US History EOC Topics to Know

Amendments to the Constitution

1st Amendment

* Freedom of __Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech__

13th Amendment

* __Free__

14th Amendment

* __Citizens__

15th Amendment

* __Vote__

16th Amendment

* __Income tax__

17th Amendment

* Election of __senators__

18th Amendment

* __No alcohol__

19th Amendment

* __Women’s suffrage__ (right to vote)

22nd Amendment

* President __2 terms__

24th Amendment

* __No poll tax__

26th Amendment

* __Vote at 18__

Imperialism

__Gaining__ Control of __new land__

* Reasons For:
* New __markets__
* New __resources__
* To be world __power__
* Reasons Against:
* __Expensive__
* __Consent__ of the people

The “Idas”

Ida Wells

* Leader of __anti-lynching movement__

Ida Tarbell

* __Muckraker__
* History of __standard oil__

Unions

__American Federation of Labor__

* Only __skilled workers__

Dawes Act

Forced __assimilation__ of __Native Americans__

Homestead Act

__160 acres__ to settle the __west__

Political Machines

__Corrupt__ organization that __controls politics__, mostly voting and jobs

* __Boss Tweed__

Robber Barons

Rich business people who used __ruthless tactics to destroy competition__

Laissez-faire

__Government__ leaves __business alone__

* __“Let it be”__

John J. Pershing

__Head__ of the __US military in WW1__

Populists

Political __party__ for __farmers__

* __Late 1800s__

14 Points

__Woodrow Wilson’s__ plan for __peace after WW1__

* __League of nations__

League of Nations

__US did not join__ because of fear of military commitment to __future wars__

Stalemate

* Because of __trench warfare__ and __machine guns__
* __Korean War__

Wounded Knee/Alcatraz

__Native American protest__

Patriot Act

__Response__ to __9/11__

* Government can __observe personal data__ to detect and __prevent terrorism__

Washington and DuBois

Washington

* Wants __African Americans__ to have __vocational skills__ (job)

Du Bois

* Wants __equality now__


* __NAACP__

FDR/Supreme Court

Wanted to __add to Supreme Court__

* __Too much power__ to executive branch
* Would __mess up checks and balances__

Pendleton Act

If you’re gonna __work for the government__ you must __take merit test__

Espionage Act

__Can’t hurt the government__ during the war

* __WW1__

Return to Normalcy

President __Harding__

* Go back to __peacetime economy__

Assimilation

To __blend in__

Initiative, Referendum, Recall

__Progressive Age__

* Goal is to get __citizens more involved__ in __government/democracy__

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Regulate __big business__

Interstate Commerce Act

__Regulate railroad prices__ to __help farmers__

Tenement Houses

__Crowded__, __dark__, __unsanitary apartments__

* __Gilded Age__

Invasion of Normandy

* Allied __commander__ is __Eisenhower__
* In __France__

Reasons:

* To __open up a second front__
* Establish bases to be able to __bomb Germany__

Settlement Houses

__Jane Addams__

* __Help poor and immigrants__
* __Hull House__

Tuskegee Airmen

__African American pilots__ during __WW2__

Flying Tigers

__Pilots in WW2__ who took __supplies to China__

Spanish American War (1898)

Causes of involvement:

* __Yellow journalism__
* __Sinking__ of the __USS Maine__

Results:

* __New markets__ and __resources__
* __Panama Canal__

WW1 (1914-1918)

Causes of involvement:

* __Unrestricted submarine warfare__
* __Zimmerman Letter__
* __Sinking__ of the __Lusitania__

Result:

* __US__ becomes a __world power__

WW2 (1941-1945)

Cause of involvement:

* __Pearl Harbor__

Results:

* __Great Depression__ is __over__
* __Start of Cold War__

Korean War (1950-1953)

* __Starting__ with the __North invading__ the __South__
* __Truman__ and __Eisenhower__ are __presidents__ during the war
* __Truman fires MacArthur__

Vietnam War (1955-1975)

Cause of involvement:

* __Domino Theory__

Key Factors:

* __First televised war__


* __Tet Offensive__
* __Gulf of Tonkin Resolution__ (gave __presidents too much power__)


* __Wars Power Act__ (__limited president’s power__)

Result:

* __Loss of trust in government__

Victory Gardens

__Rationing in WW2__

* Side note: there was __rationing in WW1 too__

Sonia Sotomayor

__First Hispanic__ in __Supreme Court__

Title IX

__Cannot discriminate gender__ in __education__

Shirley Chisholm

__First African American women__ in __Congress__

HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

__2nd Red Scare__

* __Investigate US citizens__ on __possible communist activity__

Marcus Garvey

__Cultural pride__

* __Founder__ of the __Universal Negro Improvement Association__

Tin Pan Alley

__Center of music__ in NYC

Federal Reserve Act

__Regulates banking industry__

* __Woodrow Wilson__

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

__Led to an imbalance of trade__

* One __cause of market crash__

Congressional Medal of Honor

All __earned through bravery__

* __Alvin York__
* __WW1__


* __Vernon Baker__
* __WW2__
* __Roy Benavidez__
* __Vietnam__

Hurricane Katrina

__Levees broke__ and __land is below sea level__

On the Road

* Book by __Jack Kerouac__
* __Beat Generation__
* __Non-conformity__ in the __1950s__

Executive Order 9066

__Japanese Internment camps__

Election of 2000

* Republican: __Bush__
* Democrat: __Gore__

Supreme Court __rules against further ballot counting in Florida__