US History Midterm Review

1. US History Midterm Review TUESDAY March 25th

2. Upton Sinclair was a muckraker who exposed the wrong doing of the meat packing industry. Mary had a little lamb, And when she saw it sicken, She shipped it off to Packingtown, And now it’s labeled chicken.

3. Women gained the right to vote with the 19th Amendment at the end of the Progressive Era

4. Jim crow laws were designed to keep blacks and whites segregated.

5. Before Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency the US government paid very little attention towards conservation

6. Two main areas of fighting in the Spanish-American WarCuba and the Philippines

7. Primary purpose in building the Panama Canal was to allow theAmerican Navy to travel quickly from coast to coast

8. This cartoon represents the Zimmerman Telegraph

9. The Zimmerman Telegraph was a telegraph that the German ambassador sent to the Mexican ambassador to prompt them to attack the US in hopes that this would distract the US from WWI in Europe.

10. This political cartoon represents the Espionage and Sedition Act that was passed during WWI

11. 16th Amendment – Income taxes 17th Amendment – Direct election of senators 18th Amendment – Prohibition (outlawed alcohol) 19th Amendment – Voting rights for women

12. The main concern for Americans regarding the Treaty of Versailles was the possibility of being dragged into another war

13. Sacco & Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were convicted of robbery and murder in a controversial trial.

14. Henry Ford was able to see affordable cars primarily because his company used an efficient assembly line method of mass production.

15. Bank failures increased between 1929 and 1933 because after the stock market crash, many people panicked and withdrew their money from banks.

16. Shantytown's were called Homerville's to make fun of Hoover's continuing lack of acknowledgement about the severe crisis, his limited help, and his opposition to federal relief.

17. Two basic causes of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was over farming and severe drought

18. President Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” were a way of improving the national morale and hope for a better future

19. The Wagner Act was part of the New Deal that allowed workers to go on strike in order to bargain with their employers

20. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) provided electricity through hydroelectric power plants in south as well as built roads into rural areas

21. When the Supreme Court started to rule parts of the New Deal unconstitutional he tried to add justices to the Supreme Court

22. The Social Security Act was part of the New Deal in which a % is taken out of each paycheck and put towards a retirement account“Every qualified individual shall be entitled to receive . . .on the date he attains the age of sixty-five…and ending on the date of his death, an old-age benefit…”

23. Eleanor Roosevelt’s, the First Lady, could be described asher husband’s “eyes and ears,” traveling the country to observe social conditions and advising him on ways to help with the depression.

24. Before entering into WWII the US tried to stay isolated from the war by passaging the Neutrality Acts which forbid arms sales or loans to nations at war or nations engaged in a civil war

25. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought together all Americans, even those who hadpreviously opposed getting involved in war.

26. The Battle below is from the battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater

27. Allied troops cross the English Channel on D-Day (June 6, 1944) to attack Nazi occupied France

28. President Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan primarily because an invasion of Japan would result in enormous casualties.

29. The main purpose of government-ordered rationing during World War II to conserve raw materials for the war effort

30. One major difficulty the U.S. faced during the first several years of WWII in delivering weapons and other supplies to troops in the European Theater was the German subs because they sank many ships in the Atlantic.

31. The Manhattan Project was started to develop an atomic bomb

32. The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case, the Sacco & Vanzetti trial in the 1920s, and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, are all similar events in the US because they show that nativism and racism sometimes override the ideals of constitutional democracy

33. Iwo Jima could be described as the ‘Sulfur Island’ that was heavily defended spot with more than 20,000 Japanese in tunnels and caves. More than 6,000 Marines died taking this island in 1945