History 12 Study Guide Questions
1. What were the Black Codes? How did they affect African-Americans?
2. What was President Andrew Johnson's policy toward the status of African
American?
3. The Radical Republicans attempted to ensure civil rights for African Americans
by adopting?
4. What did the 13th Amendment do?
5. What did the 14th Amendment do?
6. What did the 15th Amendment do?
7. How did the southern states get around the 15th amendment?
8. What did the literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses do to the AfricanAmerican community?
9. What does "Jim Crow" refers to?
10. How did most Plains Indians live in the mid-nineteenth century?
11. What was the effect of the 1887 Dawes Act on Native Americans?
12. In the West, which immigrant group bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s
and 1880s? Which immigrant group made up a significant number of the railroad
workers that built the Transcontinental Railroad?
13. Who was Booker T. Washington? Who was William E.B. Dubois?
14. Which African American spokesman urged his people to focus on selfdevelopment through vocational and agricultural education?
15. How did the case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court affect non-whites?
16. What did this case sanction? What was that doctrine called?
17. Who was the African American intellectual who was involved in establishing the
NAACP in 1909?
18. What did the most of the "new immigrants" in the United States between 1890
and 1920 come from?
19. What was the 1924 Immigration Law? Which regions were severely affected by
this national quota system? How did it affect immigrants from southern and
eastern Europe?
20. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
21. Who was Marcus Garvey? What did he urged African Americans to do?
22. What was the outcome of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti?
23. What was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934? What did it accomplish?
24. What happened to Japanese-Americans during World War II? Why?
25. What were the Zoot Suit Riots? Who did it involve?
26. Who was Jackie Robinson? How did his story affect baseball?
27. What was the Brown v. Board of Education case? What is the significance of this
case?
28. What were the bus boycotts? What were the lunch counter sit-ins? What were the
"freedom rides"? What did all of these attempt to promote?
29. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
30. What was the 1963 March on Washington about?
31. Who was Rosa Parks? What did she do?
32. Who was Thurgood Marshall? Which legal cases was he involved in?
33. After World War II, in which regions of the country do we see suburban growth?
34. Which state became a symbol of the postwar suburban boom?
35. What was the term used to describe developing countries that refused to align
with either the U.S. or the communist world?
36. Who were the Beats?
37. What was result of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
38. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? How was this resolved?
39. What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do? What did this act fail to do?
40. What did the 1965 Voting Rights Act do?
41. What was the Immigration Act of 1965? How did it change the immigration
policy?
42. Who was Malcolm X? What was Black Power?
43. What was the counterculture of the 1960s?
44. What was Cesar Chavez? What is he known for?
45. What is the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
46. What did the 1972 Title IX do?
47. What was the Iran-Contra affair? What happened to Regan’s image?
48. Ronald Reagan’s economic policy focused on what?
49. What was Nixon’s view of Affirmative Action?
50. Why did Iran take over the U.S. embassy? How did this affected President Carter
reelection?
51. What was the centerpiece of Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy?
52. What is the economic condition known as stagflation?
53. When does the Vietnam War end? What is the significance of this war in U.S.
history?
54. In 1972 President Nixon opened diplomatic relations with which communist
country?
55. What is Globalization?
56. When did the Soviet Union dissolve? Why?
57. What is the New World Order? When did this term become popular?
58. referred to by President George H. W. Bush:
59. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, where did George H. W. Bush send
troops to?
60. What is NAFTA? What did it do?
61. What is the Glass-Steagall Act? When was it enacted? When was it removed?
What were the consequences?
62. Which group became the largest minority groups in the United States in the 21st
century?
63. Who decided the 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore?
What was the controversy surrounding this election?
64. In response to the terrorist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City on
September 11, 2001, President Bush declared what?
65. What made Barack Obama’s presidential campaign “the first political campaign
of the twenty-first century”?