US History EOC Topics to Know

Amendments to the Constitution

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