US History EOC Topics to Know

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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__
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Imperialism
__Gaining__ Control of __new land__

* Reasons For:
* New __markets__
* New __resources__
* To be world __power__
* Reasons Against:
* __Expensive__
* __Consent__ of the people
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The “Idas”
Ida Wells

* Leader of __anti-lynching movement__

Ida Tarbell

* __Muckraker__
* History of __standard oil__
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Unions
__American Federation of Labor__

* Only __skilled workers__
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Dawes Act
Forced __assimilation__ of __Native Americans__
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Homestead Act
__160 acres__ to settle the __west__
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Political Machines
__Corrupt__ organization that __controls politics__, mostly voting and jobs

* __Boss Tweed__
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Robber Barons
Rich business people who used __ruthless tactics to destroy competition__
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Laissez-faire
__Government__ leaves __business alone__

* __“Let it be”__
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John J. Pershing
__Head__ of the __US military in WW1__
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Populists
Political __party__ for __farmers__

* __Late 1800s__
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14 Points
__Woodrow Wilson’s__ plan for __peace after WW1__

* __League of nations__
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League of Nations
__US did not join__ because of fear of military commitment to __future wars__
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Stalemate
* Because of __trench warfare__ and __machine guns__
* __Korean War__
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Wounded Knee/Alcatraz
__Native American protest__
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Patriot Act
__Response__ to __9/11__

* Government can __observe personal data__ to detect and __prevent terrorism__
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Washington and DuBois
Washington

* Wants __African Americans__ to have __vocational skills__ (job)

Du Bois

* Wants __equality now__


* __NAACP__
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FDR/Supreme Court
Wanted to __add to Supreme Court__

* __Too much power__ to executive branch
* Would __mess up checks and balances__
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Pendleton Act
If you’re gonna __work for the government__ you must __take merit test__
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Espionage Act
__Can’t hurt the government__ during the war

* __WW1__
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Return to Normalcy
President __Harding__

* Go back to __peacetime economy__
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Assimilation
To __blend in__
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Initiative, Referendum, Recall
__Progressive Age__

* Goal is to get __citizens more involved__ in __government/democracy__
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Regulate __big business__
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Interstate Commerce Act
__Regulate railroad prices__ to __help farmers__
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Tenement Houses
__Crowded__, __dark__, __unsanitary apartments__

* __Gilded Age__
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Invasion of Normandy
* Allied __commander__ is __Eisenhower__
* In __France__

Reasons:

* To __open up a second front__
* Establish bases to be able to __bomb Germany__
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Settlement Houses
__Jane Addams__

* __Help poor and immigrants__
* __Hull House__
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Tuskegee Airmen
__African American pilots__ during __WW2__
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Flying Tigers
__Pilots in WW2__ who took __supplies to China__
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Spanish American War (1898)
Causes of involvement:

* __Yellow journalism__
* __Sinking__ of the __USS Maine__

Results:

* __New markets__ and __resources__
* __Panama Canal__
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WW1 (1914-1918)
Causes of involvement:

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

Result:

* __US__ becomes a __world power__
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WW2 (1941-1945)
Cause of involvement:

* __Pearl Harbor__

Results:

* __Great Depression__ is __over__
* __Start of Cold War__
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Korean War (1950-1953)
* __Starting__ with the __North invading__ the __South__
* __Truman__ and __Eisenhower__ are __presidents__ during the war
* __Truman fires MacArthur__
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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__
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Victory Gardens
__Rationing in WW2__

* Side note: there was __rationing in WW1 too__
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Sonia Sotomayor
__First Hispanic__ in __Supreme Court__
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Title IX
__Cannot discriminate gender__ in __education__
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Shirley Chisholm
__First African American women__ in __Congress__
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HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
__2nd Red Scare__

* __Investigate US citizens__ on __possible communist activity__
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Marcus Garvey
__Cultural pride__

* __Founder__ of the __Universal Negro Improvement Association__
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Tin Pan Alley
__Center of music__ in NYC
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Federal Reserve Act
__Regulates banking industry__

* __Woodrow Wilson__
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
__Led to an imbalance of trade__

* One __cause of market crash__
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Congressional Medal of Honor
All __earned through bravery__

* __Alvin York__
* __WW1__


* __Vernon Baker__
* __WW2__
* __Roy Benavidez__
* __Vietnam__
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Hurricane Katrina
__Levees broke__ and __land is below sea level__
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On the Road
* Book by __Jack Kerouac__
* __Beat Generation__
* __Non-conformity__ in the __1950s__
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Executive Order 9066
__Japanese Internment camps__
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Election of 2000
* Republican: __Bush__
* Democrat: __Gore__

Supreme Court __rules against further ballot counting in Florida__