STAAR Vocab/People/Events Look these all up and leave more space to add later (make note cards) Jane Addams Susan B. Anthony Vernon Baker Roy Benavidez The Black Panthers Omar Bradley William Jennings Bryan Andrew Carnegie Charles Carroll César Chavez Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Glenn Curtiss Clarence Darrow Alexis de Tocqueville Sanford Dole WEB DuBois Dwight Eisenhower Orval Faubus The Flying Tigers Henry Ford Betty Friedan Hector P. Garcia Marcus Garvey Bill Gates Barry Goldwater Billy Graham John Hancock Warren Harding Dolores Huerta John Jay Robert Johnson John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King, Jr. Estee Lauder Charles A. Lindbergh Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. Douglas MacArthur Lester Maddox Alfred Thayer Mahan George Marshall Thurgood Marshall Joseph McCarthy John Peter Muhlenberg Navajo Code Talkers Richard Nixon Chester Nimitz Barack Obama Sandra Day O’Connor Rosa Parks George Patton General John J. Pershing Ronald Reagan Theodore Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Benjamin Rush Phyllis Schlafly Upton Sinclair Lionel Sosa Sonia Sotomayor Harry Truman Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. The Tuskegee Airmen George Wallace Sam Walton Ida B. Wells Frances Willard Oprah Winfrey John Witherspoon Alvin York Era/Years Please know key Vocab/events/people Westward Expansion & The Gilded Age (Late 1800s) Progressive Era (1890‐1920) Rise to World Power (1898‐ 1918) and World War I (1914‐1918) The Roaring Twenties (1920‐1929) Great Depression (1929‐1941) World War II (1939‐1945) The Cold War (1950s‐1991) The Civil Rights Movement (1950s‐1960s) and 1950s‐1960s 1970‐1990 1990 – Present Government: What it does and how it acts Popular Sovereignty Republicanism Federalism Separation of Powers Checks and Balances Limited Government Individual Rights War/Conflict: Know how, when, where, why, home front reaction Spanish American War, 1898 World War I, 1914‐1918 (US entered in 1917) World War II, 1939‐1945 (US entered in 1941) The Cold War, 1950s ‐1991 The Korean War, 1950‐1953 The Vietnam War, 1954‐1973 The Gulf War, 1990 Somalia Balkan Crisis (Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia) 9/11 and the War on Terror, 2001 – Present Items/Amendment s and Court Cases 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments – the Reconstruction Amendments Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 17th Amendment, 1913 Progressive Era Reforms – Initiative, Referendum, and Recall, early 1900s 19th Amendment, 1920 American Indian Citizenship Act, 1924 Mendez v. Westminster, 1946 Desegregation of the armed forces, 1948 Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, 1948 Sweatt v. Painter, 1950 Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 Hernandez v. Texas, 1954 Civil Rights Act, 1957 Civil Rights Act, 1964 24th Amendment, 1964 Voting Rights Act, 1965 Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969 26th Amendment, 1971 Wisconsin v. Yoder, 1972 White v. Regester, 1973 Edgewood ISD v. Kirby, 1993 Organizations “Political Machines” in the late 1800s example Boss Tweed Labor Unions (Why did they form), Events surrounding unions such as Haymarket Square riot, Pullman Strike and union leaders Third Parties, especially the Populist and Progressive Parties of the late 1800s and early 1900s House Un‐American Activities Committee (HUAC), 1940s‐1970s Anti‐War Movement, 1960s Civil Rights Organizations, 1950s‐1960s Groups who sought to maintain status quo during Civil Rights in the 1960s Conservative Organizations of the 1980s Policies & Effects/impacts Free Enterprise System Indian Policies of the late 1800s such as Dawes Act, Boarding Schools, Destruction of Buffalo, Major Battles Expansionism / Imperialism, late 1800s, When, Where and Why Isolationism, early 1900s Prohibition The New Deal, 1930s why it happened, what actions did Hoover take? What actions did FDR take? = New Deal agencies, 100 days, Court Packing, Fireside chats, Plus negative reactions to New Deal Executive Order 9066 and the internment of Japanese Americans 1940s Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan, 1947 Johnson’s Great Society, 1960s What was it, What Laws were passed and so on… Containment of Communism, 1950s‐1970s Reagan’s Policies, 1980s Economic Developments & Government Actions for ERA’s Interstate Commerce Act Anti‐Trust Acts Pure Food & Drug Act Warren Harding’s Policies New Production techniques 1920’s‐till now High Tariffs cause problems Expansion of U.S. during the 1930 Rationing Baby Boom The G.I. Bill The Cold War and military spending The Space Race GATT NAFTA The Panama Canal OPEC The Dust Bowl Levee Failure in Louisiana Hurricane Katrina The Homestead Act of 1862 The Great Migration The Harlem Renaissance Westward Expansion Rural to Urban Rust belt to Sun Belt Immigration Policies/Actions/effect such as Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentleman’s Agreement, Emergency Quota Act, Palmer Raids, Red Scare, Nativism and city conditions during heavy immigration Cultural Movements The Ghost dance Tin Pan Alley Harlem Renaissance Beat Generation Flappers Hippies Rock & Roll Chicano Mural Movement New Conservatives The U.S. role with the following United Nations League of Nations: what controversies were attached to this? Science & Technology: What effect did it have on American Society? The Manhattan Project The effect of trains, planes and automobiles on American society Telephone & Satelite The Computer & the information age : What effect on society? Electricity Petroleum based products Steel Production and the discovery of The Bessemer Process Space travel, research and discovery Know your ERA’s and what makes them an ERA Look at a Globe and get familiar with what you have learned in Geography: Continents and where things are in general. Know Your Presidents and what they did or happened during their time, there are some things below, know more and you should be well on your way Hayes 1877 Garfield 1881 (Why was he assassinated) Cleveland (two nonconsecutive not back to back terms) 1885‐89 1893‐97 Harrison 1889‐93 McKinley 1897‐1901 (assassinated) T.R. 1901‐1909 (The Trust Buster, The Bull Moose, Progressive Era) Taft 1909‐13 (Progressive Era) Wilson 1913‐21 (WWI, 14 Points & League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Last Progressive President) Harding 1921‐23 (Died in Office of a heart attack Scandals were also in his presidency) Coolidge (Keep it Cool Coolidge, pro‐business) 1923‐29 Hoover (Why too little too late?) F.D.R. (Know what he did during the Great Depression & WWII) Elected to office 4 times Truman 1945‐1953 (Which wars was he involved in and know his post war policies) Eisenhower 1953‐1961 (The Space Race, Civil Rights) Kennedy 1961‐1963 (The Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Peace Corp, Civil rights Assassinated in Dallas, Warren Commission) LBJ 1963‐1969 (Great Society, Civil Rights, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Progression of Vietnam War) Nixon 1969‐1974 (Watergate, Vietnamization, Détente, Impeachment & Resignation) Ford 1974‐1977 (Pardon, Recession, very end of Vietnam War) Carter 1977‐1981 (Camp David agreement of 1978, SALT II, Iranian Hostage Crisis) Reagan 1981‐89 (Reaganomics, Perestroika, Glasnost, Star Wars, The fall of Communism, Oliver North) George H Bush 89‐93 (Desert Storm) Clinton 1993‐2001 (Bosnia, Somalia, Internet, Impeachment) George W Bush (911, Iraq War, Afghanistan)