US History EOC Topics to Know

1st Amendment

• Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech

13th Amendment

• Free

14th Amendment

• Citizens

15th Amendment

• Vote

16th Amendment

• Income tax

17th Amendment

• Election of senators

18th Amendment

• No alcohol

19th Amendment

• Women’s suffrage (right to vote)

22nd Amendment

• President 2 terms

24th Amendment

• No poll tax

26th Amendment

• Vote at 18

Gaining Control of new land

• Reasons For:

  • New markets

  • New resources

  • To be world power

• Reasons Against:

  • Expensive

  • Consent of the people

Ida Wells

• Leader of anti-lynching movement

Ida Tarbell

• Muckraker

• History of standard oil

American Federation of Labor

• Only skilled workers

Forced assimilation of Native Americans

160 acres to settle the west

Corrupt organization that controls politics, mostly voting and jobs

• Boss Tweed

Rich business people who used ruthless tactics to destroy competition

Government leaves business alone

• “Let it be”

Head of the US military in WW1

Political party for farmers

• Late 1800s

Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace after WW1

• League of nations

US did not join because of fear of military commitment to future wars

• Because of trench warfare and machine guns

• Korean War

Native American protest

Response to 9/11

• Government can observe personal data to detect and prevent terrorism

Washington

• Wants African Americans to have vocational skills (job)

Du Bois

• Wants equality now

• NAACP

Wanted to add to Supreme Court

• Too much power to executive branch

• Would mess up checks and balances

If you’re gonna work for the government you must take merit test

Can’t hurt the government during the war

• WW1

President Harding

• Go back to peacetime economy

To blend in

Progressive Age

• Goal is to get citizens more involved in government/democracy

Regulate big business

Regulate railroad prices to help farmers

Crowded, dark, unsanitary apartments

• Gilded Age

• Allied commander is Eisenhower

• In France

Reasons:

• To open up a second front

• Establish bases to be able to bomb Germany

Jane Addams

• Help poor and immigrants

• Hull House

African American pilots during WW2

Pilots in WW2 who took supplies to China

Causes of involvement:

• Yellow journalism

• Sinking of the USS Maine

Results:

• New markets and resources

• Panama Canal

Causes of involvement:

• Unrestricted submarine warfare

• Zimmerman Letter

• Sinking of the Lusitania

Result:

• US becomes a world power

Cause of involvement:

• Pearl Harbor

Results:

• Great Depression is over

• Start of Cold War

• Starting with the North invading the South

• Truman and Eisenhower are presidents during the war

• Truman fires MacArthur

Cause of involvement:

• Domino Theory

Key Factors:

• First televised war

• Tet Offensive

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (gave presidents too much power)

• Wars Power Act (limited president’s power)

Result:

• Loss of trust in government

Rationing in WW2

• Side note: there was rationing in WW1 too

First Hispanic in Supreme Court

Cannot discriminate gender in education

First African American women in Congress

2nd Red Scare

• Investigate US citizens on possible communist activity

Cultural pride

• Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Center of music in NYC

Regulates banking industry

• Woodrow Wilson

Led to an imbalance of trade

• One cause of market crash

All earned through bravery

• Alvin York

  • WW1

• Vernon Baker

  • WW2

• Roy Benavidez

  • Vietnam

Levees broke and land is below sea level

• Book by Jack Kerouac

• Beat Generation

• Non-conformity in the 1950s

Japanese Internment camps

• Republican: Bush

• Democrat: Gore

Supreme Court rules against further ballot counting in Florida