SEMESTER II REVIEW

JEOPARDY!!

Recon- Recon-

Reconstruction

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The Gilded Age

Imperialism and

World War I

The Great Depressio

n and WWII

Civil Rights and the Cold

War

JEOPARDY!

100

• Amendment that said no one can be kept from voting because of race, color or former enslavement

• What was the 15th Amendment• Know the Reconstruction Amendments

– 13th: abolishes slavery– 14th: citizenship and due process– 15th: the right to vote

200

• The system of agriculture characteristic of the southern states during Reconstruction in which a landowner allows tenants to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced.

• What was sharecropping?

300

• This abolished slavery in the North

• What was the Thirteenth Amendment?

• Remember, the Emancipation Proclamation only outlawed slavery in states in rebellion (i.e. the Confederacy).

400

• This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.

• What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?

500

• This Amendment is related to the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and contains the “due process” clause as well as the “equal protection” clause.

• What is the 14th Amendment?

100

• Illegal use of political influence for personal gain

• What graft?

• Can you identify historical examples of graft?

• Why is graft associated with the Gilded Age?

200

• Herbert Spencer’s philosophy of “survival of the fittest” applied to nations and societies.

• What is social darwinism?• BONUS: • How did Gilded Age millionaires use social darwinism to their advantage?

• It was used to justify the accumulation of wealth.

300

• The 16th Amendment that created a new source of income, compensating for lower tariffs.

• What was the creation of the income tax?

400

• The business strategy of buying out raw material producers and distributers used by Andrew Carnegie

• What is vertical integration?

• What is horizontal integration?

500

• This law outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade.

• What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

100

• The MAIN causes of World War I.• What were…

– Militarism– Alliances– Imperialism– Nationalism

• Explain how each one worked

200

• An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that aimed to keep European influences out of the Western Hemisphere.

• What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

300

• World War I era laws that allowed the government to silence ideas that challenged its authority.

• What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?

400

• DAILY DOUBLE • Teddy’s Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy.

• What was “speak softly and carry a big stick”; negotiations always backed by the threat of military force?

500

• This “plan” required that German soldiers defeat France quickly during WWII to avoid a two-front war.

• What is the Schlieffen Plan?

100

• Franklin Roosevelt’s first act as President.

• What was closing the nation’s banks; Bank Holiday?

• Why did Roosevelt do this? What was his objective?

200

• President Hoover’s approach to dealing with the Great Depression.

• What was volunteerism and rugged individualism?

300

• President Truman’s primary goal in dropping the atomic bomb.

• What was to end the war quickly with the fewest casualties?

400

• FDR developed many of the programs of the New Deal. This was the main objective of the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Act.

• What was to raise prices of farm products?

500

• This nation signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, but eventually fought against Germany during WWII.

• What is the Soviet Union?

100

• President Nixon’s policy used to build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops.

• What was Vietnamization?

200

• DAILY DOUBLE• The goal of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program.

• What was to alleviate poverty in the United States; using the government to improve the lives of Americans?

• Was it successful?

300

• United States warning to the Soviet Union against military invention in the Middle East.

• What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?

400

• Belief that if Vietnam unified under communism, all of the other Southeast Asian countries would also become communist.

• What was Domino Theory?

500

• As a result of the Vietnam war, this law increased the president’s authority to wage war

• What is the War Powers Act?