Unit 7 (1890-1945)
This cultural movement, centered in Harlem, celebrated African American art, music, and literature
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 2001 event led to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the global War on Terror.
What is the September 11th attacks?
This 1963 event, led by Martin Luther King Jr., called for jobs and freedom, and is famous for King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This 1898 conflict between the U.S. and Spain resulted in the U.S. acquiring territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War?
This 1906 act, pushed by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, aimed to regulate food production.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This term refers to the anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, often resulting in blacklisting during "The Red Scare".
What is Mccarthyism?
This 1989 event symbolized the fall of communist control in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This 1960s movement challenged traditional values and included widespread protests against the Vietnam War
What is the counterculture (or hippie movement)?
This 1830 law authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This movement saw a large migration of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities for better job opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This international agreement, signed in 2015, aimed to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions globally.
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?
This policy aimed to ease Cold War tensions by engaging diplomatically with the Soviet Union and China.
What is détente?
This 1787 event created a new constitution for the United States, replacing the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This U.S. foreign policy strategy aimed to prevent the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This 2010 law aimed to reform the U.S. healthcare system by expanding coverage and regulating insurance practices.
What is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?
This 1972 break-in led to the downfall of President Nixon, who resigned to avoid impeachment.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This 1894 strike, sparked by wage cuts at a railroad company, led to a nationwide railroad boycott and federal intervention.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This economic policy, initiated after World War II, provided U.S. financial assistance to rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1947 doctrine aimed to contain communism by providing U.S. support to countries resisting Soviet influence.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This 1981 economic policy focused on tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses in hopes of spurring economic growth.
What is Reaganomics? (supply-side economics/trickle down economics)
This 1964 resolution gave President Johnson the authority to use military force in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
List the following Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
13th- Abolished Slavery
14th- Granted citizenship
15th- Allowed African American men the right to vote
16th Amendment- Gives Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.
17th- It established the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people, rather than by state legislatures.
18th- prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
19th- granted women the right to vote in all U.S. elections.