People
Who wrote the emancipation proclamation which freed slaves in the South?
Abraham Lincoln
The March on Selma was about?
Gaining voting rights for African Americans
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime
What got the US involved in WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What is Nativism?
Fear/hatred of immigrates
Thinking people born in a nation are the best
What president created the New Deal Programs which helped those suffering during the Great Depression?
Franklin D Roosevelt
What was the red scare?
Fear of communists in the US
What were Black Codes?
Laws that restricted the freedoms of Black citizens
The US got the states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, etc from this war
Mexican-American War
What is McCarthyism?
Fear of communists
Going after supposed communists in the US
Name three Civil Rights leaders
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr
Rosa Parks
Ella Baker
Frannie Lou Hammer
Pauli Murray
What happened at Kent State?
Student protesters of the Vietnam War were killed by national guard
What did Brown v. Board of Education rule?
Schools could not be segregated
What war did the US start to combat communism in Asia?
Vietnam War
What did Jim Crow Laws do?
enforced segregation
Who was the head of the Latino Farm Workers Union?
Cesear Chaves
Dolores Huerta
The Harlem Renaissance did what...
Created a sense of cultural pride and unity for African Americans
What did the Scopes Trial do?
Made it so anti-evolution laws stayed on the books
(Some schools had made it illegal to teach about evolution)
What war had the Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown, and Battle of Lexington and Concrod?
Revolutionary War
Describe the annexation of Hawaii
Queen imprisoned
US business owners take over Hawaii
Native Hawaians had their rights taken away
US takes Hawaii against wishes of Hawaians
Who led the Harpers Ferry Raid?
John Brown
Publishing The Jungle by Upton Sinclair did what?
Exposed unsanitary conditions in meat factories
Caused the Pure Food and Drug Act to pass
What did the Obergefell case do?
Legalize gay marriage
What two events got the US involved in WWI?
Sinking of Lustinitia
Zimmerman Telegram
The Bay of Pigs invasion was...
US using Cuban exiles to attempt to invade Cuba