Civil War & Reconstruction (1861-77)
Gilded Age (1865-1900)
Progressives, Global Conflicts & Depression: 1900-45
Cold War & Domestic Reform (1945-1980)
1980-Present
100
One of two major Civil War turning points in the summer of 1863 - both major Union victories
What are Vicksburg & Gettysburg?
100
In vertical integration, a business has complete control over this process
What the production process?
100
Concept from Wilson's 14 Points that emphasized collective security (nations working together for protection) to ensure international harmony
What is the League of Nations?
100
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s successfully eliminated this
What is legal segregation (aka Jim Crow laws)?
100
Any one group that made up the 'New Conservatives' that helped elect Reagan in 1980
What are religious/social conservatives, economic conservatives, those who felt the USSR was still a major threat to the US?
200
The 1877 Compromise marks the end of this era
What is Reconstruction?
200
The first attempt at federal business regulation, the Interstate Commerce Act sought to rein in abuses by this industry
What are the railroads?
200
By specifying what corporations COULD NOT do, the Clayton Act improved upon this earlier piece of business regulation from 1890
What is the Sherman 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 movement by 1970
What is environmentalism?
200
The cartoon's POV opposes this Reagan era policy
What is deregulation of industry and business?
300
Though Antietam was not a clear victory for the Union, Lee's failure to achieve any of the Confederacy's objectives gave Lincoln an opening to issue a preliminary version of this in late 1862
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Marks the end of Indian resistance in the Trans-MS West, 1890
What is Wounded Knee?
300
The 'First New Deal' (1933-35) addressed bank failures by creating THIS federal agency which ensures deposits
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation/FDIC?
300
"Its purpose 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 Administration, the United States provided aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements, such as THESE in the central American nation of Nicaragua
What are the Contras?
400
Passed by many southern states following the END of the CIVIL WAR, they revised the old slave laws in an effort to control the lives of the freedmen
What are the Black Codes?
400
Social Darwinism was used by some Americans as a reason to acquire these in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What are overseas territories/colonies?
400
"We [Germany] intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare ... we make Mexico a proposal or alliance on the following basis ... make war together, make peace together .. [and] an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona."
What is the Zimmerman Note?
400
One factor that drove the "long economic boom" of 1950-1970 was this, which began about 1945 and ran until about 1965
What is the baby boom?
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 victory here helped ensure Lincoln's re-election in 1864
What is Atlanta?
500
The Sherman Act banned all business combinations that acted in restraint of THIS
What is interstate trade/commerce?
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 opposed US involvement in this conflict
What was the Vietnam War?
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 the US 'passed' reference by President Bush above was this (1990-91)
What is the Persian Gulf War?