SAT II Prep: 4 Flashcards
1851 conference btwn U.S. and Native Americans
tribes agreed not to migrate freely throughout the Plains anymore.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Slave cannot gain freedom by moving to free state/territory, slaves=property, Founding Fathers did not intend for slaves to become citizens, Missouri Compromise violated 5th Amendment
Vanzetti and Sacco
convicted of murder
GI Bill of Rights
veterans can attend college
freedom of press in a republic
example: disclosure of high crimes committed by Nixon administration
“gag rule”, 1837
established by Democrats
Confederacy in the Civil War
hoped for a military alliance with Britain and France due to the Union having a larger industrial base than that of the Confederacy
Phyllis Schlafly
critic of the ERA, saying that it gave too much freedom to women that would result in unwanted consequences: i.e. a mandatory draft
Comstock Lode
discovered 1857 in present-day Nevada
George Rogers Clark in the Revolution
captured forts Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes.
Anasazis
lived in houses of rock and adobe
Pierce
incumbent president during the Gadsgen Purchase
Civilian Conservation Corps
created to reform business and guard against another stock market crash
Revolutionary War
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”
Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas
posted National Guard at Little Rock high school, closed Little Rock public schools for one school year, established private all-white schools in Little Rock, spoke out against forced integration of Arkansas schools. “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
Korean War
“Our diplomats and their advisers…lost sight of our tremendous stake in a non-Communist China….This House must now assume the responsibility of preventing the onrushing tide of communism from engulfing all of Asia
American Colonization Society
help free African Americans resettle in northwestern Africa
American Indian movement, 1970s
recovered thousands of acres of ancestral tribal lands in Maine and New Mexico
National Recovery Act in 1933
stabilize prices, create jobs through public-works projects, industries become self-regulating, raise wages
Progressivism
“Who pays the big election expenses of your congressman?…Do you imagine those who foot those huge bills are fools? Don’t you know that they make sure of getting their money back, with interest?”
Articles of Confederation
gave federal gov’t no control over revenue from the states
Edith Wharton
wrote about conspicuous consumption
Lyndon B. Johnson
integrated armed forces
strike at Carnegie Steel Company (Homestead, PA, 1892)
management locked workers out of the plant before replacing them with new workers and hiring guards to protect the plant
