Civil RightAct of 1964

1. Who proposed the civil Rights Act of 1964, and why was it proposed?
- John F. Kennedy, to end segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.

2.Which groups were affected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
- They also enforced strict segregation through "Jim Crow" laws and condoned violence from white supremacist groups like the KKK.

3. What did the Civil Rights Act do for the United States?
- The Civil Rights helped all races have equal employment segregation on the grounds of race, religion, or national origin was banned. 


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Pop culture 1950's

1. What media exploded in the 50's, and how business respond to this explotion?
- Television exploded in the 50's and business exploded to thi explotion by creating t.v. dinners

2. Why did critics not like television?
- Critics were objected to its effected on children and its stereotypical portrayal of women an minorities.

3. Whats so ironic about rock & roll music in the 1950's?
- It was made by African - Americans and it was consumed by whites.


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The American Dream 1950's

1. What were some causes for the baby boom?
- Some of the causes for the baby boom were dvances in medicine the population of marriage age were decreasing and the husbands and wives ahd a reunion after the war.

2. What did Americans have to do in order to support all the new babies being born?
- Americans ha to make some stuff that some baby needs such as, diapers, education, and toys.

3. How did roles of women change in the 1950's?
- become educated and they became glorified.

4. What changes allowed the Americans car explotion to occur?
- There as a lot of gasoline and it was very cheap. People could buy cars with credits.


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Truman's Labor Policies

1. What were some of the significant challenges Pres. Truman faced after WWII?
The fact that soldiersdidnt want to exprience rationing anymore.

2. How did Trumantry to help returning G.I.'s get jobs after WWII, and how effective was he?
- Truman helped the returning G.I.'s after WWII by providing them with guranteed minimum wage, housing aid an benefits. In my opinion it was beneficial for many people.


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The American Teenager- 1950's

1. How did the lives of teenagers change afer TGD and WWII? Explain
- The lives of teenagers changed because they started going to school and stopped working.

2. What is "White Flight?" was it good for society?
- White Flight is when middle-class white Americans left the cities for the suburbs, and the poor migrated to the inner citties.

3. Why did many Mexicans immigrate to the U.S. before the 1950's?
- To help their Agriculture Industry.


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Postwar America 1950's

1. What was the U.S. economy like during WWII? How were Americans doing?
- it was better thn the great depression
2. How did the American economy transform after The Great Depression and WWII?
-They changed from factory workersto proffesional workers
3.Why would a company like Google not do well in the 50's?
- because people were not creative thinkers.



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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

1. Why do you think father was so secretive about why the family moved?
- I think their father was so secretive because he didn't want his own family to think he was a bad person and think of him as a different person than what he made himself to be.

2. What was Bruno taught about Jews?
- Bruno was taught that Jews were evil people.

3. Why was this event significant to Bruno's mother's thinking of Jewish people?
- The event was significant because she realizd that jews weren't there to harm anybody and that they were helpful people too.

4. Bruno's father evolved and transformed from a loving father to what?
- Bruno's father evolved from a loving father to  horrible person, because he was too busy doing his job and not much time spent with his son.

5. What kind of boy was he at first, and what did he transform to?
- Bruno was a naive boy who was scared to say that he other little boy was his friend and changed into being a sincere boy who apologized for his behavior and decided to make it up.

6. Describe your feelings about Bruno's actions.
- In my opinion Bruno was a  nice boy who just wanted a friend to hang out with, and once he finally did they became a little too close that he ended up doing something he shouldn't have, but through it all he was a caring friend.


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Post WWII America

1. Why were Americans afraid of the Soviet Union?
- Because the Soviet Union had dominant power.

2. What did the Russians want in Europe?
- They wanted to enforce communism in all countries

3. What did the Amercians want in Europe?
- They wanted to create new world in order, in which all nations had the right of self-determination


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Japanese Interment and Justice

1. What does the word "Interment" mean?
- Interment means to be imprisoned.

2. Why were Japanese-Americans interned in Manzanar?
- Because of the Pearl Harbor Bomb

3. Why were Japanese interment policies wrong?
- Japanese people lost their jobs, houses, and whatever else they had at the moment.


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The End Of WWII

1.Was Gen.MacArthur a successful general? Explain with Evidence
- He was successful because he won many battles that include, "...the Islands of Bataan, Leyte, and Iwo Jima.

2. Explain how successful the G.I. Bill was to returning soldiers
- It provided education and training for veterans paid by the federal government and gave soldiers a free college education, it also had federal loan guarantees for veterans in buying homes, farms, or people who start new businesses.

3. Why were Mexicans in L.A. unfairly treated after the war?
- Mexicans were treated unfairly after after the war, because 11 sailors in L.A. reported that they had been attacked by zoo-suit wearing Mexican Americans. Zoo-suit is a man's suit of an exaggerated style.


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WWII in The Pacific

1. Who promised to "return" to liberate the Philipinnes?
- General Douglas MacArthur promised to return and Liberate Philippines. He says " I shall Return."

2. What reasons did the POTUS use for using atomic bombs?
- To save lives and avoid invasion and to liberate the Philippines

3. In 1942, why were the Allies under-strength to fight Japan?
-They were prepared and undemand and handicapped by the rain.

4. Were American submarines effective in the Pacific? Explain
-They sunk 63 of them merchant ships, a third of there ships.


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WWII Across the Atlanic Ocean

1. Who was the Supreme Commander in Europe, and was he successful?
- General Dwight David Eisonhower, he forced the Nazis to surrender.
2. What was significant of "D-Day?"
- D-Day was significant because they had to remove Hitler with force in Europe, France because he was a threat. So the Allies had to invade.
3. Was General Patton an effective leader?
- He achieved his goal by liberating Paris
4. Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?
-It was Hitler's last chance to win the war and it was not successful, he had lost a lot of troops,tanks,guns, and planes.


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Coping with The War at Home

1. What was the OPA, and what was their job?
- Office Of Scientific Research and Development their job was to bring scientists into war.

2. What was the purpose of  OSRD?
- The purpose of OSRD was to fight but to develope new weapons.

3. In what ways did Americans sacrifice during WWII?
They would not buy what they wanted and they knew that sacrificing would help them in the long run.

4. How similar or different were your sacrifices during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?
The difference was that they knew what they were fighting for in WWII, the only people that sacrificed were those in the military.


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U.S. Gets Ready for the Fight

1. Who was Philip Randolph and why did he and president Roosevelt meet?
- Philip Randolph was an African-American labor leader, they met because African-Americans were not treated well and President Randolph wanted to call off the March. They settled an agreement together and in the end workers were able to have equal participation without discrimination because of race, creed, color, and national origin.

2. Who were the the WAAC's and why were they important to the war effort?
- The WAAC's were Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, they were women soldiers who were important because they did essential work for example: Radio operators, nurses, ambulance drivers, etc;

3. How well did African-Americans do during WWII?
- African-Americans were treated bad because of discrimination. They had to live in restricted segregated nighborhoods.


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World War II (Part 2)

1. List all the countries the Nazi's invaded
- 1.Austria, 2. Czechoslovakia, 3.Poland, 4.Yugoslavia, 5. Bulgaria, 6. Greece, 7. Romania, 8. Hungary, 9. Lithiuania, 10. Latvia, 11. Estonia, 12. Finland, Norway, 14. France, 15. Denmark, 16. the Netherlands (hollands), 17. Belgium, and the 18. Soviet Union
2. What was Munich agreement, and what was Churchill's opinion of it?
- It turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired. Churchill's opinion about it was that                         
3. What is Blitzkrieg, and what was the purpose?

World War II Key Terms

1. Allies- U.S., England, Soviet Union
2. Axis- German, Japan, Italy
3. Defense Spending- Amount of money governments spends on the military.
4. Unemployment rate- percentage of peopole unemployed
5. Federal Outlay- Amount of money the federal government uses to buy stuff
6. Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic- German boats
7. German U-boats- German submarines
8. Isolationists- Policy of "mind your own business."
9. Appease- To give in to demands
10. Lend-lease Act- law that allowed POTUS to sell weapons to our friends.
11. Office of Price Administrations

"The Help' and the struggle for African American Equality

In the movie "The Help," African- American maids told their stories to a writer of a book because they wanted to let the world know how they were being treated.

"The Help is a 2011 American drama film adaption of the novel of the same name (2009) by Kathryn Stockett, adapted for the screen and directed by Tate Taylor. " (http://goo.gl/7otE8)

In one incident, African-Americans were forced to use a seperate bathroom than the whites

Reflection Document

 2.Which was not a cause of the Great Depression?
- C. foreign demand for U.S. farm products

3. Which was not a cause of the Dust Bowl?
- C. thick layers of praire grasses

4. Who made up the Bonu Army that marched on Washington?
- D. business and labor leaders who agreed to work together

8. In calling shantytowns "Hooverville," people conveyed their
- C. disgust with Hoover.

9. During the Great Depression, the overall unemployment rate was about
- C. 25 percent.

16. ___ claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program called
- A. Huey-long

I got all these wrong for many reasons but the main reason was because I did not study sufficiently. Next time i'll rememeber to study and put some more effort to it. I also bubbled in answers and erased it after so now what I should do is go with my first gut.

TGD- How TND affected peoples of color pt. 1

1. Why did Pedro Gonzalez become a Mexican- American hero?
   - Pedro Gonzalez became a Mexican- American hero by using his radio program to let people know the discrimination against Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
2. Why was Frances Perkins a hero for women?
   - Frances Perkins became a hero for women because she was the first woman to be appointed
a cabinet member.
3. What was the "black cabinet," and who was the leader?
Black Cabinet was a group of influential African Americans to advise FDR who helped him solve solutions on racial issues.

TGD- Programs of the New Deal

Essential Questions:

1. What was THE major difference between Hoover snd Roosevelt?
    - Roosevelt, seem to care more about people and attempted to try something while Hoover said they couldn't do anything.

2. Which New Deal program was most responsible for creating the most jobs and how did the program achieve this?
   - The program The New Deal achieve was the WPA, it created many jobs
3. What impact did the Social Security Act have on Americans?
4. W hy was Huey Long against TND?

TGD - FDR & The Deal

Essential Questions:
1. Who was FDR?
    - Franklin D. Roosevelt

2.Who were FDR's carefully-picked advisers, and why were they important to the president?
    - Brain Trust: Professors
3. What was The New Deal?
4. What three goals did The New Deal attempt to address?
5. What was the first action FDR took as president?

The Great Depression - President Hoover's Handling of the crisis

The Great Depression- Hardships & Suffering

the Great Depression- BAM!

Life changed in the 1920's - People, places, and events

Life in the 1920's- Prohibition

Essential Questions:
1.) What was the prohibition?
-The banning of Alcohol
2.) What groups were responsible for the idea of prohibition?
- Social reforms, cultural people, and Southern & Western people
3.)

New technology & the 1920's

1. How did the automobile affect America?
   - it changed in significant ways. They started building roads, homes with garages, motels, and gasoline stations. This provided more businesses

2.What's urban spraw, and hwat caused it?
   - Urban sprawl allowed workers to live far away from their jobs. Automobiles caused sprawl.

3.What was the first use of airplanes NOT during war?
   - The first use of airplanes was for mail carrying.

4. Predict what's goin to happen to the American economy.
   - I think the economy is going to go bad because of higher gasoline prices.


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The U.S. After WWI

1. What was the quota system? (e.i. The quota system was a law that...)
    - The quota system was a law that established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country.

2. Was the quota system discriminatory? If yes, to whom?
    - Yes, the quota system was discriminatory to people from the Eastern and Southern Europe, but mostly the Catholics and Jews.

3. How was Mexico affected by the quota system?
    - Mexico was affected by the quota system because about 500,000 of them crossed the Nation's border.

4. How was Japan affected by the quota system?
    - Japan was affected by the quota system because the law prohibited Japanese immigration which had caused anger over these the two nations.


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The U.S. After WWI

Essential Questions:
1. Describe the feeling many Americans had after WWI
  - They felt horrible, it was harder to live because they had more work, others lost their jobs, and they were also exhausted with war.

2. What were some reactions by Americans to their past-WWI feelings?
  - They became fearful of outsiders and became nativist and isolationists.

3. What did Palmer raids accomplish?
  - Palmer did the raids because he wanted to go after the poilitical radicals which were suspected communists, socialists, and anarchies. & The Palmer raids accomplished trampling peoples civil rights.

4. What did the KKK fear? Did their membership grow in the 1920's
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Progressive Exam Reflection

What was correct answer; reason(s) for why you responded incorrectly
 1.Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to
    -C. Keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so
* I got this one wrong because I got stuck between two answers

2. Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all of the following except
    -C. Airplanes
*I got this one wrong because i did not pay close attention to the answer nor the question

3. Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
    -C. the elevator and a steel framework
* I got this one wrong because i did not read the answers carefully

6. All of the following were trends in the education around 1900s except
    -D. most African-americans attending high school
* I did not know this answer

11. Muckrakers were
    -D. Journalists
* i did not know this answer

19. Based on the map, you could infer that Ohio was___than Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.
    -B. less progressive
* I was being too quick

What did you learn about yourself as a test taker, and what's one strategy you can begin using to improve your test results?
One strategy I need to use more often is to be more careful, and slow down maybe if I do that my test scores will improve an little more than the usual.

Treatment of Peoples of Color

How did Mexicans earn a living in the late 1800's, and where did they do this work?
-Mexicans were hired to construct rail lines and needed for mining and the agriculture in the Southwest.
Describe African-American life in the 1800's (where did they move to, what was their experience, etc?)
-Mexicans and African- Americans in the Southwest, where forced into debt peonage which was a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.


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Recreation in the United States

When and why did Americans begin to recreate?
where the reasons Americans began to recreate the same or different compared to Americans today?

Teddy's Roosevelt's Presidency

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1. Describe T.R.'s life before he became president (where he was from, date he was born, something interesting about his life)
- T.R. was born on October 27, 1858, New York City, hes had asthma since he was a child.

2. How did he become president?
   - He became president because he was elected Vice President in the 1900 election. Then the president McKinley was shot so they had another presidential election in 1904 and T.R. won the presidency

3. What was T.R.'s "Bully Pulpit?"
   - "bully" ment good. It provided him an outstanding way of saying his ideas.

4. Summarize T.R.'s opinion on civil rights
   - T.R.'s opinion on civil rights was based on the idea of being seperate but equal

5. Explain if you would like T.R.if he were president today.
   - I would hate it if T.R. was our president because every white person would have better chances in life and racism would still be a big part of today.

Booker T Washington

1. What was the name of the school that Booker T. Washington started? *

1. Tuskegee Institute
2. Hampton Normal School
3. Howard University
4. None of the above.

2. Whom did Booker T. Washington recruit to head the agriculture department at Tuskegee Institute? *

• Frederick Douglass
• George Washington Carver
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• None of the above.

3. Booker T. Washington's autobiography is entitled: *

• My Life.
• The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington.
• Up From Slavery.
• None of the above.

4. What president did Booker T. Washington dine with? *

• Woodrow Wilson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Teddy Roosevelt

5. With whom did Booker T. Washington often come into conflict? *

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• George Washington Carver
• Frederick Douglass
• None of the above.

African-Americas after Reconstruction

• New voting restrictions
• Denied legal equality to African Americans
• limited votes for people who could read, and required registration of a literacy test
• Blacks were asked more difficult questions than whites
• poll tax was another requirement
• they also added the grandfather clause

 Essential Questions:
a. How is racism today different than racism practiced immediately after reconstruction?
  - It is different because before they would tell the people to their face whatever they had in mind and nowadays most people keep everything a secret and dont really say what is on their mind if that person is a racist.
b. an example of today is also the voting rights people had to fight for to get to where we are today.

 
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Mid-Term Exam Reflection

I learned that I have to slow down on confusing questions, that way I can get a better understanding of what is being asked. Also, I honestly should have studied a little more to get more of them correct because most of the ones I had gotten wrong are the ones we studied at the end of the first semester. Now I know what I have to work on the most.  score:20/25

China and WW1

1. Which country's interest did the Open Door Policy in China favor?
    The United States

 2. What were the reasons behind the Boxer Rebellion?
    Imperialsit countries came to china and settled down in china, the boxers got upset so they began to push back and rebel. They did not want to see foreigners and split there own land.

 3. List three causes of World War I?
    Nationalism, imperialism, militarism

 4. How did the U.S. deal with German U-boats?
     They had American ships sail in groups

 5. What was the Selective Service Act used for? 
     To register men so they could be drafted

 6. What new weapons did WWI introduce?
     The tank and the airplane

7. How did the Espionage and Sedition Act affect Freedom of Speech and Labor Unions?
      prevented people from doing and saying what they want.

 8. Why was there opposition to President Wilson's League of Nations?
     they felt that the league of nations would push the u.s. into another war

American Imperialism after Spanish-American War

a.  How did the U.S. change Cuba's Constitution?
       Platt Amendment, stating that:

• Cuba could not make treaties that might limit its independence or permit a foreign power to control any part of its territory
• the United States reserved the right to intervene in Cuba
• Cuba was not to go into debt
• the United States could buy or lease land on the island for naval stations and refueling stations

b. What did the Roosevelt Corollary build on?   They built on the Monroe Doctrine

c. Pancho Villa was pursued by whom?   John J. Pershing pursued Pancho Villa.

d. How did the U.S. get the land for the panama Canal?    The united states asked panama to buy Columbia.

e. What is ment by "speak softlyand carry a big stick"?     That negotiations will be back by military force

Spanish-American War

a. Why did Jose Martini destroy U.S. property? To get the american people angry so they can fight cuba
b. Who did the de LOme letter criticize? What were the consequences? How did this private letter become public in the first place
c. Who was the "winner" of the spanish-American War, and what were the winning? the philipines was sold to the united states for 20$ million
d. How was the spanish-American War connected with American Imperialism? they both wanted to take over land
e. How was the war started? Was it proper? Yellow Journalism, it was not the proper thing to do

Education has Changed. A little or A lot?

Essential Question: What examples from your years as a student are different from a student's from the early 1900's? What's still the same?

Unit Exam Study Guide

IMMIGRATION

• New immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs. Cities
• What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.? Chinese Exclusion Act
• Immigrants in the 1870's arrived by.. Steamships for transportation
• The main purpose of Americanization movement was to.. Assimilate immigrants into the dominant 'American culture'
• The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was named...Angel Island

INDUSTRIALIZATION

• The smaller men in the room are.. United State Senators
• This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscrapers and new forms of contructions? Steel
• What would best reduce monopolies and trusts? consolidation, competition, or corruption
• These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money. Scabs
• The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors, T or F? False

FACTORIES AND PEOPLE WORKING THERE

• Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was responsible for this law. The Meat Inspection Act
• Settlement Houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers? Social reformers
• An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a... Tenement
• What technology most allowed people to work away from... Electricity
• Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry? Meatpacking industry, meat, slaughterhouse

HODGE PODGE

• The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
• Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones: telegraph, railroad (to help train travelers), construction
• Tammary Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
• Patronage is: A bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
• Many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called? Social Darwinism

LEADERS AND VILLAINS

• The Gentlemen's agreement did what? decreased Japanese immigration and/or desegregated SF classrooms
• Industrial workers of the world (IWW) was organized by...Radical unionist, socialists
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what? A shameful fire that killed 146 women
• The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what? Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition
• The industrialist made vertical and horizontal integration famous. Andrew Carnegie

Coming to the United States 1870's

1. How much time was the trip from Europe and Asia, how would YOU have liked it?
The time it took for both Europe and Asia to get to United States was a long while it took many hours specially since the ships back then were very slow and being on a ship for a long time must have been difficult to be in. I don't think I would have liked it at all, If I don't like riding on boats now I sure wouldn't like to be in them in 1870's
2. What are the names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York? Describe the immigrant's experience at each .
The names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York were
San Francisco:
3. How did Denis Kearney try to stop Asian people from entering California in 1822? Why did he do this, and how would you feel if you were Chinese?
4. In 1907-08 the Gentlemen's Agreement did two things. What were they?

The Meat Inspection Act

Messy
Eat
Act
Theodore R.

Inspection
Nasty
Sinclair
Piles
Eradicated
Conditions
The Jungle
Impossible
Out
NAACP

Ate
Consumption
Tuberculosis

- This is basically talking about how the Meat Inspection was made because of Sinclair's letter sent to Theodore Roosevelt. Sinclair's letter mentioned how the meat was bad because of the germs that had been on it and also how bad they took care of the meat that was also sent out.