Final

Question 1

What group used violence to stop Black people from having rights after the Civil War?

Answer 1

The Ku Klux Klan.

Question 2

What is sharecropping?

Answer 2

A farming system that kept many freed slaves poor and working on white-owned land.

Question 3

What is a cowboy?

Answer 3

Worked with cattle in the West and became a symbol of American freedom.

Question 4

What did the Homestead Act do?

Answer 4

Gave free land to people who moved West and farmed it.

Question 5

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 5

The belief that the U.S. should expand from coast to coast.

Question 6

What is a funny way to remember cattle ranching?

Answer 6

Moo Cows.

Question 7

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 7

Belief that some people are better than others

Question 8

What does Laissez Faire mean?

Answer 8

Hands off.

Question 9

Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?

Answer 9

Brothers who flew the first airplane.

Question 10

Who are muckrakers?

Answer 10

Writers who showed problems in society.

Question 11

What is The Jungle?

Answer 11

A book that showed how gross meatpacking was and helped get food safety laws.

Question 12

What does MANIA stand for in the context of WWI?

Answer 12

Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination.

Question 13

What are speakeasies?

Answer 13

Secret bars where people drank alcohol during Prohibition.

Question 14

Who was Henry Ford?

Answer 14

Made cars cheaper using assembly lines.

Question 15

Who was Charles Lindbergh?

Answer 15

Flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 16

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 16

A time when Black culture was popularized during 1920s

Question 17

Who were the Okies?

Answer 17

Oklahoman farmers who moved west during the dust bowl

Question 18

What was the Dust Bowl?

Answer 18

Dust storms that ruined farms.

Question 19

What is Monopoly?

Answer 19

but also when one company controls an industry.

Question 20

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 20

Stock market crash, bank failures, and job loss.

Question 21

What was the New Deal?

Answer 21

FDR’s plan to give people jobs and help the economy.

Question 22

What happened at Pearl Harbor?

Answer 22

Japan attacked a U.S. base, so we joined WWII.

Question 23

What was the Manhattan Project?

Answer 23

Secret plan to build the atomic bomb.

Question 24

What was the significance of Stalingrad in WWII?

Answer 24

Big Soviet win in WWII. Turned the war against Germany.

Question 25

What was The Battle of Midway?

Answer 25

U.S. beat Japan in a key naval battle ww2

Question 26

What is the Domino Theory?

Answer 26

If one country becomes communist, others nearby might too.

Question 27

What was the Berlin Wall?

Answer 27

Wall that split communist East Berlin and free West Berlin.

Question 28

What was the Korean War?

Answer 28

North (communist) fought South Korea (U.S. helped South). Ended in a tie.

Question 29

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 29

U.S. helped Europe rebuild after WWII to stop communism.

Question 30

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

Answer 30

Senator who wrongly said many people were communists.

Question 31

What is McCarthyism?

Answer 31

Making unfair accusations of communism.

Question 32

What was the general anxiety in the 1950s?

Answer 32

Fear of nuclear war and communism.

Question 33

What was the Interstate Highway Act?

Answer 33

Built roads across the U.S. for cars and defense.

Question 34

What was Sputnik?

Answer 34

First satellite, launched by the USSR. Started space race.

Question 35

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 35

U.S. and USSR almost had a nuclear war over missiles in Cuba.

Question 36

Who was Fidel Castro?

Answer 36

Communist leader of Cuba.

Question 37

What was Nixon's Vietnam policy?

Answer 37

Slowly pulled U.S. troops out, but still helped South Vietnam.

Question 38

What was the Tet Offensive?

Answer 38

Big surprise attack by North Vietnam that made Americans doubt the war.

Question 39

What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

Answer 39

Let the president send troops to Vietnam without declaring war.

Question 40

What is Non-Violent Protest?

Answer 40

Peaceful ways to fight unfair laws.

Question 41

What was Brown v. Board of Education?

Answer 41

Court case that ended school segregation.

Question 42

What was Little Rock (School Integration)?

Answer 42

9 Black students went to a white school with army protection.

Question 43

Who was MLK?

Answer 43

Martin Luther King Jr., peaceful civil rights leader.

Question 44

What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 44

Old case that said segregation was OK.

Question 45

Who was Emmitt Till?

Answer 45

Black teen killed in Mississippi. His death shocked the U.S.

Question 46

What were Jim Crow laws?

Answer 46

Laws that kept Black and white people separate.

Question 47

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 47

Black people stopped riding buses after Rosa Parks' arrest.