Topics 8-10
What is an Abolition?
The movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world.
What was Manifest Destiny?
Belief that America should control North America from East Coast to West Coast.
What started the Great Depression?
The Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
Who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
detente
What was the 15th Amendment?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Why was trench warfare so common in WWI?
New defensive weapons (machine guns, artillery, gas, etc.)
What was the Holocaust?
The purposeful extermination of the Jewish race. (and others)
What was the 24th Amendment?
It abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections.
What technology most changed America in the 1990s?
the internet
Explain the theory of Social Darwinism.
the belief held by some in the late nineteenth century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them
What was Wilson's main idea for the peace following WWI?
Peace without victory or League of Nations
How did the New Deal change the federal government?
It increased the power of the federal government.
What former member of the Nation of Islam opposed MLK and the Civil Rights Movement's strategy?
Malcom X
Why did the United States become involved Vietnam?
Domino Theory
Why did African Americans lose government representation after Reconstruction?
Violence, Fear, and Loopholes (poll taxes, grandfather clause, etc.)
Why did Wilson win the election of 1912?
Teddy Roosevelt ran as an independent and split the Republican vote.
Why did the United States join WWII?
U-boat warfare and the Zimmerman Note
What was the strategy of the Civil Rights Movement?
Nonviolent protests
What group led to the election of Ronald Reagan?
The New Conservatives
What was the major difference between W. E. B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington?
What was the difference between Teddy Roosevelt's, Taft's, and Wilson's Foreign Policy?
Roosevelt - speak softly and carry a big stick
Taft - Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson - Moral Diplomacy
How did the United States defeat Japan?
Atomic bombs
What did James Meredith accomplish?
End of segregation in public universities.
Why was Clinton reelected in 1996?