USH - Final Review

The longest running supreme court justice

John Marshall

Got sick while writing the federalist papers

John Jay

Wrote "A City on a Hill"

John Winthrop

Put in charge of the first all black regiment of the Revolutionary War

John Laurens

The only federalist president

John Adams

The 6th US president, best known for president under dubious circumstances

John Quincy Adams

This John was important to the survival of the Jamestown colonies

John Smith

Native American chief who fought against the trail of tears but was unable to prevent it from happening

John Ross

This Russian satellite was the first to orbit the earth, launching the space race

Sputnik

This group of students were behind the Greensboro sit ins

SNCC

This organization was responsible for funding many of the largest court cases of the Civil Rights Movement including Brown v. Board of Education

NAACP

This organization, started by students at the University of Chicago, worked with other civil rights groups on activities like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and supported sit-ins in the South. In 1965 they will adopt many of the Tenants of the Black Power Movement

CORE

This was the Leader of the Soviet Union until his death

Joseph Stalin

This bill made discrimination in voting illegal and brought an end to literacy tests and other practices meant to keep African Americans from voting in the South

Voting Rights Act of 1965

This bill made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race for employment and brought an end to most of Jim Crow

Civil Rights Act of 1964

This woman gave the "Aint I A Woman" speech

Sojourner Truth

This area was burned to the ground after false accusations about a black man were spread in oklahoma, It had previously been so successful that it was nicknamed "Black Wall Street"

Greenwood, Tulsa

The US felt betrayed by this country when they converted to Communism

China

MLK jr. was the leader of this organization

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

This is the term for a country or state that is fully controlled or puppeted by another country

Satellite State

This was a line in Europe in which there was no trade or political interaction between one side and the other

Iron Curtain

This is the name for the Military Conflict after the second world war in which there was no outright fighting but just arms building and military tension

Cold War

This is when the white South refused to desegregate and worked as a unit to keep African Americans like the Little Rock Nine from attending Previously white schools

Massive Resistance

This African American used his platform as a boxer to try and make advancements for civil rights and in opposition to the Vietnam War

Muhammad Ali

This individual, assassinated in 1965, was a Civil Rights leader who called on others to defend themselves with violence if necessary

Malcolm X

This Civil Rights activist, Assassinated in 1968, advocated for voting rights, workplace equality, universal basic income, desegregation, and many more causes

MLK jr.

This man became president after the assassination of his predecessor. He famously bullied congress into passing important civil rights legislation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This President was assassinated just weeks after he began his push to support the Civil Rights Movement.

John F. Kennedy

The arrest of this woman led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks

This young man was beaten, tortured, killed and thrown in a river for "sassing" a white woman. His open casket funeral brought national attention to the suffering of African Americans

Emmett Till

This Civil Rights activist would go on to become the First African American Supreme Court Justice

Thurgood Marshall

This was the belief that is one country fell to Communism more would follow

Domino theory

This is a term for refusing to follow unjust laws

Civil Disobedience

This term relates to bus rides of African Americans to the South to protest Segregation

Freedom Rides

This organization existed to fight against any civil rights legislation and court cases by funding the opposition

White Citizens Council

This organization repopularized the Confederate Battle Flag as a means of showing opposition to Civil Rights for African Americans

Daughters of the confederacy

This organization began carrying guns to protect their community from those who would do violence on them

Black Panthers

This is to refuse to buy a certain business' products or services

Boycott

The purpose of this movement was to celebrate African American culture and to unite against those who would oppress them

Black Power

New name given to shantytowns, meant to upset an unpopular president

Hoovervilles

This was the term for the time period in which the buying and selling of alcohol was illegal in the US

Prohibition

This disease resulted in FDR being wheelchair bound for the rest of his life

Polio

This Natural Disaster was caused by soil degradation from over farming

Dust Bowl

This was the one and only time George Washington surrendered in his career

Battle of Fort Necessity

Who said "give me liberty or give me death"

Patrick Henry

How was WWI fought over land

trench warfare

This event was intentionally blown out of proportion to vilify the British

Boston Massacre

What was the location in which George Washington spent his winters training his soldiers?

Valley forge

who was executed as a terrorist for capturing a southern arsenal and attempting to arm a slave rebellion

John Brown

This event had 250,000 participants and was to bring attention to income disparity between African Americans and White Americans

The March on Washington

A group of students were the first to attend desegregated schools in Arkansas. The National Guard are called in to keep them from getting into the school

Little Rock Nine

This event resulted in a large number of injuries and a death when locals and law enforcement attacked the marchers

Bloody Sunday, Selma

This Alabama based campaign looked to bring an end to segregation in one of the most dangerous areas of the state

Birmingham Campaign

Far-right, authoritarian political beliefs; encouraged dictatorship and suppression

Facism

the British, Americans, and Soviets in WWII

Allied Powers

Nazi propaganda film depicting screaming crowds cheering for Hitler

Triumph of the will

Diplomatic policy aimed to stop Hitler by just giving him what he wanted

Appeasement

System of trade between the US and the British in which the British would fully pay for the armaments and transport them entirely on their own

Cash and Carry

During this conflict the British royal air force defended the country from the German Luftwaffe

Battle of Britain

Japanese Americans were relocated to these during WWII

Internment camps

This allowed the US to sell weapons to the British on the promise they would be paid for and then returned later

Lend-Lease Act

Japanese Aircraft loaded with explosives and used to dive bomb a target

Kamikaze

During this event the Nazi's attacked Jewish homes and businesses in retaliation for the death of a Nazi

Kristallnacht

What side was the UK on in WWII

Allies

What side was the USSR on in WWII

Allies

What side was Japan on in WWII

Axis

What side was the US on in WWII

Allies

What side was Germany on in WWII

Axis

What side was Italy on in WWII

Axis

This African American Jazz Musician was important to the Harlem Renaissance

Louis Armstrong

Symbol of hope for many during the great depression

Babe Ruth

This person became President of the US in 1932 and would go on to win a total of 4 Presidential Elections before he died

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

This person did very little to stop the depression while they were president

Herbert Hoover

Theorized by many to be romantically involved with Elanor Roosevelt outside of her marriage

Lorena Hickok

world famous American author wrote "A Farewell to Arms"

Ernest Hemingway

This faux science rooted in white supremacy would later inspire the racial ideology of the Nazi party

Eugenics

This is a mentality in which the interests of someone born in a country are protected to the detriment of those who were not

Nativism

Students would attend segregated diners in order to bring attention to the need to desegregate public spaces

Greensboro Sit-Ins

A protest that lasted over a year meant to bring an end to segregation in Transportation

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Famous African American poet, activist, author, and playwright. Important to the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

Wildly famous during and after the Great Depression, completely changed the role of First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

What was the cause of the Civil War?

Slavery

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

It gave federal commissioners $10 if they ruled that a black captive should be returned to slavery and $5 if they ruled the captive was free.

Who won Shiloh?

The North

Who won the siege of Atlanta?

The North

Who won at Fort Sumter

The South

Who won at Vicksburg

The North

Who won at Gettysburg

The North

Who won at Appomattox

The North

Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse

Robert E. Lee

Was shot and killed by his own men.

Stonewall Jackson

Abe Lincoln's Assassin

John Wilkes Booth

The Union's best General, He defeated Lee at Appomattox

Ulysses S. Grant

President during the US Civil War.

Abe Lincoln

Led the March to the Sea

William T. Sherman