US History EOC Study Guide

US HISTORY EOC

STUDY GUIDE

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Amazon: Jeff Bezos

FACEBOOK: Mark Zuckerburg

McDonalds: Ray Kroc

Apple: Steve Jobs (Makes Computers, Software, Hardware)

Dell: Michael Dell (Only make Computers, NOT software) Created Dell in Dorm Room

Chrysler: Lee Iacocca

Wal-Mart: Sam Walton (Famous for discount store)

Hotels, Resorts, Casinos: Donald Trump

Microsoft: Bill Gates (Software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Radio Station Played Grand Ole Opry: WSM (Nashville, TN)

First Radio Station: KDKA (Pittsburg)

OIL: John Rockefeller

STEEL: Andrew Carnegie

RAILROAD: Cornelius Vanderbilt

MEATPACKING: Armour and Swift

RAILROAD LAWS:

Granger Laws: Created to regulate railroad rates (Later Unconstitutional)

Farmers Laws:

Interstate Commerce Act:

BC this they created the ICC Interstate Commerce Commission to watch over the Railroads.

TWO Presidents to get impeached: Richard Nixon AND Bill Clinton

JOSEPH Pulitzer: Owned NY WORLD

WILLIAM Hearst: Owned NY Journal

Muckrakers: Writers revealing corruption

Yellow Journalism: Sensational (Crazy/Made Up) Newspaper Writing (Mrs. Ferrell gave birth to a baby rat.

WARS:

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

1898

How did it start? US Entered this war because: Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine (our boat blew up and we blamed Spain) now not sure if they really blew it up

Where was it fought? In Cuba

We Sent the Spanish out of Cuba and gave Cuba back their land.

U.S. got from this War? US bought Philippines for 20 million, Guam, Puerto Rico, Quant. Bay

Teddy Roosevelt: Rough Riders Calvary Men who fought in the Spanish American War

What treaty ended the Spanish American War? Treaty of Paris

WWI

1914-1918

What started WWI:

·       The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Future Austrian Hungarian Leader)

·       Submarine Warfare: They sank the Lusitania (U.S. Ship)

·       The Zimmerman Telegram (Telegram that was intercepted by British that was from Germany to Mexico saying if they (Mexico) fight the U.S. they (Germany) will give them (Mexico) their land back)

Treaty that Ended WWI: Treaty of Versailles

UNITED NATIONS (UN): Created to prevent another world war (International organization established to maintain worldwide peace and security. Was known as the League of Nation at first.

·       Who was the Godfather of the United Nations (from TN)? Cordell Hull

WWII

1939-1945 (9/9/1939 Began in Europe)

WWII Started Why? Treaty of Versailles (Germany had to pay reparations for war) & the Great Depression

U.S. involved WWII Why? December 7, 1949 Japan Attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor

President During WWI: Woodrow Wilson

AXIS: Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain

ALLIES: U.S., France, Great Britain, Soviet Union (S.U. later switched to the Axis powers)

Atomic Bomb: Dropped on Hiroshima AUGUST 6, 1945

GI Bill: Helped WWII Veterans Get established

KOREAN WAR:

1954-1955

Why were we Fighting? TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM

What happened: We pushed Chinese troops back out of South Korea because Chinese were helping North Korea take over South Korea

38^th Parallel: Divided Korea into North and South Korea

Korea War Ended: They both agreed to stop fighting… no one won

VIETNAM:

1960-1973

U.S. Involved TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Passed by Congress for U.S. to build up troops For Vietnam

Pentagon Papers (Daniel Ellsberg) finds some papers that say the U.S. stayed in Vietnam War because the U.S. was embarrassed because they were losing.

Watergate Scandal: President Nixon (republican) broke into the democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Nixon is trying to cover up the scandal. Nixon hires a lawyer Cox… Cox asked for the recording. Nixon fires Cox and then Nixon is impeached. Caused Nixon to resign from office.

Archibald Cox: Prosecutor in the Watergate Scandal

17^th Parallel: Divided Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam

COLD WAR:

1945-1990

Between U.S. and Soviet Union (Russia) TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM

·       Stand off War No fighting (Pointed Nuclear Weapons at each other)

·       Started because of Bay of Pigs: JFK send troops (former Cuban Exiles) to get rid of Castro (we failed) This embarrassed JFK and America. As a result… Cuba asks for help form the Soviet Union and the S.U. brought missiles to Cuba to point at America. 

·       Cuban Missile Crisis: Stand off of Nuclear Weapons, Nothing happened… no one was shot… They later both agreed to remove their nuclear weapons

Joseph McCarthy: Senator that wanted to get all the communist out of the U.S.

McCarthyism: Wanted to get rid of anyone they thought was a Communist & throw them out of the Country

Domino Theory: If one falls to communism then they all fall

First Satellite: SPUTNIK: Russia

First Man in Space: From Russia

First Man on Man: United States Neil Armstrong

COURT CASES:

Plessy vs. Ferguson:

·      Separate but Equal Doctrine

Brown vs. Board of Education (Topeka):

·      Declared Segregation in Public Facilities ILLEGAL (schools, places)  

Miranda vs. Arizona:

·      Police must read you your rights and arrest

·      Miranda Rights: You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will and can be used against you. Right to an attorney, right not a criminate yourself

Gideon vs. Wainwright:

·      If you can’t afford an attorney, one will be provided for you by the courts

Roe vs. Wade:

·      Gave women right to have an ABORTION (kill baby)

·      Gave women more rights.

Rosenberg Spy Case:

·      Most famous Spy Case in History

Amendments:

13^th: Abolished Slavery

14^th: Citizenship, states due process, applies Bill of Rights to the states

15^th: Racial Suffrage (Male African Americans can vote) but they still made it hard

16^th: Allows Federal Income Tax

17^th: Direct Election to the United States Senate

18^th: Prohibition of alcohol (alcohol Illegal) (Repealed by the 21^st Amendment

19^th: Women’s suffrage (women’s right to vote)

20^th: Lame Duck Amendment Term Commencement for congress and president

21^st: Repealed the 18^th Amendment: Now if age 21 you can drink alcohol

22^nd: Limits the president to two terms

TENNESSEE FACTS:

·       Albert Gore Senior:

o   TN congressman refused to sign the Southern Manifesto 1956 (Wanting Segregation) Only three senators from the south refused to sign it

(HE DID NOT SUPPORT Segregation)

o   Interstate System: highways, Interstate

o   Al Gores (Bill Clinton’s Vice President) Dad

·       Cordell Hull: From Tennessee who helped create the United Nations (UN)

·       Albert Roberts: Governor who called for a vote to on the 19^th amendment

·       Anne Dallas Dudley: Famous suffragist form TN (give women right to vote)

·       Howard Baker: Republican Senator from TN, former White House chief of staff, known in Washington as the Great Conciliator.

·       Perfect 36: Tennessee was the 36^th state to pass the 19^th amendment (giving woman the right to vote)

·       Oak Ridge Tennessee: Place where the Nuclear Bomb was built

·       Manhattan Project: Code name of the Atomic Bomb

·       TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority

o   Provided electricity and better jobs

·       MEMPHIS MUSIC:

o   STAX: Soul Music, studio in Memphis

o   SUN STUDIO: Rock and Roll Music (Elvis) studio in Memphis

·       Nashville Music:

o   Grand Ole Opry: Country Music Hall of Fame

o   Radio Station for the Grand Ole Opry: WSM

EOC US HISTORY PRE-TEST:

1.   During the late 19^th century, which numbered area on the map was primarily agricultural?

AREA 2

2.   Which nation underwent revolutions that prompted many people to immigrate to America in the mid-19^th century?

GERMANY

3.   Which position was Washington advocating in regard to race relations? (See Reading)

Blacks should work with whites

4.   Which person monopolized the steel industry during the Industrial Revolution?

Andrew CARNEGIE

5.   Which of the following tycoons is portrayed in the

political cartoon? J. P. MORGAN

6.   Which prolific inventor received a patent for the

incandescent light bulb? THOMAS EDISON

7.   INVENTIONS OF THE LATE 1800s ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNICATION:

·       Phonograph

·       Moving Pictures

·       Typewriter

·       ?

Which of these inventions best completes the diagram?

Telegraph

8.   Which of the following was/were a product of the Industrial Revolution and originally used during wartime?

Processed Food

9.   During the late 19^th century, which of the following was a major urban area as shown on the map?

AREA ONE

10. What was a PRIMARY characteristic of “old” U.S. immigrants?

They were often PROTESTANT

11. What replaced wood in the 19^th century as the major fuel for things such as steam-powered engines?

COAL

12. What happened to American wages during the Industrial Revolution?

The difference between the workers’ pay and the industrialists GREW.

13. What describes the set of laws urged by farmers in order to regulate businesses?

GRANGER LAWS (farmers and railroad)

14. What was a main reason that European nations and the U.S. took interest in Asia, Latin America, and Africa?

ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, and AFRICA had RAW MATERIALS

15. What do the Sixteenth (Federal Income Tax), Eighteenth (Prohibition of Alcohol), Nineteenth (Womens Suffrage) Amendments have in common?

They were PROGRESSIVE ERA REFORM measures

16. The characteristics noted below refer to? Economic growth and prosperity in the 1920’s

·       The Jazz Age

·       The Model T Ford

·       The Flapper

·       The growth of Hollywood

17.  The stock market crash of 1929 is most closely associated with? THE GREAT DEPRESSION

18. How did W.E.B. DuBoi’s philosophy compare to Booker T. Washington’s philosophy?

·       DuBois ADVOCATED BLACK NATIONALISM

·       Washington ADVOCATED ASSIMILATION

19. Which of the following events best completes the diagram? WORLD WAR I

  

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·       Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

·       Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

·       Imperialism

·       Nationalism

20. Which event sparked the SPANISH AMERICAN WAR? The Sinking of the USS MAINE

21. What event made Tennessee the Perfect 36?

Tennessee was the 36^th state to ratify the 19^th Nineteenth Amendment

22. What was the objective of muckrakers? TO AFFECT SOCIAL CHANGE with their work (reveal corruption)

23. How do INTERVENTIONIST and ISOLATIONIST policies relate to each other?

ISOLATIONIST policies are geared toward NONINVOLVEMENT,

INTERVENTIONIST policies are geared toward INVOLVEMENT

24. After the STOCK MARKET CRASH of 1929? Producers SLOWED DOWN PRODUCTION

25. What was the NEW DEAL? A series of programs aimed at ECONOMIC REFORM (change)

26. What often became of FARMERS at the beginning of the Great Depression?

       They LOST their LAND because they could not make payments

27. World War II efforts on the home front included the rationing (saving) of sugar, meat, shoes, and tires. Flour and sugar sacks were made into clothing for children. Women entered the industrial workforce in record numbers and men mobilized (got ready) for war. What did these efforts indicate?

SUPPORT of the NATIONS efforts in Europe

28. President Harry Truman authorized the MANHATTAN PROJECT in order to?

Build ATOMIC BOMBS

29. What WEAKNESS in the Treaty of VERSAILLES arguably led to the BEER HALL PUTSCH?

       The economic (financial) burden it placed on Germany’s Weimar Republic

30. What did Hideki Tojo, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler have in COMMON (same)?

They headed TOTALITARIAN governments that made up the AXIS POWERS

31. 1939: Germany Invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

1940: Mussolini declares war on the allied countries

1941: ??????????????????????????????????????????????

1942: United States invades the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal

Which of the following events completes the timeline?

The Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor

32. The goal of the Roosevelt Administration was to put Americans back to work. To that end, Congress initiated several work programs, including the WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) What did Roosevelt attempt to do when it appeared that the U.S. Supreme Court might strike down the constitutionality of the Social Security Act, a main part of his New Deal programs?

Pack the court by adding justices supportive of the act

33. Which groups do the darkly shaded nations belong to? ALLIED POWERS (See Map)

34. In 1933, Congress passed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act. It helped raise the standard of living for 3.5 million people through the construction of dams and?

The installation of ELECTRICITY in rural communities

35. This cartoon is about president Franklin ROOSEVELTS Recovery Program, a part of the NEW DEAL. In the cartoon, you see.

FDR BEARING most of the WEIGHT of the PROGRAM

36. The “IRON CURTAIN” was a term originally used by Winston Churchill. It symbiotically represented?

POLITICAL DIVISION IN EUROPE

37. What is the name of the darker shaded area that was threatened by communism after World War II?

KOREA

38. What did the Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift, & Berlin Wall have in common?

They were EARLY INCIDENTS of the COLD WAR

39. What civil right was upheld in the GIDEON v. WAINWRIGHT decision? The right to have an ATTORNEY, even if one cannot afford to pay attorney fees.

40. Why was the BAY OF PIGS an embarrassment to the Kennedy administration?

It was a FAILED attempt to overthrow FIDEL CASTRO

41. Which president said the following at his inaugural address in 1961?

“Now the trumpet summons us again- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need-not as a call to battle, though embattled we are-but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’-a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.”

JOHN F KENNEDY (JFK)

42. How did education curricula change for the BABY BOOM GENERATION?

There was an INCREASED focus on MATH and SCIENCE

43. ON December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks took a seat at the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and placed in jail. On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators marched to Washington, D.C. These and other acts of protest HELPED to PASS which ACTS in 1964?

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS

44. What happened after War World II when many African Americans moved to the cities looking for work?

Many WHITES moved to the SUBURBS (outside the city ex. like Bartlett, Collierville, etc.)

45. What SOCIAL phenomenon countered the CONSUMERISM of the 1950’s?

RENEWED RELIGIOSITY (religious activity, ones belief, activities, etc.)

46. During the early 1950’s, Senator JOSEPH MCCARTHY created lists of individuals whom he believed to be associated with the COMMUNIST PARTY. When ten actors refused to acknowledge membership in the COMMUNIST PARTY, they were sentenced to a year in jail. McCarthy tactics were in response to?

THE KOREAN AND COLD WARS

47. What was the impact of the VOTING RIGHTS ACT?

Within 4 (four) years more than 70% of southern blacks had registered to vote

48. “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idle by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

These words, written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. while in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, were written with the hope that others would JOIN him in the effort to GAIN CIVIL RIGHTS through NON-VIOLENT disobedience

49. What type of music was STAX RECORDS famous for?

SOUL MUSIC

50. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education

1955: Rosa Parks Arrested

1957: Little Rock High School Integrated

1960: Freedom Riders

1963: March on Washington, D.C.

1965: Voting Rights Act

The timeline shows specific events that were part of the: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

51. What entrepreneur changed the COMPUTER industry by selling CUSTOM COMPUTERS OVER THE PHONE?

Michael Dell (Dell Computers)

52. The nearly 20-year involvement of the U.S. in Southeast ASIA that included thousands of TROOPS was called?

VIETNAM WAR

53. Which of the following is a TOTAL BAN (NOT ALLOW) on the IMPORT of ITEMS from a certain country?

EMBARGO

54. Which president tried to COVER UP the 1972 BREAK IN of the Democratic National Committee’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.?

RICHARD NIXON (Watergate Scandal) he later resigned

55. Which president was the SECOND in history to be IMPEACHED and LATER ACQUITTED?

Second president impeached: Bill CLINTON

First president impeached: Andrew Johnson

56. In 1963, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. told over 200,000 civil rights demonstrators who had MARCHED to WASHINGTON, D.C…. that “I have a dream…” What did King’s Speech offer the crowd?

HOPE

57. Which policy did the KOREAN WAR test?

THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE

58. How did NATO affect the United States relationship with the Soviet Union (Russia)?

It PROMPTED the Soviet Union to form the WARSAW PACT

59. How did the economy change as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?

TWENTY MILLION JOBS were CREATED

60. Which person BUILT a PLANT and COMPANY TOWN outside of CHICAGO in the late 1800s?

GEORGE PULLMAN (Sleeper Car Plant)

EOC US HISTORY POST-TEST:

1.   During the late 19^th century, which numbered area on the map was primarily AGRICULTURAL (farm)?

AREA 3

2.   What was a PRIMARY reason for people to IMMIGRATE to the United States in the 19^th Century?

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

3.   “Then that little man in back there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, because Christ wasn’t woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a Woman! Man had nothing to do with him.”

“If the woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.” –Sojourner Truth spoke the following words at a convention

What was Truth trying to accomplish by giving the speech?

She wanted WOMEN to have the SAME RIGHTS as MEN

4.   Who invented an AIR BRAKE and developed a RAILWAY SIGNALING SYSTEM?

George WESTINGHOUSE

5.   Which ERA does the political cartoon reflect?

GILDED AGE (frauds, corruption, bribery) LOOKS GOOD FROM OUTSIDE, BUT INSIDE CORRUPT

6.   Which innovation family is associated with GUNPOWDER, DYNAMITE, and SMOKELESS POWDER in the 19^th century?

The DUPONT FAMILY

7.   INVENTIONS of the LATE 1800s Associated TRANSPORTATION:

·       Automobile

·       Electric Streetcar

·       Bicycle

·       ????????

       Which of these inventions BEST COMPLETES the diagram? ELEVATOR

8.   After the CIVIL WAR, the SOUTH struggled with the END of SLAVERY and their DAMAGED LAND. What HELPED FARMERS deal with limited WORKFORCE and turn a profit (make money)?

MECHANIZATION of FARM INSTRUMENTS

9.   During the late 19^th century, which of the following was a MAJOR URBAN (city) area as shown on the map?

AREA 2 (NEW YORK)

10. Who DOMINATED the MEATPACKING industry and used REFRIGERATED CARS?

Phillip ARMOUR

11. During the immediately following the CIVIL WAR, COAL MINING helped MOST to develop?

RAILROAD INDUSTRY

12. Who headed the STANDARD OIL TRUST?

John D. Rockefeller

13. What was a PRIMARY characteristic of “NEW” IMMIGRANTS?

Many were CATHOLIC or JEWISH

14. What ISSUE MOST contributed to LABOR STRIKES during the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?

The WORKERS were making LITTLE MONEY while the INDUSTRIALISTS were GETTING RICH

15. What did President Garfield accomplish in his short term?

He won a battle against ROSCOE CONKLING over PATRONAGE ISSUES

16. Who was a PIONEER in MEATPACKING, which led to cheaper and more easily transported BEEF?

GUSTAVUS FRANKLIN SWIFT

17. In 1900, political humorist Mark Twain wrote, “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” Twain was referring to…

The IMPERIALIST POLICIES of the United States

18. IN 1893, American sugar growers orchestrated a coup to take over the government of Hawaii. In 1894, the Republic of Hawaii was formed, with American sugar grower Sanford DOLE as President. In 1898, Congress approved the ANNEXATION of HAWAII. The islands officially became a U.S. territory (Land) in 1900. What conclusion can be made from this information?

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM extended to the islands of the PACIFIC

19. The HARLEM RENAISSANCE?

A TIME when the literary work of AFRICAN AMERICANS flourished

20. CAUSE of the GREAT Depression:

·       Stock Market Crash 1929

·       High Tariffs

·       Poor Distribution of wealth

21. What did JANE ADAMS, ELLEN STARR GATES, LILLIAN WALD have in common (same)?

They founded SETTLEMENT HOUSES in NEW YORK and CHICAGO

22. TENNESSEE’s part in women’s SUFFRAGE was significant because?

It was the 36^th STATE to RATIFY the 19^th (nineteenth) Amendment

23. How did Booker T. Washington’s Views differ from MARCUS GARVEY?

GARVEY believed in SEGREGATION (sending blacks back to Africa)

WASHINGTON believed in ASSIMILATION

DuBois ADVOCATED BLACK NATIONALISM

24. All of the following are CAUSES of WORLD WAR I:

·       A RISE in nationalism

·       Economic Rivalries

·       The assassinations of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

25. What reforms did the OREGON SYSTEM introduce into the ELECTION SYSTEM?

Direct Elections and a recall process for elected officials

26. What muckraking book is this from? The JUNGLE, by UPTON SINCLAIR

27. 1. The US is isolationist.

2. Roosevelt gives aid to Allied Nations

1.   3. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

2.   4. ???????????????????????????

3.   What COMPLETES the Chart? U.S. DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN

28. “ALL propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” –Adolf Hitler

How did Adolf Hitler use mass psychology to consolidate his popularity?

He BLAMED the WEIMAR REPUBLICS failures on groups like the JEWS and COMMUNISTS

29. 1942: Manhattan Project begins

1944: D-Day Invasion

1942: Big Three meet at Yalta Conference

1945: ????????????????????

Which event completes the timeline?

The US Drops the ATOMIC BOMB

30. In what way did programs like WPA help to end the GREAT DEPRESSION?

They put people to work and added dollars to the economy

31. What was the outcome of the presidential election of 1932?

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT won in a landslide (Won by a lot)

32. What is one effect of an economic cycle of depression?

UNEMPLOYMENT rates GO UP

33. How did the American economy change after the Emergency Banking Bill?

Banks were closed, reorganized, and reopened as stronger institutions.

34. IN 1933, the federal governments established the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). What was one of the primary efforts of this New Deal agency?

To bring ELECTRICITY to RURAL (country) areas

35. How did civilians contribute to the WORLD WAR II efforts?

They collected scrap materials and used ration books

36. What was the purpose of the 1935 Wagner Act, also called the National Labor Relations Act?

It gave workers the right to form UNIONS to BARGAIN collectively

37. What NEW DEAL program is the political cartoon referring?

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION

38. ATOMIC BOMBS were secretly built under the name?

The MANHATTAN PROJECT

39. 1947: The Truman Doctrine

1948: Berlin Blockade

1949: Communist China Forms

1950: Korean War

1954: Senator McCarthy is censured

1957: Soviets launch Sputnik

1959: Castro takes over Cuba

1961: Bay of Pigs

1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

1964: Resolution Gulf of Tonkin

THESE EVENTS identify a time in history as: THE COLD WAR

40. How did EDUCATION in American change as a result of the GI Bill?

Thousands of former soldiers were able to go to COLLEGE

41. “One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion…”

In what way did the Truman Doctrine direct the policy of containment?

It tried to spread democracy through military and economic aid.

42. How did American schools change after Brown v. Board of Education?

Public schools and universities gradually desegregated despite resistance

43. In 1963, while incarcerated in a Birmingham, Alabama jail for civil disobedience, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a majority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in in acting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama, which set up that state’s segregation laws, was democratically elected?” King was referring to the gross violation of: The CIVIL RIGHTS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

44. After WORLD WAR II, women in the workforce generally: WERE PAID LESS THAN MEN

45. What impact did the HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE (HUAC) have on American society?

It existed to Seek out COMMUNIST

46. What prompted the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?

THE Discovery of SOVIET missiles in CUBA

47. What form of media became increasingly popular during the baby boom?

TELEVISION

48. How did Memphis’ SUN STUDIOS impact the national music scene after WWII?

It is sometimes referred to as the birthplace of ROCK and ROLL music

49. “Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry in new in the American experience. The total influence- economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in ever city, every Statehous, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.” –Farwell address, President Dwight Eisenhower

To what was EISENHOWER referring (talking about)? MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

50. “The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” –George F. Kennan

Which political philosophy of the 1950s is expressed in the quotation? CONTAINMENT

51. What president proposed social programs collectively called the GREAT SOCIETY?

LYNDON B JOHNSON

52. Which socio-political trend in the US during the post-WWII era is reflected in these headlines?

·       Betty Friedan Publishes THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE

·       Gloria Steinem Founds MS. MAGAZINE

·       National Organization of Woman Established

       FEMINISM

53. What is one result of the North American FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA)?

Reduced trade barriers among the US, Canada, and Mexico

54. What was the primary reason for the US to involve itself in the Vietnamese Civil war?

To FIGHT (STOP) SPREAD OF COMMUNISM

55. An ENTREPRENEUR is a person who: STARTS A BUSINESS

56. President Bill Clinton encouraged a trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the US that was called the NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

57. What two Washington Post reporters are known for their two-year coverage leading to Nixon’s resignation?

BOB WOODWARD & CARL BERNSTEIN

58. What describes the MOST likely effects of a US tariff on imports?

More sales for some American firms and less sales for others

59. How did European INFRASTRUCTURE change after the MARSHALL PLAN?

The MARSHALL PLAN offered technical and monetary assistance to European countries to rebuild.

60. What was a political and military outcome of the Korean War?

The War ended in a stalemate without a peace treaty