2024 CCA study Guide (US History ACL)

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

the policy of extending a nation’s power and global influence through economic, military and political means

Question 2

Annexation

Answer 2

possession taken of a piece of land or a country, usually by force or without permission:

Question 3

Reasons for imperialism

Answer 3

Economic, Military, Political, Ideological

Question 4

Cause of Spanish American war

Answer 4

-yellow journalism (William Randolph)
-U.S.S explosion on the coast of Cuba
- America’s support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule

Question 5

Outcome of Spanish American War

Answer 5

Cuba became independent; the U.S. received Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines

Question 6

Yellow Journalism

Answer 6

News sources that provided no legitimate, well-researched information, while using eye-catching headlines for increased sales

Question 7

Effect of Yellow Journalism

Answer 7

The Spanish-American War that happen in Cuba and Philippinnes

Question 8

Philippines-American War Cause

Answer 8

Filipinos wanted independence after becoming U.S. territory

Question 9

Philippines-American War Outcome

Answer 9

U.S. won the war

Question 10

American land gains during this time period (Imperialism)

Answer 10

Control over Cuba, annexed Hawaii, and claimed Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories.

Question 11

What was the U.S.’ relation to Panama during the age of imperialism?

Answer 11

wanted to build Panama canal tp ship good cheaper and quicker between atlantic and pacific cost.

Question 12

Roosevelt and “Big Stick” Diplomacy

Answer 12

Peaceful negotiation with the threat of a strong military (ex. Panama Canal, Great White Fleet)

Question 13

Views of Anti-Imperialists vs. Imperialists

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Anti-Imperialists: did not want America to take over other countries
Imperialists: For America taking over other countries

Question 14

Cause of WW1

Answer 14

Militarisms- building up a nations military
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism-extreme pride in one’s nation
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 15

Effect of WW1

Question 16

Central Powers

Answer 16

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

Question 17

Allied Powers

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UK, France, Russia, Serbia, U.S. (towards end of war)

Question 18

Spark: Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Answer 18

Caused WW1 and was killed by Gavrilo Princip

Question 19

American Response to the start of WW1

Answer 19

They wanted to stay Neutral

Question 20

Shellshock

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psychological condition resulting from the stress a soldier experiences during battle.

Question 21

Causes of U.S. joiningWW1

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-Unrestricted submarine warfare and the sinking of the Lusitania
-Economic causes
-Zimmerman Note

Question 22

Zimmerman Note

Answer 22

Germany offering Mexico United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause

Question 23

How does America prepares for WW1

Answer 23

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 24

What is Espionage and Sedition Acts

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-The Sedition Act made it a crime for American citizens to “print, utter, or publish… any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” about the government.

-Espionage Act means to convey information with the intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote its enemies’ success

Question 25

Versailles Treaty

Answer 25

treaty that ended WWI

Question 26

Wilson: Fourteen Points & League of Nations

Answer 26

A vision for a stable, long-lasting peace in Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I

Question 27

Impact of the Treaty on Germany

Answer 27

War Guilt Clause - Germany forced to assume full responsibility for starting WWI, and pay significant reparations to Allied Powers

Question 28

Jim Crow

Answer 28

Separate but Equal

Question 29

The Red Scare (Palmer Raids)

Answer 29

raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists. The raids targeted Italian Immigrants, Eastern European Jewish Immigrants, and labor activists

Led by US attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 30

Nativism

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Nativism: a new kind of immigrant was coming to America who was not white and was illiterate and unskilled (ex. Sacco & Vanzetti)

Question 31

Culture in the 1920s

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-Jazz
-Instalment Plan (monthly payments)
-Consumer culture flourished
-Stock Market became a bull market- a period of rising stock prices
-Buying on Margin: purchasing a stock by borrowing money.
-Automobile
-Mass Production

Question 32

African American Culture: The Harlem Renaissance

Answer 32

a period of U.S. history marked by a burst of creativity within the African American community in the areas of art, music and literature

Question 33

Prohibition

Answer 33

prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Question 34

Great Migration

Answer 34

one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.

Question 35

Resistance to the Great Migration & Increased Violence Against African Americans:

Answer 35

-Red Summer
-KKK
-Tulsa Massacre

Question 36

Red Summer

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Soldiers were coming back home from war and more immigrants moving up north caused racial violence. Eugene Williams was swimming in the white side so they killed him. This cause riots and the National Guard had to interfere.

Question 37

Tulsa Massacre

Answer 37

May 31 - June 1 of 1921
Mobs of white residents, some of whom had been armed by city officials, attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses in the Greenwood district (Black Wall Street) in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Question 38

Women’s rights and suffrage (1920s)

Answer 38

19th Amendment

Question 39

19th Amendment

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granted women the right to vote

Question 40

Underlying Causes of the Great Depression

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-stock market crash on 1929
-Protective tariffs= tariffs where to high witch made the European powers stop trading with US
-Wealth Gap increased
-Consumer Spending, people buy installment plans but could not pay witch puts them in debt

Question 41

Stock Market Crash

Answer 41

Black Tuesday

Question 42

Black Tuesday

Answer 42

Black Tuesday was Oct. 29, 1929, and it was marked by a sharp fall in the stock market,

Question 43

Bank Closures

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20% banks closed, bank frailer caused money supply to decrease by 30%

Question 44

Social & Economic Hardships of great depression

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-Unemployment (25% unemployed year 1933)
-Homelessness and Hoovervilles
-Dust Bowl
-Bonus Army

Question 45

Hoover’s Response to Great Depression

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Believed in “Rugged Individualism” - people should take care of themselves, government doesn’t need to help
“Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps”

Question 46

Continued Discrimination during great depression

Answer 46

-Mexican Repatriation
-Discrimination against African Americans

Question 47

Mexican Repatriation

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Mexican population being forced to go to Mexico

Question 48

Discrimination against African Americansun great depression

Answer 48

approximately half of African Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, whites called for African Americans to be fired from any jobs as long as there were whites out of work. Racial violence again became more common, especially in the South.

Question 49

FDR Response

Answer 49

-New Deal
-Relief, Reform, Recovery

Question 50

Relief

Answer 50

Help for people out of work

Question 51

Reform

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Helping businesses and the economy as a whole

Question 52

Recovery

Answer 52

Prevent disaster from reoccurring