US History Since 1877 - Final Exam Review

Flashcards for review.

What was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)?

To regulate business and prevent monopolies

Name a key industrialist in steel.

Andrew Carnegie

Name a key industrialist in oil.

John D. Rockefeller

Name a key industrialist in banking/finance.

J.P. Morgan

Name a key industrialist in railroads.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?

Promoted Western Expansion

What was the purpose of Native American boarding schools like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?

To assimilate Native Americans

What is yellow journalism?

Sensationalized or biased reporting

What event triggered the Spanish-American War?

The sinking of the USS Maine

Name one result of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War.

Territorial acquisitions by the US

List three political reforms of the Progressive Era.

Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Direct election of senators, Women's suffrage

Who was Jane Addams?

A key reformer during the Progressive Era

Who was Upton Sinclair?

A key reformer during the Progressive Era

Who was Ida B. Wells?

A key reformer during the Progressive Era

Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?

A key reformer during the Progressive Era

Who was Booker T. Washington?

A key reformer during the Progressive Era

What doctrine was established in Plessy v. Ferguson?

Separate but equal

What event triggered World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

What was the Selective Service Act of 1917?

A law enacting conscription for World War I

Name a pre-war policy the United States used prior to officially entering WWI.

Cash and Carry or Lend-Lease Act

What was the Dust Bowl?

An ecological and agricultural disaster in the 1930s

What was the New Deal?

Franklin Roosevelt's program to combat the Great Depression

What event marked the start of World War II in Europe?

German invasion of Poland

What event brought the US into World War II?

Pearl Harbor attack

What was the Truman Doctrine?

A policy of containment of communism

What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?

To provide economic aid to Europe after WWII

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?

Desegregation of schools

Name a tactic or approach used by Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

Who advocated for Black Nationalism?

Malcolm X

Laissez-faire

A policy of minimal government intervention in the economy.

Yellow Journalism

Sensationalized or biased reporting.

Muckraking

Investigative journalism exposing social and political corruption.

Manifest Destiny

The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America.

Jim Crow Laws

State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Isolationism

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of foreign countries.

Appeasement

A diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

Containment

A United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

Détente

The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

Great Migration

The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1916 to 1970.

Kamikaze

Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Great Society

A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

Imperialism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.

Total war

A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.

New Deal

A series of programs and projects undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

The practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil resistance, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.

Black nationalism

Advocacy of or support for unity and political self-determination for Black people, especially in the form of a separate Black nation.