American History exam review.txt

Lincoln's plan for reconstruction

System of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use land for a share of crops

Amendment prohibits u.s. gov. from denying right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude

Bill that created plan of reconstruction & re-admittance of confed. states to the union

Law meant to counteract with the black code

White southern democrats who returned to power after 1870

Someone who went to the north for jobs

Laws that limit the rights of blacks

Gov. agency that helps provide for former slaves

Amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizen

This gives presidency to the republicans

Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant

This innovation extended hours Americans could work

The post-election practice of rewarding loyal supporters of the winning candidates and party with public offices

This requires people to take a test before they get civil service jobs

Requires all of the paper money in the u.s. is backed by gold

A system that includes federal jobs

Presidential candidate for the democrats in 1896, loses to mckinley

Created by Jews as a response to anti semitism

Political party started by Roosevelt in the election of 1912

Allows citizens to remove public office holders from office

Meant to ban the drinking of alcohol, leads to the 18th amendment

Election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections

Amendment that states congress has power to lay and collect taxes on income

This person created housing to help immigrants adjust to being in America

The right to vote

Allows people to propose a law directly on the ballot in the next election

Allows citizens to approve or reject laws passed by the legislature

Woodrow Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations in order ti benefit small businesses

U.S. statement that the gov didn't want colonies in China, but favored free trade

Allows the U.S. to approve treaties b/w Cuba & other nations

Demands that the U.S. can lease areas in Cuba for military bases

Reasons for U.S. imperialism

When the U.S. buys Alaska from Russia, later finds gold & oil

Nontraditional combat methods

The belief that certain nations and races were superior to others

What is the result of the 1898 Treaty of Paris?

The term for having a strong military to achieve foreign policy goals

A rebellion

A region dominated and controlled by an outside power

This person wrote many famous news paper articles during the period of imperialism

What is thought of as the start of WWI?

Who assassinated Franz Ferdinand?

The Allies

The Axis powers

A proposal made by Germany in 1917 for Mexico to declare war against the U.S.

The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western cities

Consequence of the Prohibition

This industrial demand influenced many other industrial demands in the U.S.

Legal case in Tennessee to forbid the teaching of evolution. Science vs. Religion

What two groups of people were culturally split during the 1920's?

The term for the white Americans who believed they were superior to immigrants

Why did African Americans move north in the 1920's?

Small payments over a long period of time to purchase a product

Allows people to purchase a lot of stock with little money

This provides new affordable goods that become available to the pubic

October 29, 1929-16 million shares of stock were sold and the bottom falls out

Why did banks collapse?

A cause of the Great Depression, farmers couldn't sell their products

During the GD, what was the unemployment rate for blacks?

What were Hoover's plans to fix the GD?

The 3 R's of the New Deal

This gives money to people who have retired

This person thought wealth should be distributed

The effects of the New Deal

The policy of giving into demands in order to keep peace

Date of Pearl Harbor

Hitler blames ___ for Germany's misfortunes

Governmental system where one person wants complete control

Dictator of the Soviet Union after Lenin

US general in charge of the army in Asia during WWII

Hating Jewish people

Lightening war

Leader of Italy during WWII

The "superior" race thought by the Germans

This allows congress to sell weapons to England in the condition they will return them

People were given coupon books to buy a certain amount of food or product. Creates a black market

This event informally ended WWII

The first atomic bomb was dropped here

The second atomic bomb was dropped here

Negative term for extreme reckless charges of disloyalty

What was the Bay of Pigs?

This ended the doctrine of "separate but equal" established by Plessy vs. Ferguson

The lawyer who supported Brown in the Brown vs. Board case

Became the first African American Supreme Court Justice

This person coined the term "black power"

Who is Floyd McKissick?

Who killed MLK Jr.?

Reagan's term for the Soviet Union

Organization that conducts research for the government

Nickname for strategic defense initiative

The second African American to serve on the Supreme Court

Clinton appoints two Surpreme Court Justices:

Organization for trade without tariffs between Canada, the US, and Mexico

Took the blame for the terrorist attack on 9/11

Current vice president of the US

Current secretary of defense, republican

VP under Bush Jr.

Current governor of Louisiana

Current Secretary of State

Current Chief Justice

Targets on 9/11

Iraqi leader, attempts to inspect his country for weapons of mass destruction

Cost of war on terrorism

Iraq's connection to US