Events for the US History final review.
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| 805279254 | Bacon's Rebellion | In 1676, a number of farmers in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon was upset that the Virginia House of Burgesses was treating the Indians too gently and that the Indians were allowed to keep land that the farmers wanted. When the Susquehannock Indians killed a person who worked on Bacon's farm, he'd had enough. When the governor refused to attack the Indians, Bacon and 500 men took matters into their own hands, slaughtering the peaceful Occaneechee Indians, who were easier to find and fight than the Susquehannock. When the governor didn't complete the work Bacon had begun, Bacon and his followers marched on the capital of Jamestown and burned it to the ground. Bacon caught a fever and died and his men were captured or ran away, ending the rebellion, but this was the first revolution against the government in American history. | |
| 805279255 | French-Indian War | This war was not just between Indians and the French. It happened in North America- Indian/French and later Spain v. British and the Colonies. They were fighting over the Ohio River Valley and Canada | |
| 805288026 | Boston Tea Party | Americans in Boston threw tea from England into the ocean to protest taxes | |
| 805288027 | Shays' Rebellion | This rebellion erupted in Massachusetts in 1786. The rebellion started when the government of Massachusetts decided to raise taxes instead of issuing papermoney to pay off its debts. 1,200 farmers who were angry about taxes shut down courthouses and attempted to take arsenal of weapons. Four farmers were killed and the rest scattered. | |
| 805288028 | Alamo | "Remember the ___!" This historic building was seized during Texas War for Independence and became a rallying cry for the Texans fighting for their independence. | |
| 805288029 | Greensboro Sit-Ins | In 1960, lunch counters were segregated in Greensboro, North Carolina, as they were in many places in the South. This meant that blacks could order food to take away, but they could not sit at the lunch counter and eat their food. On February 1, 1960, four black students from North Carolina A&T sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter and tried to order lunch. When they were refused service, they refused to leave. They sat there all day as the manager tried to figure out what to do. The next day fifteen people came to the lunch counter and peacefully sat there, waiting to be served. The third day, one hundred and fifty people showed up. As word of this protest spread through the media, sit-ins began happening in Durham, and Raleigh, and South Carolina, and throughout the South. The protesters were always peaceful, while reaction to them ranged from confusion, to violence, to managers closing their lunch counters rather than dealing with the problem. Within a few months, the major stores with lunch counters began to allow blacks to sit and eat rather than continue to lose business. Similar efforts began to be directed at segregated theaters, hotels, etc. | |
| 805288030 | Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad system which was an attempt to link the east coast with the west coast and finalize the idea of manifest destiny. | |
| 805288031 | Bleending Kansas | Event which occured in Kansas, lots of people trying to influence Popular Sovereignty vote- fighting- "influencing" people with guns -etc. | |
| 805288032 | Vietnam War | The answer is the name of the war. Previously Vietnam was a French colony, Ho Chi Minh (communist) leads a rebellion against the French, US supports France with money France withdraws and Vietnam splits in half- North Vietnam/ Vietcong (communist) and South Vietnam (democratic, not communist) US supports South Vietnam because their leader was anti-communist, but only initially trained soldiers and provided supplies, South Vietnam's government starts to fall apart. | |
| 805288033 | Cuban Missile Crisis | The answer is the name of the crisis. Kennedy stood firm and demanded that the Soviet Union remove these weapons, which they refused to do. Kennedy placed a naval blockade around the island and threatened to turn back any ships with military supplies coming to Cuba. The USSR sent ships with military supplies to Cuba with orders not to be turned back. Kennedy threatened to bomb the missile bases if they were not removed, at the same time saying that an attack on any western territory from within Cuba would be considered a Soviet attack on the U.S. Eventually, Khrushchev removed the missiles on the promise that the Americans would not invade Cuba. | |
| 805288034 | Bay of Pigs | A battle in Cuba named after the bay it took place in in which the US tried (and failed) to invade Cuba. | |
| 805288035 | March to the Sea | A march done by William T. Sherman in the Civil War in which he marched around the South, surrounding them and blocking off acess to the sea. | |
| 805288036 | John Wilkes Booth | Full name of the man who assassinated Lincoln on April 15, 1865. | |
| 805288037 | Dust Bowl | The name given to the land used by farmers that had dried up during the depression. | |
| 805288038 | Interstate Commerce Clause | This clause in the Constitution says that the federal government can regulate matters that relate to business crossing state lines. It was used to provide authority for the government being able to regulate/stop segregation. | |
| 805288039 | Salem Witch Trials | This trials in Salem unfairly persecuted people for being "witches." | |
| 805288040 | The Cold War | While no shots were actually fired between the US and the USSR, this "war" included the countries using "brinkmanship" to try to push each other "over the edge" by testing large quantities of nukes. | |
| 805288041 | Continental Congress | These meetings (there were two of them) helped to design the rules for and to shape America. Members included John Adams, Patrick Henry, Goerge Washington, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. | |
| 805288042 | New Deal | This was FDR's plan to fix economy, it was not very specific, he just kind of threw stuff together until it started to work. It created organizations such as the WPA, the TVA, and the CCC to provide jobs for Americans during the Great Depression. | |
| 805288043 | Prohibition | This rule was called _____. (The answer is the word that fits in the blank.) The 18th amendment takes effect in 1920, declaring that the manufacture or sale of alcohol is now prohibited. This is supposed to increase the morality of the country and eliminate the dangers of alcohol. The amount of alcohol consumed does go down, but there are also problems. Gangsters step in to sell what people continue to want to buy - alcohol. This act, often called bootlegging, leads to the growth of organized crime and the opening of speakeasies, secret bars which, while illegal, were not always particularly hard to find. The cons outweigh the pros pretty quickly, and the 18th amendment is repealed by the 21st in 1933. | |
| 809643704 | Jazz Age | This was an age of innovation, expansion, and overwhelming wealth. All of this was made possible due to the every growing stock market and overpriced shares. It is known for being "jazzy." | |
| 805288044 | Greensboro Sit-Ins | These lunch counter sit-ins protested against segregation and helped to inspire other protests all across America. | |
| 805288045 | Civil War | While this war between the north and south parts of America was not actually about slavery, many of its causes were sparked by slavery and it is often been portrayed as having been fought over slavery | |
| 805288046 | World War Two | America entered this war after Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The Allies fought against the Axis Powers in this war. | |
| 805288047 | Watergate Break-In | This break-in created a huge political scandel that caused Nixon to become the only US president to resign in disgrace. | |
| 805288048 | Sputnik | This first man-made satellite launched by the USSR scared many US citizens who thought that it was used for spying on or for attacking the US. | |
| 805288049 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | This bus boycott protested against segregation on busses in Montgomery. It sparked similar protests across America. | |
| 805288050 | Draft Riots | These riots during the civil war protested against the unfairness of draft laws because the rich could pay for someone else to take their place in the fighting but the poor had no way to avoid the war if they were drafted. | |
| 810922832 | Substitutions | This was the name for the process of paying for someone to fight in one's place in a war if one was drafted. It was often used during the civil war. | |
| 805288051 | Reconstruction | This is the name given to the period after the civil war when America was being "reconstructed." | |
| 805288052 | Ghost Dance | The answer is the name of the dance. The once proud Sioux found their free-roaming life destroyed, the buffalo gone, themselves confined to reservations dependent on Indian Agents for their existence. In a desperate attempt to return to the days of their glory, many sought salvation in a new mysticism preached by a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Emissaries from the Sioux in South Dakota traveled to Nevada to hear his words. Wovoka called himself the Messiah and prophesied that the dead would soon join the living in a world in which the Indians could live in the old way surrounded by plentiful game. A tidal wave of new soil would cover the earth, bury the whites, and restore the prairie. To hasten the event, the Indians were to dance this dance. Many dancers wore brightly colored shirts emblazoned with images of eagles and buffaloes. These "Ghost Shirts" they believed would protect them from the bluecoats' bullets. | |
| 805288053 | Great Awakening | "A new Age of Faith rose to counter the currents of the Age of Enlightenment, to reaffirm the view that being truly religious meant trusting the heart rather than the head, prizing feeling more than thinking, and relying on biblical revelation rather than human reason" -Historian Christine Leigh Heyrman What was this time period in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War called? | |
| 805288054 | Boston Massacre | This event took place prior to the Revolutionary War. Much propaganda of it was created in order to spur colonists to action against England. In the event 5 colonists are killed after British soldiers fire on a mob of 300-400 people protesting against taxes. Six of these soldiers are aquitted but two are found guilty. | |
| 805288055 | Crossing of the Delaware | This historic event during the Revolutionary War occured when, from across the river, George Washington saw Hessians (German mercenaries- hired soldiers- paid by the British to fight the colonists) drinking in celebration of Christmas. He decided to seize the opportunity and crossed the river to attack at 6 AM the day after Christmas (Dec. 26, 1776). The hung-over Hessians were caught off guard and the English guard was shot before he can sound the alarm. | |
| 805288056 | Trail of Tears | The answer is the name for the journey that the American Indians were forced to take. Between 1816 and 1840, tribes located between the original states and the Mississippi River, including Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, signed more than 40 treaties ceding their lands to the U.S. In his 1829 inaugural address, President Andrew Jackson set a policy to relocate eastern Indians. In 1830 it was endorsed, when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to force those remaining to move west of the Mississippi. Between 1830 and 1850, about 100,000 American Indians living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida moved west after the U.S. government coerced treaties or used the U.S. Army against those resisting. Many were treated brutally. An estimated 3,500 Creeks died in Alabama and on their westward journey. Some were transported in chains. | |
| 805288057 | Mexican War | This war occured when America provoked Mexico by crossing the border after Texas was added to the US. Mexican soldiers shot at them so they declared war. America won and got Utah, Arizona, and California, but they gave Mexico $15,000 so that they could say that they were being fair. | |
| 805288058 | Manifest Destiny | Means "fate shown in a physical form," some thought it was destiny for America to control all of North America and thought that God wanted them to own all of land between the US then and the Pacific Ocean. | |
| 805288059 | Brown vs. Board of Education One and Two | These two Supreme Court cases dealt with segregation in schools in America. In the first case in 1954 the Supreme Court said that "in the field of public education separate but equal has no place" and that intangible factors give a feeling of inferiority. However they don't give a timeline for integration. In the seccond case in 1955 plaintiffs in Board of Education see that not very much is being done, and the Supreme Court amends their decision and said that schools have to be integrated "with all deliberate speed." | |
| 805288060 | Japanese-American Internment | This internment of Japanese-Americans was supposedly organized to protect America against attacks from Japanese spies, but Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps without trials, probably cause or any other proof. | |
| 805288061 | Stock Market Crash | This event in 1929 occured when the value of stocks in the stock market suddenly dropped and many people lost huge quantities of money. This happened because the stock market did not reflect the economy (the values were highly inflated), companies make more products than people could actually buy, people were buying on credit, and the majority of the wealth of America was owned by a small number of people and the majority of people had very little money (there was a smaller middle class). | |
| 805288062 | Democratic Convention | This convention was held in Chicago in 1860, Robert Kennedy had just been assassinated, and anti-war protests happen outside convention center. It was a very turbulent year and a pig (named Pigasus) was even nominated for president, which reflected the unorganized state of the Democratic Party at that time. | |
| 805288063 | John F. Kennedy | The answer is the president who was elected in the presidential election of 1860. He was the Republican canidate and the 35th President of the US. He was president during the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 805288064 | Bread Riots | The answer is what the riots were called. During the Civil War, prices in the South overall rose on average a total of 9000%, and with the Northern blockade becoming more and more effective, many goods were very scarce. What food that was available in a war zone often went to the soldiers first, leaving their families back home without any. In April of 1863, in the Confederate capital of Richmond, women rioted, breaking windows in stores and threatening more violence if they did not receive food. Jefferson Davis himself came out into the streets to plead with the women to stop, which they eventually did - after being threatened with being shot if they didn't. While the Richmond riot was the most famous one, others occurred with more frequency as food became even more scarce as Union efforts to cut off supplies became more and more successful. | |
| 805288065 | The Great Depression | The answer is what this depression is called. Factories shut down and businesses failed, causing unemployment to skyrocket. Where before jobs were plentiful, people were now reduced to trying to sell apples on street corners. About 25% of America's workforce ended up unemployed. Banks began to fail - about 25% of them eventually did. After losing their faith in the market, people began to lose their faith in banks. A rush occurred to withdraw all savings, and banks couldn't meet the demand because they didn't have the money on hand - in part because they had put so much money into the market in an unsuccessful effort to prevent the crash. People who had saved their money instead of playing the market found themselves bankrupt, too. Farmers had faced hard times all during the twenties, but no one had paid much attention. Now, the weather got even worse, including severe droughts, and prices fell so low that the cost of growing crops was often more than the price the crops could be sold for. Hundreds of thousands of families lost their farms to foreclosure. | |
| 805288066 | Constitutional Convention | This convention designed the constitution that would govern America and transform it from a collection of states into a united nation. |
