7th Grade History
a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries.
What is an Indentured Servant?
the movement of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. The is wave began after WW2 in 1940 and ended in 1970.
What is the Second Great Migration?
Explain how the philosophy of the Black Panther Party related to the philosophy of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a fervent supporter of black empowerment and self-defense. The Black Panther Party was created as a defense system that would patrol and protect Black communities from police brutality and exploitation
Explain the Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal began early in the morning of June 17, 1972, when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee. These burglars were connected to Nixon's reelection campaign. Crimes included conspiracy, an abuse of presidential power and a deliberate obstruction of justice.
POTUS
President of the United States
This Massachusetts town is famed for witchcraft trials in the late 1600s
What is Salem?
a type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.
What is Jazz?
The Supreme (Warren) Court case that overturned Virginia's antimiscegenation law proving it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages.
Black Nationalism
What is the advocacy of or support for unity and political self-determination for Black people, especially in the form of a separate Black nation?
The historic period in which the United States attempted to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems,
What is Reconstruction?
The 33rd POTUS who established a DOCTRINE that stated the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Individuals or groups who rejected mainstream American life or norms. This idea was especially popular in the 1960s
Counterculture
Describe one of the following movements:
the Feminist Movement, Environmentalism, the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, or the Conservative Movement
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Malaise
What is the era of poor products, high inflation, high unemployment, and generalized industry unease in the 1970s?
Unhappiness?
The proclamation declared by Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863?
Explain how suburbs were created. Mention the city and discrimination associated with suburbs.
Suburbs like "Levittown" were created after WW2 during a period of economic bliss which allowed veterans and small families to own homes. Home ownership increased rapidly due to "white flight"
Describe the War on Poverty and the Great Society. Include how it succeed and how it failed.
The main goals of the Great Society were to end poverty, reduce crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment. The War on Poverty hoped to make America more equitable however conservative push back made it almost impossible achieve this goal. The Vietnam War forced LBJ to direct funds away from the Great Society programs.
The commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation. As domestic and international issues filled the airwaves, conservatives lost trust in the Democrats as there were resentments produced by several civil rights movements.
Communism
What is the type of government as well as an economic system (a way of creating and sharing wealth)?
The state that seceded from Virginia in 1863
What is West Virginia?
Explain to what extent did the economic prosperity of the 1950s improve the lives of all Americans?
The instability and conflict of the Cold War led to a call for stability at home, lauding strong nuclear families. Suburbs and government assistance for veterans improved the lives of thousands however due to discrimination, not all families experienced the same prosperity.
Explain why anti-Vietnam War protests began.
The Tet Offensive of 1968 was a series of coordinated Northern Vietnamese attacks on the South that showed how brutal the war was. Despite its heavy casualty toll, and its failure to inspire widespread rebellion among the South Vietnamese, the Tet Offensive proved to be a strategic success for the North Vietnamese. Americans became dissatisfied with the cruelty and bloodshed. Many protests started in on college campuses and in major cities like Washington D.C.
Explain why President Carter was not reelected in 1980.
Jimmy Carter believed too much in the function of the government rather than how it should operate. American voters were dissatisfied with the lack of transparency. Carter began his presidency during stagflation and served during the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 which marred his final term as POTUS
Colonialism
What is the pursuit, establishment and maintenance of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group of people?