American History – Alan Brinkley

Guided Reading Questions

Second Semester

Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West1. Who are the genizaros?

2. What were the roles of the Plains Indian women?

3. What were the roles of Plains Indian men?

4. What caused the Anglo-American presence in the Southwest to grow rapidly in the early 1880s and 1890s?

5. As mining declined, where did the Chinese find employment?

6. Chinese labor consisted of ________________ percent of the Central Pacific labor force.

7. What year was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?

8. What were “Tongs?”

9. Which two political parties became increasingly hostile toward the Chinese between 1860 and the 1880s?

10. In 1882, how did Congress respond to political pressure and the growing violence against the Chinese?

11. What did this act do?

12. What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?

13. What did Utah have to do to gain statehood?

14. Where was the greatest Silver and gold mine found in 1859—primarily silver? What was its name?

15. This famous trail started in Texas and would lead cattle to Abilene, Kansas to be taken to North Eastern slaughter facilities.

16. What were the dismal aspects of the cowboy life?

17. This painter and sculptor captured the romance of the West and its image as an alternative to the settled civilization of the East.

18. Why did Theodore Roosevelt travel to the badlands in the mid-1880s?

19. What did Frederick Jackson Turner argue in his Frontier Thesis?

20. Who was famous for his Wild West shows in the late 1800s?

21. Who was the famous sharp-shooting woman who was part of the Wild West show.

22. What was the purpose of the Indian Peace Commission?

23. What was the recommendation of the Indian Peace Commission?

24. What two great leaders did bands of Indian warriors unite under?

25. Who was Colonel of the 7th Cavalry?

26. What two famous characters will meet in this battle?

27. In what year did this battle take place?

28. What happened to Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull?

29. Who was the leader of the Nez Perce?

30. What famous Indian leader will surrender in 1886 in Arizona after a relentless chase?

31. Massacre that took place on December 29, 1890.

32. Wounded KneeThe Battle of Wounded Knee will be caused by the Sioux trying to revive their Ancestor in this ancient tribal dance?

33. This Act will try to remove all remnants of Native American life by trying to “civilize” the Native Americans by placing them in Government run schools and forcing them to give up all their tribal lifestyles.

34. These men were responsible for perfecting the barbed wire fence.

35. What was the most burning grievance that farmers had against the railroad?

People/Places/EventsCaliforniosChief JosephChinatownsChinese Exclusion ActChisolm TrailCommerical Agriculture“Concentration” PolicyCooliesCowboyDawes Severalty ActFrederick Jackson TurnerFrederic RemingtonGenizarosGeorge Armstrong CusterGeronimoGhost Dance MovementHomestead ActLittle BighornLong DriveMark twainMestizosMiningMulatto“Passing of the Frontier”Plains IndiansRocky Mountain SchoolSand Creek MassacreTaos Indian RebellionTranscontinental RailroadTurner ThesisWestern TribesWounded Knee

Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy1. This process blew cold air into red-hot iron causing the metal to become white-hot by igniting the carbon and

thus eliminating impurities? It allowed for the cheap making of steel.

2. What city became the center of the steel world?

3. What two technologies were critical to the development of the automobile?

4. How many automobiles were on the road in 1895? In 1917?

5. Who invented the airplane?

6. Where was the first successful test flight?

7. What did railroad companies create on Nov. 8th, 1883?

8. Who was the central figure in steel?

9. What business did John D. Rockefeller own?

10. What type of integration did John D. Rockefeller use to create Standard oil?

11. According to industrialists, what was the greatest curse of the modern economy?

12. What I a pool arrangement?

13. How did the new industrial economy expand individual opportunity for advancement?

14. Who was the famous railroad magnate?

15. What was his belligerent question?

16. What social theory did most defenders of capitalism rely upon to explain their success?

17. Why did it appeal to businessmen?

18. Who is famous for saying the person of wealth was “the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren.” What book will be written by this man on the philosophy of men of wealth?

19. This author wrote novels about poor boys who rise “from rags to riches.” Sold more than 20 million copies of his books.

20. What was Lester Frank Ward’s argument about society?

21. What political party was formed in 1801 after breaking away from the Socialist Labor Party?

22. This journalist is best known for his book Progress and Poverty which tried to solve the problem with progress and poverty?

23. What did monopolies do in the absence of competition?

24. How many immigrants arrived in the U.S. between 1865 and 1915?

25. By the end of the 1800s, where were most immigrants coming from?

26. How many hours a day did laborers work? IN what kind of conditions?

27. Describe the typical woman industrial worker.

28. What industry was the largest employer of women?

29. How many children under the age of 16 were employed in factories in 1900?

30. What are two reasons children were forced to work?

31. Why did the child labor laws have a limited impact in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

32. What will become the first national labor union in 1866?

33. What did Moly Maguires do?

34. What was America’s first major, national labor conflict?

35. What was the first national labor union?

36. What was the most important and enduring labor union?

37. Who was the leader of the AFL?

38. What was one of the first objectives of the AFL?

39. What Chicago labor disturbance will lead to great mistrust of labor unions?

40. What was the governor’s reaction to the Homestead Strike of 1892 in Pittsburgh, PA at an Andrew Carnegie factory?

41. What famous militant socialist will emerge out of the Pullman Railway Strike in 1894 seen as a friend to the workingman?

42. How did President Cleveland solve the Pullman Railway Strike in 1894?

People/Places/EventsAdam SmithAmerican Federation of LaborAndrew CarnegieEdward BellamyEugene V. DebsFrederick Winslow TaylorGospel of WealthGrotesque Luxury (Conspicuous Consumption)Haymarket BombingHenry Clay FrickHenry FordHenry GeorgeHolding CompaniesHomestead StrikeHoratio AlgerHorizontal ImmigrationJohn D. RockefellerJohn Peter AltgeldJ.P. MorganKnights of LaborLimited LiabilityMolly MaguiresNational Labor UnionPullman StrikeSamuel GompersScientific ManagementSocial DarwinismTrustsVertical IntegrationWilbur and Orville WrightWomen’s Trade Union League

Chapter 18: Age of the City1. What can be attributed to the growth of cities?

2. What attracted people form the countryside to the cities?

3. What jobs were done by urban blacks?

4. What did immigrants create to help ease their transition to America?

5. What were some things that foreign born groups had in common?

6. What did immigration supply to American industry?

7. These were “miserable abodes” with many windowless rooms, little or no plumbing or central heating, and often a row of privies in the basement.

8. What book did Jacob A. Riis publish in 1890 which showed photographs and told stories about the dirt, disease, vice and misery of the rat-gnawed human rookeries known as New York slums? (muckraking journalist)

9. What innovation allowed for the building of skyscrapers in most major cities?

10. What two cities suffered great fires in 1871?

11. This British born organization will move to the United States in 1879 and established a beachhead on the street corners—concentrated more on religious revivalism than the poor and hungry.

12. Who did native born Americans blames the crime rate on?

13. What was the principal function of the political boss?

14. How did the political boss win the loyalty of his constituents?

15. What are some examples of covert graft?

16. Which political boss ran Tammany Hall in NYC?

17. Name the two mail-order houses which helped to change the lives of many isolated people.

18. What reformer led the National Consumers League?

19. What was the goal of the National Consumers League?

20. What slogan was used by workers in pursuit of shorter hours?21. Who supposedly invented baseball?

22. When was the first World Series? Who won?

23. Which President worked to improve the game of football by making it safer?

24. Who invented the game of basketball?

25. What was the most important form of entertainment until the invention of the radio and television?

26. What was “Yellow Journalism?”

27. Which two publishers popularized “Yellow Journalism?”

28. Which author wrote The Red Badge of Courage (1895) describing the Civil War?

29. This muckraking journalist will expose the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle?

30. What was the single most profound intellectual development of the late 19 th century?

31. What challenged the biblical story of the Creation and almost every other tenant of traditional American faith?

32. What was the Carlisle School in Pennsylvania?

33. What did the Morrill act of 1862 do?

34. How did proponents of women’s colleges view those institutions?

People/Places/EventsAlice HamiltonArmory ShowAshcan SchoolAssimilationBoss Rule“City Beautiful” MovementDarwinism

Department StoresD.W. GriffithEdward HopperHenry JamesJacob RiisKate ChopinMass TransitModernismMoviesNational Consumer LeagueNewspaper ChainsSocial RealismStephen CraneTammany HallTenementsTheodore DreislerUpton SinclairWilliam JamesWilliam M. TweedWomen’s CollegesYellow journalismYiddish Theater

Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire1. What was the most striking feature of 19th century politics?

2. Who will become the captain of the Half-Breeds? What was a Half-Breed?

3. Why was Rutherford B. Hayes’s wife known as “Lemonade Lucy?”

4. What issue did James Garfield run on in the election of 1880?

5. Why was he shot? (Not in the book)

6. What famous Act will be passed by the Arthur administration (1883)?

7. Which political party will be called the party of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” in the election of 1884?

8. What man will win the presidency in 1888 to become the first grandson to be elected President?

9. This act will be put into place to try and stop unfair combinations in 1890?

10. This SCOTUS trial stated that states had no power to regulate interstate commerce?11. What did the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887 force the railroads to publish?

12. This famous farmer movement will be created in 1867? By who?

13. What was the purpose of the Grangers at first?

14. She was known as the “Kansas Pythoness” who led this party by stating that farmers should raise “less corn and more Hell.”

15. What were members of the People’s Party called?

16. Who did Populism appeal to?

17. Why did Southern conservatives attack Populists?

18. This protest march will head towards Washington lead by “General” Jacob S. Coxey trying to ask for governmental help to the unemployed.

19. By using both silver and gold to back the American dollar what type of financial policy is this called?

20. What was the “Crime of ’73?”

21. What two groups were determined to undo the “Crime of ’73?”

22. This man will make his famous “Cross of Gold” speech stating that “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” This will lead to him becoming the Democratic nominee in the 1896 presidential election.

23. What did the Dingley Tariff do?

24. What Senator warned that the United States “must not fall out of line of march” in regards to imperialism?

25. What was John W. Burgess’s justification for imperialism?

26. What did Alfred Thayer Mahan’s thesis state?

27. She was the Queen of Hawaii who will be deposed by the Americans in the late Nineteenth Century?

28. When will Hawaii finally be annexed by the United States?

29. What was Theodore Roosevelt’s opinion of William McKinley?

30. What mysterious explosion will lead to US intervention in the Spanish-American War?

31. What will be the battle cry during the Spanish-American war?

32. What was responsible for killing more men during the Spanish-American war wounds suffered in battle or disease? Be specific.

33. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s cavalry unit in Cuba?

34. What famous hill did TR lead his men up on July 1, 1898?

35. What famous protest movement came into being because of the United States taking of foreign territories?

36. What did the Platt Amendment make the Cubans write into their Constitution?

37. What great Filipino leader will rebelled against Spanish rule and the American rule?

38. Which future president became the territorial governor of the Philippines?

39. Which foreign countries tried to “Open” China for exploitation?

40. Who was the US Secretary of State responsible for the “Open Door” policy with China in 1899?

41. Which group of Chinese would try and resist the imperialist into their country?

People/Places/EventsAlfred Thayer MahanAnti-Imperialist LeagueBoxer RebellionCuban RevoltEmilio AguinaldoFarmers’ Alliance Foraker ActForeign Trade“Free Silver”HawaiiImperialismHalf-Breeds

Interstate Commerce ActJacob CoxeyMary E. LeaseThe Maine“Open Door” PolicyPlatt AmendmentPanic of 1893Pendleton ActPopulismPopulist PartyPuerto RicoSherman Antitrust ActSpanish-American WarThe GrangeThe PhilippinesWilliam Jennings BryanWilliam McKinleyYellow Journalism

Chapter 20: The Progressives1. What did Progressives believe?

2. What is “antimonopoly?”

3. Which president is responsible for coining the term “muckrakers”?

4. Which woman was greatly responsible for the break of the Standard Oil Company because of her muckraking exposé?

5. Which reporter for McClure’s Magazine was considered to be one of the most important Muckrakers?

6. What was the name of his articles?

7. This woman will be responsible for the creation of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago?

8. What profession was created by the settlement houses?

9. One of the first medical organizations created by doctors in 1901.

10. Why did some educated women shun marriage?

11. What did women’s clubs pressure Congress to establish in 1912? What did this department do?

12. What was the largest reform movement of the Progressive Era?

13. What did Antisuffragists link Suffrage with?

14. How did WWI give a final push to the movement for suffrage?

15. Which amendment to the Constitution will give women the right to vote in 1920?

16. This progressive political reforms allowed the people to directly propose legislation themselves, thus bypassing the boss-brought state legislatures.

17. This provided a method by which actions of the legislature could be returned to the electoral for approval.

18. This progressive political reform would enable voters to remove faithless elected officials, particularly those who had been bribed by bosses or lobbyists.

19. According to Robert LaFollette, who was responsible for reform?

20. This tragedy will result in the death of 146 young immigrant women in New York City when the doors of their textile factory will be locked and a fire breaks out (1911).

21. What did Booker T. Washington mean when he said, “Put down your buckets where you are?”

22. This man argued that blacks should not be content with education at trade and agricultural schools. HE believed blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education.

23. What Civil Rights organization did he launch?

24. Who is the leader of the WCTU after 1879?

25. What Amendment will take effect in 1920 making the WCTU and the anti-Salon League happy?

26. What was the eugenics movement as applied to humans?

27. What was the IWW?

28. How old was Teddy Roosevelt when he assumed the Presidency?

29. This will be the first major Trust “busted” by the Roosevelt Administration?

30. (Burke Question) What was the name of the coal strike which Theodore Roosevelt will solve?

31. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s economic plan for the United States?

32. What acts will be passed because of the publication of the book The Jungle?

33. What was the name of the man who is the first director of the National Forest Service?

34. This man was the father of the Sierra Club which felt that all non-developed land should remain that way?

35. Who will be the handpicked Republican candidate by Theodore Roosevelt which ran in the election of 1908?

36. What did Taft’s Secretary of the Interior, Richard Ballinger do which upset Gifford Pinchot?

37. What did Theodore Roosevelt do in 1912 which will eventually lead to Woodrow Wilson becoming president?

38. What was the name of Woodrow Wilson’s economic plan?

39. Who will become president in the election of 1912?

40. What was Woodrow Wilson’s first triumph as president?

41. How did Wilson help to solve the problems with the banks?

42. What did the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 do?

43. What was the first federal law regulating child labor?

TermsAlice Paul“Bad Trusts”“Bull Moose Party”Elizabeth Cady StantonEugene DebsEugenicsFather John RyanFederal Reserve ActGifford Pinchot“Good Trusts”Hetch HetchyHull HouseIda TarbellInterstate Commerce ActIWW (Wobblies)Jane AddamsLincoln SteffensLouis BrandeisMuckrakersMunicipal ReformsNAACPNational American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)New FreedomNewlands ActNew NationalismPanic of 1907Professional AssociationsProhibitionPure Food and Drug ActReferendumRobert LaFolletteSettlement HousesSierra ClubSocial Gospel

Chapter 21: America and the Great War

1. What was Roosevelt’s famous phrase concerning the use of military strength.

2. What two countries will go to war in 1904-05 which will allow Roosevelt to agree to shepherd a peace deal between them?

3. What did Roosevelt win when he gets the two countries to agree to a piece treaty?

4. In order to show the power of the United States, Roosevelt sent this on a global tour in late 1907?

5. Because of German ships bombarding Venezuelan ports, Theodore Roosevelt instituted this policy concerning United States and Latin American countries.

6. What was the most celebrated accomplishment of Roosevelt’s presidency?

7. (Burke Question) What was the term used to describe the use of US financial backing of Latin American countries to prevent European intervention?

8. What Mexican president will be overthrown in the Mexican Revolution of 1913?

9. Who will Wilson back to overthrown the Mexican president?

10. Which countries were involved in the Triple Entente prior to WWI? What did this alliance become known as when WWI began?

11. Which countries were involved in the Triple Alliance prior to WWI? What did this alliance become known as when WWI began?

12. How did WWI start?

13. (Burke Question) Which 19 year-old Serbian will be responsible for starting WWI?

14. What British passenger ship will be sunk in May of 1915 causing the deaths of 1,198 lives including 128 Americans? (we don’t go to war because of the sinking of this ship)

15. What was the slogan for Wilson’s reelection campaign?

16. Describe the Zimmerman Note and why it cause Woodrow Wilson to declare war on Germany.

17. When did the US declare war on the Central Powers?

18. What Revolution took place in Russia in October 1917 which brought about communism in their country?

19. Who was the main leader of this Revolution in Russia?

20. What had to be instituted in 1917 to help solve our shortage of military men?

21. Who was commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)?

22. In what Southern city did a race riot take place where Black soldiers came into conflict with local residence over the policies of segregation?

23. On what day did WWI officially end?

24. What was the most terrible new form of technological warfare?

25. What functions did planes serve during WWI?

26. What concessions were granted to workers thanks to the National War Labor Board?

27. What name is given for the movement of African-American workers north during WWI?

28. What was the IWW?

29. What did the Espionage Act of 1917 do?

30. What did the Sedition Act of 1918 do?

31. This Socialist leader will be arrested in 1919 because he was in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 and actually ran for POTUS from jail.

32. How were names changed for Sauerkraut and Frankfurters to make them more patriotic?

33. Who were know as the “Big Four” at the Paris Peace Conference?

34. Who was the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that didn’t support the Treaty of Versailles?

35. How did Woodrow Wilson try and get the Treaty of Versailles passed by the US Senate?

36. What caused Wilson to fail to get the US Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

37. What industry will have the greatest strike in American history in 1919?

38. What was the worst riot to take place during the Red Summer of 1919?

39. What Attorney General (the “Fighting Quaker”) will lead many raids on communist during the early 1920s?

40. These two Italian immigrants will be convicted of murder in Massachusetts and later will be tied to the communistic movement.

41. What Constitutional Amendment will be passed in 1920 granting Women’s suffrage?

42. What Act in 1921 federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care?

43. What campaign slogan will Harding use to get elected in 1920?

44. Who will be the Republican nominee for President of the US in 1920—eventual winner?

People/Places/Events AlliesAmerican Expeditionary ForceCentral PowersDollar DiplomacyGeneral John J. Pershing“Great Migration”League of NationsLudlow MassacreLusitaniaMarcus GarveyNicola Sacco and Bartolomeo VanzettiNineteenth AmendmentPalmer RaidsPancho VillaRed Scare

Roosevelt CorollarySenator Henry Cabot LodgeThe Fourteen PointsTreaty of VersaillesTrenc WarfareTriple AllianceTriple EntenteUnited Negro Improvement AssociationZimmerman Telegram

Chapter 22: The “New Era”1. What was one of the most important industries in America because of the assembly line?

2. What was the great unrealized dream of the New Era?

3. What did Henry Ford do that made him a “Welfare Capitalist?”

4. How were working class families able to make ends meet?

5. What are examples of “pink-collar” jobs?

6. How many African Americans Migrated from the rural South to the cities during the Great Migration?

7. What union represented the black workforce?

8. Who took the place of the Chinese after the Chinese Exclusion Act?

9. What is an Issei?

10. What is a Nisei?

11. How many Mexicans entered the workforce in the 1920s?

12. Why were there few efforts to exclude Mexicans compared to other immigrant groups?

13. What was an “open shop?”

14. What were the negative consequences of new farming technologies?

15. What did the McNary-Haugen Bills of 1924 and 1928 try and do for farmers (vetoed both times by Coolidge)?

16. What social by-products came about because of the introduction of the automobile?

17. This film will be the “talkie” in 1927?

18. What was the first commercial radio station in America?

19. What were the traditionally feminine fields?

20. What is Margaret Sanger best known for in the 1920s?

21. These type of women had bobbed hair, higher hemlines, stocking rolled, and wore a lot more make up?

22. Under the leadership of Alice Paul, which organization worked to have he Equal Rights Amendment added to the Constitution?

23. What Act in 1921 federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care?

24. This famous author will publish such books at The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929)—later he will commit suicide?

25. Who was the author of the book The Great Gatsby?

26. This movement created a flourishing African American culture.

27. Name some of the Jazz Greats during the 1920s.

28. (Burke Question) This man was known as the “Poet Laureate of Harlem”?

29. What “noble experiment” began in 1919?

30. What will be a horrible consequence of the “noble experiment”?

31. Who will be the most infamous leaders from question #30?

32. What year was the 18th Amendment repealed?

33. What movie glorified the early KKK?

34. How many members did this group have by the 1920s?

35. The ________ __________ ___________ trial will take place in Dayton, TN in 1925 arguing _____________ vs ____________? How did this case challenge the establishment?

36. This scandal during the Harding administration saw Albert Fall (Interior Secretary) try and lease former navy oil reserves private oil men (Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny). Fall took a $500,000 bribe for this deal and he will found guilty of taking the bribe and was sentenced to one year in jail.

37. Where did the scandal it’s get its name?

38. Who will become the successor to Warren G. Harding after his untimely death?

39. This Treasury Secretary will help to convince Congress to lower the tax rate on personal income in the early 1920s.

40. When Calvin Coolidge announced, “I do not choose to run” what Republican will run for President and be elected in 1928 (horrible year to take control)?

People/Places/EventsA.Philip Randolph

Alain Locke

Al Smith

“American Plan”Automobile

Duke Ellingont

H.L. Mencken

Harlem Renaissance

Herbert Hoover

Issei

Jelly Roll Morton

Ku Klux Klan

Langston Hughes

Lost Generation

Margaret Sanger

National Origins Act of 1924

Nisei

Parity

Scopes “Monkey Trial”

Sinclair Lewis

Teapot Dome

The Jazz Singer

Welfare Capitalism

Chapter 23: The Great Depression1. On what famous day did the stock market crash leading to the Great Depression?

2. What do historians find remarkable about the Great Depression?

3. What are four factors that account for the severity of the Great Depression?

4. Why weren’t the Allies able to pay back the United States after WWI?

5. How did John Maynard Keynes respond when he was asked, if he was aware of any historical era comparable to the Great Depression?

6. What were the great dust storms of the Dust Bowl called?

7. Where did “Okies” get their name?

8. What was the percent of black unemployment in New York City and many other cities?

9. Describe the events of the Scottsboro Case

10. What widespread belief about women was strengthened during the Great Depression?

11. Why was that belief strengthened?

12. Why did a larger percent of black women work during the Great Depression than white women?

13. What was the staple broadcasting on the radio during the Great Depression?

14. Why was the Radio important during the Great Depression?

15. What 1928 cartoon introduced us to Mickey Mouse

16. Which American unit will take it upon themselves to go and help the communists in that country fight against the fascists?

17. This pact will be signed by Stalin in 1939 guaranteeing the Nazi war machine no resistance in moving their armies East?

18. This book will describe the plight of the farmers who leave the dust bowl area and move their families to California looking for prosperity. Author?

19. What was Hoover’s first response to the Great Depression? Quote?

20. What did the Agricultural Marketing Act Do?

21. What was the purpose of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?

22. What organization will be created by the Hoover administration to help keep the banks afloat and protect homeowners?

23. What did the “Bonus Expeditionary Force” call for?

24. What happened to the force?

25. What campaign phrase will FDR electrify the Democrat party delegates at their National Convention held in Chicago in 1932?

26. When did FDR become President of the United States (month, date, year)

27. (Burke Question) What position did FDR and TR both hold prior to becoming POTUS?

People/Places/EventsAgricultural Marketing Act

“Black Tuesday”

Bonus Army

Clifford Odets

Dust Bowl

Erskine Caldwell

Frank Capra

Hindenburg

Hoovervilles

John Dos Passos

John Steinbeck

Life Magazine

“Okies”

Orson Welles

Popular Front

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Richard Wright

Scottsboro Case

Soap Operas

Tariff Act of 1930

Chapter 24: The New Deal1. What was Roosevelt’s first task upon taking office?

2. What famous statement does FDR make at his 1st inaugural speech to the people of America?

3. How was FDR able to explain his programs and plans to the people while at the same time build confidence in the administration? What were the programs called?

4. What will be the first thing on Roosevelt’s agenda (Two Days after taking office)?

5. What did the Emergency Banking Act do?

6. Which amendment was ratified in 1933, repealing Prohibition?

7. What was the most important feature of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

8. This New Deal recovery and relief agency was established to help farmers by giving them subsidies for their excess crops. It also paid farmers not to grow certain crops and to grow other crops.

9. (Burke Question) This SCOTUS case will rule part of the AAA unconstitutional?

10. This program established a maximum hours of labor, established codes of “fair competition”, created a minimum wage, allowed labor unions to organize and bargain collectively, and outlawed “yellow-dog” contracts.

11. This SCOTUS case will rule part of the NRA unconstitutional?

12. This New Deal agency helped to creating cheap electric power by damning the Tennessee River.

13. What reform movement did the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act create?

14. This agency was created to oversee the stock market and prevent the boom to bust periods.

15. What was the Townsend plan?

16. This man will consider running against FDR in the 1936 Democrat primary promising to “Share Our Wealth” program and promised to make “Every Man a King”—SOCIALISTS!!! Why didn’t he?

17. This New Deal program is known as one of the real milestones on the rocky road of the US labor movement, because is allowed labor unions to self-organize and to bargain collectively.

18. This man will form a new labor union, the CIO, in 1935 for the semi-skilled and unskilled workers in to a powerful bloc of “big labor”.

19. What is the name of the old age insurance which will be created in 1935?

20. As part of this act this will be established to guarantee payment incase you lose your job.

21. This recovery administration helped to employment people on “useful” projects—such as arts, literature projects, public buildings, bridges.

22. What will be FDR’s reaction to the overturning of a few of his New Deal programs? This will damage his presidency until 1940.

23. What was the recession of 1937 known as?

24. Why did the New Deal come to an end? What year?

25. What did Eleanor Roosevelt do to promote social Justice?

26. What was one of the first modern civil rights demonstrations?

27. What did the Indian Reorganization Act do?

28. Who is Frances Perkins (1882 – 1965)?

29. Which regions of the United States received special attention from the New Deal?

30. This Dam will be built on the Columbia River which is the largest structure erected by humans since the Great Wall of China.

31. Why did social scientists refer to the South as “the nation’s number one economic problem?”

32. What is the most frequent criticism of the New Deal?

33. What event will bring the United States out of the Great Depression?

People/Places/EventsAgricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

“Bank Holiday”

Broker State

Charles E. Coughlin

Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)

Court Packing Plan

Eleanor Roosevelt

Federal Writers’ Project

Frances Perkins

Francis E. Townsend

Glass-Steagall Act

Harry Hopkins

Huey Long

John Collier

John L. Lewis

Marian Anderson

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Schechter Brothers Case

Second New Deal

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Sit-Down Strike

Social Security Act

Tennessee Valley Authority

Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921 – 19411. What word was used to describe American foreign policy in the 1920s?

2. What did the Washington Conference of 1921 attempt to do?

3. What diplomatic bargain between 62 nations will be made between Calvin Coolidge’s Secretary of State and a French foreign minister?

4. What did the pact propose?

5. What was the name of the Italian fascist who came to power in 1922?

6. What was the name of the German government after WWI

7. Why was this government so unpopular?

8. What beliefs did Hitler have that would pose a great threat to European and world peace?

9. Which new nation will the US recognize in 1933 about 11 years after its creation?

10. This type of policy was used by Hoover toward our Latin American neighbors?

11. What were the findings of the Nye Committee in 1934?

12. What did the Roosevelt administration put forward to prevent US involvement in international wars? What years?

13. What country will Italy attack and invade in 1935 in violation of the League of Nations?

14. What alliance did Italy form with Nazi Germany?

15. What did Roosevelt’s Quarantine Speech state in 1937?

16. This incident involved the Japanese sinking an American gunboat in Chinese waters with the loss of two men and their wounded?

17. Did we go to war after the incident in #16?

18. What area will Hitler remilitarize in 1936 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles?

19. What was the first territory which Nazi Germany will take over in March of 1938 which was Hitler’s homeland?

20. What area will Hitler be given in the Munich Pact of 1938 signed between Neville Chamberlain (British Prime Minister) and Hitler?

21. The Munich Pact is the best example of this policy which tries to give into your opposition instead of facing them in a possible war.

22. What did Hitler do less than 6 months later, breaking his promise in the Munich Pact?

23. This pact will be signed in 1939 guaranteeing the Nazi war machine no resistance in moving their armies East?

24. On September 1, 1939 what took place?

25. What took place on September 3, 1939?

26. What did the Neutrality Act of 1939 allow the United States to do?

27. This type of war will take place in Europe between October 1939 and April 1940?

28. Which country will fall to the Nazi War machine in June 1940?

29. What act inaugurated the first peacetime draft in American history?

30. What tradition will FDR break with his election as President in 1940?

31. Who will be the Republican candidate in 1940?

32. What program will be passed in the 1940 which will reverse all of the Neutrality Acts?

33. What major mistake will Hitler make in June 1941?

34. This document will be formally accepted by Roosevelt and Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill in 1941. It was a vaguely disguised form, a statement of war aims that called openly for the “destruction of the Nazi tyranny.”

35. What was the Tripartite Pact?

36. On what date was Pearl Harbor Attacked?

37. (Burke Question) How many waves of attacks did the Japanese plan for Pearl Harbor? How many took place?

38. How many men were killed at Pearl Harbor?

39. What will happen in the United States on December 8, 1941?

40. Was the vote unanimous in Congress to declare war? Who dissented?

People/Places/EventsAdolf Hitler

Appeasement

Atlantic Charter

Benito Mussolini

Cordell Hull

Dawes Plan

Good Neighbor Policy

Henry Stimson

Hideki Tojo

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Lend-LeaseNeutrality Acts

Pearl Harbor

Washington Conference of 1921

Chapter 26: America in a World at War1. What was the first task facing the United States in 1492?

2. What was the Allies first important victory?

3. It was at this battle in the Pacific where the Japanese navy will face their first loss in over 300 years and is considered the turning point in the War in the Pacific?

4. Who regrouped American forces after a devastating loss at the Kasserine Pass?

5. When were the Germans finally driven from Africa?

6. Germany suffered such appalling losses during this battle that they could not continue their eastern offensive.

7. When did American officials become aware of the systematic extermination of the Jews?

8. What happened to the German passenger liner the St. Louis?

9. What event will bring the United States out of the Great Depression?

10. How many work stoppages took place during WWII?

11. What was a wildcat strike?

12. This Anti-strike Act will allow the federal government to seize a struck war plant which could hurt the United States war effort.

13. What was the name of the machine used by the Germans for secrets codes?

14. How many Native Americans served in the military during WWII?

15. What were Code Talkers?

16. This program created in 1942 allowed Mexican workers to work for a limited time on specific jobs?

17. These riots will take place in Los Angeles between Mexican-American youth with American Navy soldiers who had a problem with the Mexican-American attire?

18. More than 6 million women went to work during WWII. What will become the symbol for all working women during this time period?

19. Name the women’s non-combat aspect of the Army and Navy.

20. Which group of people will be considered the enemy aliens in the United States?

21. What is the 5th Column?

22. (Burke Question) What famous executive order will force 110,000 Japanese-Americans on the Pacific Coast to move to camps located away from the Coast?

23. What SCOTUS case will defend this executive order?

24. What payment will be made in 1988 to those Japanese displaced from their homes during WWII?

25. What change did FDR have to make to his New Deal program in 1943?

26. This man will run unsuccessfully for President in 1944?

27. What major invasion took place on June 6, 1944?

28. What was the name of the battle which took place in the Ardennes Forest (Dec 1944 – Jan 1945) located in Belgium which will be the last push by the German army in WWII?

29. What will take place on April 30, 1945?

30. On what date will be V-E day (Victory in Europe)?

31. What was the name of the Chinese man who the United States will support to try and resist the Japanese invaders of his country?

32. What island will be captured in February of 1945 which is only 750 miles from Tokyo?

33. This man will escape the Nazis when he immigrated to the United States in 1933 and will warn FDR that the Germans were developing atomic weapons?

34. What scientist directed the construction of the atomic bomb?

35. What was the name of the first successful atomic bomb test in New Mexico in July 1945?

36. Who will become president after the death of FDR?

37. It will be at this war conference that then President Truman will learn that the “baby has been delivered” (1st testing of the atomic bomb was successful).

38. This Japanese city will be destroyed by the first Atomic bomb? On what date?

39. What will take place on 08/09/45 in Japan?

40. It will be upon this US Battle ship that the surrender of Japan will be signed?

People/Places/EventsAtomic Bomb

A.Philip Randolph

Battle of the Bulge

Braceros

Colossus II

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

D-Day

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Enola Gay

Enrico Fermi

Guadalcanal

Harry S. Truman

Hiroshima

Holocaust

Korematsu v. U.S.

Luftwaffe

Manhattan Project

Midway

Nisei unit

Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Okinawa

“Relocation Centers”

“Rosie the Riveter”

Sonar

Vichy

Zoot Suits

Chapter 27: The Cold War

1. What kind of atmosphere was created by the United States and Soviet Union after WWII?2. What will be the first conference where the “Big Three” will meet during WWII?

3. Who were known as the “Big Three”?

4. What future international group will be discussed at Yalta?

5. This international organization will meet for the first time in San Francisco on April 25, 1945 (13 days after FDR’s death).

6. What was discussed at the Yalta conference between the BIG Three?

7. How did Harry Truman view Stalin?8. Where will the Truman Doctrine be used first? How will it be used?

9. What was the name given to the reconstruction plan for the war-torn European continent (Western Europe)?

10. How much aid was sent to Europe?

11. What new Cabinet position will be created by the National Security Act in 1947?

12. Germany at the end of WWII was divided into how many zones? Who owned them?

13. What two nations will struggle for power during the Cold War? What will be considered the first battle of the Cold War? Who’s victorious?

14. How was the US victorious in the Berlin Airlift?

15. What will happen to Germany in 1949?

16. What will be the Soviet’s response to this Western European international organization?

17. What did The Blue Book of Communism argue?

18. What was the policy of “rollback?”

19. What is the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 better known as? What did it do?

20. This act will be vetoed by President Truman, but the Republican Congress will override his veto to pass the act which outlawed the “closed” (all-union) shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath.

21. Who will Harry S. Truman defeat in the 1948 election in an upset?

22. What were the only successes of Harry Truman’s Fair Deal programs?

23. Why did the U.S. and Soviet Union send troops into Korea at the end of WWII?

24. Who commanded the American UN operations in Korea?

25. What will that General ask for which will lead to his firing by President Truman?

26. What famous statement will the General make before Congress concerning old soldiers?

27. What tangible shape did Communism have?

28. Where did the anticommunist furor come from?

29. What did the HUAC try to prove?

30. Why were the “Hollywood Ten” jailed?

31. What future POTUS served on HUAC while a representative from CA?32. What was Alger Hiss convicted of?33. What was the McCarran Security Act?

34. What year did the Soviets detonate a nuclear weapon?

35. What was the name of the British scientist who delivered atomic secrets to the Russians?

36. Which couple was responsible for giving the Soviet the secrets to the atomic bomb?

37. It will be this Senator from the State of Wisconsin who will be at the forefront of the 2nd Red Scare in American History?

38. Did McCarthy ever offer produce solid evidence of communist subversion?

39. Who will Republicans enthusiastically nominate on the first ballot for their presidential candidate in 1952?

40. Who will be nominated by the Republicans as the Vice-President in 1952?

41. What will save the nomination for Richard Nixon?

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Yalta ConferenceChapter 28: The Affluent Society

1. What was the most striking feature of American society in the 1950s and early 1960s?

2. What did the federal government spend money on and invest in that contributed to the growth of the West?

3. What did John Maynard Keynes argue?

4. When did “new economics” finally win official acceptance (explain)?

5. What endangered the family farm?

6. What was “The Postwar Contract?”

7. Which two labor movements merged in 1955?

8. What was the name of the company that was formed after this merger?

9. Who was convicted of tax evasion in 1967?

10. What was the name of the strategy by the Congress of Industrial Organizations that was aimed at unionizing the Southern textile workers and steelworkers in the late 1940s? How successful was it?

11. Who developed a vaccine against polio?

12. What was discovered as a miraculous tool for controlling insects (abbreviation)?

13. What was the first significant computer of the 1950s?

14. What year did the US detonate the first hydrogen bomb?

15. We can trace the origin of the space program to what event? What year did the event take place?

16. What did Federal policy begin funding after this event?

17. What was the name of America’s first satellite?

18. What was the name of the first man in space?

19. Who was the first American launched into suborbital space?

20. What was the name of the first US man in space?

21. What space shuttle exploded in 1986 killing seven astronauts?

22. What act created one of the most important alterations of the national landscape in modern history?

23. He will be a pioneer of innovation by creating new techniques in home construction (cookie cutter houses)?

24. What was Dr. Spock’s approach to raising babies?

25. What was the most powerful medium of mass communication in the second half of the 20th century?

26. Who were the “beatniks?”

27. Who wrote On the Road?

28. What was On the Road an account of?

29. In this movie in 1955, James Dean will express the restless frustration of many young people.

30. Who will become a national phenomenon in 1956 (the King of Rock and Roll)?

31. How many black men and women moved from the South to northern cities between 1940 and 1960?

32. What was the principal policy response to the poverty of inner cities? Give an explanation.

33. What SCOTUS cases did the Brown decision overturn?

34. How did many Southern parents get around the Brown decision?

35. (Burke Question)Who were the “Little Rock Nine”?

36. Who was the Governor of Arkansas who prohibited the integration of Central High School?

37. What event is seen as the spark of the modern day Civil Rights Movement?

38. This event will lead to what boycott? Who will lead this boycott? How long did it last?

39. Whom did Dr. King get his non-violent principles from?

40. Who will be the first Black American to integrate Major League Baseball in 1947? What team did he play for?

41. What charges will Joseph McCarthy make which will lead to his downfall?

42. What policy is Secretary of State John Foster Dulles responsible for creating in relation to the ability of the US and USSR to completely destroy each other many times over with nuclear weapons?

43. This policy created by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said that the US should bring a nation to the brink of war, but never try and start a full out nuclear war.

44. What will be the outcome of the Korean War?

45. (Burke Question) It was after the battle of ___________________ in 1954 that the French would end their occupation of Vietnam.

46. What date did Israel claim its independence?

47. What was the Suez Crisis over?

48. What will be the result of the Suez Crisis?

49. It will be after this dictator takes over Cuba in 1959 that relations between the US and Soviet Union will grow even more distant.

50. What happened on the eve of the May 1960 Paris “summit conference” which will ratchet up tensions between the United States and Soviet Union?

51. What did Eisenhower warn against in his farewell speech—Ironic coming from a former General during WWII?

People/Places/EventsAllen Ginsberg

“Beats”

Brinkmanship

Brown v. Board of Education

Dien Bien Phu

Echo Park

Elvis Presley

Fidel Castro

J.D. Salinger

Jackie Robinson

Jack Kerouac

John Foster Dulles

Jonas Salk

Levittown

Martin Luther King Jr.

Massive Retaliation

Michael Harrington

Rosa Parks

Saul Bellow

Sputnik

UNIVAC

William H. Whyte Jr.

William Levitt

Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and The Ordeal of Liberalism

1. What two men of the 1960s were the embodiments of the liberal hopes of the American people?

2. Who will win the presidential election of 1960?

3. What was Kennedy’s program of domestic reforms?

4. On what day will the president be assassinated in Dallas, Texas and by whom?

5. Who fulfilled the role of president when President Kennedy was assassinated?

6. What was Johnson’s reform program that he created similar to Kennedy’s?

7. These programs were enacted in 1965 and 1966 in attempt to provide federal aid initially only to the elderly then eventually federal medical assistance to people of all ages.

8. What was the purpose of the Community Action programs?

9. Which cabinet agency was created in 1966 that had the first African American secretary in the department?

10. What was considered one of the most important pieces of legislation of the 1960s?

11. What was the federal spending amount by 1970 due to constructing the Great Society?

12. Despite the failures of the Great Society, what were its achievements?

13. What was the most urgent and difficult commitment that produced the severest strains on American society?

14. What caused the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

15. What was the purpose of the “freedom rides”?

16. This African American woman organized many programs to mobilize black workers, farmers, housewives, and others to challenge segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination.

17. What did the series of legislative proposals that President Kennedy introduced consist of?

18. What occurred at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963?

19. This civil rights activist leader gave the “I have a dream” speech.

20. This act, also known as the Voting Rights Act, provided federal protection to blacks attempting to exercise their right to vote but failed however to satisfy the rapidly rising expectations of African Americans.

21. What is de jure segregation?

22. What is de facto segregation?

23. This riot was the first large race riot since the end of the Second World War.

24. Along with instilling racial pride in African Americans, what other effects did the black-power ideology have on African Americans?

25. This organization was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, CA with a

promise to defend black rights even if that required violence.

26. This man joined the Nation of Islam to rebuild his life but became one of the movement’s most influential spokesmen as a result of his intelligence, oratorical skills, and his harsh, uncompromising opposition to all forms of racism and oppression.

27. What was the purpose of the “Alliance for Progress”?

28. What was the outcome at the Bay of Pigs?

29. The Berlin Wall served as the most potent physical symbol of what?

30. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a representation of what?

31. How did America actually get involved in the war in Vietnam?

32. What happened to Vietnam in the fall of 1945?

33. Who would be known as the “Churchill of Southeast Asia”?

34. What was created in 1959 by the Vietminh cadres?

35. What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution permit?

36. What is “attrition”?

37. What was the goal of the “pacification” program?

38. What happened on January 31st, 1968, the first day of the Vietnamese New Year (Tet)?

39. What happened on March 31st, 1968?

40. What happened on April 4th, 1968?

41. What caused major riots to break out in more than 60 American cities?

42. Who won the election of 1968?

People/Places/Events

Bay of Pigs

Black Power

Community Action Program

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Cuban Missile Crisis

Dien Bien Phu

Freedom Rides

Freedom Summer

George Wallace

Great Society

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Immigration Act of 1965

John Kennedy

Malcolm X

March On Washington

Medicaid

Medicare

New Frontier

Ngo Dinh Diem

Richard Nixon

Robert Kennedy

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Tet Offensive

Viet Cong

Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority1. What was most alarming to conservative Americans in the 1960s and 1970s?

2. What was “Liberation?”

3. What did the Port Huron Statement express (use SDS in your explanation)?

4. Most members of the New Left were students. Where was their radicalism centered? Why did they protest at Berkeley and elsewhere?

5. What was the SDS spawned underground terrorist group which used bombs that destroyed campus building?

6. Who issued a pardon to draft resisters in 1977?

7. What were the causes of the new permissive view of sexual behavior?

8. Who were the most committed adherents of the counterculture?

9. What new set of social norms were created by the counterculture movement (4)?

10. What festival was considered a fusion of rock music and the counterculture?

11. What was the policy of “termination?”

12. What did the Indian Civil Rights Act do?

13. What was the name of the Native American group which will seize the island of Alcatraz in 1969 along with a village at Wounded Knee, South Dakota—trying to fight for equality?

14. What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of United States v. Wheeler?

15. (Burke Question) How many illegal immigrants were returned to Mexico in Operation Wetback (named for the Rio Grande trek from Mexico to the US)?

16. What union was created by Cesar Chavez?

17. What did Chavez do when employers resisted his demand for union recognition?

18. What was a result of the police raids on the Stonewall Inn?

19. How did the Gay Liberation Movement transform the outlook of gay men and lesbians themselves?

20. What was the ruling in United States v. Windsor?

21. What book was written by Betty Friedan?

22. How did Betty Friedan describe the suburbs?

23. Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?

24. This constitutional amendment will fall three states short of ratification in 1982 which would have said that discrimination based upon sex was unconstitutional.

25. This SCOTUS will legalize abortion in 1973?

26. Which book will be authored by Rachel Carson which will say that pesticides are extremely poisonous and was known as a modern day muckraker?

27. What river would burst into flames from time to time because of the petroleum waste being dumped into it?

28. When was the first Earth Day?

29. What federal regulatory agencies will be created by the Nixon administration and stood on the front lines to battle environmental issues?

30. What was meant by the “Vietnamization” of the war?

31. Nixon ordered American forces to join with the South Vietnamese in bombings to destroy enemy sanctuaries in ________________ which will lead to great protests.

32. Because of the bombing of Cambodia this protest took place at an Ohio University which saw National Guard troop’s fire upon students and killing four. What was the exact date?

33. It will be in the spring of 1971 that the New York Times will publish these papers which explained our Vietnam policy to that point.

34. What was the name of the massacre that American troops were involved in that ended with the killing of innocent women and children?

35. How many casualties did the US with stain during the Vietnam War?

36. What two nations signed the SALT agreement and what did the SALT agreement deal with?

37. What was the Nixon Doctrine?

38. Why did many Arab nations begin an oil embargo against the United States in 1973?

39. Who was the “silent majority” according to Richard Nixon?

40. This SCOTUS case discontinued school prayer in 1962?

41. In this SCOTUS decision in 1963 the Court set the precedent that all defendants must be given a lawyer for a jury trial.

42. This 1966 SCOTUS case established the rules by which policy officers must inform people of their rights when being arrested.

43. This SCOTUS case will rule quotes illegal in the admittance of minorities to Universities, but it will allow goals for the Universities.

44. What former governor of Alabama who promised “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever” will run as an American Independent in the 1968 Presidential election? He will run for POTUS again in 1973, but will happen to him in that campaign?

45. What were the election results of the 1972 presidential election (Watergate will not be needed)?

46. What group controlled the price of oil?

47. What caused Stagflation in the 1970s?

48. (Burke Question) Who were the “Plumbers” in the Watergate scandal and what were they trying to find?

49. What privilege did Richard Nixon claim when he refused to turn over the Watergate tapes?

50. The famous Massacre, where Nixon ordered the firing of Archibald Cox the “special prosecutor” investigating Watergate and then accepted the resignations of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general.

51. Who will be appointed by Nixon to be Vice-President and confirmed by the Senate?

52. What did SCOTUS case US v. Nixon say?

53. What will be the “smoking gun” in the Watergate scandal?

54. What will be the consequence of the SCOTUS decision in US v. Nixon?

55. Who will become president when Richard Nixon resigns in August 1974? (Burke Question) What’s unique about his presidency?

People/Places/Events

American Indian Movement (AIM)Betty FriedanCesar ChavezCounterculture“Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell”Free Speech MovementGeorge McGovernGerald FordHenry KissingerNational Organization for Women (NOW)New LeftNixon DoctrineOPECRachel CarsonRoe v. Wade“Silent Majority”Spiro Agnew“Stagflation”Stonewall RiotStudents for a Democratic Society (SDS)VietnamizationWatergateWeathermenWounded Knee

Chapter 31: From the “Age of Limits” To The Age of Reagan

1. How did the American public feel towards the presidency, and the government in general, after Nixon?

2. What did Ford do 1974? What was its significance?

3. Who won the 1976 election?

4. What did the majority of the new President’s agenda consist of?

5. Much of his time was devoted to the problems of?

6. Instability in the Middle East led to what?

7. What was Carter’s greatest achievement?

8. What was the name of the treaty?

9. What did the SALT II agreement do?

10. What had the US been doing since the early 1950s? Why?

11. This led to what? Why?

12. (Burke Question) Who was the shah during the revolution (the one backed by the American government)? Who replaced him in the new Islamic Republic?

13. On what day did the USSR invade Afghanistan? Since when had they been the dominant force there?

14. What did Carter call this invasion?

15. What combination created anxiety, frustration, and anger in the US? How did this impact Carter?

16. What was the mostly discussed demographic phenomena in the 1970s?

17. Who coined the term? What did it consist of?

18. How did the Sunbelt impact politics?

19. What did the Sagebrush Rebellion do?

20. What was the controversial question on the cover of a 1966 Time magazine that wrongly predicted religious influence in American life?

21. What was the most important impulse of religious revival that started in the 1950s?

22. Christianity was the basis of what for some evangelicals?

23. Who were the first major opponents to the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade? Who joined them later on?

24. What was the significance of the Mormons in 1982? What else did they oppose?

25. Conservative Christians were an important part of what?

26. This well-known actor became hope for the right after he became a political activist

27. Prior to being President, what was his role starting in 1966?

28. What else played an important role in the rise of the right? How?

29. What new and potent conservative issue became equally important for the success of the New Right?

30. In what year did Reagan sweep the competition for the presidency?

31. What did the Reagan coalition include? What united them?

32. What were the main concerns of Neo-conservatives?

33. What was the significance of the year 1981?

34. This bold experiment is known as “Reaganomics”

35. What were Reagan officials promising by getting government out of the way?

36. What military program did Reagan set up to protect from missiles and nuclear war?

37. What was the Reagan Doctrine and what did it mean?

38. What did powerless groups use to advance their political aims in the third World?

39. What are some phrases emphasized by Reagan during his ’84 campaign over the revival of American fortunes and spirits?

40. What are some factors that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union?

41. What were the two policies of Gorbachev? What did they mean?

42. What happened on June 3, 1989? Where? Why?

43. What year did the USSR collapse?

44. What was the most damaging scandal for Reagan, which involved selling arms to Iran in an effort to release Americans?

45. Who won the election of 1988?

46. What was his most serious domestic issue?

47. What major international issue occurred on August 2, 1990? Who was the leader?

48. Who won the election of 1992?

Terms to know:

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Bill Clinton

Camp David Accords

George H. W. Bush

Gerald Ford

Glasnost

Iran-Contra Scandal

Jimmy Carter

Mikhail Gorbachev

Neo-conservatives

New Right

Perestroika

Reagan Doctrine

Reaganomics

Ronald Reagan

Ross Perot

Saddam Hussein

Sagebrush Rebellion

Sunbelt

Strategic Defense Initiative

Tiananmen Square

Chapter 32 Questions:

1.When did Bill Clinton take the oath of office?                  2.What did the NAFTA do?            

3.Who was the first Democratic president to win two terms since FDR?            

4.What was the name of the woman Clinton was charged with having an “improper relationship” with?            

5.How many votes did George W. Bush win in Florida by?            

6.What was perhaps the most important economic change?            

7.What was the most visual element of the technological revolution to most American?            

8.How much money did they federal government appropriate to fund the National Center for the Human           Genome? In what year?            

9.By 2013 the Human Genome Project had identified how many genes?            

10.What was one of the most important characteristics of the American population in the twenty-first century?

11.What were people born in the first ten years after WWII called?      

12.What often lethal disease that is transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids was discovered in 1981?

13.What was the most divisive issue of the last 30 years?          

14.When was Earth Day held?      15.What was the name of the revolution in a Middle Eastern country in 1979?           

16.What date were the World Trade Centers attacked?         

17.Who was convicted of placing a van full of explosives in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City?         

18.What did 9/11 do to the American people?          

19.What did the U.S. government launch as a result of 9/11?         

20.The 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centers were organized by what terrorist organization? Who was the organization’s leader?         

21.What did the American prison for terrorists, located in Cuba, become a symbol of and what was its name?        

22.What nations were apart of the “axis of evil” as named by President Bush?

23.On what date was Saddam Hussein captured?        

24.On what date was he hanged?        

25.What two claims did the Bush administration make while trying to justify invading Iraq?        

26.Did either of the claims turn out to be true?

27.What events in the last years of Bush’s term made them difficult?      

28.When did Hurricane Katrina hit the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico?

       

29.Who were the Republican and Democratic nominees in the 2008 election?      

30.What were the enormous tasks Obama faced when he became president?      

31.What did the Stimulus Package include?       

32.What year was the Affordable Care Act passed?  What year did most of the benefits actually go into effect?       

33.Who was the leader of the “Tea Party”?       

34.What was the populist response to the perception of increasing economic inequality?       

35.What did Edward Snowden do?       

36.What was one of the most serious international events during President Obama’s second term?       

37.What made Obama feel an even stronger need to enact gun control?       

38.What date did the shooting at Sandy Hook happen?       

39.Were gun control laws ever passed?       

People/Places/Events:AIDSAl GoreAl’QaedaBarack ObamaBill ClintonGeorge W. BushHillary Rodham ClintonJohn McCain

Monica Lewinsky“New World Order”Newt GingrichNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)Osama Bin LadenTaliban