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US HISTORY STATE EXAM MAY 13, 2015 TO CONQUER THE US HISTORY TEST “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” -Muhammad Ali Name_________________________ Overview of the Test Minimal = Below 640 Basic = 641-646 Proficient = 647-657 Advanced = 658 and higher 1 Terminology Many of these words can be found on the test. If you don’t know what they mean, you may not understand the question. unfamiliar and define them. Mark the ones that are 1. advocate 23. domestic 44. implement 67. international 2. ratify 24. foreign 45. sedition 68. continental 3. annex 25. constitutional 46. arms reduction 69. hysteria 4. affluent 26. unconstitution 47. adhere 70. preceded 48. segregation 71. post 5. essential al 6. nationalism 27. legislative 49. integration 72. status quo 7. intervention 28. judicial 50. regulate 73. depleted 8. innovation 29. executive 51. ruthless 74. means of 9. capitalism 30. repeal 52. blockade 10. agrarian 31. decade 53. revolution 75. rural 11. drought 32. confine 54. injustice 76. urban 12. suffrage 33. morale 55. illustrate 77. increase 13. insufficient 34. origin 56. civil 78. decrease 14. compare/contr 35. prohibit 57. rivalry 79. prohibit 36. recession 58. aggression 80. acquisition 15. opponent 37. depression 59. contemporary 81. England = 16. proponent 38. inflation 60. turbulent Great Britain 17. conservative 39. embargo 61. neutral = United 18. liberal 40. surplus 62. armistice Kingdom 19. federal 41. deficit 63. literal 20. diplomacy 42. industrialize 64. analyze Soviet Union 65. denounce = USSR ast 21. appease 22. bypass 43. armaments 66. promote production 82. Russia = THEME ASSOCIATION - Write the time period and theme associated with the information below. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Time period of major political corruption in American politics. Payoffs and bribes determined who won elections. Many immigrants came to America to find wealth. ___________________________ through relief, reform, and recovery. Dates:______________________ Franklin Roosevelt rallied the country into recovery ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Segregation laws were the backdrops. Rosa Parks started it, which eventually led Martin Luther King, Jr. to become the leader of the non-violent philosophy. Malcolm X had an opposite view. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand from Austria-Hungary. One effect of this was the Red Scare in the 1920’s. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ This party consisted mostly of farmers. The main issue of the time was the minting of silver or gold. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ The stock market crash began this period in our history. President Hoover led the nation and believed Americans should help each other out with their problems, not the govt. He became very unpopular. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Government became more responsible to the people. Several amendments were passed during this time to show more support for Americans. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ The U.S.A. could be seen all over the world. One place was Central America. We built the Panama Canal, which gave us a faster route between oceans. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Communism was on the minds of most Americans. The time periods spanned over several presidents, several military conflicts, and ended with the destruction of the Berlin Wall. ___________________________ The Bill of Rights has been limited from time to time by our government. Usually during times of war. This unit analyzes those restrictions. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ This pulled our country out of the depression. We were brought into it on December 7, 1941. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Americans saw an economic boom, while they heard jazz on the radio. Many Americans found themselves in debt. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ Manifest Destiny, the goal of most Americans, was achieved. Custer fought the Native Americans for territory and lost. However, that was the Native Americans’ only victory. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ A revolution of new inventions and ideas that transformed the U.S. Some business leaders became extremely wealthy. ___________________________ Dates:______________________ This period was focused mainly in the Middle East. Territorial, political, and religious disputes added to the tensions in the region. A major event includes the bombing of the World Trade Center. US History Themes - 1877 to Present 1. Westward Expansion 7. World War I 2. Populism 8. The Jazz Age/Roaring 20 3. Industrialism 9. Great Depression 4. The Gilded Age 10. New Deal 5. Progressivism 11. World War II 6. Expansionism/Imperialism 12. The Cold War 13. Civil Rights Movement 14. Constitutional Rights 15. Gulf War/Terrorism DATES - Note: A Century is one more than the year. Example: 20th Century is the 1900s Write the month, day, and year of the following. Pearl Harbor Nagasaki Bombing D-Day Black Tuesday Hiroshima Bombing V-E Day V-J Day Write the year or years for the following. WWII Vietnam War TR’s Presidency WWI FDR’s Presidency Populism The 2nd Red Scare Kennedy’s Presidency The Jazz Age U.S. Involvement in WWI The Great Depression Freedom Summer Cuban Missile Crisis Voting Rights Act Hawaii Annexed Spanish American War The Cold War The Red Scare Bay of Pig Persian Gulf War The Baby Boom Panama Canal Construction Iraq War Battle of Little Big Horn MLK, Jr. Assassination 9/11 Attacks Russian Revolution Korean War Nixon’s Presidency JFK Assassination LBJ’s Presidency People in History 1. _________________________ authorized the use of the atomic bomb by the USA and signed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII. 2. _________________________ fought the Great Depression with his New Deal programs; strong leader during WWII for America. 3. _________________________ had presidency filled with scandal because of the Watergate affair; however, he was able to open up better relations with China through détente and bring troops home from Vietnam. 4. _________________________ fascist leader of Italy in WWII. 5. _________________________ leader of Nazi Germany who authorized the killing of over 6 million Jews in WWII. 6. _________________________ leader of USSR during WWII and aggressive participant in the Cold War. 7. _________________________ actions led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 8. _________________________ author of The Jungle. 9. _________________________ captain of the steel industry who was a philanthropist. 10. _________________________ civil rights leader and member of the Nation of Islam, believed in Black nationalism. 11. _________________________ civil rights leader who used non-violent means to achieve his goals. 12. _________________________ developed a new process for making steel. 13. _________________________ first African-American to graduate from Harvard, founded the Niagara Movement and the NAACP. 14. _________________________ flew non-stop from NY to Paris. 15. _________________________ heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, assassination sparked WWI. 16. _________________________ journalist who exposed the horrors of tenement life hoping to generate public support for reform. 17. _________________________ leader of Communist North Vietnam. 18. _________________________ led a campaign for women’s suffrage, she was often arrested for civil disobedience. 19. _________________________ led a crusade to investigate officials he claimed were Communists. 20. _________________________ led American soldiers against the Sioux Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. 21. _________________________ member of the Lost Generation in the 1920s, wrote The Great Gatsby. 22. _________________________ platform was the Great Society which focused on education & health benefits (Medicare, Medicaid); he also sent more troops to Vietnam than any other president. 23. _________________________ platform was the New Frontier, his troubles with Cuba included to Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, he saw the Berlin Wall constructed in Germany and made great efforts to step up the US space program, assassinated in 1963. 24. _________________________ Prime Minister of England during WWII, gave the Iron Curtain speech to warn America of future problems with the Soviet Union. 25. _________________________ Rough Rider who led the US in the Spanish American War, began construction on the Panama Canal in 1904, he spoke softly and carried a big stick in Latin America. 26. _________________________ Sioux chief who led Native Americans off of their reservation. 27. _________________________ US leader during WWI, goals for post war world were outlined in his 14 Points, tried to convince Congress to join League of Nations. 28. _________________________ seen as a very ineffective leader during the Great Depression, believed in rugged individualism and volunteerism. 29. _________________________ yellow journalist who reported the treatment of Cubans by the Spanish to drum up support for the Spanish American War. 30. _________________________ the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). 31. _________________________ Populist and Democrat who ran for president; gave the “Cross of Gold” speech supporting unlimited coining of silver. 32. _________________________ established a communist govt. in Russia in 1917. 33. _________________________established a communist govt in Cuba in 1959. 34. _________________________was a corrupt political boss in NYC’s Tammany Hall during the Gilded Age. 35. _________________________was the political cartoonist that exposed Gilded Age political corruption. 36. _________________________. WWII hero who was elected president during the 1950s. 37. _________________________ prolific inventor that is credited with the light bulb and central power stations. 38. Muckraker who exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil Company ________________________________ 39. _________________________ was the first woman nominated to the US Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan 40. _________________________ Indian leader who surrendered to the US govt and negotiated for peace 41. _________________________ led a successful boycott of grapes and other produce, merged migrant farming unions into the UFW and led the Chicano Movement. 42. The husband and wife who were convicted and executed for providing atomic energy secrets to the USSR were ____________________________ 43. _________________________ Leader of Great Britain during World War II. NAME BANK: Fidel Castro Chief Joseph Charles Lindbergh Woodrow Wilson Martin Luther King, Jr. F. Scott Fitzgerald Boss Tweed Cesar Chavez FDR Malcolm X Susan B. Anthony George Custer Thomas Nast Adolph Hitler Harry Truman Rosa Parks Sitting Bull Henry Bessemer Dwight Eisenhower Andrew Carnegie Herbert Hoover William Randolph Hearst Winston Churchill Ho Chi Minh Thomas Edison The Rosenbergs Jacob Riis WEB DuBois Vladimir Lenin James Meredith Upton Sinclair Archduke Ferdinand JFK Ida Tarbell Lyndon B. Johnson William Jennings Bryan Theodore Roosevelt Winston Churchill Joseph McCarthy Sandra Day O’Connor Josef Stalin Richard Nixon Benito Mussolini Time Period Association Place the correct word in the time period in which it occurred. If there are words you do not recognize, look them up and define them. Label the theme that fits in each time period to help you determine where the terms belong. 1870s-1900_______________/___________________ 1880s – 1920s________________/________________ 1880s-1896___________________ 1914-1918_______________ 1920s___________________ 1930s-___________________ 1939-1945_______________ 1945-1989_______________ 1950-1953 - Korean War 1955-1975 - Vietnam War 1950s -1960s ________________________ 1990s – Present Day_____________ PLACE AN “X” NEXT TO THE TERMS YOU CAN’T REMEMBER 14 Points 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment 24th Amendment 26th Amendment 17th Parallel 38th Parallel AAA Affirmative action Allies/Central Powers American Federation of Labor Annex Appeasement Arab/Israeli Conflict Archduke Ferdinand Arms race Assimilation Assembly line Atlantic Charter Atomic bomb Axis/Allied Powers Baby boom Bank holiday Barbed wire Battle of the Bulge Bay of Pigs Benevolent society Berlin Airlift Bessemer process Black Tuesday Blitzkrieg Bonus Army Boss Tweed Boxer Rebellion Brown v Board of Ed Bull Moose Party Bully Pulpit Brinkmanship Breadlines capitalism Captains of Industry Carnegie CCC Central Powers/Allies Cesar Chavez Challenger disaster Chicano Movement Chinese Exclusion Act Churchill CIA Civil Rights Acts Civil Service Reform Clayton Antitrust Act Cold War Communism Concentration camp Conservation Containment Compulsory education Credit Cross of Gold Cuban Missile Crisis Dawes Act Daylight savings time D-Day Deficit Spending Depression Détente Dollar diplomacy Domino theory Dust bowl Edison Eisenhower Embargo Equal Rights Amendment Exodusters Expansionism FDIC FDR Federal Reserve Act Fireside chats Flappers Freedom riders Freedom summer Free enterprise Geneva conference GI Bill of Rights Gilded Age Gold bugs Good Neighbor Policy Gospel of Wealth Graft Grange Great migration Great Society Great Upheaval Great White Fleet Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Harlem Renaissance Haymarket Riot Henry Ford Hitler Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh Trail Hollywood Ten Holocaust Homestead Act Homestead Strike Hoover HUAC Hydrogen Bomb Immigrants Imperialism Internment Camps Island hopping Iron Curtain Isolationism James Meredith Jane Addams Jazz Jim Crow JFK Joseph Glidden Kent State Kickbacks KKK Knights of Labor Laissez-faire League of Nations Lend-Lease Act Lost generation Luftwaffe Lusitania MAIN Causes of WWI MacArthur Malcolm X Manhattan Project Manifest Destiny Mao Zedong March on Washington Marshall Plan Meat Inspection Act Medgar Evers MLK, Jr. McCarthyism Monopolies Montgomery bus boycott Moral Diplomacy Morrill Act Muckrakers Mussolini NAACP NAFTA NASA National Defense Education Act National Park Service NATO Nazis New Deal New Freedom New Frontier New Nationalism North Korea No-Man’s-Land NRA Nuremberg Trials Oct. 29, 1929 OPEC Open Door Policy Organized crime Palmer Raids Panama Canal Patriot Act Peace Corps Pearl Harbor Pentagon Papers Pendleton Civil Service Act Persian Gulf War Philanthropists Platt Amendment Plessy v. Ferguson Political corruption Populism Potsdam Conference Progressive Income Tax Prohibition Pullman Strike Pure Food & Drug Act Quotas Reaganomics Red Scare Reparations Robber barons Roe v Wade Roosevelt Corollary Rough Riders Rosa Parks Rosie the Riveter Russian Revolution Satellite nations Scopes Trial SEC Sedition Act Selective service Self-determination Settlement houses Seward’s Folly Sgt. Alvin York Sherman Antitrust Act Silverites Sit-ins Smoot-Hawley Tariff Social Darwinism Social Gospel Social security Sod houses South Korea Space race Spanish-American War Spheres of influence Spoils System Sputnik Square deal Suburbs Suez crisis Suffrage Sussex Pledge Taft Taft-Hartley Act Teapot Dome scandal Television Tenements Tet offensive The Jungle Theodore Roosevelt Transcontinental railroad Treaty of Versailles Trench warfare Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Truman Truman Doctrine Trustbuster Trusts TVA Tweed Ring U2 Spy Plane UN USS Maine Viet Cong Vietnam Volunteerism Voting Rights Acts Wagner Act War bonds War Powers Resolution Warsaw Pact Watergate Scandal WCTU William Jennings Bryan welfare capitalism Wilson Women’s Suffrage WPA Yalta Conference Yellow journalism Zimmerman Note NOW LOOK UP THE TERMS THAT YOU MARKED WITH AN “X” Identify these Plans, Agreements, Decisions, & Organizations 14 Points New Nationalism American Federation of Labor North American Treaty Chinese Exclusion Act Organization Dawes Act Organization of Petroleum Fair Deal Exporting Countries (OPEC) Federal Deposit Insurance Pacific Railway Act Corporation Pendleton Civil Service Act Geneva Conference Progressive Movement Good Neighbor Policy Roosevelt Corollary Great Society Square Deal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution SALT Homestead Act Teapot Dome Scandal Interstate Commerce Commission Truman Doctrine Knights of Labor United Nations League of Nations Versailles Treaty Monroe Doctrine Wagner Act Morrill Land Grant Act Warsaw Pact New Deal War Powers Act New Freedom Yalta Conference New Frontier Atlantic Charter Environmentalism Use pages 698 – 703 to complete this timeline of the Environmental Movement. 1916 - Theodore Roosevelt begins the Conservation Movement by starting the National Park Service. How did Earth Day get started? What is the date for Earth Day? Define Conservation – What did the National Park Service do? 3 Events in the 1960s and 1970s sparked a new phase in the Environmental Movement. Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring. What was this book about? What recent Environmental disaster has caused problems in the South? (2 years ago -not in your book) The Love Canal Incident – 3-Mile Island Incident - Environmental Protection Agency - Clean Air Act – Public outcry grew from these events, causing the US govt to react by passing new laws and creating a new environmental agency Clean Water Act – Constitutional Endangered SpeciesAmendments Act – Look up the following amendments. 1. Write the significance of the amendment. 2. Write the year they were added to the constitution. 3. Write the theme each is associated with 13th 21st 14th 22nd 15th 23rd 16th 24th 17th 25th 18th 26th 19th 20th Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Use Chapter 26 in your book to complete this page. Domestic Policies: Explain the Main Characteristics of these Reagan Policies. Reaganomics (Supply-Side Economics) Iran Hostage Crisis: How did it end? Supreme Court Appointments Defense Spending on New Weapons (Strategic Defense Initiative) Foreign Policies: Explain the Significance of these Reagan Foreign Policy Activities. Iran-Contra Affair What president lost to Reagan in 1980 because of the bad economy and bad publicity from the Hostage Crisis? The Cold War Ends (Reagan & George H.W. Bush) Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR, 1985 GlastnostPerestroika- Define these terms associated with Gorbachev, Reagan, and the end of the Cold War. Radio Free Europe(Hint: Google it.) 19 War with Iraq, 1991?? INF Treaty- OR War with Iraq, 2003 – 2011?? 1991 Saddam Hussein George W Bush George HW Bush Fear of WMDS Invasion of Kuwait UN Involvement Operation Desert Storm Operation Iraqi Freedom Korean War Protection of Oil Persian Gulf War IMPORTANT COURT DECISIONS A. What year? B. What were the circumstances of the case? C. What did the court decide? 1. Brown v Board of Education (Topeka, KS): 2. Plessy v Ferguson: 3. Escobedo v Illinois: 4. Duke v Griggs Power Co: 5. Reynolds v Sims: 6. Roe v Wade: 7. Lochner v. NY: 8. Scopes v Tennessee: Was it Teddy or Franklin Roosevelt? Write “Teddy” or “Franklin” next to each of these items that are associated with TR or FDR. Write “Both” next to the things they both had in common. President Theodore Roosevelt 1. Alphabet Soup 30. Relief and Recovery 55. Isolationism 2. Trustbuster 31. Panama Canal 56. Good Neighbor Policy 3. Rough Riders 32. TVA 57. Yalta Conference 4. Secretary of the Navy 33. AAA 58. World War II 5. NY Police Commissioner 34. Conservation 59. Nobel Peace Prize 6. Governor of NY 35. “Speak softly and carry a 60. The Dust Bowl 7. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Big Stick.” 36. Corollary to the Monroe 62. Wagner Act 8. Fireside Chats 9. Negotiated United Mine 37. Eleanor Roosevelt 64. 1901 – 1909 Workers Strike 38. Brain Trust 65. 1933 – 1945 10. Bull Moose Party 39. William H. Taft 66. Avid Hunter 11. Republican 40. Attempted to Pack the US 67. Spanish – American War 12. Atlantic Charter Doctrine 61. Bank Failures Supreme Court 63. WPA 68. Vice President 13. Democrat 41. Square Deal 69. Harry Truman 14. Progressive 42. “December 7th, a date which 70. Fought in Cuba 15. Elected President 4 Times will live in infamy…” 71. Four Freedoms Speech 16. Social Security Act 43. Great Depression 72. Cash & Carry 17. Bully Pulpit 44. Polio 73. D – Day 18. Defeated Herbert Hoover 45. Received letter from 74. Fought Monopolies 19. Succeeded William McKinley 20. Met with Churchill and Stalin 21. Negotiated Peace Treaty between Japan and Russia Einstein about Atomic 75. High Unemployment Weapons 76. Breadlines 46. CCC 47. Government should expand to help people. 48. “I took the Canal Zone, then 22. Battle of San Juan Hill I let Congress debate about 23. Pearl Harbor it.” 77. Securities and Exchange Commission 78. NRA 79. Open Door Policy 80. Hawaii becomes US Territory 24. Great White Fleet 49. Pure Food & Drug Act 81. Colombian Revolution 25. Policed Latin America 50. Elkins Act 82. Hay – Bunau – Varilla 26. Bank Holiday 51. National Park Service 27. Meat Inspection Act 52. Lend-Lease Act 83. Sherman Anti – Trust Act 28. FDIC 53. Hepburn Act 84. Youngest President Ever 29. New Deal 54. Imperialism 85. Gunboat Diplomacy Treaty VIETNAM or KOREA ??? Vietnam War Korean War Fill the Venn diagram above with the terms listed below that are related to the Vietnam War, the Korean War, or Both Wars. 1. 17th Parallel 16. Communism 31. 1960’s 2. 38th Parallel 17. Search & Destroy Missions 32. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) 3. Ho Chi Minh Trail 18. Defoliants 33. CIA 4. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 19. Inch’on 34. Operation Rolling Thunder 5. Harry Truman 20. Asia 35. Cambodia 6. Gulf of Tonkin 21. Pacification 36. Saigon 7. Kim Il Sum 22. 1950’s 37. Kent State Protests/ Shooting 8. Mao Zedong 23. Hanoi 38. Gen. William Westmoreland 9. Seoul 24. Syngman Rhee 39. Tet Offensive 10. Lyndon B. Johnson 25. Dwight Eisenhower 40. Vietnamization Define- 11. Henry Kissinger 26. United Nations 41. 26th Amendment 12. War Powers Act 27. Manchuria 42. The Cold War 13. 1970’s 28. Pyongyang 43. Fighting Chinese Troops 14. Richard Nixon 29. Containment 44. Conflict between Truman and 15. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 30. Domino Theory MacArthur Constitutional Rights & Civil Liberties What are the limits of free speech??? Example: Schenck v. United States (1919), page 300. 1st Amendment = Freedom of Speech How did the US Supreme Court limit Free Speech in the case of Schenck v. U.S.? According to the Supreme Court, what are some good reasons for the govt to limit your free speech? Can the govt limit a group’s liberties during wartime??? What is the proper balance between national security and civil liberties??? Example: The Patriot Act (2002) Page 536 Why do some Americans oppose the power given to the govt by the Patriot Act? Many Americans support the Patriot Act, what reasons do they have for supporting it? Are Affirmative Action Programs fair??? Example: Regents of the Univ. of California v. Bakke (1978) page 726 What is affirmative action? What was Bakke’s argument against affirmative action? Do you agree or disagree with Bakke? Example: Korematsu v. United States (1944), page 479. What is racial profiling? Why were these people denied equal protection under the law and sent to internment (prison) camps? What are the limits on a President’s Executive Privilege??? Example: United States v. Nixon (1974) page 718 What is Executive Privilege? What state provided legal position was started as a result of the Gideon decision? When is Executive Privilege limited? What scandal brought about the situation where President Nixon claimed Executive Privilege to protect his presidency? Can Separate Treatment be Equal Treatment??? Does Segregation Affect Education??? Examples: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Pages 192 & 588 What kinds of laws were allowed by the Plessy decision? What amendment did the Brown decision say the Plessy decision violated? Why did Chief Justice Warren declare segregation in schools unconstitutional? Can a Poor Person Get a Fair Trial??? Example: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) page 628 What right does the 6th Amendment give to people accused of a crime? What Rights Should An Accused Person Have??? Example: Miranda v. Arizona (1966) page 637 What does the 5th Amendment protect people from? What must police do before statements made by a suspect can be used in a trial? Can you list your Miranda Rights in the space below?