US History (Period 5) Assignments
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- SPHS 2018-2019
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- Social Science
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The Final will be multiple choice. Review the following topics as they will be included:
Affirmative Action, Alger Hiss case, Amendment XXIV, Amendment XXVI, American Federation of Labor, American Indian Movement, Battle of the Bulge, Bay of Pigs invasion, Beat Generation, Berlin Blockade & Airlift, Berlin Wall, Birmingham municipal strikes, Blood plasma, Bonus Army, Brown v Board of Education, California Central Valley Project, California Master Plan, California Proposition 209, Camp David Peace Accords, Casablanca Conference, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Cold War, Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Riders, Containment Policy, Crash of 1929, Cuban Missile Crisis, Department of Energy, Dred Scott v Sanford, Dust Bowl, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, Executive privilege, Federal Reserve, Four-Forty Second Regimental Combat team, G.I. Bill (1944), Great Depression causes, Great Society, Head Start, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Hollywood Ten, Hoover, International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, Interstate highway system, Iran-Contra Scandal, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iron Curtain, Iwo Jima & Okinawa, Kennedy, Korean War, Korematsu v US, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Little Rock integration protests, Malcolm X, March on Washington 1963, Marshall Plan, Thurgood Marshall, McCarthyism, Battle of Midway, Montgomery bus boycott, Mutual assured destruction, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Labor Relations Board, National Organization for Women, New Deal, New Frontier, Nixon, Normandy Invasion, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Pearl Harbor attack, Penicillin, Plessey v Ferguson, Jackson Pollock, Potsdam Conference, Radar in WWII, A. Phillip Randolph, Reagan, The Reagan coalition, Regents v Bakke, Religious Right, Rock and Roll, Roe v Wade, F.D. Roosevelt, Rosie the Riveter, Second Red Scare, South-East Asia Treaty Organization, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Space Defense Initiative, St. Lawrence Seaway, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Taft-Hartley Act, Tariff, Teheran Conference, Tennessee Valley Authority, Relief – Recovery – Reform, Townsend Clubs, Truman, Truman Doctrine, Tuskegee Airmen, United Farm Workers, United Nations, Vietcong, Volunteers In Service To America, Voting Rights Act of 1965, War on Poverty, Watergate Scandal, Watts Riots, White collar & blue collar jobs, Works Progress Administration, World War II strategies, Yalta Conference.
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- Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
- What were the Palmer Raids?
- What were the factors that encouraged the “Great Migration”?
- What was the “Garvey Movement”?
- What was Prohibition?
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- What were the pros and cons of US imperialism?
- Explain what the Roosevelt Corollary was about and why the Latin American countries didn’t like it.
- What was Big Stick Diplomacy?
- What was Dollar Diplomacy?
- What was our reasoning behind annexing the Philippines?
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Read 7-2 on the National Market & Social Darwinism. Also...
Find your number, research the item listed next to it. Be prepared to present in class with your handwritten notes. Mark your notes with "5B" before turning them in.
393629 Vanderbilt family
331002 Standard Oil Co.
329816 Andrew Carnegie
410713 J.P. Morgan & US Steel
382799 William Graham Sumner
382749 Haymarket Bombing
328984 American Federation of Labor
382828 McKinley Tariff of 1890
382690 Depression of 1893
393627 Coxey’s Army
393592 Pullman Strike
410727 Cross of Gold Speech