US HISTORY (EOC REVIEW)
1. Andrew Carneige: Steel
2. John Rockefeller: Oil
3. Cornelius Vanderbilt: Railroad
4. Meatpacking: Armourine
Swift
5. Thomas Eddison: Made a way to make
streetcars electric. Created Light Bulb
6. Electricity:
How did it improve daily life? Made commuting to work easier
7. Steam Shovel improved the efficiency
(making it easier) of mining
8. Push Factors:
Reasons that push you to United States
9. Pull Factors: Reasons that pull, make
you want to leave the United States
10.
Railroad Industry: Any
questions with these are related to the railroad.
· Granger Laws
· Gragers
· Interstate Commerce Act
· Populist
Party = high Railroad costs = favored an increase
in $ supply and free coinage of silver & backed W.J. Bryan for president =
“Cross of Gold” speech
11. Marcus Garvey: Black guy wanted to send
black people back to Africa.
12. George Pullman: involved with Railroad
car Industry
13. Author Zimmerman: Wrote a note to Mexico
Zimmerman Note: Said if Mexico invaded America then
14. Muckrakers: Journalists who wrote
about corrupt side of journalists
15. Imperialism: Large country takes over
small country with their military and economic control. They wanted to expand
and have new markets.
16. Yellow journalism: Crazy (Exaggerated)
headlines (fake made up stories)
17. Suffrage: Right to vote
18. Perfect 36th: TN was the 36th state vote, to
give/approve women’s right to vote.
19. Prohibition: Alcohol Illegal (Ban
alcohol because we thought alcohol was the reason we had crime.
20. Panamal Canal: Shorted travel distance:
Connected the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
21. Monarchists: King and Queen
22. Dictator: One-person controls
23. Tennessee Valley
Authority:
dammed Rivers to make electricity.
24. -Worcester
v. Georgia (1832) = ruled that the Cherokee deserved to be protected from
harassment = Jackson refused =Trail of Tears = moving them to Arkansas
4,000 died on the way
25. -Whiskey
Rebellion = It proved the govt could enforce its laws
26. -Stephen
Douglas believed what about slavery = Popular Sovereignty
27. -Missouri
Compromise 1820 = MO a slave state ME a free state & the dividing line
of 36*30’
28. -The
Jungle = Upton Sinclar = Meatpacking = Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food
and Drug Act
29. -Hamilton
v. Jefferson = Fed v. Anti-fed = National bank v. NO federal bank
30. -Dred
Scott = Free blacks, but not slaves, were citizens of the US = Missouri
Comp was declared unconstitutional
31. -Haymarket
Riot = Knights of Labor- weakened the drive to create unions in industry =
people looked poorly on unions
32. -Why
was Thomas Jefferson worried about the Louisiana Purchase = was not in
the constitution had to use the elastic clause = doubled the size of the US
33. -Bessemer
process = faster and cheaper production of steel
34. -Homestead
Act = 160 acres of free land to any citizen that would settle west
35. -Col.
Custers 7th Cavalry was defeated where = Battle of Little Big
Horn
36. -Erie
Canal = opened the Atlantic to the Great Lakes
37. -Most
responsible for the undeclared war b/t the US and France 1797-1800? -XYZ
Affair = led to anti-French sentiment
38. -Main
builders of the Transcontinental RR = Irish and Chinese
39. -Carpetbaggers
= Northern Republicans who move to the South after the Civil War to make $
40. -Scalawags
= White Southerners who worked with black people
41. -Copperheads
= Northern Democrat who advocated peace with the Confederacy after the CW
42. -Why
did Reconstruction end = Compromise of 1877 = south agreed to Hayes as
president if the north would pull the military out of the south
43. *Truman
on civil rights?
44. -Domino
theory = if one country falls to communism the rest will follow
45. -Henry
Clay = American System = transportation
46. -4th
amendment = search & seizure
47. -Dollar
Diplomacy = Taft extended US investments overseas which would promote
stability
48. -Roosevelt
Corollary = stay clear of Latin America = added onto the Monroe Doctrine
49. -Yellow
Journalism = exaggerated stories
50. -Spanish-American
War = US securing independence for Cuba from Spain (SGPP) = US becomes a
world power
51. -Marbury
v. Madison = Judicial Review = the right of the Supreme Court to declare a
law unconstitutional
52. -Plessy
v. Ferguson = Separate BUT/is equal = 14th amendment
53. -Brown
v. Board- Separate is NOT equal = 14th amendment
54. -US
v. Nixon = had to surrender tapes- court said he had no “executive
privileges”
55. -Korematsu
v. US = Jap-Americans in internment camps during WWII were constitutional
56. -Kansas-Nebraska
Act = allow for popular sovereignty
57. -Jane
Addams = Hull House/settlement houses
58. -Progressives
wanted what = Social Reform
59. -Labor
& Knights of Labor
60. -Henry
David Thoreau = Civil disobedience = Transcendentalism
61. *Washington
and Davis
62. -13,14,15
Amendment = civil war amendments
63. -Monroe
Doctrine = stay clear of the Western Hemisphere
64. -Sherman
Anti-trust 1890 = to breakup monopolies and trusts
65. -6th
and 8th Amendment = right to a lawyer & no cruel and
unusual punishment (you have the right to remain silent)
66. -Social
Darwinism = survival of the fittest (strongest survive)
67. -Alien
and Sedition Acts = 1st amendment = nullification
68. Pullman
Strikes: Strike at steel car(railroad) factory
69. -Seneca
Falls Convention 1848 = Elizabeth C. Stanton & Lucreitta Mott women’s
rights = voting rights almost did not pass
70. -Jim
Crow laws = laws segregating society that were upheld in the Plessy v.
Ferguson 1896 case
71. -Open
Door Policy = John Hay- keep China opened to all countries
72. -Boxer
Rebellion = Chinese fought against foreigners
73. -Wagner
Act = labor rights
74. -Bull
Run =1st official battle of Civil War
75. -Emancipation
Proclamation was announced after = Antietam = freed slaves behind
confederate lines
76. -Dawes
Act 1887 = broke up the reservation system and gave the Indians 160 acres
of land to farm
77. -US
enters War of 1812 = Impressment = GB capturing US sailors and making
them fight for their navy
78. -Horace
Mann = father of education
79. -Antebellum
= the period before the CW
80. -Sacco
& Vanzetti = Italian anarchists immigrants who were sentenced to death
for killing someone with little evidence after WWI during the 1st
red scare
-
Allied leaders in WWII
= Churchill, Stalin, FDR
81. -Containment
– stop the spread of communism
82. *Soviet/American
relations 1972 – 1980’s?
83. -FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt= New Deal = expanded the economic role of govt
helped to preserve capitalism = RRR
84. -Korean
War = why Truman fired MacArthur = talking smack against him calling him
weak
85. -LBJ
Linden B. Johnson= Great Society = reform society through expanded govt
social welfare = failed to materialize as the world turned toward foreign
affairs
86. -Progressive
Movement, New Deal, & G. Society were similar how = Resulted in greater
govt involvement in Americans daily lives
87. -Marshall
Plan = giving money aid to EU nations after WWII in order to build their
economies back up so we could trade and protect them from communism
88. -IKE
Doctrine = and extension of the Truman Doctrine that the US would aid the
Middle East from any communist aggression
89. -Vietnam
War = a major result was federal legislation to limit pres power to use
military (War Powers Act 1973) = must notify congress within 48 hours of
sending troops
90. -Wilson
14pts = a series of measures after WWI that would try to make the world
safe from future wars
91. -Why
were Americans opposed to the League of Nations? (Art. X) = it works on the
alliance system, if one is attacked we would all join the fight = major
opposition was Senator H. Lodge = US did not join
92. -1920’s
Standard of living went up!
93. -Why
did farmers experience economic difficulties in the 1920’s = Surplus and prices
went down
94. -FDR
“court packing” = to get more judges on the Supreme Court that would
support his New Deal programs
95. -Appeasement
= trying to please someone
96. -Cash
& Carry = to help stop Soviet from expanding by allowing allies to buy
from the US
97. -Red
Scare = accusing people of being communists, civil liberties threatened
98. -Nixon
= détente = what does it mean towards the Soviet Union = to ease
tensions b/t the 2 countries
99. -Civil
Rights anti-discrimination laws have increased opportunities for minorities
100.-Bolshevik Revolution =
communists took control of Russia during WWI = US & Soviets relationship
deteriorated
101.-Kellogg-Briand &
Washington Naval Conference = peace & arms control after WWI that had
no enforcement powers
102.-Hoover = felt that
federal relief programs (welfare) would destroy individual initiative during
the depression
103.-Lend-lease purpose =
to assist countries fighting the Axis powers during WWII
104.-Immediate cause of WWII
for the US = Pearl Harbor
105.-Japanese internment
camps = Civil liberties violations tend to increase in times of stress = Koramatsu
v. US
106.-Purpose of the WWII summit
conferences in Yalta & Potsdam = was to plan the political future of
defeated nations
107.-Andrew Jackson =
spoils system
108.-Credit Mobilier Scandal
= Railroad scam = Grant
109.-Freedmen’s Bureau =
aid for AF’s after the CW, Johnson vetoed but still passed
110.-Freeport Doctrine =
Douglass = believed that each state should be able to vote for or against
slavery
111.-John Steinbeck = The
Grapes of Wrath = dust bowel migration from OK to the west
112.-Cuban Missile Crisis
= USSR placed missiles in Cuba facing the US = JFK demanded the Soviets remove
them
113.-Affirmative Action =
to remedied past discrimination practices (women & minorities)
114.-Kent State = student
protest against Vietnam War turns violent
115.-Taft-Hartly Act =
vetoed by Truman = placed restrictions on certain union practices
116.-Cesar Chavez = labor
leader = migrant farm worker established the United Farm Worker Org
117.-Reaganomics =
supply-side economics
118.-Neutrality Acts 1930’s
= to keep the US out of WWII
119.-FDR = Good Neighbor
policy = to improve relationships b/t the US & Latin America
120.-NATO = North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
121.-Warsaw Pact = Treaty
Org for communist European countries = set up to counter NATO
122.-Truman Doctrine =
stated that the US would aid & protect any country against any outside
pressures after WWII (communism)
123.-Marshall Plan = to
help rebuild EU
124.-McCarthyism = Red
Scare “witch hunt” (communism)
125.-Domino theory was
justification for participating in the Vietnam War = if one falls they all fall
126.-Watergate = showed
the laws of the US are superior to the actions of the president = people became
disillusioned with govt
127.-Ford = 1st
president that was not elected to either the Pres or VP
128.-Persian Gulf =
liberated Kuwait from Iraqi control
129.-American writers in the
1920’s = western adventure tales
130.-Truman = justified
using the A-bomb b/c it would end the war quickly & save many lives
131.-Island hopping =
Secure bases from which to attack Japan in WWII
132.-1950’s trend =
suburban areas went up (people moving outside city) Ex. Bartlett, Collierville,
etc.
133.-Bay of Pigs =
attempt to eliminate this hostile govt so close to the US (Cuba) = failed
134.-Flappers = women who
rebelled against traditional values
135.-Harlem Renaissance =
a movement where African Americans took pride in their culture = Marcus Garvey
136.-NAFTA & the Open
Door Policy = (North American Free Trade Agreement) both tried to expand
economics links b/t nations
137.-Great Society tried
to bring about anti-poverty reforms
138.-Scopes Trial = a
teacher taught his class about the theory of evolution (Social Darwinism) W.J.
Bryan tried the case against the teacher who was found guilt under TN law
139.-Manhattan Project =
secret project that worked to build the Atomic-bomb. Oakridge, TN place
where atomic bomb was built
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