P5
These Laws, including Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests, attempted to prevent free blacks from voting
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The union which hired only skilled workers to achieve economic gains for labor.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
As the US shifted from rural to urban, these three groups of people were given more economic opportunity.
What are women, internal migrants, and international immigrants?
will take A.A as answer as well.
Truman's policy for stopping communism.
What is containment?
Attempted to warn the country about partisan ideals and unnecessary foreign policies.
Who is George Washington?
This law offered farmers cheap land to help populate the western frontier
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Homestead Act?
He wrote How the Other Half Lives, which discusses the poor living conditions in the city?
Who was Jacob Riis?
This group of people promoted federal legislation to regulate abuse of the economy and the environment. They also sought to expand democracy.
Who are the Progressives?
The relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rival, the Soviet Union and China.
What is détente?
This political party, led by Lincoln, opposed the expansion of slavery; it did not demand abolition. It came after the Free Soil Party.
What is the Republican Party?
This political party was organized to oppose all forms of immigration
This political machine was responsible for municipal (city) corruption and ballot stuffing
Who is Boss Tweed?
The Glass-Steagall act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Federal deposit Insurance Corporation, and Social Security act were all part of this new reform program.
What is the New Deal?
The Environmental Reforms against the use of pesticides were fueled by public outrage after this book was published.
What is Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?
Established the first Alien and Sedition Acts
Who is John Adams?
Opportunistic Northerners who moved and were perceived to be exploiting the South for their own political/economic gain.
double points if you can answer:
A southerner who cooperated with Northern Republicans during reconstruction
What are carpetbaggers?
Double: Scalawags
He believed in promoting the Talented Tenth and earning complete equality for all blacks, not just economic equality
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
Despite segregation, many African Americans remained in the South, yet other chose to partake in this event in order to pursue economic opportunities offered by World War I.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Great Migration?
The US was forced to launch new energy policies when British, French, and Israeli troops staged an assault on Egypt cutting off oil supplies during this major international disaster.
What is the Suez Crisis?
He met with Lee at Appomatox Court House
A movement by natives to banish the white and and unite the tribes across the country.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Caused by the cutting of wages, this strike including the clever US mail cars, and the eventual use of an injunction against the American Railway Union
What is the Pullman Strike?
The rise of an urban society encouraged the development of cultural expression. African Americans expressed their culture through poetry, art, music during this period.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Formed in 1960 by impassioned southern black students, this organization gave focus and force to the civil rights by staging "sit-ins"
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
President who sough a Great Society, and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
During the Sexual Revolution, this novel spoke about feminist protest and the boredom of suburban housewifery, effectively criticizing the "cult of domesticity."
Answer both author and novel
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique