Final USH

Unit 1

100

Form of transportation that unlocked the economic possibilities of the West

Railroads

200

System of work that replaced slavery after the Civil War

Sharecropping

300

Rules imposed on African Americans after the Civil War to reestablish white supremacy 

Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws

400

Book which changed federal regulations of food, specifically meat

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

500

Moving to a city from the country

Urbanization

Unit 2-3

100

policy acquiring new land to Expanding America's Empire, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Panama and the Philippines. 

Imperialism

200

This specific nationality was barred from immigration to the US in 1876 due to racism.

Chinese Exclusion Act

300

Germany's unrestricted use of this weapon in part led to the USA entrance into WWI

Submarine, 

Other reasons for entry

Zimmermann Note

Massive debt by Britain and France

400

Large numbers of immigrants moved to American cities, they joined rural migrants in a search for jobs and opportunity in cities. This growth and movement to the cities is called

urbanization

500

List the 4 main reasons for WWI

M

A

I

N

Militarism
Alliances 

Imperialism

Nationalism

Unit 4-5

100

Cultural Movement led by African Americans based mostly in New York

Harlem Renaissance 

200

American policy of keeping out of international entanglements or war

Isolationism

300

Hoovervilles and the gassing of the Bonus Army were part of which party's response to the Great Depression

Republican (Hoover)

400

Banks lent money to stock investors to buy on credit the result?

Bank failures due to the 'buying of stocks on margin'

500

How did the United States finance WWII

Debt

Unit 6-7

100

Gen. MacArthur was fired by Harry Truman over who had military control over atomic weapons in which conflict?

Korean War

200

A part of the second red scare a congressman accused a multitude of people of being communist.... they were not

McCarthyism 

300

Americans imprisoner due to xenophobic fears after Pearl Harbor

Japanese Americans Interment Camps

400

Fascism is built on racism and Nationalism it led to what event

Holocaust

500

Atomic weapons placed on an island by the Soviets were a threat to the United States, nearly caused World War Three

Cuban Missile Crisis

Unit 8

100

Brown v Board of Education 1954 had what impact on the Civil Rights Movement

Desegregated Public Schools

200

Leader of the SCLC and non violent resistance to integration

Martin Luther King Jr. 

300

Soviets blocked access to former German capital, air supply kept people fed

Berlin Airlift

400

Declared combat operations in Indochina would begin

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Vietnam)

500

This theory was an extension of containment and worried that is one country fell to communism more would follow, this theory brought us to Vietnam

Domino theory