Name the US policy to contain communism and preventing it from spreading across the world during the Cold War.
What is Containment
100
Westward Expansion during the 1800s had a negative impact on what group of people?
Who are the Native Americans?
100
The assassination of this man was the spark that began World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
100
These were the two superpowers during the Cold War.
What is the United States and The Soviet Union (Russia)
100
This Supreme Court Case decided that segregation of schools is inherently unequal. This Supreme Court decision made segregation in schools illegal and was one of the first major victories in the Civil Rights movement.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
A company that completely dominates a particular industry. Buys up competition or cuts prices to take out competition and then rises prices.
What is a monopoly
200
Causes of the Industrial Revolution in the United States (name 2)
1) availability of resources (from the West)
2) improved technology
3) improved transportation (trains and boats)
4) cheap labor with a new immigrant population
200
Causes of the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression are (name 2)
What is
1) speculation (unwise investments)
2) buying on margin (buying stocks with loans)
3) bank failures and lack of regulation
4) failure to pay off installment plans
5) less spending leads to less jobs
200
The United States increased it's efforts in the area of space exploration after this event.
What is the laungh of Sputnik?
200
This organization was co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois to advance the cause of Civil Rights for African Americans through the courts and other political actions.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP?
300
A strong feeling of pride and loyalty to one's nation and can often cause wars.
What is Nationalism?
300
The belief of many Americans in the 19th century that it was their duty to expand and control the entire North American continent from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny
300
Most Americans wanted our nation to keep to itself in foreign affairs and not get involved with other countries.
What is Isolationism?
300
This country was a U.S. Ally during World War II, but became an enemy during the Cold War
What is The Soviet Union
300
This muckraking journalist wrote articles to expose the horrors of lynching, at grave risk to her personal safety.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
This movement describes women's struggle to earn voting rights.
What is Women's Suffrage
400
This was a period of social activism and reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. Achievements of the era include ending child labor, improving working conditions, and voting rights for women.
What is the Progressive Era?
400
A reason that justified the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan.
1) the use of the bomb shortened the war
2) more American lives would have been lost if the US invaded Japan by land
3) The Japanese were strong and proud fighters who would have fought till the death causing too many lost US lives
400
This legislation prevents the President of the U.S. from waging an undeclared war, he must inform Congress within 48 hours of sending troops into combat and bring them back within 90 days if Congress does not support his actions.
What is the War Powers Act?
400
African-Americans were prevented from exercising their voting rights by various means. (name 2)
What is the Grandfather Clause, Poll Taxes, literacy tests, white primaries, lengthy residence requirements
500
This term describes act of expanding a nation's influence and building an empire. Seen in the United States in examples such as the annexation of Hawaii and Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy to gain influence in Latin America.
What is Imperialism
500
This amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
This program was designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Its goal was to provide aid to those suffering most, provide jobs for the unemployed and create reforms to stabilize the economic system and prevent future depressions.
What is The New Deal?
500
The goal of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift was...
What is Containment (spreading democracy and preventing communism)
500
This Amendment to the constitution was supposed to guarantee African-American men the right to vote.