• Essential Question:
–What were the key concepts that will
be tested on the US History EOCT?
• CPUSH Agenda for EOCT Review :
–EOCT Review: Practice Test
–Today’s HW: Study Units 1-2
–End of Course Test: May 18 and 19
–Unit 15 Test: Wed, May 25 (2nd pd)
Thurs, May 26 (3rd pd)
• Essential Question:
–What were the key concepts that will
be tested on the US History EOCT?
• CPUSH Agenda for EOCT Review:
–EOCT Review: Review Units 1-4
–Today’s HW: Study Units 3-4
–End of Course Test: May 18 and 19
–Unit 15 Test: Wed, May 25 (2nd pd)
Thurs, May 26 (3rd pd)
EOCT Review Game Rules
■Groups compete against each other:
–Teams will be presented a prompt &
asked to provide as many correct
answers as possible within 1 minute
–Groups earn 1 point per correct answer
–If any part of the response is incorrect,
teams receive no points for that round
1. Name 1 similarity between the colonies of Spain
& France in (a) government and (b) religion
2. Define: Britain did not strictly control the North
American colonies and allowed them to create
their own colonial assemblies. Salutary neglect
was the norm BEFORE the French & Indian War;
3. Define: The colonies should benefit the mother
country; Strong nations have favorable balances
of trade (more exports than imports); Colonial
trade is regulated by Britain. This was the norm
before and after the French and Indian War
4. Define: Parliament has absolute authority over
the colonies and will strictly control laws and
taxes; This was AFTER the French & Indian War
1. (a) Government—both were strictly
controlled by the king, ruled by royal
governors, they were not allowed to create
their own self-gov’t.
(b) Religion—both were Catholic and tried to
convert Indians
2. Salutary neglect
3. Mercantilism
4. Parliamentary sovereignty
1. What “saved” Jamestown by allowing the
colonists to make huge sums of money?
2. What was the name of the first colonial
assembly in American history (in Virginia)?
3. What was the name of the poor farmer who
led a rebellion against the Virginia gov’t?
4. Why was Massachusetts founded?
5. What type of governments existed in
New England?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Tobacco
The House of Burgesses
Bacon
Massachusetts was founded as a religious
colony by Puritans (“city on a hill”
5. Town hall meetings led by religious leaders
of the colony
1. Name 2 differences between the
Massachusetts and Virginia colonies.
2. Which European nation controlled “New
York” before it was taken by the British?
3. Which British colony was known for the
“holy experiment” for Quakers?
4. Why was the Georgia colony founded?
5. What was Great Awakening?
1. MA was religious Puritans with their families; VA
was by young, single men looking to make money;
MA people worked together, created churches,
schools, town meetings, and towns, but in VA,
people did not work together, plantations were
used, the rich took advantage of the poor;
MA slavery and indentured servants were used,
but not nearly as much as in VA.
2. the Netherlands (also known as the Dutch)
3. Pennsylvania
4. As a buffer colony between Spanish Florida
5. Religious revivalism in the 1730s that challenged
people to re-examine their eternal destiny?
1. How was the end of the French & Indian War in
1763 the beginning of the American Revolution
in 1776?
2. Put these 3 events in chronological order:
(a) Lexington & Concord, (b) Intolerable Acts,
(c) Stamp Act
3. Put these 3 events in chronological order:
(a) Sons of Liberty lead a boycott against the
Townshend Acts, (b) publication of Common
Sense, (c) meeting of the First Continental
Congress to protest the Intolerable Acts
4. What was the most effective way the American
colonists responded to British taxes, such as
the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts?
1. When the French & Indian War ended in 1763,
salutary neglect ended and parliamentary
sovereignty began. This was the beginning of
British taxes and laws make by Parliament and
not by colonial assemblies.
2. This is the order: Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts,
Lexington/Concord
3. This is the order: Townshend Acts, First
Continental Congress, Common Sense
4. Boycotting
1. Who wrote Common Sense?
2. Who was the principal author of the Declaration
of Independence?
3. The Declaration of Independence is based upon
the ideas of which European Enlightenment
thinker?
4. Who was the American in charge of the
Continental Army?
5. Why was Saratoga the “turning point” battle of
the Revolutionary War?
6. Name two parts of the Treaty of Paris, 1783 that
ended the American Revolution
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
George Washington
Because this American victory allowed France
to commit to an alliance with America.
6. Any two will do: America gained independence,
America gained all lands east of the Mississippi
(everything from the colonies to the Mississippi
River became the USA); Spain got Florida;
Britain kept Canada; France got nothing (even
though they helped America).
1. Name 1 reason the national government under
the Articles of Confederation could be
considered a “success”
2. Name 2 reasons it could be considered a
“failure”
3. How did Shays’ Rebellion lead to the formation
of the Constitution?
4. Name 2 ways the national government under
the Constitution was stronger than the national
government under the Articles of
Confederation.
1. The national gov’t did not overtax the states and
did not tax away citizens liberties; The national
gov’t dealt with western lands well with the Land
Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
2. The national government was too weak; it did not
have the power to tax, had no president or courts
3. This rebellion proved that the Articles of
Confederation were too weak. When the national
government could not collect taxes to raise an
army to stop the rebellion,
4. Under the Constitution, the gov’t had the power to
tax, a president, a court system, a national
currency, a national bank, supremacy over states
1. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787,
how did the “Great Compromise” settle the issue
between the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan?
2. The Constitution is based on 5 major principles:
popular sovereignty, limited government,
federalism, separation of powers, and checks and
balances. What are (a) separation of powers, and
(b) federalism?
3. What two groups played key roles in the debate
over the ratification of the Constitution? One
favored the strong powers given to the national
government and wanted this Constitution to be
ratified. The other feared these new powers and
thought that the Constitution shouldn’t be ratified
1. Bi-cameral Congress with a House of
Representatives and a Senate. The Senate has two
representatives, regardless of its population size.
House based on state population size.
2. (a) Power of the national gov’t is divided among 3
branches: legislative, executive, judicial branches.
Each has their own powers and responsibilities;
(b) The idea that power is divided between the
national government and state governments. The
national gov’t has powers to declare war, coin
money, make laws, taxes, but states have powers
to create school, roads, make laws and taxes.
3. The Federalists and Anti-Federalists
1. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were
important members of Washington’s first cabinet,
but they disagreed on a lot of issues. Name 2
differences between Hamilton and Jefferson.
2. What two pieces of advice did Washington give
Americans in his Farewell Address in 1796?
3. What legal precedent was established by the
Marbury v. Madison (1803) case?
4. Which U.S. president purchased Louisiana from
France?
1. Any three will do: Hamilton was Sec of Treasury/
Jefferson was Sec of State; Hamilton believed in a
strong national government/Jefferson believed in
more power to states; Hamilton believed that the
Constitution could be “loosely” interpreted/
Jefferson said it had to be “strictly” interpreted;
Hamilton wanted a national bank & “assumption”
of state debts/Jefferson did not; Hamilton
supported Britain/ Jefferson supported France.
2. Watch out for political parties; Avoid “entangling
alliances” with foreign nations, especially Europe.
3. Judicial Review—Supreme Court has the right to
declare acts of Congress unconstitutional
4. Jefferson
1. What caused the War of 1812?
2. What was the treaty that ended the war?
3. Name 2 things that Henry Clay’s “American
System” created for the United States
4. What was the name of the declaration that
proclaimed that the United States would protect
the Western Hemisphere from European
influence?
1. British impressment of American sailors OR
violations of American free trade
2. Treaty of Ghent
3. Creation of the 2nd Bank of the US; protective tariff
to promote industry (Tariff of 1816); building of
roads/turnpikes (like the National Road); building
of canals (like the Erie Canal); increased commerce
among North, South, West; led to railroad
construction in 1830s
4. Monroe Doctrine
1. Why were “common white men” able to
vote by the 1830s?
2. Why was Andrew Jackson called the
“common man” president?
3. What political party did Andrew Jackson
create?
4. Name 2 key events of the Andrew Jackson
presidency
5. What is temperance?
6. What is abolitionism?
1. The property qualifications that were required for
men to vote were reduced or eliminated which
allowed “common” (poor) white men to vote
2. Andrew Jackson was uneducated, born in a log
cabin, was a military general, favored states rights
3. Democrats
4. Indian Removal of the Cherokee (Trail of Tears);
Nullification Crisis when South Carolina refused to
pay the tariff (tax); Jackson killed the Second Bank
of the US; Spoils System
5. A social reform that tried to end alcohol abuse
6. The desire to end slavery
• Essential Question:
–What were the key concepts that will be
tested on the US History EOCT?
• CPUSH Agenda for EOCT Review:
–EOCT Review: Review Units 5-8
–Today’s HW: Study Units 5-8
–End of Course Test: May 18 and 19
–Unit 15 Test: Wed, May 25 (2nd pd)
Thurs, May 26 (3rd pd)
EOCT Review Game Rules
■Groups compete against each other:
–Teams will be presented a prompt
& asked to provide as many correct
answers as possible within 1 minute
–Groups earn 1 point per correct answer
–If any part of the response is incorrect,
teams receive no points for that round
1. What does “manifest destiny” mean?
2. What caused the Mexican-American War?
3. The new territory gained from Mexico after the
Mexican-American War that included New Mexico,
California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and parts of
Colorado and Wyoming was known as the:
4. What led to the massive population growth of
California in 1849 and 1850?
5. How did the majority of western travelers travel
to the fertile farmlands of the west coast
1. Western expansion; annexation of newly-settled
lands; God wants the US to become stronger
2. Disagreement over the southern border of Texas;
3. The Mexican Cession
4. California Gold Rush in 1849 (49ers)
5. Across the Oregon Trail
1. Which sectional compromise created the 36°30’
line that outlawed slavery in northern territories?
2. Which compromise created a Fugitive Slave Law?
3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act created popular
sovereignty which enraged northern abolitionists.
What is popular sovereignty?
4. Why did many Republicans (like Abraham Lincoln)
refer to themselves as “free-soilers” rather than
“abolitionists”?
1. Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820
2. Compromise of 1850
3. the idea that the residents of western territories
have the right to decide if slavery will be allowed
in their territory
4. The wanted to stop the expansion of slavery into
the west but they did not intend to force the
South to end its slave system because it was
protected by their state constitutions
1. In Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), the Supreme Court
ruled this act unconstitutional:
2. Who was the leader of the Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
raid who hoped to use the attack to end all slavery
in the South?
3. What was Lincoln’s war goal when the Civil War
began?
4. What was Lincoln’s new war goal after the Battle
of Antietam?
5. Put the Civil War events in the correct order:
(a) Fort Sumter, (b) Lincoln’s election as president
in 1860, (c) secession of South Carolina, and
(d) the Civil War begins
1. The 36°30’ line created as part of the Missouri
Compromise of 1820—Congress has no authority
to prohibit slavery in the territories
2. John Brown
3. Correct order: (b) Lincoln’s election, (c) South
Carolina secession, (a) Fort Sumter, (d) the Civil
War begins
4. Lincoln’s initial goal was to “preserve the Union”
and bring the South back into the USA
5. After Antietam, Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Proclamation and made the Civil War about
ending slavery
1. Name two advantages of the Union at the
outbreak of the Civil War
2. Which Civil War document said: “…all persons held
as slaves within any State or designated part of a
State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be then,
thenceforward, and forever free”?
3. What battle (in Pennsylvania) was considered the
“turning point” of the Civil War because the
Confederate army never attacked in Northern soil
and began to lose the war
1. Any two will do: Larger population for troops,
more factories, more railroad lines, an advanced
navy, more available farmland for food
2. The Emancipation Proclamation
3. Gettysburg
1. What is “Reconstruction”?
2. Name two goals of the Union during
Reconstruction
3. What did the 13th Amendment do?
4. What did the 15th Amendment do?
5. What happened to President Andrew Johnson
when he vetoed the Freedman’s Bureau law,
argued against the 14th Amendment, and violated
the Tenure of Office Act in 1868?
6. How did the Compromise of 1877 bring an end to
Reconstruction?
1. The era after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877
2. Goals include: Bring South back into the Union;
End slavery; Protect African-Americans; Deciding
how or if to punish Confederates for their role in
the Civil War; Rebuilding the nation
3. Ended slavery
4. Guaranteed black men the right to vote
5. He was impeached by the House (but not removed
from office by the Senate)
6. The deal that was made between Democrats and
Republicans as a result of the election of 1876.
When the election results came back tied,
Democrats agreed to support the Republican
candidate Rutherford B Hayes as president if
Hayes would end military districting in the South
1. After the Civil War, three groups of Americans
settled in the West (between the Mississippi River
& Pacific coast). Name two of these three groups
2. What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
3. The expansion of railroads after the Civil War was
helped by two groups: the national government
and immigrants. Explain how both groups helped
expand railroads
4. What was the last Indian battle in US History?
5. Who was William Jennings Bryan?
6. Name 2 things the Populists demanded during the
Gilded Age
1. Miners, ranchers, farmers (homesteaders)
2. This law gave 160 acres of western land to farmers
who promised to live on the land for at least 5 yrs
3. The national gov’t gave millions of acres of land
grants to complete the transcontinental railroad;
Chinese and Irish immigrants built the western and
eastern legs of the transcontinental railroad
4. Wounded Knee
5. Bryan was a presidential candidate in the 1896
election. He represented the Populist Party. His
“Cross of Gold” speech made him a national figure
in the argument for a bi-metalism (gold and silver)
6. Populists demands included: gov’t regulation of
railroads and banks, a national income tax, directelection of U.S. Senators, bi-metalism
1. Four major industries helped push the USA into an
Industrial Revolution during the Gilded Age. What
were these four R.O.S.E. industries?
2. Monopolies began during the Gilded Age. What is
a monopoly?
3. What industry did Carnegie monopolize?
4. What industry did Rockefeller monopolize?
5. During the Gilded Age, 23 million “new
Immigrants” came to America. What is a “new”
immigrant?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Railroads, oil, steel, electricity
A company that controls all or most of an industry
Carnegie = Steel
Rockefeller = Oil
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
(specifically Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and
Poland) rather than Northern Europe (England,
Ireland, and Germany…which were always the
dominant immigrant groups from the colonial era
to the Civil War).
1. Name 3 ways cities changed during the Gilded Age
2. How were the Knights of Labor different from the
American Federation of Labor?
3. Who was the most famous “boss” of a political
machine?
4. What do Crédit Mobilier and the Whiskey Ring
have in common?
5. How did the Pendleton Act of 1883 try to end
patronage?
1. Skyscrapers, urbanization, new immigrants, mass
transit, ethnic neighborhoods (enclaves), slums,
tenement apartments, crime increased
2. Both were unions, but the Knights allowed any
type of worker (regardless of race, sex, skill level);
The AFL was a union that only allowed white,
skilled workers to join. AFL was more successful
3. Boss Tweed of New York’s Tammany Hall machine
4. These were political scandals during President
Grant’s administration.
5. Pendleton Act created an exam that civil service
employees had to pass before they could get their
jobs. This created a merit-based system.
1. What were laws called that segregated blacks and
whites in the South from 1877 to 1954?
2. What is a poll tax?
3. What is a literacy test?
4. What is a grandfather clause?
5. Which Supreme Court case said that segregation
was legal as long as the options for blacks were
equal (“separate but equal” doctrine)?
1. Jim Crow laws
2. Yearly taxes that must be paid in order to vote;
These were high fees that kept most poor black
sharecroppers from voting
3. Voters must pass a reading test to be able to vote;
This kept most African-Americans from qualifying
to vote
4. Laws that allowed poor whites from not having to
pay a poll tax or pass a literacy test if their father
or grandfather could vote prior to 1867.
5. Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
1. What is a muckraker?
2. Who wrote The Jungle?
3. Who created the first settlement houses?
4. Which U.S. presidents became the first
“trustbuster”?
5. What law was used to break up monopolies?
6. Name 2 ways America became more “democratic”
in the Progressive Era?
1. A journalist who exposed the negative parts of
American society during the Gilded Age
2. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle
3. Jane Addams
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
6. In the West, state government allowed citizens to
create initiatives, vote in referendums, and vote
for recalls; Women gained the right to vote (19th
amendment); Americans were able to vote for
their Senators (17th amendment)
• Essential Question:
–What were the key concepts that will
–be tested on the US History EOCT?
• CPUSH Agenda for EOCT Review:
–EOCT Review: Review Units 9-12
–Today’s HW: Study Units 9-12
–End of Course Test: May 18 and 19
–Meet in Computer Lab 725 for EOCT
1. Name 2 reasons for the Spanish-American War
in 1898
2. What caused the Philippine-American War
(Filipino Insurrection)?
3. Which U.S. president used “big stick” diplomacy
to build the Panama Canal?
4. Which foreign policy document declared
that the USA was the “police power” of the
Western Hemisphere and would protect the
area from European intervention?
1. Yellow journalism; Spain’s brutality towards the
Cuban people; The explosion of the USS Maine
(Remember the Maine and to hell with Spain);
Willingness to show off the strength of the new
American navy; Desire for imperialism
2. The USA took the Philippines after the SpanishAmerican War but did not offer the Philippines its
independence which caused an uprising and threeyear war.
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
1. Name 2 reasons the USA joined World War I
2. When the USA entered World War I in 1917, the
nation had to mobilize. Name 2 ways the U.S.
mobilized for war
3. How did World War I impact women?
4. How did the war impact African Americans?
5. Why was Eugene V Debs jailed during WWI?
1. Unrestricted submarine warfare (freedom of the
seas), sinking of the Lusitania, Germany’s
Zimmerman Note to Mexico, President Wilson’s
desire “to make the world safe for democracy”
2. Selective Service Act (draft), War Industries Board
(WIB) to direct the economy, rationing, Committee
on Public Information (propaganda)
3. Women got better jobs in war-related industries;
Grew “victory gardens;” Sold war bonds; Served
as nurses in the Red Cross
4. African Americans fought in segregated units; Few
were allowed to fight; Great Migration allowed
blacks to move into the North for factory jobs
5. Debs was the leader of the American Socialist
Party. During WWI, Debs violated the Espionage
and Sedition Act; Part of Red Scare
1. What were 2 of President Woodrow Wilson’s
Fourteen Points?
2. Name 2 ways Germany was impacted by the
Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I
3. Name 2 ways the map of Europe was redrawn by
the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I
4. Why did the Senate reject U.S. membership in the
League of Nations?
5. What was Article X of the League of Nations
covenant?
1. Create a League of Nations; Divide Europe into
new nations; Self-determination in Europe;
Freedom of the seas; No secret treaties; Reduce
militarism; Readjust colonial possessions
2. Germany was severely punished; Forced to accept
war guilt, pay $33 billion in reparation; Lost
colonies; Lost land in Europe; Limited military
3. Germany lost land; Austria-Hungary & Ottoman
Empires were broken up; Russia lost land;
Mandates were created in the Middle East
4. Reservationists & irreconcilables did not like
Article X; They feared that joining the League
would take away Congress’ power to declare war
5. Article X = all nations must help each other
1. In the 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge said the
“business of America is business.” What did he
mean by this in terms of the role of the American
government in the 1920s?
2. What industry was the major force behind the
economic boom of the 1920s?
3. What was the most popular form of media in the
1920s?
4. What did each of the following do that made them
celebrities in the 1920s: Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth,
Charles Lindbergh?
5. What was the name of the group of writers
including Ernest Hemingway that were negative
of the 1920s and World War I?
1. The US government should not control the
economy. A return to “pro-business” policies to
promote economic growth; Low taxes; No new
progressive reforms
2. Automobiles
3. Either the Radio or “talking” movies
4. Jack Dempsey (Boxing), Babe Ruth (Baseball),
Charles Lindberg (solo flight across Atlantic Ocean)
5. Lost Generation
1. What was the celebration of African-American
culture through new artistic, literary, and musical
forms?
2. Who was Langston Hughes?
3. Who was Louis Armstrong?
4. What did the 18th Amendment do?
5. What did the 19th Amendment do?
6. What was the name of the young, urban women of
who felt liberated in the 1920s?
1. Harlem Renaissance
2. Langston Hughes (author)
3. Louis Armstrong (jazz musician)
4. 18th amendment outlawed alcohol (Prohibition)
5. 19th amendment gave women voting rights
(suffrage)
6. Flappers
1. Rural Americans in the 1920s saw a lot of things in
cities that they thought were “un-American.”
What was the Scopes Trial?
2. What was the Red Scare?
3. Who were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
4. What were the National Origins Act of 1921 and
Emergency Quota Act of 1924?
1. The “monkey trial” in Tennessee that debated
teaching evolution in public schools
2. Fear of communism and socialism in America
3. Two Italian immigrants and anarchists who were
accused of murder. Sacco and Vanzetti were
executed even though there was not much
evidence
4. Laws that limited Southern and Eastern Europeans
(the “new immigrants”) to America
1. How did over-production/under-consumption
lead to the Great Depression?
2. What was the weakest industry or profession
throughout the 1920s?
3. What is it called when a person borrows money
to pay for a stock in hopes that the stock will
make money
4. Name 2 reasons for the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
5. What were the shanty towns called during the
depression?
1. Companies were making too many consumer
goods and there were not enough buyers
2. Farmers struggled in the 1920s because of the
decline in demand for crops after World War I.
Farmers had heavy debts and many lost their
farms to the banks (foreclosure)
3. Buying on margin
4. Over-farming in the Plains, heavy droughts,
lack of trees to block the winds, heavy windstorms,
loose topsoil
5. Hoovervilles
1. Name two ways President Hoover actively tried to
fight the effects of the Great Depression?
2. Who beat Hoover in the 1932 election and
became the only 4-term president in US history?
3. What were the “three Rs” of the New Deal?
4. What was the first action FDR took as president
to address the Great Depression?
5. What was the name of FDR’s radio
communications to the American people about
his plan to fight the depression?
1. Hoover’s wanted people to work together
(“rugged individualism”); Rejected active gov’t
intervention; Later, offered relief checks &
created the Reconstruction Finance Corps (RFC)
which loaned money to keep businesses open; He
create jobs through the Hoover Dam project
2. Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)
3. Relief (create jobs), recovery (end the depression),
reform (keep another depression from occurring)
4. The bank holiday; Closed banks for four days so
gov’t inspectors could check the banks
5. Fireside chats
1. Which New Deal reform protected Americans’
bank accounts from bank failures?
2. Which was the largest, most comprehensive jobcreation program of the New Deal, creating relief
and jobs for over 8 million Americans including
artists, musicians, construction, teachers, doctors?
3. Which New Deal reform guaranteed union workers
the right to strike and collectively bargain?
4. Which New Deal program created retirement for
the elderly but was also the first welfare program
in history because needy people got money too
Word Bank: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
Social Security, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), Wagner Act,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),
Works Progress Administration (AAA)
1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
2. Works Progress Administration (AAA)
3. Wagner Act
4. Social Security
1. Which New Deal program built dams to create
hydroelectric power in the Southeast?
2. Which New Deal reform regulated the stock
market to avoid another stock market crash?
3. Which New Deal program created jobs for young
men aged 18 to 25?
4. Who served as FDR’s “conscious” and listened to
the concerns of women and African-Americans?
5. Who criticized FDR’s New Deal and proposed a
“Share the Wealth” program to tax the rich and
distribute money to all Americans?
Word Bank: Huey Long, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), Eleanor Roosevelt,
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
1. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
2. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
3. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
4. Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Huey Long
1. Name 3 totalitarian dictators that came to power
in the years before World War II & their countries
2. What 3 countries made up the “Axis Coalition”
(the Tripartite Pact)?
3. Name 3 of the many countries that formed the
Allied Powers in WWII
4. Britain and France used the policy of __________
in which they gave in to German, Italian, and
Japanese demands in order to avoid war.
5. What military tactic did Germany use to take
control of Europe and France by 1942?
6. Place events in the correct chronological order:
(a) Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, (b) German
invasion of Poland, (c) German annexation of
Austria, (d) outbreak of World War II
1. Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in the
Soviet Union, Hideki Tojo in Japan
2. Germany, Italy, Japan
3. USA, Britain, France, USSR, China, Australia,
Canada
4. Appeasement
5. Blitzkrieg
6. C, A, B, D
1. What did the Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937 outlaw?
2. In 1939, the U.S. began providing weapons to
Britain, but we did not provide loans nor did the
USA offer to ship weapons to Britain on American
ships. What was this program called?
3. Which U.S. program offered the Allies full support
through arms sales and transportation on American
ships. What was this program called that made the
USA the “arsenal of democracy?
4. What was 1 of the 2 things that Britain and the USA
agreed to in the Atlantic Charter in 1941?
5. Place these events in the chronological order:
(a) Lend-Lease Act, (b) Neutrality Acts,
(c) Cash-and-Carry program, (d) Pearl Harbor
1. Weapons sales or loans to any country at war
2. Cash-and-Carry program
3. Lend-Lease program
4. Developed a battle plan for war; Agreed to form a
United Nations; agreed to Allied goals for the war
5. B, C, A, D
1. Name 1 way women were impacted by WWII
2. Name 1 way African Americans were impacted by
WWII
3. Name 1 way Japanese Americans were impacted
by WWII
4. Who was A Philip Randolph and what significant
change did he help bring about on the U.S. home
front during World War II?
5. What was the “Final Solution” during WWII?
1. Women worked factory jobs; Women served in
the military in clerical jobs; Helped ration goods
& plant victory gardens; Received unequal pay
2. Great Migration to North & West; Drafted to fight
in WWII; Fought in segregated units
3. Placed in internment camps
4. He was an African American civil rights leader who
was upset by unequal pay scales for black workers;
He threatened a march on Washington & forced
FDR to create the Fair Employment Practices
Commission to give black workers equal pay
5. Hitler’s plan to eliminate European Jews &
non-Aryans; the Holocaust
1. What was the turning point battle in Europe that
allowed the Soviets to push towards Germany?
2. What was the turning point battle in the Pacific
that allowed the USA to push towards Japan?
3. What strategy did the US use against the Japanese
military that allowed them to shorten length of the
war and move quickly towards Japan?
4. What was the invasion of Nazi-occupied France
that allowed the Allies push towards Germany?
5. What was the code name for the secret U.S. plan
to develop the atomic bomb?
6. At which war-time conference did FDR, Churchill,
& Stalin agree to self-determination in Europe,
to form a United Nations, occupy Germany?
1. Stalingrad
2. Midway
3. Island-hopping
4. D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
5. Manhattan Project
6. Yalta Conference
• Essential Question:
–What were the key concepts that will
–be tested on the US History EOCT?
• CPUSH Agenda for EOCT Review:
–EOCT Review: Review Units 13-15
–Today’s HW: Study Units 13-15
–End of Course Test: May 18 and 19
–Meet in Computer Lab 725 for EOCT
1. What was the purpose of “containment”?
2. Which U.S. program was created during the Cold
War to give military and economic aid to nations
(like Greece & Turkey) to resist communism?
3. Which U.S. program was created during the
Cold War to give $13 billion to European nations
to help them recover from the devastation of
WWII (and to resist communism)?
4. What military alliance did the USA join to protect
the democratic nations of Western Europe?
5. How did the USA respond when Stalin cut off
roads, railroads, & access to West Berlin in 1948?
1. Stop the spread of communism
2. Truman Doctrine
3. Marshall Plan
4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
5. Berlin Airlift
1. Name 3 Cold War events that showed that the
Soviet Union was in the lead during the Cold War?
2. What caused the Korean War and how did the
Korean War end?
3. Name 1 reason for the Red Scare of the late 1940s
and 1950s
4. Who was the U.S. Senator who led the Red Scare
accusations from 1950 to 1954?
5. What event in 1957 caused President Eisenhower
to create NASA and the National Defense
Education Act?
6. What did Eisenhower call his warning to
Americans to avoid excessive military spending?
1. China fell to communism in 1949; The USSR
developed ICBMs in 1957; The USSR launched
Sputnik in 1957; Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam fell
to communism; USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979
2. North Korea invaded South Korea; An armistice
was called and the 38° line was restored that
divided North & South Korea
3. Threat of communism in Europe; Discovery of spies
in America like Alger Hiss & Julius/Ethel Rosenberg
(atomic secrets)
4. Senator Joseph McCarthy
5. The Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957
6. The military-industrial complex
1. What was Eisenhower’s policy of threatening to
use nuclear weapons during the Cold War?
2. What was the name of the failed invasion of Cuba
under President Kennedy in 1961?
3. How did the Kennedy administration respond in
1962 when spy planes discovered Soviet ICBMs in
Cuba?
4. During the Vietnam War, what was the legislation
passed by Congress that gave President Lyndon
Johnson “authority to defend South Vietnam at
any cost”?
5. What was the “turning point” of the Vietnam War
after which many Americans though the war could
not be won?
1. Brinkmanship
2. Bay of Pigs invasion
3. Kennedy issued a “quarantine” (blockade) of
Cuba to keep more Soviet missiles from arriving,
he promised never to invade Cuba again, and he
secretly removed U.S. missiles from Turkey
4. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
5. Tet Offensive
1. What is “Levittown”?
2. What was the law passed by Congress that gave
college tuition and inexpensive government home
loans to World War II veterans?
3. What is the name of the phenomenon of
middle-class white residents moving to suburbs
while African Americans remained in poor cities?
4. Who best represented the new musical style of
rock n’ roll in the 1950s?
5. What was the name of the large numbers of
children born in the post-World War II era in the
late 1940s and the 1950s?
1. A example of a massive suburban community in
the 1950s
2. The GI Bill of Rights
3. White flight
4. Elvis Presley
5. Baby boom
1. How did TV impact the civil rights movement?
2. How did TV impact the 1960 presidential election?
3. How did TV impact the Vietnam War?
4. Name 2 reasons why 1968 was a year of turmoil in
U.S. history
5. Name 3 programs that were created as part of
President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”
1. Violence in Birmingham led to the passage of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the violence at Selma
led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
2. TV debates helped Kennedy defeat Nixon
3. Vietnam became a “living room war” as news
reports showed the body counts and violence
4. Tet Offensive in Vietnam; Assassination of MLK;
Assassination of Robert Kennedy; Student protest
at the Chicago Democratic National Convention
5. Medicare; Medicaid; Head Start; Civil Rights Act of
1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; Clean Air /Water
Acts; National Endowment for the Arts/Humanities
(PBS & National Public Radio); “War on Poverty”;
Dept of Housing & Urban Development (HUD),
Office of Economic Opportunity, Food Stamps
1. What did President Truman do in 1949 to take the
lead on the civil rights?
2. Who was the first African American baseball player
to play in the major leagues?
3. What was the Supreme Court case in 1896 that
declared segregation was acceptable as long as
facilities were “separate but equal”?
4. Which Supreme Court case overturned this case by
declaring that “separate is inherently unequal”?
5. Which civil rights law ended Jim Crow segregation
in public facilities?
6. Which civil rights group began the sit-in movement
in 1960?
1. Truman integrated the military in 1949
2. Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers
3. Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
4. Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
(1954)
5. Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
1. What was the name of the civil rights event in
which African Americans rode busses throughout
the South to determine if integration orders were
being enforced?
2. In which documents did Martin Luther King, Jr.
declare that the civil rights movement “cannot
wait” despite the violence that the movement is
causing in the South?
3. Who used nonviolent protest, led boycotts, &
formed the SCLC to fight for civil rights?
4. Who was a member of the Nation of Islam that
believed in black separatism & civil rights by “any
means necessary”?
5. Who transformed SNCC into a black power group?
6. Which black power group “policed the police”?
1. Freedom Riders (CORE)
2. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in 1963
3. Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Malcolm X
5. Stokely Carmichael
6. Black Panthers
1. Which Supreme Court decision declared that
accused persons should be informed of their rights
to a lawyer and from self-incrimination?
2. Which Supreme Court decision protected a
woman’s right to an abortion in the first trimester
as a matter of privacy?
3. Which Supreme Court decision guaranteed that
all accused persons are entitled to an attorney?
1. Miranda v Arizona
2. Roe v Wade
3. Gideon v Wainwright
1. Who wrote the “Feminine Mystique” in 1963 and
formed the National Organization of Women?
2. Who wrote “Silent Spring” in 1962 which launched
the modern environmental movement?
3. What is the difference between the ERA and the
EPA?
4. What was the focus of the Bakke v Regents of
California at Davis Supreme Court case?
5. What was the focus of Title IX legislation?
1. Betty Friedan
2. Rachel Carson
3. The ERA is the Equal Rights Amendment that
would have outlawed sexual discrimination (but
it never passed); The EPA is the Environmental
Protection Agency that was formed in 1970
4. Whether affirmative action policies were
acceptable (The court said they were)
5. Education programs that accept money from
the federal government cannot discriminate based
on sex (so schools must have an equal number of
boys and girls athletic programs)
1. Name 3 conservative politicians from the 1960s
to the 1980s
2. Name the 3 parts of Nixon’s triangular diplomacy
3. What was Nixon’s Vietnamization plan?
4. What did Nixon mean by “détente”?
5. What was the name of the scandal that led to
Nixon’s resignation in 1974?
6. Why was Gerald Ford’s presidency impacted by
this scandal?
1. Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964 but lost
to Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon won the
presidency in 1968 and 1972; Ronald Reagan won
in 1980 and 1984; George Bush won in 1988
2. Ending the war in Vietnam; Visiting communist
China under Mao; easing tensions (détente) with
the Soviet Union
3. Gradually pull out American troops from Vietnam
and replace them with South Vietnamese soldiers;
4. “Easing tensions” with the USSR, most famously
accomplished by the SALT agreement in 1972
5. Watergate
6. Ford pardoned Nixon which hurt Ford’s reputation
1. Name 1 reason Jimmy Carter’s presidency was not
successful
2. What was the focus of President Jimmy Carter’s
foreign policy?
3. What two nations agreed to President Carter’s
Camp David Accords?
4. Name 2 reasons the economy was bad in the
1970s
5. Who beat Carter in the 1980 presidential election?
1. Increasing stagflation or the Iran-Hostage Crisis
2. Human rights
3. Camp David Accords = Egypt and Israel
4. Stagnant economy (no economic growth);
high inflation; high unemployment; energy crisis
due to the OPEC oil embargo; stagflation
5. Ronald Reagan
1. What is the difference between the “New Left”
and the “New Right”?
2. Name 2 parts of President Ronald Reagan’s
economic plan for the USA
3. Name 1 foreign policy success of Reagan’s
presidency
4. What was the name of the foreign policy scandal
that occurred while Reagan was president?
5. What was the major problem with
“Reaganomics”?
1. “New Left” was a liberal movement that protested
Vietnam, participated in civil rights, and wanted
gov’t involvement in society; “New Right” was a
conservative movement that called for tax cuts;
reduced government spending; increased military
spending; an emphasis on family values
2. Reaganomics = 25% tax cut (called “supply side
economics”); Cuts to gov’t social programs;
Increasing military budget; Ended stagflation
3. Return of hostages held in Iran; “Won” the
Cold War; Berlin Wall came down in 1989;
INF agreement between Reagan and Gorbachev
that reduced nuclear missiles; SDI (“Star Wars”)
4. Iran-Contra Affair
5. Large government deficits
1. What is the order of these presidencies:
(a) Bill Clinton, (b) George Bush, (c) Barack Obama,
(d) George W. Bush, (e) Ronald Reagan
2. Which president was famous for promising
“no new taxes” and then raising taxes?
3. What was the difference between Operation
Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm?
4. Whose presidency was defined by the signing of
NAFTA between the USA, Canada, and Mexico as
well as impeachment due to the Lewinski scandal?
5. Whose presidency was defined by the September
11, 2001 terrorist attack and War on Terrorism?
6. What is the difference in motivation for the U.S.
invasions of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003)
1. E, B, A, D, C
2. George Bush
3. Desert Shield was designed to protect Saudi Arabia
from a potential invasion by Iraq under Saddam
Hussein; Desert Storm was the war fought to
liberate Kuwait from Saddam’s Iraqi occupation
4. Bill Clinton
5. George W Bush
6. Afghanistan = find al-Qaeda & Osama bin Laden &
replace the Taliban gov’t; Iraq = overthrow Saddam
Hussein due to weapons of mass destruction