1861-77
1865-98
1890-1945
1945-80
1980-Present
100
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?
100
Control of all aspects needed for production process
What is vertical integration?
100
Wilsonian principle asserting that subject peoples have the right to determine their own political status and form their own governments, a doctrine that later fueled global decolonization movements
What is self-determination?
100
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s successfully eliminated this
What is legal segregation (aka Jim Crow laws)?
100
“[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?
200
Ends federal enforcement of Reconstruction governments in the last three occupied Southern states—South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida—by resolving a disputed election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes while extracting the withdrawal of Democratic resistance to his presidency
What is the 1877 Compromise?
200
A business strategy characteristic of late 19th-century industrial consolidation in which a company eliminates rivals by acquiring them outright, creating a monopoly or trust
What is horizontal integration?
200
Progressive Era statute that strengthened earlier antitrust provisions by explicitly defining and prohibiting practices like price discrimination, tying agreements, and exclusive dealing to curb corporate monopolistic power
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
200
“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 reform by 1970
What is environmental activism?
200
The cartoon's POV opposes this Reagan era policy
What is deregulation of industry and business?
300
Union grand strategy that tightened as territorial gains expanded—using naval dominance to seal Southern ports and control the Mississippi River, progressively strangling the Confederacy’s economy and supply lines
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
Nationwide eruption of labor violence triggered by wage cuts amid the 1870s economic panic, beginning on the Baltimore & Ohio line and spreading across major rail hubs, prompting unprecedented federal troop deployment to restore order
What the RR Strike of 1877?
300
Two issues addressed by the "First New Deal" (1933-35)
What is unemployment, banking, farm prices, etc.?
300
"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
The above could be considered an example of THIS Cold War policy
What is containment?
300
During the Reagan era, 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?
400
Congressional framework mandating that former Confederate states (excluding Tennessee) reenter the Union only after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment and drafting new constitutions that enfranchised Black men
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
400
Used to justify class differences & overseas imperialism
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Late–World War II summit where the “Big Three” negotiated the postwar order, including Soviet promises of free elections in Poland, the division of Germany into occupation zones, prosecution of Nazi leaders, and Soviet entry into the war against Japan
What is Yalta?
400
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.?
400
“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.?
500
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?
500
Landmark 1887 statute that marked the federal government’s first sustained effort to impose regulatory oversight on a powerful private industry
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
Established a model for large-scale, state-sponsored research and introduced greater ethical debates about total war and civilian targeting
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
"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 members of the SDS would have been involved in this
What is opposition to the war in Vietnam?
500
"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 'first test' that was 'passed' by the 'new world order' was this 1990-91 event
What is the Persian Gulf War?