History Final 2025

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13th amendment

Abolished slavery

14th amendment

All who are born in the US have citizenship

15th amendment

Prevented voting restrictions

LIteracy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses

South made ways to prevent African americans from voting

Plessy vs. Ferguson

1869 Supreme court case, “Seprete but equal”

Jim Crow Laws

Enforcing racial segregation in the south

Jacup Riis

Exposed living conditions of the urban poor.

Upton Sinclair

Exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry through his novel "The Jungle."

TR’s policy

Break up bad trusts control good ones

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gloria Steinem

Key figures in the woman’s suffrage movement

Big Stick diplomacy

Theodore Roosevelt's policy; notably supported the Panamanian revolt to build the Panama Canal. “Walk Slowly and Carry a big stick” This is how you take over the jungle

Imperialization

US expansion overseas

late 1800 early 1900 Immigration increase due to?

Industrial growth and job availibility

What was the most important part of wilson’s 14 points

The leugue of nations

Harlem Renaissance

An african american cultural movement. It involved music, art, and literature

Flappers

Women who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, and lots of makeup

HooverVilles

Makeshift homeless camps named after president Hoover, who people blamed for the depression

Big Stick diplomacy

TR’s policy, how to take over the Jungler. Supported the Panamanian revolt to build the Panama canal

Imperialism

US policy to try to expand its influence overseas in the 19th and 20th centeries

Yellow Journalism

Sensationalist journalism ment to influence public opinion. Especially durring the spanish american war

WWI

Pres. Wilson’s 14 points plan to economically rebuild, centered around the league of nations

Harlem Reniscence

African American cultural movement of Arts music and literature in the 1920s

New deal

FDR’s plan to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the people of America durring the depression

December 7 1941

Pearl Harbor attack

Home front efforts

Victory Gardens, rationing, scrap drives, and war bonds

Nuremburg Laws

Took away Jewish citizenship

Lots of murders durring WWII

Mass exterminations took place at Aushwitz

Kristallnacht

“Night of Broken Glass” Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogs were defiled

What did the Japanese Americans receive after their time in internment camps

Regan Gave an apology from the government and some money

Marshall plan

US imitative to Aid western Europe’s economic recover

NATO

Military alliance meant to counter the Soviet Expansion and to control communism

Cuban Missile Crisis

Closest the US and the Soviet union have been to a nuclear war

Brown Vs. Board of Ed

Declared legalized segreagation is unconstitutional

1954

Brown Vs. Board of Ed

MLK

Advocated for Civil rights through marches and peacful proests

Watergate scandal

Cover up caused Nixon to resign

Pollution

 Highlighted as a consequence of unchecked industrialization in the late 20th century.