American History Review!

American History Review!

Question 1 - 10 • Who was the President who created the New Deal and declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor?

Answer 1 – 10 • Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 1 - 20 • Give one example of a muckraker.

Answer 1 – 20 • Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives • Upton Sinclair The Jungle • Ida Tarbell

Question 1 - 30 • This man created the trust Standard Oil and became immensely wealthy

Answer 1 – 30 • Rockefeller • And for a 10 point bonus—what term is given to men like Rockefeller?

Question 1 - 40 • Explain how Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois are similar and how they are different.

Answer 1 – 40 • They both were working towards equal treatment of African Americans. However, Washington focused on “started from the bottom” with technical skills and pleasing whites and Du Bois focused on book smarts (talented 10th) and equal treatment NOW! (NAACP was his thing)

Question 1 - 50 • This man’s Cold War Policy involved stockpiling as many nuclear weapons as possible in order to use the threat of total nuclear annihilation as a way to prevent a nuclear war (brinkmanship)

Answer 1 – 50 • President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 2 - 10 • This time period included black codes, the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and integrating the former Confederate states back into the Union.

Answer 2 – 10 • Reconstruction

Question 2 - 20 • This time period was a war of ideas between the USA and the USSR: capitalism vs. communism, democracy vs. totalitarianism

Answer 2 – 20 • The Cold War

Question 2 - 30 • What time period did the Dust Bowl (a massive drought in the Midwest) take place in?

Answer 2 – 30 • Great Depression/1930s

Question 2 - 40 • What was the Gilded Age?

Answer 2 – 40 • A time period that from far away looked good (rich industrialists living lavish lifestyles), but upon closer inspection was actually pretty rotten (poor immigrants, unsafe working conditions, unhealthy living conditions)

Question 2 - 50 • Why does the “Progressive Age” come right after the “Gilded Age”

Answer 2 – 50 • Because the Progressives were reformers—they wanted to fix all the corruption of the Gilded Age.

Question 3 - 10 • The court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka made what illegal?

Answer 3 – 10 • School segregation was made illegal.

Question 3 - 20 • What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

Answer 3 – 20 • It prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming into the USA. It lasted until after WWII.

Question 3 - 30 • What was the Economic Opportunity Act

Answer 3 – 30 • This provided job training, education, and a “war on poverty” that gave things like food stamps and housing subsidies to families in need.

Question 3 - 40 • What did the 14th Amendment do? And how is this an example of checks and balances?

Answer 3 – 40 • The 14th amendment said that all people born or naturalized in the USA are citizens. This amendment reversed the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott, therefore checking the power of the Supreme Court.

Question 3 - 50 • Laws passed during Teddy Roosevelt’s “Square Deal,” such as the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, were attempts to do what?

Answer 3 – 50 • The “Square Deal” was an attempt to clean up America after corrupt and dirty practices during the Gilded Age. Roosevelt wanted to give everyone a fair chance—a “square deal”

Question 4 - 10 • What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 4 – 10 • A time period of intense artistic, literary, and musical creation by African Americans. Centered in Harlem, but in big cities all over USA.

Question 4 - 20 • What did the Scopes v. Tennessee Court Case show about the USA?

Answer 4 – 20 • There was a conflicting relationship between fundamentalist Christians (who didn’t want evolution to be taught) and the rest of the USA (those who thought it was a fine thing to teach)

Question 4 - 30 • The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement fought for this because they thought family life would be better.

Answer 4 – 30 • Prohibition

Question 4 - 40 • This trend happened in the 1920s and again in the 1950s. People had more money (or the illusion of money with credit) and there were new products being marketed towards new markets: women and teenagers. What is the trend called?

Answer 4 – 40 • consumerism

Question 4 - 50 • First the railroad, then the automobile, then the airplane have changed American life. How?

Answer 4 – 50 • It has allowed Americans different ways to move around. Railroad helped people move west and not be isolated, automobile helped rural people be less isolated and for people to move around the country easier, same with airplane.

Question 5 - 10 • Both the Red Scare after WWI and the McCarthyism era of the 1950s were attacks against what sorts of people?

Answer 5 – 10 • Radicals—communists/anarchists

Question 5 - 20 • Both of these wars were fought to contain the spread of communism: “containment” was applied to the first war and the “domino theory” was applied to the second war. What are the two wars?

Answer 5 – 20 • Korean War • Vietnam War

Question 5 - 30 • How was the Treaty of Versailles almost the exact opposite of what Wilson wanted in his 14 Points?

Answer 5 – 30 • Wilson wanted to create a lasting peace in the world by not punishing anyone for WWI. The Treaty of Versailles was all about punishing the Central Powers (especially Germany!)

Question 5 - 40 • This war ended with the Treaty of Paris, in which the USA acquired the Philippines and Guam. It was a war fought mostly to gain economic advantages for our country. What was the war?

Answer 5 – 40 • The Spanish-American War (which was fought in Cuba and the Philippines)

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