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Two major pieces of legislation passed in 1862 that facilitated western expansion and further dependence on the "transportation of the age."
What is the Pacific Railway Act and the Homestead Act?
Progressives were mostly of this group. Also, despite progress in regards to offering solutions to many problems, Progressives were unsuccessful in advocating and advancing changes with regard to___.
What are white, middle class? Progressives made little progress in changing race relations or ending Jim Crow?
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The foreign policy named after a president that defined US Cold War strategy; the strategy to keep communism from spreading and one example.
What is the Truman Doctrine? What is Containment (Greece, Turkey, Berlin, South Korea, Vietnam)
"White Flight" came to represent a migration of middle class whites from here to where. And this region of the US saw significant population growth during the 1960s-1980s.
What is from cities to suburbs? What is the American Southwest?
The labor union that became stigmatized after Haymarket; the labor union that focused on Bread and Butter unionism; the labor union that emphasized marxism and major systematic reform.
Who are the Knights of Labor? Who is the American Federation of Labor? What is the Industrial Workers of the World, IWW (or Wobblies)?
Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age, two examples, and two laws that were passed as a result of their journalism.
Who are muckrakers? Who are Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, David G. Phillips, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens...? What are FDA, Meat Inspection Act, 17th Amendment?
Three Rs and one specific example of each.
What is Relief (WPA, PWA, CCC)?
What is Recovery (AAA, NIRA, EBRA, TVA)?
What is Reform (SEC, FDIC, SSA, Wagner Act)?
The nickname of the European Recovery Act and the nickname that viewed atomic weapons as deterrents.
What is the Marshall Plan and what is Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)?
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The phrase for the government approach to regulation during the latter half of the 19th century; the justification for material and business inequity and its slogan.
What is Laissez-faire? What is Social Darwinism and "survival of the fittest?"
Anti-imperialists main political/ideological argument and main (and prejudicial) economic argument (consider application to Philippines).
What is imperialism went against American traditions of self-determination and the spirit of '76, and what is acquiring foreign territories could lead to inclusion of "undesirable" immigrants of color?
Though anti-communist, the First Red Scare reflected a general fear of __ which was then seen through this raid, this law, and this trial.
What are immigrants? What are Palmer Raids, National Origins Acts, and Sacco and Vanzetti?
The US escalated its involvement in Vietnam with this "resolution," the year of the Tet Offensive and what it exposed, and the name of the college in Ohio where 4 protestors were killed in 1970.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What is 1968 and the credibility gap, and what is Kent State?
Names of three major civil rights organizations that organized non-violent protests to challenge segregation.
What is SCLC, SNCC, CORE (NAACP is also acceptable, but more about courts, not protests)?
Name generally associated with monopolies, and the two forms of consolidation that helped them better control their markets and what each means. Also, two acts that tried to regulate monopolies.
What is a trust; what is vertical integration (owning means of production) and horizontal integration (buying out competition)? Sherman and Clayton anti trust Acts or Hepburn Act?
The ___-___ War in 1898 epitomized America's imperialist arrival and led to the acquisition of these three overseas territories and the one that included suppression of an independence movement.
What is the Spanish American War led to the US acquisition of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines (whose war for independence was suppressed)?
Many criticized FDR for the way he changed the role of the federal government and tried to expand government powers, especially when he tried to do this to one of the federal branches in 1937, which was unpopular and unsuccessful.
What is Roosevelt's "Court-repacking plan which was an attempt to expand the number of justice on the Supreme Court to counter conservative resistance to New Deal acts?"
The US government got bigger during World War 2: identify an act that expanded the federal gov't power over business, an act that reduced discrimination and an act that increased discrimination.
What is War Powers Act, the War Industries Board or Office of Price Administration? What is executive order 8802, that banned discrimination, what is executive order 9066 that interned Japanese Americans?
Jimmy Carter's presidency coped with significant economic challenges in the late 1970s; the name for slowing economic production combined with high prices; the shortage that led to frustrating queues; and the impact of increased Asian manufacturing.
What is stagflation? What is Oil and Gas? What are loss of American factory jobs (especially in the auto industry)?
Four main factors that contributed to America's second industrial revolution.
What are abundance of natural resources, immigrant labor supply, technological developments, friendly government policies and entrepreneurship.
Name for the kind of politics that dominated urban centers in the lat 19th century, the services that they provided, and the name of the agrarian focused political group that sought increased government regulation of corporations and inspired future Progressivism.
What is Machine Politics (Boss)? What are jobs (patronage) and housing to immigrants? Who were the Populists?
Prohibition became a defining feature of the 1920s with the passage of the __ Amendment, and led to the growth of __ , symbolized by the infamous Chicagoan __. Also, one way in which prohibition expanded opportunities for women.
What is 18th amendment, organized crime, and Al Capone? What is opened up social mixing, speakeasies, jazz age culture meant more independence and challenging conventions.
The nickname of the botched CIA plot to overthrow Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1961 and then the "crisis" between the USSR and the US in 1962 that almost led to nuclear war before JFK implemented this strategy.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion and what is the Cuban Missile Crisis and what is a Quarantine?
Identify three "Warren Court" cases that represented an expansion of civil rights.
What is Brown v Board ('54); Mapp v Ohio ('61); Gideon v Wainright ('63); Miranda v. Arizona ('66); Tinker v DesMoines ('69)?