U.S. History EOC Review
What happened during the Red Scare?
- Bolsheviks took over the Soviet Union - Strikes in Seattle and Boston and at U.S. Steel - Bombs exploded in several cities - Palmer Raids arrested suspected anarchists
What were the domestic effects of World War II?
- Migration to the West and the North - Selling of war bonds - Victory Gardens - Mandatory rationing - Increased employment - Enlistment of Women
United Nations
- Organization founded in 1945 after World War II - Maintains peace-keeping forces to use when necessary - United States is a charter member - Many nations of the world participate - Provides a forum for discussion of world problems
What did Theodore Roosevelt achieve?
- Withdrew 1.5 million acres of public lands from sale - Designated the Devils Tower in Wyoming and the Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon in Arizona as National Monuments - Created the National Conservation Commission
What is the National Recovery Administration?
A New Deal agency that helped businesses draw up their own voluntary codes of fair practice
How did the "Black Codes" differ from the "Jim Crow" laws?
Black Codes prohibited freedmen from traveling freely, serving on juries, or exercising civil rights; Jim Crow laws required racial segregation
What caused the Chinese-American population to decrease in the 1800s?
Congressional legislation banned any further immigration of workers from China
What was the effect of the spread of radio and automobiles?
Economic Prosperity of the 1920s
What steps did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocate African Americans should take to end conditions they could not endure?
Engage in marches, boycotts, and non-violent civil disobedience
What was the consequence of the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany was required to pay reparations to the Allied Powers
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression differ from Herbert Hoover's?
Hoover feared federal relief for the unemployed would weaken individualism; Roosevelt believed direct belief was needed to restore demand
American inventor; developed new haircare and cosmetic products for African-American women
Madam C.J. Walker
Black Panthers and SNCC after 1967
Organizations that favored independent actions by African Americans to improve their conditions without collaborating with sympathetic members of other races
What was an important gain for women in the 1970s?
Passage of the Equal Opportunity in Education Act (Title IX)
How did President Andrew Johnson's views on Reconstruction differ from those of Congress?
President Johnson accepted Southern "Black Codes," while Congress overturned them with a Civil Rights bill prohibiting racial discrimination
What policy is described in Theodore Roosevelt's message to Congress in 1905?
Roosevelt Corollary
On what grounds did the Supreme Court rule that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education?
Segregated schools were by their nature unequal because they gave African-American children a sense of inferiority
Why did the use of unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic by Germany enrage American public opinion?
Submarines attacked without warning and did not have enough room to take on survivors
What is yellow journalism?
Technique for selling newspapers; contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War
The allied victory over Germany in World War II
The Soviets had a larger army, Americans manufactured more weapons, and Germany faced war on several fronts
What was the significance of the Dred Scott decision?
The Supreme Court overruled attempts by Congress to limit the spread of slavery
What argument was raised by domestic critics of the Vietnam War?
The U.S. government had misrepresented facts about the war to the American public
What was the main reason for fighting in Florida during the Civil War?
The Union army wanted to prevent cattle and crops in Florida from reaching Confederate troops
What is anarchism?
The idea that favored self-governing communities over organized government
What was the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The world came close to a nuclear war
How did Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford help to transform the American economy?
Their willingness to engage in collective bargaining with unions improved conditions for workers
How did inventions by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison affect the United States economy?
They created a new demand for electricity
What belief prompted American leaders to enter into the Vietnam War?
They feared if South Vietnam fell to Communists, other countries in Southeast Asia would also do so
How did 19th-century settlers deal with challenges of farming on the Great Plains?
They used barbed wire for fencing, burned cow and buffalo chips for fuel, and used steel plows to dig furrows into tough soil
What was the goal of the Washington Naval Conference, Geneva Disarmament Conference, and Kellogg-Briand Pact?
To achieve lasting peace without the League of Nations
Why was the Department of Homeland Security formed?
To coordinate federal agencies in the fight against terrorism
What was the goal of President Nixon's policy of détente?
To decrease tensions with the Soviet Union
What was the primary objective of the U.S. policy that led to the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?
To force American Indian tribes on the Great Plains to live on reservations
What was the goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
To maintain fair competition and to halt unfair practices damaging to consumers and competitors
How was Florida affected by the invention of air conditioning, the construction of highways, and the expansion of jet travel?
Tourism and the migration of retirees from other states to Florida increased
Women in the Roaring Twenties
Were guaranteed the right to vote, wore less restrictive clothing, and enjoyed increased employment opportunities
What happened during the American labor movement in the late 19th century?
Workers organized their own labor unions against harsh conditions
