U.S. STAAR REVIEW

Big Business & Big Changes

100

This industry leader built a steel empire and promoted the “Gospel of Wealth.”

Andrew Carnegie

200

This oil tycoon controlled Standard Oil and became one of the richest men in history.

John D. Rockefeller

300

This law, passed in 1890, aimed to break up monopolies and trusts.

Sherman & Clayton Anti-Trust Acts

400

This was a type of protest used where people stop working.

Strike

500

A company is called this if they control their industry and have no competition. 

Monopoly/trust

Reforms & Rights

100

This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.

19th amendment

200

This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.

Martin Luther King Jr. 

300

Journalists like Upton Sinclair who exposed social problems were known by this nickname.

Muckrakers

400

This president launched the Great Society programs to fight poverty and inequality.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

500

This 1965 law outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Wars

100

This 1941 attack brought the U.S. into World War II.

Pearl Harbor

200

This war was fought to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam War

300

This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism worldwide.

Containment

400

This conflict ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel, North is communist and South is democratic

Korean War

500

This concept was the cause of both WWI and WWII. 

German aggression

Executive Power

100

This president created the New Deal to combat the Great Depression.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

200

This scandal forced President Nixon to resign in 1974.

Watergate Scandal

300

This economic policy in the 1980s focused on tax cuts and deregulation.

Reaganomics

400

This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism after WWII.

Truman Doctrine

500

This president authorized the use of atomic bombs on Japan.

President Harry Truman

Cold War Showdowns

100

This rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union was called this. 

The Cold War

200

This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

300

This military alliance included the U.S. and Western European nations.

NATO

400

This term described the fear of communism spreading from one country to another.

Domino Theory

500

This idea under Reagan aimed to increase military spending to pressure the USSR.

Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)