DC US HIST STAAR REVIEW

sorry if there are any typos im tired

what happened in 1898?

Spanish American War; US becomes world power, gains control of Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines

what happened 1914-1918?

WWI; begins with assassination of Archduke, ends with Treaty of Versailles

what happened in 1929?

Stock Market Crashes, start of great depression

what happened 1939-1945?

WWII; begins in Europe and ends with US use of nuclear weapons

what happened in 1957?

Russia launched Sputnik; start of space race

what happened in 1968?

assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr

what happened in 1969?

Moon landing

what happened in 1991?

Berlin Wall falls; Cold War ends

what happened in 2001?

terrorist attacks on 9/11

what happened in 2008?

Barack Obama elected

1st amendment

personal freedom

2nd amendment

right to bear arms

3rd amendment

no quartering

4th amendment

search and seizure

5th amendment

life, liberty, property

6th amendment

criminal trial rights

7th amendment

civil trial rights

8th amendment

cruel and unusual punishment

9th amendment

other rights for individuals

10th amendment

other rights for states

13th amendment

abolish slavery

14th amendment

rights of citizenship and guaranteed due process of law for all citizens

15th amendment

vote; african american male suffrage

16th amendment

created federal income tax

17th amendment

direct election of US senators

18th amendment

no alcohol !

19th amendment

women’s right to vote

Reconstruction amendments?

13th, 14th, and 15th

Progressive amendments?

16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th

21st amendment

ends prohibition and overturns 18th amendment

24th amendment

outlawed poll tax

26th amendment

all US citizens 18 and older may vote

Theodore Roosevelt

progressive president, rough riders during Spanish American War, conservation, trust buster

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Reserve, WWI president, 14 points peace plan

Warren Harding

Return to normalcy, Teapot Dome Scandal

Herbert Hoover

Rugged individualism, President during Stock Market Crash, blamed for great depression,

Franklin D Roosevelt

4 term president during great depression and WWII, new deal, court packing

Harry S Truman

President at end of WWII, Truman Doctrine

Dwight D Eisenhower

General and allied commander during & D-Day, cold war, starts space race

John F Kennedy

continues space race, cuban missile crisis

Lyndon B Johnson

president after JFK assassination, Vietnam and escalation, civil rights acts 1964, great society

Richard Nixon

Vietnamization, detente with China and Soviet Union, Environmental protection agency, war on drugs, watergate scandal

Jimmy Carter

stagflation due to oil crisis, Camp David Accords

Ronald Reagan

conservatism, economic policies, peace through strength, Iran-Contra affair

George H.W. Bush

Rust belt to sun belt migration, Americans with Disabilities Act, Persian Gulf War, official end of the Cold War

Bill Clinton

1992 election and Perot, NAFTA, impeachment and scandal

George W. Bush

2000 election and Gore, 9/11, War on terror, Katrina

Barack Obama

2008 election, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Westward Expansion (1826-1890s)

manifest destiny, california, alaska, gold, indian wars, transcontinental railroad, homestead act, populist party

Gilded Age (1870s-1910s)

electricity, assembly line, agriculture to factory work, urbanization, child labor, political machines, robber baron vs captains of industry, monopolies/trust, industrialization, immigration, quotas

Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)

labor unions, muckrakers, social & government reforms, suffrage, Sherman Antitrust Act, Social Gospel

Imperialism and Expansionism (1880s-1900s)

SPAM “remember the maine”, Panama Canal, Hawaii, Dollar Diplomacy, open door policy, yellow journalism

WWI (1914-1918)

LONG TERM CAUSES: assassination of Archduke, Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare, trenches, Zimmerman Telegraph, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles

Jazz Age (1920s)

Harlem Renaissance, 1st Red Scare, Scope’s Trial, jazz, Prohibition, buying on credit, flappers and the changing role of women, radio creates national culture, Teapot Dome Scandal

Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1939)

Stock Market crashes, over production, buying on credit, bank failures, risky loans, business and bank closures, high unemployment, Dust Bowl, New Deal programs, fireside chats, court packing

WWII (1939-1945)

Rise of European dictators in Europe & Asia, end of US depression, Holocaust, Pearl Harbor attacked by Japan

Cold War (1950s-1960s)

G.I. bill, baby boom, Marshall Plan, Containment 2nd Red Scare → HUAC & McCarthyism, nuclear arms race, space race & Sputnik, Korean War, United Nations, NATO/Warsaw Pact

Civil Rights Movement ( 1950s- 1960s)

Organized movement of people and ideas for minority civil rights, civil disobedience, Chicano Mural Movement, Women’s Rights, Native American’s Rights, Title IX, affirmative action, Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965

Vietnam (1964-1975)

Military Action → Guerilla Warfare, Draft, US & South Vietnam against North Viet Cong, Communism and USSR, Counterculture, Student Movement Protests, Vietnamization, role of media

Nixon to Reagan (1969-1990)

Detente, watergate, OPEC, Camp David Accords, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Conservative resurgence, stagflation, Reaganomics, Peace Through Strength, Iran-Contra Affair

Modern America (1990-present)

USSR dissolves → end of Cold War, Persian Gulf War, NAFTA, Clinton impeachment, Bush V Gore, 9/11, War on Terror, entrepreneurs, globalization

Andrew Carnegie

monopoly in steel process, Bessemer Process

Susan B Anthony

Progressive reformer, women’s suffrage

Jane Addams

established settlement houses to assimilate immigrants

Upton Sinclair

MUCKRAKER; wrote “The Jungle” to show problems in meat industry

W.E.B DuBois

founder of NAACP, immediate equality

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Imperialist; favored strong U.S. navy

John J Pershing

led US troops AEF in Europe during WWI

Douglas MacArthur

army commander in Pacific during WWI

Chester Nimitz

navy commander in the pacific during WWI

MLK

Civil rights leader, civil disobedience/non-violent protest

Orval Faubus and George Wallace

southern democratic governors who supported segregation

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP lawyer for Brown vs. Board of Education, 1st African American Supreme Court Justice

Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta

leaders of the Chicano Movement to address discrimination of Latinos

Sandra Day O’Connor

1st female supreme court justice

Sonia Sotomayor

1st hispanic supreme court justice

Alvin York

congressional medal of honor recipient → WWI

Vernon Baker

congressional medal of honor recipient → WWII

Roy Benavidez

congressional medal of honor recipient → Vietnam War

Barbed Wire

metal fencing, easy to install, keeps animals in/out, ends open range/close the frontier

Transcontinental Railroad

railroad lines connecting east and west coasts making transportation of goods & people faster & easier, creates a national economy

Light Bulb

factories remain open at night= longer work day

Bessemer Process

faster process for making stronger steel

Henry Ford

auto manufacturer - assembly line=mass

WWI Military Technology

machine guns, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, submarines

Charles Lindberg

1st man to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean

Medical

vaccines, penicillin, antibiotics protect people from diseases such as polio

Communication and access to information

creates a national culture and includes: telephone, telegraph, radio, TV, computers, internet, satellites

Space technology

exploration, GPS, plastics, velcro

Monroe Doctrine

European countries cannot colonize the Americas

Open Door Policy

opened trade access to all nations with China

Dollar Diplomacy

US investment of money to gain power in Latin America

Containment

Us policy to stop the spread of communism

Truman Doctrine

US has responsibility to help people resist communism

Marshall Plan

recovery plan to help rebuild Europe’s economy after WWII

Domino Theory

fear that if one country fell to communism, others would too

Detente

relaxing of tension between democratic and communist governments at the end of the Cold War

SALT

agreement to stop making nuclear weapons and limit number in existence

Plessy v. Ferguson

Segregation and “separate but equal” facilities is constitutional (ok)

Hernandez v. Texas

Mexican Americans cannot be systematically excluded from juries