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Signigicance of the quote "Shot heard round the world"
-It set an example of being the first time a colony rebelled from a major empire of independence.
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Shays Rebellion
- Armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts
- Name after Daniel Shays, a veteran who led the rebels in the American Revolution
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Secession
- The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body
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Habeas Coupus
- A writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court
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Giled
Covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint
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Political Machines
-A group that controls the activites of a political party
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Preogressivism
-Political attitude favoring changes or reform
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Progressive Goals (specific goals for reform)
- Protecting Soccial Welfare
- Promoting more improvement
- Creating econmic reform
- Frostering effciency
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Prohibition
-Manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors were lawed
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Progressive Party
-A party that focused on getting American's economy back to normal and making necessary changes.
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Red Scare
-A period in time when the American's were afraid of communism
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Palmer Raids
-attemps by the U.S. department of justice to arrest and deport racial lefists.
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Impact of the automobile
- Traffic
- Pollution
- Commuting
- Car accidents
- Noise
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Prohibition- Which amedment passed it?
-18th amendment (1919)
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Prohibition- Which repealed it?
-21st amendment (1933)
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Speculation
- a financial action that does not promise safety of capital investment along with return on the principle sum.
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Buying on margin
- borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock.
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Turman Doctrine
- The American policy in 1947 of providing economic and millitary aid.
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NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Berling Wall
- A barrier constructed by the German Deocratic Republic
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Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Closets the world ever came to a nuclear war.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
- 1/8 blacks boreded a train and proceeded to sit in the "all white" zone.
- Louisiana classified them as black men because he refused to move and they were arrested.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
- a group of 5 legal appeals that challenged "separate but equal" basis for racial segergation.
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Bus Boycott
- a civil rights protest designed to use the African American communities ecomic power to end racial segergation.
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Sit-ins
- a form of direct action that includes one or more people nonviolently occupying an area for all whites only.
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Communism
- a revolutionary socialists movement to create classless, moneyless and stateless social order.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment
- prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officialists
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Malcom X
- African American Musicl minister and human right activists.
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Black Power
- Political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies
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Stokely Carmichael
- American black activists active in the 1960s american cicil rights movement
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Martin Luther King's Death
- asasinated at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968
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Civil Rights Act 1968
- congress passed th act in an affort to impose a comprehensive solution to the problem of unlawful discrimination.
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Little Rock
- 9 African American kids who were enrolled in little High School.
- Faced discrimation while in school
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Rosa Parks
- An African American women who refused to give her seat up to a white man.
- She was arrested because she refused to move
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Declaration of Independence (DATE)
- July 4th 1776
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Armistice Day ending WWI (DATE)
- November 11th 1918
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The Stock Market Crash (DATE)
- October 29th 1929
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (DATE)
- December 7th 1941
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The Berlin Wall fell, marking the beginning of the
end of the Cold War.
- November 9th1989
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Why did the Confederate States of America secede
from the United States (North)?
- They wanted to keep their slaves
- They wanted state rights
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Why is the North of the US more economically
advanced than the South today?
- The yindustrialized first because the South relied on farming and slaves.
- The South had to learn to pay their laborers and industrialize.
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The White House burned down, the Star Spangled
Banner was written and the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the peace treaty in THIS war?
- The war of 1812
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What groups of Americans did the US government
allow injustices against and how?
- Native Americans: They took their lands and force them onto reservations Immigrants: Discrimination and used for their votes by political machines
- African Americans: Slavery, segregation, Jim Crow Law, KKK
- Latin Americans: Cesar Chavez (he created unions for Mexican Americans)
- Japanese Americans: Relocated to interment camps in WWIIFemales: They weren’t aloud to vote (disenfranchise)
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What was the Progressive Party and List social and
voting reforms the Progressive Party accomplished?
- Progressive Party: A political party in the early 1900’s manly of middle class women whowanted to change social and industrial problems.
- Meat Packing
- Industry Prohibition of alcohol:18th amendment was prohibition and 21st amendment
- FDA-Food Drug
- Work: Child labor laws
- Housing: Tenement housing
- Unions: They wanted shorter hours, morepay, workman comps (if you get hurt on the job)
- Voting: 19th amendment in 1920, let women the right to vote
- Secret Ballet: An anonymous vote
- Got rid of poll tax, literacy test, Grandfather Clause
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List 3 results of the 1920’s (lead to Great
Depression)
- 1.Spending on Credit
- 2.Speculating and buying stocks on margins (borrowing money that you don’t have)
- 3.Excessive spending
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List effects the automobile had in the USA
- Traffic
- pollution
- commuting
- urban sprawl (suburbs)
- easier travel (vacation industry grew)
- caraccidents
- insurance companies were created
- mechanics
- roads and traffic system had to be made
- billboards
- shopping centers
- church attendance wentdown
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What was the New Deal and what is its lasting
legacy?
- To solve the problems of the Great Depression.
- Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) createdthe New Deal. The lasting legacy was that the government grew.
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What ended the Great Depression?
- WWII
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List 3 results on American Society after both WWI
and WWII
- RedScare (fear of communism)
- Women and A.A. were more in the work force
- Population went up, economy expanded
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How did the U.S. fail at staying neutral in WWI
and WWII?
- They began to sell things to countries at war and choice sides
- Put ships in harms way
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