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Business Monopoly * - ANSWER -When a company has total
control over an
industry.
Many were formed in the late 1800s because of the
government's laissez-faire
(hands off)
attitude
Companies used the theory of social darwinism to justify their
unfair business
practices
Inventions & economic prosperity 1920's * - ANSWER -Radio,
automobiles
Brown v. Board of Education* - ANSWER -1954 - The Supreme
Court overruled
,Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated
facilities are inherently
unequal and ordered all public schools
desegregated.
Martin Luther King Jr. * - ANSWER -Leader of a non
violent civil rights
movement. They engaged in marches,boycotts & nonviolent
civil disobedience
Black Panthers/Black Power * - ANSWER -Civil Rights
organization which believed in more violent opposition to
discrimination. Originally formed to fight police brutality in the
ghetto and help create self-sufficiency for African American
communities.
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) * - ANSWER
-Group formed
by student activists; used the sit-in as an effective
method of protest
Equal Opportunity in Education Act, Title IX * - ANSWER -banned
discrimination
in education for women in the
1970's
,Vietnam War * - ANSWER -A prolonged war (1954-1975) between
the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by
the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam
who were supported by the United States.
Direct consequence of the Civil War* - ANSWER -Extension of
voting rights to
African American
men
Freedmen's Bureau * - ANSWER -Organization run by the army
to care for and
protect southern Blacks after the
Civil War.
Little Big Horn * - ANSWER -Battle between Custer's Seventh
Cavalry and the
Sioux, Custer's Seventh was decimated by Sitting Bull &
Crazy Horse.
Americanization movement * - ANSWER -Program to teach
American culture to
Native Americans and
immigrants.
, First and Second Industrial Revolution * - ANSWER -1700- 1860
= first (Britain)
1860- 1914 = Second
(USA)
From Manual labor to industrialized manufacturing. Both
produced technologies
that improved
productivity
Southern and Eastern Europeans * - ANSWER -Made up
the great wave of
immigration that came to the Northeast U.S. between
1870 and 1920
Vietnamization * - ANSWER -President Richard Nixon's
strategy for ending U.S
involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual
withdrawal of American
troops and replacement of them with South
Vietnamese forces
GI Bill* - ANSWER -Law passed in 1944 to help returning
veterans buy homes
and pay for higher
educations