Final US His Exam Review (MINUS VOCAB)

Alice Paul

Who formed the National Woman's Party?

Industrialization and urbanization; Working-class poverty and the filth of crime of urban society

What did Progressive believe created social problems?

United States Forest Service

What did President Roosevelt establish to manage timber resources?

authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects

What did the Newlands Reclamation Act do?

W.E.B Du Bois

Who founded the NAACP?

a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society

Muckraker

prohibited the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories

What did the Keating-Owen Act do?

Building codes to require fire escapes.

What did the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to?

The government

What did Progressives think needed to play a more active role in society's problems?

authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects

What were the conditions of the graduated income tax?

Navy

Which branch of the military allowed for women to enlist in WWI?

Germany Austria-Hungary, Italy

What countries were members of the triple alliance?

Comitte of Public Information

What organization was tasked with "selling" the war?

To spy on enemy troops

What were airplanes used for in WWI?

Dig trenches

What did troops do to protect themselves from enemy fire?

Convoys

No American troop ships were sunk due to what system?

France, Russia, Britain, Belgium

What countries were members of the triple entente?

Liberty bonds

What helped pay for the cost of the war?

Artistic development, racial pride, and political organization combined in a flowering of African American arts

Harlem Renaissance

Advertisement

What do businesses do to create consumers for their new products?

Mexicans

What group of people was exempt from restrictions placed by the National Origins Act of 1924?

First talking motion pictures

What type of film ushers in the "golden age' of Hollywood?

Mass Media

What helped create a sense of a shared experience that helped unify the nation?

hostility toward immigrants by native-born people

Nativism

that the Bible was literally true and without error. They defended the Protestant faith against ideas implying that human beings derived their moral behavior from society and nature, not God

Fundamentalism

A club where African Americans can perform their art

What was the Cotton Club?

gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition

What was the purpose of the Volstead Act?

American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that uses syncopated rhythms and improvisation

Jazz-

create a pool of money

What was the purpose of the National Credit Corporation?

The government

Who did farmers have to turn their farm over to during the depression?

Great Plains

What was the location of the Dust Bowl?

To claim their promised bonus

Nickname given by the press for WWI veterans marching to D.C.?

$1.5 billion for public works and $300 million in emergency loans to states for direct relief

What did the Emergency Relief and Construction Act provide?

shantytowns where hoboes live

Hoovervilles

Black Tuesday

What is October 29, 1929, known as and what happened on that day?

China

What attack drove UN troops across the 38th parallel?

Divide Germany among the 4 allied powers

What did leaders agree to at Yalta?

Choose their own form of Gov through democratic means

What is the declaration of a liberated Europe?

Chinese Nationalists

Who did the US government give $2 billion too?

Pledge to fight Communist

What did the Truman Doctrine do?

North Korean troops invaded the south

What started the Korean War?

Internal Security Act

What is the McCarren Act also called?

Passing atomic secrets to the Soviets

What were the Rosenberg's were charged with?

Too dangerous

What is the criticism of brinkmanship?

Blockading West Berlin , or France

Who occupied the different zones in Germany?

Hydrogen Bomb

What was the Communist invasion of S Korea a test of?

Producers blacklisted anyone who was believed to be a Communist

What effect did the HUAC hearings have on Hollywood?

help Western Europe recover from WWI

Purpose of the Marshall Plan

Publicly criticized the president's policy of limited war

Why was General MacArthur fired?

Truman Doctrine

What policy was established by Truman to fight the spread of communism?

The titles of dance tunes

Where did Cold War themes are in popular culture?

They created fallput shelters in backyards

How did American's deal with nuclear threats?

Right to a lawyer

What was the ruling in Gideon vs. Wainwright?

Land a man on the moon

What was Kennedy's goal in the space race?

Series of cooperative aid projects

What was the Alliance for Progress?

R. Nixon

Republican nominee for president in 1960

New Frontier

Name of Kennedy's legislative agenda?

US and Latin America

Who did the Alliance for Progress help?

To shooth concerns

Why did Kennedy support separation of church and state?

He ordered an end to gender discrimination in the Federal civil service

What did President Kennedy do after the Presidential Commission on the Statis of Women?

Raise the minimum wage

Congress blocked most of Kennedy's legislative again except \______

TV

What about technology was unique in the 1960 election?

Lee Harvey Oswald

Who is the man accused of killing Kennedy?

Deficit spending

What did Kennedy advocate for in order to keep jobs and growth?

Special Olympics

What is Camp Shriver today?

John Gleen

First American to orbit Earth?

Presidential debate

Election 1960 has the first \_________

to keep the US involvement a secret

Why did Kennedy cancel air support for the Bay of Pigs?

Organized bus boycotts

What did African Americans do in response to Rosa Parks Arrest?

SNCC

What organization was founded by students?

To make voting rights for African Americans

What was the purpose of the Selma March?

Prohibits any type of discrimiations

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

Licoln Memorial

Where did Dr. King deliver his famous "I have a dream" speech?

Integrate bus terminals

What did the freedom riders do and why?

Almost a year

How long did the Montgomery bis boycott last?

He deployed the National Gaurds

How did the governor of Arkansas prevent the Little Rock 9 from entering their school?

Most African Americans were not registered to vote

Why did Dr. King select Selma?

Nonviolent protest

What was the moral way to end segregation?

People integreating only white resturants

What is a sit-in?

He promised to appoint a Southerner to the Supreme Court

How did Nixon win Southern support in 1968?

He ordered the cover-up

How was Nixon involved in Watergate?

Imported oil

What was the US economy dependent on in the 1970s?

He imposed an embargo on the sale of grain to the Soviets

What did President Carter do as a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

Revenue-sharing bills

What did Congress pass as a part of New Federalism?

An exchange of scientific info

What are the stipulations of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?

Old manufacturing plants being used

What caused the decline in US manufacturing?

US to Panama

The Panama Canal was given to \___ by \___

Israel

OPEC placed an embargo on countries supporting \____

Watergate

What is the name of the scandal involving President Nixon?

US would now expect its allies to take care of their own defense

What is the Nixon Doctrine?

New Federalism

Dismantling federal programs was about of Nixon's \____

A diplomatic meeting

Summit

The watergate scandal

Why was Nixon's Vice President forced to resign?

Foregin Oil

What was serious problem for President Carter?

Pres. Ford meeting with the leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Explain "Helsinki Accords"

Federal Campaign Act Amendements

What limits on executive power were developed after Watergate?