposition to Hayes as President
What is the 1877 Compromise?
Tuskegee institute, emphasized industrial training to African Americans
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Progressive legislation which further outlined (or specified) regulations against large corporations
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
“Mothers are all alike. They spend most of the day washing clothes, washing dishes, washing diapers, dusting and cleaning and scrubbing. A clean house means a clean family ... But what about the air? Is someone else out there scrubbing and cleaning the air?"
-Public service announcement, GASP, 1970
The above excerpt shows the growth of this by 1970
What is environmental activism?
The cartoon's POV opposes this Reagan era policy
What is deregulation of industry and business?
Union military tactic that only became effective as their armies took control of more land (particularly coastal land) in the Confederacy
What is a blockade?
Great RR Strike of 1877
Haymarket Incident
Pullman Strike
Besides being ex's of labor unrest 1865-1900, one other common characteristic of the above events
What is government (local, state, federal) used its authority to end/break up the strike?
Two issues addressed by the "First New Deal" (1933-35)
What is unemployment, banking, prices, etc.?
"Its purpose [Marshall Plan] should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”
-Speech by Secretary of State George Marshall, 1947
What is containment?
Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States would provide overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements, such as THESE in THIS Central American nation
What is the Contras and Nicaragua?
Requirements for readmission of the former CSA (except TN) to Union
a. ratify Amendment 14
b. write new state constitutions giving all MEN the right to vote
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
Used to justify class differences & overseas imperialism
What is Social Darwinism?
Wartime conference where FDR, Churchill, & Stalin agreed to the following (not comprehensive):
1. The USSR would allow free elections in Poland
2. Germany would be divided into four zones of occupation
3. German war criminals would be put on trial
4. Upon Germany's surrender, the USSR would declare war on Japan
What is Yalta?
One factor that drove the "long economic boom" of 1950-1970
What is the baby boom, defense spending, reopening of foreign markets to US trade, etc.?
“What is the phenomenon of globalization...? Fundamentally, it is the closer integration of the countries and peoples of the world . . . and the breaking down of artificial barriers to the flow of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and (to a lesser extent) people across borders.”
One factor that contributed DIRECTLY to the trend discussed in the excerpt
What is increased use of digital technology (computer, internet), free trade agreements such as NAFTA, etc.?
Sherman's capture of Atlanta & Farragut's capture of Mobile had this political impact in the fall of 1864
What is Lincoln's re-election?
First major attempt by the federal govt. to regulate a major industry, in this case the RR's
What is the Interstate Commerce Act/ Commission?
The Niagara movement (1905) advocated for full civil liberties, abolition of racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood - it was the precursor to this, formed in 1909
What is the NAACP?
"The proclaimed peaceful intentions of the United States contradicted its economic and military investments in the Cold War status quo...."
Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement,” 1962
Based on the quote above, by the late 1960s, members of the SDS would have been involved in this
What is the antiwar movement?
"Now, we can see a new world coming into view....A world where the United Nations...is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations....
..This new world [was put] to its first test. And my fellow Americans, we passed that test."
-President George H.W. Bush, 1991
The above excerpt both denotes the American success during THIS EVENT
What is the Persian Gulf War?