US History Key Concepts- PART 2

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Bing Crosby

They used to tell me I was building a dream

And so I followed the mob

When there was earth to plow or guns to bear

I was always there right on the job

They used to tell me I was building a dream

With peace and glory ahead

Why should I be standing in line

Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run

Made it race against time

Once I built a railroad, now it's done

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower up to the sun

Brick and rivet and lime

Once I built a tower, now it's done

Brother, can you spare a dime?

THESE LYRICS ARE MOST LIKELY REFERRING TO WHICH TIME PERIOD?

• Reconstruction

• WWI

• Great Depression

• Cold War

Which of the following statements is supported by the graph?

• Immigration from Europe dropped significantly around the turn of the 20th century

• Immigration from Northern Europe grew at a steady pace after 1890

• Southeastern Europeans poured into America after 1895 to work in mines and factories

• European immigrants were greatly outnumbered by Asian immigrants in the 19th century

Why was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial where two ANARCHISTS were convicted and executed for murder so controversial in 1921?

• Many believed that the two African American did not receive a fair trial in the Jim Crow South.

• Many believed that the two Italian immigrants did not receive a fair trial due to anti-immigrant and anti-radical ideals of the era.

• The trial received national attention because it represented the debate between the belief in creation vs. evolution. (Darwinism)

• The trial received national attention because it was the first time that the Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of Prohibition

{POPULIST PARTY PLATFORMS}

* ELIMINATION OF THE TARIFF

* ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INCOME TAX

* DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS

* _________________________________

WHich of the following goals would best complete the list?

• Woman's suffrage

• limits on immigration

• Prohibition

• Civil Rights for minorities

PROTEST & ACTIONS TO END SEGREGATION

* 1963 March on Washington

* Woolworth's Sit-Ins

* Letter from Birmingham Jail

* ____________________________

WHICH OF THESE BEST COMPLETES THE LIST?

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Southern Manifesto

• Founding the Hull House

“Since the Southern states never legally left the Union, they should be restored to the Union as soon as possible.”

The position expressed in this statement is most closely associated with the beliefs of

• Robert E. Lee

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Publication of The Liberator

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott decision

The events listed above all contributed to...

• outbreak of the Civil War

• formation of the policy of Manifest Destiny

• passage of the Missouri Compromise

• annexation of Texas

… In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.”

President Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

President Lincoln made this statement in an effort to

• urge Congress to spend money to buy the freedom of slaves

• convince Southerners that he posed no threat to their way of life

• offer to compromise his position regarding territorial expansion of slavery

• persuade Americans that war between the North and South was unavoidable

When President Lincoln made this speech,(see quote in Quest. 9) which step toward civil war had already taken place?

• Several Southern states had seceded from the Union

• General Robert E. Lee had led an attack on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Union troops had invaded several Southern states

• The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) had been issued

One way that “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events

• ended conflict over slavery in the territories

• eased tensions between the North and the South

• contributed to the formation of the Whig Party

• made sectional compromise more difficult