Foundations & Revolutions
Why did the Boston Tea Party occur?
Colonists were angry about an unfair tax on tea
Why did Manifest Destiny lead to civil war?
What is a muckraker?
Someone who exposes abuse of power to make change during the Progressive Era
Why was the Spanish-American war a turning point in US history?
What was the name of the process where people left cities to live in communities surrounding cities after World War II?
Suburbanization
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
Government was too weak and decentralized
Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state, and Missouri becomes the dividing line for free and slave states.
What did Reconstruction amendments achieve?
End of slavery, equal rights amendment, voting rights amendment
How did FDR's New Deal respond to the Great Depression?
It created jobs and programs to help the economy recover.
What was Joe McCarthy famous for?
During the second Red Scare, McCarthy publicly hunted Communists in American government.
Explain the disagreement between Federalists and Antifederalists.
Federalists believed in strong government & loose interpretation of the Constitution, Antifederalists believed in strong states' rights and strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What did the Seneca Falls Convention achieve?
Name one way the government tried to stop monopolies.
Antitrust legislation (Sherman, Interstate Commerce, trustbusting)
How was World War II a turning point for women in American society?
Women became part of the American industrial workforce.
How did Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X disagree?
MLK believed in nonviolence and integration, Malcolm X believed in violence and separation.
Name 2 important messages in Washington's Farewell Address.
Avoid political parties (factionalism) and avoid involvement with European conflicts.
What is popular sovereignty?
The idea that people in each state should vote to determine legality of slavery (specific to Kansas and Nebraska)
What was the impact of the 1895 Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
"Separate but equal" -- segregation was legally accepted until the 1960s.
Allies: USA, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union
Axis: Germany, Japan, Italy
What was the combined impact of the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War?
Why did the Proclamation of 1763 change the relationship between colonists and British?
Colonists were angry after fighting French and Indian War and not getting rewarded, leading to conflict
Why did southern states secede after Lincoln was elected?
They were opposed to Republican anti-slavery positions
Why were monopolists viewed as both 'robber barons' and 'captains of industry'?
Because they created huge wealth inequality, but also created jobs, industry, and large philanthropic projects. (Gospel of wealth)
Name 2 causes of American entry into World War I.
Zimmerman Telegram and Lusitania sinking
Anxiety over nuclear war when the Soviet Union put missiles into Cuba and the US put missiles into Turkey, resolved by an agreement between Kennedy and Khrushchev to remove the missiles.