US History – EOC Review
Test on May 3, 2013
Key Concepts – The West
• Native Americans
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Custer
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Wounded Knee
• Settlers:
America’s “Breadbasket”
Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
Manifest Destiny
The Grange
Populists’ Reforms
Free Silver
William Jennings Bryan / Cross of Gold Speech
Key Concepts – Race / Slavery in America
• Coercive Labor
Indentured Servants / Slavery
• Regional Division
• Abolition
• Impact of the Cotton Gin
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
• DID RECONSTRUCTION WORK?
Jim Crow
Ku Klux Klan
• Booker T Washington – Atlanta Compromise
• WEB DuBois / NAACP
• Plessy v Ferguson, 1898
• Brown v. Board, 1957
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Malcolm X
• Little Rock Nine
• Emmitt Till / Rosa Parks
• Civil Rights Act 1964
• Voting Rights Act, 1965
Key Concepts – Progressive Era
• Progressive Reforms (TR, Taft, Wilson)
• Temperance / Carrie Nation
• Woman Suffrage
Susan B Anthony
Alice Paul
Conservation
National Parks
Business / Banking
Federal Reserve System
Ida Tarbell / Standard Oil
Living / Work Conditions
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
Triangle Fire (3-25-1911)
Key Concepts – Imperialism
• Imperialism – International Involvement
Open Door Policy – China
Dollar Diplomacy – Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary
Boxer Rebellion
Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
Spanish American War, 1898 - McKinley
Annexation of Philippines
Yellow Journalism – Hearst / Pulitzer
Sinking of USS Maine
Panama Canal
Key Concepts – World War I
• World War I
Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated
Balance of Power
MAIN Causes
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Zimmerman Telegraph
Sinking of Lusitania
Selective Service Act (Draft)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Trench Warfare
Treaty of Versailles
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Immigration Restrictions
J. Edgar Hoover – FBI
Sacco Vanzetti Trial
Key Concepts – The 1920s
• Prohibition
Bootleggers
Speakeasies
Organized Crime “Mob” – Al Capone
• Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
• Great Migration
• Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Marcus Garvey
• Chicago Race Riots
• Fundamentalism / Change and Progress
Scopes Trial – William Jennings Bryan / Clarence Darrow
Flappers
Ku Klux Klan
“Bible Belt”
• Assembly Line Production – Henry Ford
• Economy
Consumer Credit
Buying on Margin
Installment Plan
Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crash
“Run on Banks”
Bonus Army
Key Concepts – Great Depression & New Deal
• Dust Bowl – Causes & Effects
• Hoovervilles
• New Deal -- FDR
Relief – Recovery – Reform
Minimum Wage / Social Security
• Alphabet Soup – Agencies
CCC – Civilian Conservation Corp.
WPA – Works Progress Admin.
PWA – Public Works Admin
HOLC – Home Owners Loan Corp
REA – Rural Electrification Admin.
TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority
SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission
• Court Packing Plan – Executive Power
• Critics: Long, Coughlin, others
Key Concepts – America @ War: WWII
• Rise of the Third Reich
Adolph Hitler – Mien Kampf
Appeasement
Non-Aggression Pact (Nazi – USSR)
• US Involvement in WWII (Pacific) – Mac Arthur
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Iwo Jima / Okinawa
Bataan Death March
Atomic Bombs – Hiroshima / Nagasaki
• US Involvement in WWII (Europe) – Eisenhower
D-Day
Blitzkrieg
Stalingrad
V-E Day
Key Concepts – The Holocaust
• Holocaust / Nuremberg Trials
Key Concepts – The Cold War
• Cold War
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan
Containment -- Kennan
Domino Theory – Eisenhower
Interstate Highways - Eisenhower
U-2 Incident
Arms Race
Space Race – Sputnik / Apollo Program
Cuban Missile Crisis / Bay of Pigs
Peace Corp – JFK
Berlin Airlift – Truman v. Stalin
NATO / Warsaw Pact
House Un-American Activities Committee – McCarthy
Rosenbergs
Key Concepts – Vietnam War
• Vietnam – LBJ & Escalation
Televised War – Media’s impact
Ho Chi Minh (trail)
Vietcong
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
Anti-war movement
Hippies / Counterculture
Kent State Shootings
Nixon / Kissinger / Vietnamization
General Westmorland
Key Concepts – Contemporary America 1960s
• New Frontier – JFK
• Great Society – LBJ
Medicare
Medicaid
Welfare programs
• Suburbanization
Key Concepts – Contemporary America 1970s
• Nixon
EPA – Silent Spring Rachel Carson
OSHA
Earth Day established
Watergate
Opening China – Détente
• Ford – Pardoned Nixon
• Carter
Unemployment
Iranian Revolution
Energy Crisis
Three Mile Crisis
Key Concepts – Contemporary America 1980s
• Reagan
Trickle-Down / “Reaganomics”
Evil Empire – Star Wars / 40% increase in military spending
Iran Contra Affair – Oliver North
Budget Deficit
Economic Deregulation
AIDS epidemic begins
• Bush ‘41
First Gulf War
Collapse of USSR
Reunification of Germany
Key Concepts – Contemporary America 1990s
• Clinton
Third party impact – Ross Perot
Budget Surplus
Domestic Tranquility
Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell
Oklahoma City Bombing
1993 Attack on World Trade Center
Lewinsky Scandal
Impeachment
Global Warming – VP Al Gore
NAFTA – Outsourcing
“Rust Belt”
Key Concepts – Contemporary America 2000s
• Bush ‘43
September 11, 2001 Attacks
No Child Left Behind
Afghanistan War
Iraq War
Hurricane Katrina
Deregulation
Deficit Spending / Stimulus
• Obama ‘44
First African American President
Bank Bail-outs
Obamacare – Healthcare Act
Repeal Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell