US History STAAR EOC Review

Homestead Act

1862 law giving land to encourage settlement and farming

Dust Bowl

1930s event destroying farmland on the Great Plains

Forty-niners

Gold rush migrants to California in 1848

Klondike Gold Rush

1896 event bringing prospectors to Alaska

Industrial Revolution

Era leading European immigrants to U.S. factory jobs

LBJ's Great Society

1965 immigration laws promoting Latin American immigration

Fifteenth Amendment

Guaranteed voting regardless of race, color, or servitude

Nineteenth Amendment

Guaranteed voting regardless of sex

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Prohibits literacy tests and ensures voting rights

Sweatt v. Painter

1948 case allowing minority admittance to graduate programs

George Wallace

Governor opposing integration in education

Little Rock 9

Integration case in Arkansas enforced by federal power

Brown v. Board of Education

Overturned 'separate but equal' ruling, starting desegregation of public schools

Hernandez v. Texas

Protected Mexican Americans from discrimination under the 14th Amendment

Miranda v. Arizona

Established rights for arrested individuals against self-incrimination and for an attorney

Tinker v. Des Moines

Extended First Amendment rights to students, supporting protest in school

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Expanded parental rights by protecting freedom of religion in education

MAIN Causes of World War I

Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism led to the war

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Triggered WWI due to alliance system responses to Austria-Hungary's declaration

Zimmermann Note

Offered U.S. territory to Mexico to join Axis Powers, leading U.S. into WWI

Great Depression

Stock market crash in 1929 led to economic downturn and FDR's New Deal

FDIC

Insured bank deposits to prevent failures during the Great Depression

Social Security

Provided old age retirement payments and welfare to those in need

Bataan Death March

Forced march of U.S. and Filipino soldiers by Japanese during WWII

Holocaust

Genocide of over 6 million European Jews by Hitler and the Nazis

Cold War

Period of conflict between U.S. and Soviet Union without direct fighting

Containment Policy

U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism beyond Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R.

Iron Curtain

Division of Europe post-WWII between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and Western Europe supported by the U.S.

Marshall Plan

U.S. aid to rebuild Western Europe and reduce communism's appeal post-WWII.

Domino Theory

Belief that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will follow suit.

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Event leading to LBJ's escalation of U.S. troops in Vietnam based on false pretenses.

Draft

Forced military service used during the Vietnam War to increase combat troops.

Tet Offensive

1968 attack by North Vietnam on U.S. bases, swaying public opinion against the war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 event heightening U.S.-Soviet tensions and nuclear war fears.

Vietnamization

Nixon's strategy of withdrawing U.S. forces from Vietnam and leaving the fight to South Vietnamese.

Détente

Relaxation of tensions with the Soviets to reduce nuclear risks and isolation of communist nations.

Globalization

Increased interconnectedness globally, accelerated by the internet's invention.

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement reducing trade barriers between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.

Microprocessors

Technology enabling powerful, smaller computers and devices like USB Flash Drives.