U.S. History Final Key Questions

-He was the anti-slavery candidate, causing him to be elected

Reasons for the election of Abraham Lincoln

-Lincoln saw slavery as immoral

Lincoln’s views on slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation

-Reconstruction- U.S. Army controlling the South.

-Jim Crow Laws- Segregation, after the Union left the South

Reconstruction and Jim Crow laws

-There was an open immigration policy; Asians were restricted (Chinese Exclusion Act)

Immigration policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

-Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

Improvements in the safety of food and drugs in the early 20th century

-People want to keep land such as National Parks.

The conservation movement in the early 20th century

-Provided for free trade, ethnic groups get their own countries.

The importance of the Fourteen Points

-The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. Women could actually 50 years before the 19th Amendment.

Voting rights for women and the 19th Amendment

-The 18th Amendment bans alcohol,

-21st Amendment- Alcohol is okay

Prohibition and the 18th and 21st Amendments

-Causes growing suburbs in America

Car ownership and changes in American culture

-Banks were not properly capitalized, and there was a run on the banks.

Causes of the Great Depression

Achievements of the New Deal

-Helped people who were near starvation

-Start positive economic growth

-Try to have a policy that could prevent another Great Depression

-FDR signed neutrality laws, making it difficult to give military assistance to other countries.

FDR and neutrality

-We spent more money fighting the war 

-produced more war material, 

-more military aid

-fighting that resulted in Japan’s surrender.

American contributions to World War 2

-The project to invent the atomic bomb; was successful

The Manhattan Project

-Strong growth, low inflation.

Postwar economic growth in the 1950s

-Showed that civil rights had broader support not just among blacks but also whites, enabled the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965

The significance of the March on Washington

-Suburbs continue to grow

-Franchises begin to grow

Consequences of the development of the Interstate Highway System

-Vietnam was unpopular

-Johnson worried about not being nominated or defeated.

The Vietnam War and Lyndon Johnson’s presidency

-Ends March 1973, South Vietnam is still standing, but only for two years.

The end of the Vietnam War

-Inflation was high

Inflation and the 1970s

-Authorizes rescue mission, fails, negotiates the release, traumatized but alive.

Carter’s response to the Iranian Hostage Crisis

-Tax cuts to stimulate growth and investment.

Significance of “Reaganomics”

-There was a military buildup, which made the Soviet Union more willing to negotiate. The Persian Gulf War contributed to military success.

Military buildup during the 1980s

-Achieved arms control, the Strategic Defense Initiative was disagreed over.

Reagan and Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War (two questions)

-Cable TV, Talk format radio/television, the internet

Changes in media during the late 20th century

-A non-violent riot, people paid more attention to race relations, but did not agree about them.

O.J. Simpson trial and race relations

-The Afghanistan Wars, the government gets reorganised against fighting terrorism, the Patriot Act, and Homeland Security

Consequences of 9/11

-We eliminate the threat of Saddam Hussein.

-Thousands of Americans got killed or badly injured

The importance of the Iraq War

-First President to support gay marriage

Obama and gay marriage

-The worst natural disaster in U.S. history, made Bush unpopular

Hurricane Katrina and Bush