Assessment 3

• Pacific Railway Act (1862)

• Homestead Act (1862)

• Cowboys

• Comstock Lode

• Turner’s Frontier Thesis

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Indigenous Resistance Leaders

  • Red Cloud

  • Sitting Bull

• “Indian Wars”

  • Sioux Wars

  • Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

• Dawes Act (1887)

• Reservations / Assimilation

• Jim Crow laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Civil Rights Activists (and their ideologies) 

  • Booker T. Washington (Atlanta Compromise)

  • Ida B. Wells

  • W.E.B Dubois

• NAACP

• National Woman Suffrage Association

• Voter Disenfranchisement

  • Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses

• Conservative Economic Theories

  • Laissez-Faire

  • Social Darwinism

  • “Gospel of Wealth”

  • Horatio Alger Myth

• Organized Labor (know at least one union and strike)

• Populism

  • People’s Party
    

Unit 7

• Progressive Movement: Goals and Successes 

• Muckrakers

• “New Imperialism”

• Jingoism 

• Yellow Journalism

• Spanish American War

  • De Lôme Letter

  • USS Maine

• Acquisition of Colonies

  • Guam

  • Puerto Rico

  • Cuba (protectorate) 

  • Philippines 

• Philippine-American War 

• Overthrow of Hawaii 

• Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

• Formation of the NAACP (1908)

• US reason for joining WWI

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • Lusitania 

  • Wall Street loans 

  • Bolshevik Revolution 

• Harlem Hellfighters

• Espionage and Sedition Act

  • Schenck v. United States

  • Emma Goldman

• 1918 Pandemic

• 18th Amendment

• League of Nations

• Red Summer (1919)

• 19th Amendment

• Tulsa Massacre and Black Wall Street

• Jazz Age

• Prohibition

• Scopes Trial 

• Harlem Renaissance 

  • Langston Hughes 

  • Nella Larsen

• Marcus Garvey

• Rise in Nativism

  • Rise in the Second KKK

  • Quota Laws (1921 & 1924)

  • Sacco and Vanzetti 

• Red Scare

• Great Migration

• Great Depression: Causes and Impacts

• Bonus Army

• The New Deal: Programs (know just a few)

  • Home Owners’ Loan Corporation - “redlining”

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  • Tennessee Valley Authority

  • Civilian Conservation Corps

• Scottsboro Case (1931)

• Election of 1932

• Huey Long

• Mexican Repatriation 

• Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

• Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)

• Tuskegee Syphilis Study

• US Policy Changes 

  • Cash and Carry

  • Selective Service Act

  • Destroyer-for-Bases

  • Lend Lease

• Internment of Japanese-Americans

  • Korematsu v. United States

• Main Axis Powers: Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan

• Main Allied Powers: US, Great Britain, Soviet Union, France

• Significant WWII Battles:

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Midway

  • D-Day

  • Okinawa 

• Minorities in WWII:

  • Tuskegee Airmen 

  • Indigenous Code Talkers 

  • Bracero Program

• Manhattan Project

• Wartime Conferences

  • Tehran (1943)

  • Yalta (1945)

  • Potsdam (1945)

• Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

• Potential LEQ: 

  • Hoover Policies vs. FDR Policies

  • Understand how different eras between 1890-1945 impacted the economy, notably business and labor