Q1: Present-1980
A geological era that is defined by the substantial and irreversible impact humans have had on the planet.
What is the Anthropocene?
The US foreign policy on Vietnam, known as containment, was driven by this theory.
What is Domino Theory?
This war led to the US invasion of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War?
The period following the Compromise of 1877 until 1964.
What is Jim Crow?
The shortest path of states from Colorado to Wisconsin.
What is Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, then Wisconsin?
This economic policy of the 1980s that aimed to combat Stagflation by cutting taxes and regulations.
What is Reaganomics/Trickle Down Economics/ Supply Side Economics?
The ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 overturned this precedent in this supreme court case.
What is "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson
The name of the economic philosophy held by President Herbert Hoover that President Roosevelt railed against with his New Deal.
What is laisezz faire economics?
This compromise resolved the 1876 election and ended the period known as Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This belt includes the Great Lakes Region is known for its rapid deindustrialization in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is the Rust Belt?
A theoretical framework that examines overlapping social identities and how they connect with systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
What is Intersectionality?
The initial political strategy that the U.S. took to combat the Soviet Union.
What is Containment?
This was the primary reason for the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.
What is increased nativism and increased Chinese labor competition?
These amendments provided a "new birth to freedom" by ending slavery, establishing birthright citizenship, and expanding the right to vote.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments (13,14, 15)?
The two purposes of secondary sources to a historian.
What is historiography and context/ supplemental work?
This tactic, targeted primarily at low income and people of color, was one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States.
What is predatory lending?
What is...
Food Stamp Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Urban Mass Transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, National School Lunch Act, Clean Air Act, Higher Education Act of 1965
This act, written into law by President Roosevelt, tightened regulations of banks and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
One of the culprits for ending Reconstruction?
What is....
The Republican Party, the Democratic Party, White Supremacy, Capitalism, or poor white Americans in the South?
When two sources support each other's main argument.
What is corroborate?
A drawing of the military industrial complex.
What is ________________?
This is where and when the Black Power Movement started.
What is the Watts Uprising of 1965 in Los Angeles, CA?
The name and reason of the historical phenomenon in which millions of Black Americans moved from the rural American South to Northern American cities.
What is the Great Migration, where Jim Crow violence and sharecropping pushed Black Americans to the Northern industrial cities, where they found more opportunities for work but encountered systems of de facto segregation and discrimination?
Where the idea of "forty acres and mule" came from.
What is General William Sherman's Field Order No. 15?
The information about the source, usually provided in an archive.
What is metadata?