SECOND SEMESTER REVIEW
GILDED AGE
1. What tragic event could be used to highlight the dangers of unsafe working conditions during the Gilded Age? TRIANGLE WAISTSHIRT FIRE
2. Who was the most famous Boss of this time period? BOSS TWEED
3. What was the “Cult of Domesticity”? DEFINITION OF WOMEN’S ROLE AS WIFE AND MOTHER
WILSON (DEM)
PROGRESSIVE PERIOD/WORLD WAR I
TAFT (REP)
4. For what third party was Theodore Roosevelt the Presidential candidate in 1912? Who did he run against? PROGRESSIVE (BULL MOOSE PARTY)
5. Who was the candidate who ran for President as a Socialist in the early 1900s? He even ran from jail? EUGENE V. DEBS
6. What President had the slogan “Walk softly and carry a big stick?” THEODORE ROOSEVELT
7. What explosion caused the Spanish-American War? MAINE (THE SHIP)
8. Who was President during the Spanish-American War? MCKINLEY
9. What was the addition to the Monroe Doctrine saying the U.S would interfere in South America for domestic issues?? What did it do?
ROOSEVELT COROLLARY—ALLOWED US TO INTERVENE IN COUNTRIES (MADE US INTERNATIONAL POLICEMEN)
1920s
10. What invention transformed American dating rituals? AUTOMOBILE
11. Who were the women who “bobbed” their hair and wore short skirts in the 20s? FLAPPERS
12. What was the Lost Generation? Give examples..DISALLUSIONED WRITERS AFTER WWI –HEMINGWAY AND FITZGERALD
13. Who was the pilot hero of the 20s? LINDBERGH
14. Who was the famous flower painter? O’KEEFFE
15. What was the scandal of the Harding Administration? What was it about? TEA POT DOME—ALBERT FALL (SEC OF INTERIOR) ALLOWING DRILLING
16. What was the outcome of the Scopes Trial? GUILTY—FINED 100 DOLLARS
GREAT DEPRESSION/NEW DEAL
17. When did the stock market crash? 1929
18. What did the New Deal do? What did it NOT do? HELPED AMERICANS SURVIVE—DID NOT PULL US OUT OF DEPRESSION (WWII DID THAT!)
19. What was Roosevelt’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court? Why did he want to do this? COURT PACKING PLAN—THEY DECLARED HIS STUFF
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
WWII
20. When was the attack on Pearl Harbor? DECEMBER 7, 1941
21. When did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb on Japan? AUGUST 6, 1945 AND AUGUST 9, 1945
22. What fictional character encouraged women to work during WWII? ROSIE THE RIVITER
23. What General was ordered to leave the Philippines before they were taken by Japan? MCARTHUR
24. What major issue caused the strain between the allies? THE SECOND FRONT
25. How could Americans help on the homefront during WWII? VICTORY GARDENS, GO TO WORK, SAVE GAS, RATHIONING
COLD WAR
26. Who said the American Government was full of spies? JOSEPH MCCARTHY
27. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? GAVE PRESIDENT JOHNSON ABILITY TO SEND GROUND TROOPS INTO VIETNAM (BLANK CHECK)
28. What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into Space by the Soviets? How did we react? SPUTNIK—PUSH EDUCATION IN MATH AND
SCIENCE—START NASA PROGRAMS
29. What act gives the President 60 days to remove troops if he does not obtain Congressional approval within 48 hours of deploying troops? WAR POWERS ACT
CIVIL RIGHTS
30. What were segregation laws known as? JIM CROW LAWS
31. Who were the Little Rock 9? FIRST STUDENTS TO INTEGRATE LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL
32. Who was President when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed? JOHNSON
33. What did the following Amendments do? 13th (FREED SLAVES), 14th (CITIZENSHIP) , 15th (VOTING RIGHTS TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN),
18th (PROHIBITION), 19th (WOMEN VOTE), 21st (PROHIBITION ENDS) 26th (18 YEAR OLDS VOTE)
POST COLD WAR
34, What was Title IX? (EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN EDUCATION AND SPORTS)
35. Who were Sonya Sotomayor, Sandra Day O’Conner, Bill Gates, Robert Johnson, Lionel Sosa? (SOTOMAYOR = FIRST HISPANIC, THIRD WOMAN ON
SUPREME COURT
O’CONNER=FIRST WOMAN ON SUPREME COURT GATES= WEALTHY THROUGH COMPUTER SOFTWARE JOHNSON=FIRST
AFRICAN-AMERICAN BILLIONARE OWNED BET SOSA=WEALTHY HISPANIC POLITICAL ADVISOR AND ADVERTISING GURU)
36. What was the purpose of the US Patriot Act of 2001? (ALLOWED GOVERNMENT MORE FREEDOM TO GO AFTER TERRORISM AFTER 9/11)
37. What were the major pieces of legislation during the Obama administration? (AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT, OBAMA CARE
(AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE ACT)
38. What compounded the damage by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. (SLOW RESPONSE TIME BY STATE AND GOVERNMENT—LEVEES FAILED)
39. Define GATT and NAFTA (GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARRIFS AND TRADES FROM 1947 WHICH WAS REPLACE BY THE WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATION/ NAFTA= NORTH ATLANTIC FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WHICH ENDED TARRIFFS ON GOODS BETWEEN CANADA, U.S. AND MEXICO)
40. WHAT DID THE FOLLOIWNG COURT CASES DO?
Plessy V. Ferguson ESBATLISHED SEPARATE BUT EQUAL—MADE JIM CROW LAWS LEGAL
Loving V. Virginia
MADE LAWS AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE ILLEGAL
Gore V. Bush
DECLARED BUSH THE WINNER OF THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN FLORIDA (WHICH MADE HIM WINNER OF ELECTION
Tinker V. Desmoines SAID STUDENTS DO NOT SHED RIGHTS AT HIGH SCHOOL DOORS/ALLOWED FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SYMBOLIC SPEECH RIGHTS
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby REFORMED SCHOOL FINANCE IN TX-REQUIRED INCREASED FUNDING FOR STUDENTS IN POORER DISTRICTS
Brown V. Board REVERSED SEPARATE BUT EQUAL RULING AND SAID SEGREGATION NO LONGER LEGAL IN SCHOOLS—BEGINS INTEGRATION
Swann V. Charlotte Mecklinburg SAID IT WAS OKAY TO USE BUSING TO ACHIEVE INTEGRATION
Hernandez v. Texas RULED THAT HISPANICS (AND OTHER MINORITIES) HAD THE RIGHTS UNDER THE 14 TH AMENDMENT NOT TO BE TRIED BY A JURY
FROM WHICH THEY WOULD BE EXCLUDED
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD SEGREGATION OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN ILLEGAL IN TEXAS SCHOOLS
Sweat v. Painter UT LAW SCHOOL COULD NOT SEGREGATE AFRICAN-AMERICAN LAW STUDENT IN ANOTHER SCHOOL
RECONSTRUCTION
-Transcontinental RR
-Freedman’s Burea
GILDED
AGE
PROGRESSIVE
ERA
-Rockefeller
and Carnegie
are
robberbarrons
-Boss System
-Triangle
Shirtwaste
Fire
-Sherman
Anti-trust
Act
-Immigration
Change
-The Jungle (read
by T. Roosevelt)
WWI
-Battle of
the Argonne
Forrest
1920s
-Tea Pot
Dome
Scandal
-Lindbergh
DEPRESSION/
NEW DEAL
-CCC
-Court Packing
Plan
-TVA
-Dust Bowl
WWII
COLD WAR
POST
COLD WAR
-Pearl Harbor
-Guadalcanal
-Rosie the
Riviter
-Hiroshima
-Tet 68
-Berlin
Airlift
-Korean War
-Feminine
Mystique
-cuban
Missile Crisis
-Gulf of
Tonkin
Resolution
-China Falls
-Kent State
-Little Rock
-Sputnik
-NASA
-Rock and
Roll
-deaths of
MLK< JFK
RKF
MALCOLM X
-Clinton
impeachment
-Obama
-9/11
-Bin Laden
PLACE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ON THE CHART…
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD MEETS IN UTAH, ROCKEFELLER AND CARNEGIE LABELED ROBBERBARONS, CCC, TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL, BOSS SYSTEM, SHIRTWASTE TRIANGLE
FIRE, FREEDMAN’S BUREAU, COURT PACKING PLAN, SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT OF 1890, TVA, ROOSEVELT READS THE JUNGLE, LINDBERGH CROSSES THE ATLANTIC,
IMMIGRATION CHANGES IN 1880 (NOW FROM SOUTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE),TET 68, DUST BOWL, BERLIN AIRLIFT, CLINTON IMPEACHMENT, PEARL HARBOR ATTACK,KOREAN
WAR, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE TELLS AMERICAN THAT NOT ALL HOUSEWIVES ARE HAPPY, OBAMA ELECTION, BATTLE OF ARGONNE FORREST, BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL,CUBAN
MISSILE CRISIS,GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION,PWA, CHINA FALLS TO COMMUNISM, SPUTNIK SPARKS CHANGES IN EDUCATION, ROSIE THE RIVITER, BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA,
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL HIGH INTEGRATION, NASA FORMED, 9/11 ATTACK, DEATH OF BIN LADIN, ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC, STUDENT DEATHS AT KENT STATE, ASSASSINATIONS
OF MLK, JFK, RFK, MALCOLM X
KENNEDY
JOHNSON
NIXON
FORD
CARTER
REAGAN
BUSH
CLINTON
BUSH
OBAMA
-Berlin Wall up
-Cuban Missile
Crisis
-Bay of Pigs
-New Frontier
-Great Society
-Tet 68
-Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
-Medicare Act
-Watergate
-China
-Pardoned
Nixon
-Iran
Hostage
Crisis
-Grenada
-Iran Contra
-“Take Down
This Wall”
-O’Connor
-Star Wars
-Contract with
America
-1st Gulf
War
-Panama
-Impeachment
-2nd Gulf
War (War
on Terror)
-Patriot
Act
-Saddam
Hussein
-Gore v.
Bush
decides
election
Hurricane
Katrina
-Affordable
Health Care
Act
-Death of Bin
Laden
-Boston
Marathon
-Sonia
Sotomayor
-American
Recovery &
Reinvestment
Act
-Camp David
Accords
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, THE GREAT SOCIETY, WATERGATE, OPENED UP RELATIONS WITH CHINA, CAMP DAVID ACCORDS, FIRST GULF WAR,
9/11, PARDONED FORMER PRESIDENT, SECOND GULF WAR(War on Terror), BERLIN WALL GOES UP, TET 68, INVASION OF GRENADA, IRAN
CONTRA HEARINGS, PATRIOT ACT, IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS, IMPEACHMENT, CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF SADAM HUSSEIN, CUBAN MISSILE
CRISIS, GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION, TOLD SOVIETS TO “TAKE DOWN THE WALL”, GORE V. BUSH DECIDES PRESIDENCY, DEATH OF BIN
LADEN, FIRST WOMAN ON SUPREME COURT (O’CONNOR), BOSTON MARATHON MASSACRE, BAY OF PIGS, “NEW FRONTIER”, MEDICARE ACT OF