Amendments
Which amendment repealed the 18th Amendment in 1933?
The 21st Amendment: Repeal of prohibition
What is the name of the Chief Justice of the 1960’s court that passed civil rights acts?
Earl Warren
What war was initiated by World War II?
The Cold War
What enticed people to move to the West?
Precious metals, land, more freedom, the Homestead Act, cattle industry, and railroads.
What text by Harriet Beecher Stowe is credited for laying the groundwork for the Civil War?
Uncle Tom’s Cabim
What year was the 19th Amendment passed?
1920
What civil rights group did Stokely Carmichael lead and what were their significant efforts?
SNCC; they educated college students, organized sit-ins and bus boycotts.
What President oversaw the Mexican-American War and what state was gained from it?
1.) James Polk
2.) Texas
Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan were all influential in what historical era and leaders of what types of industries?
1.) The Gilded Age
2.) Steel, Oil, and Investment Banking
Name the text that exposed the food industry for being unsanitary and the author who wrote it.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
What is the protection under the 15th Amendment and who was left out?
1.) The right to vote cannot be denied by race or color.
2.) Women
Which leader from which era would have likely said “We’re legitimate citizens. We’re taxed without representation. We’re not allowed to serve on juries, so we’re not tried by our peers. It’s unconscionable, not to mention unconstitutional. We don’t make the laws but we have to obey them like children.“?
Alice Paul; Progressive Era
What was the provisional military line established in Vietnam by the Geneva Accords?
The Seventeenth Parallel.
What era followed the Jeffersonian Era and who was the most influential president during that time?
The Era of Good Feelings; James Monroe
Who wrote the famous line “remember the ladies” and what was their message?
Abigail Adams; writing to husband John Adams about the women also fighting for America’s independence
Name three of the five protections under the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The attack on this person was a catalyst for the undermining of the KKK and white supremacy.
Emmett Till
What major war included the following battles: The First Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, and the Battle of Vicksburg?
The Civil War
Name and explain 3 New Deal programs along with the President who initiated them.
FDR
Common programs: FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Cooperation; NAACP - National Association of the Advancement of Colored People; CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps; FHA - Federal Housing Administration; PWA - Public Work Administration; SSA - Social Security Act; etc.
What book and author contested the idea that women were satisfied being housewives?
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Name the process established by the 25th Amendment.
The succession of presidents.
Who said “The attack took place on American soil, but it was an attack on the heart and soul of the civilized world. And the world has come together to gift a new and different war, the first, and we hope the only one, of the 21st century. A war against all those who seek to export terror, and a war against those governments that support or shelter them.”?
President George W. Bush
Name one economic plan that the U.S. initiated during a World War to support economic stability.
WWI The Dawes Plan: An international financial system between Germany, Great Britain and the United States to pay off war debts.
WWII The Marshall Plan: U.S. provided aid to Western Europe
What significant era was McCarthyism from and what was its ideology?
The Second Red Scare/Cold War Era; Communist spies were infiltrating the United States
Explain the Dawes Act and name the year it was initiated.
It allowed the government to divide tribal land by families enforcing private property as opposed to public divisions; 1887