apush eoc

Spanish American War

1898, US becomes a world power and gains control of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

WWI

(1914-1918) begins with assassination of the Archduke and ends with signing of the Treaty of Versailles

1929

stock market crashes, start of Great Depression

1939-1945

WWII begins in Europe and ends in the US use of nuclear weapons

1957

Russia Launches Sputnik (1st satellite)- started Space Race/NASA

1968

assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1969

moon landing

1991

Cold war ends

2001

terrorist attacks on 9/11 (World trade center and Pentagon) \---\> War on Terror

2008

election of Barack Obama

Westward Expansion

1826-1890s: Manifest destiny, California, Alaska, gold, Indian Wars, transcontinental railroad, Homestead Act, Populist Party, the frontier

Gilded age

1870s-1910s: Electricity, assembly line, agriculture to factory work, urbanization, child labor, political machines, robber barons vs. captains of industry, monopolies/trusts, industrialization, immigration, quotas

13th amendment

FREE: abolish slavery

14th amendment

CITIZENS: Rights of Citizenship and guaranteed due process of law for all citizens

15th amendment

VOTE: African American suffrage

reconstruction amendments

13, 14, 15

16th amendment

TAX: created federal income tax- you can work at 16 and pay taxes

17th amendment

SENATOR: direct election of US senators- elected by the people and not state legislatures

18th amendment

DRINK: prohibition- no alcohol

19th amendment

WOMEN: women's suffrage

progressive amendments

16, 17,18, 19

21 amendment

ends prohibition and overturns 18 amendment- drinking age is now 21

24th amendment

outlaws POLL TAX (you don't have to pay to vote, poll taxes and literacy tests were used to discriminate against minority voters- big deal during civil rights movement)

26th amendment

all US citizens 18 and older may vote- Why? Vietnamese draft

Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive president, Rough Riders during Spanish American war, Conservation, Trust buster

Woodrow Wilson

Federal reserve, WWI president, 14 points peace plan

Warren Harding

return to normalcy, Teapot dome scandal

Herbert Hoover

Rugged Individualism, President during Stock Market Crash, blamed for Great Depression (Hoovervilles)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

44 term president during Great Depression and WWII, New Deal, Court Packing

Harry S. Truman

Pres. @ end of WWII- dropped atomic bombs, Truman Doctrine \= Containment of communism at any cost

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gen. and Allied commander during WWII and D-Day, President during Cold War, starts Space Race

John F. Kennedy(JFK)

continues Space Race, Cuban Missile Crisis (against Communist Cuba and Castro)

Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

President after LFK assassinated, Vietnam and escalation, Civil Rights act 1964, Great Society (war on poverty)

Richard Nixon

Vietnamization, detente with China and Soviet Union, Environmental Protection Agency, War on Drugs, Watergate scandal

Jimmy Carter

stagflation due to oil crisis, Camp David Accords\= agreement between Israel and Egypt, Iran Hostage Crisis

Ronald Reagan

conservatism, economic policies, Peace through Strength, Iran-Contra affair

George H.W. Bush

Rush Belt to Sun belt migration, Americans with Disabilities Act, Persia Gulf War, official end of the Cold War

Bill Clinton

1992 election and Perot, NAFTA, impeachment and scandal

George W.Bush

2000 election and Gore, 9/11, War on Terror, Katrina

Barack Obama

2008 election, America Recovery and Reinvestment act

Bill of Rights

The Constitution creates a strong, national government. The Bill of Rights are the first 10 AMENDMENTS (changes) added to protect INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

1st amendment

Personal Freedoms of Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly, and Petition

2nd amendment

Right to BEAR ARMS, gun ownership and regulation for Militia

3rd amendment

NO QUARTERING of troops

4th amendment

SEARCH AND SEIZURE

5th amendment

LIFE, LIBERTY< PROPERTY

6th amendment

CRIMINAL TRIAL RIGHTS- such as a trial by a jury of peers

7th amendment

CIVIL TRIAL RIGHTS

8th amendment

Cruel and Unusual PUNISHMENT

9th amendment

other rights for INDIVIDUALS

10th amendment

other rights for STATES

Expansionism

imperialism/getting more land/ BULLY

Isolationism

avoid involvement with other/ LONER

executive

president

legislature

congress/makes laws

judicial

courts

unconstitutional

illegal

Foreign policy

interactions with other countries

Domestic policy

decisions made within a country

Flapper

20s woman defined traditional roles

Third party

group to oppose major political parties

Andrew Carnegie

monopoly in steel industry/ Bessemer Process

Susan B. Anthony

Progressive reformer- Women's Suffrage

Jane Adams

Progressive reformer- Social work who established settlement Houses to assimilate immigrants (ex: Hull House in Chicago)

Upton Sinclair

Muckraker who wrote The Jungle showing problems in the meat industry——-\> passage of Meat Inspection act

W.E.B DuBois

founder of NAACP, immediate equality

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Imperialist- favored strong U.S. navy

John J Pershing

led U.S. troops AEF in Europe during WWWI

Douglas MacArthur

army commander in the Pacific during WWII

Chester Nimitz

navy commander in the Pacific during WWII

MLK

Civil Rights leader, civil disobedience/non-violent protest

Orval Faunus and George Wallace

Southern Democratic governors who supported segregation

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP lawyer for Brown vs. Board of Education, 1st African American supreme court justice

Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta

leaders of the Chicano Movement to address discrimination of Latinos

Sandra Day O Connor

1st female Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor

1st Hispanic Supreme Court Justice

Alvin York

won Congressional Medal of Honor (for actions during WWI)

Veron Baker

won Congressional Medal of Honor (WWII

Roy Benavidez

won Congressional Medal of Honor (Vietnam War)

barbed wire

metal fencing, easy to install, keep animals in/ out, ends Open range/closes the Frontier

Transcontinental railroad

railroad lines connecting east and west coasts making transportation of goods and people faster and easier, creates a national economy

Light bulb

factories remain open at night\= longer work day

bessemer process

faster process for making stronger steel

Henry Ford

auto manufacturer- assembly line \= mass production, \# of goods increase, prices decrease

WWI military technology

machines guns, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, submarines

Charlies Lindberg

1st man to fly solo across Atlantic ocean

Medical

vaccines, penicillin, antibiotics protect people from diseases, such as polio

Communication and access to information

creates a national culture and includes: telephone, telegraph, radio, T.V., computers, internet, satellites

Space technology

exploration, GPS, plastics, Velcro

foreign policy

a country's plan for how it interacts with other countries

monroe doctrine

european countries cannot colonize the America

Open Door policy

opened trade access to all nations with China

Dollar Diplomacy

US investment of money to gain power in Latin America

Containment

US policy to stop the spread of communism

Truman Doctrine

US has responsibility to help people resist communism

Marshall Plan

recovery plan to help rebuild Europe's economy after WWII

Domino Theory

fear that if one country fell to communism, others would too

Detente

relaxing of tensions between democratic and communist governments at the end of the Cold War

SALT

agreement to stop making nuclear weapons and limit \# in existence

Please v. Ferguson

Segregation and "separate but equal: facilities is constitutional (OK)