2022 US History STAAR Review Prep
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Spoils System - ✔✔the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and
supporters of the group in power: IMPACT : Civil Service Exams - Me
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2022 US History STAAR Review Prep
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Spoils System - ✔✔the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and
supporters of the group in power: IMPACT : Civil Service Exams - Merit System established for Civil
service employees
John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil - ✔✔Amazingly wealthy PHILANTHROPIST and founder of the
Standard OIL Company, which formed a monopoly on the oil market through horizontal and vertical
integration and LIMITED COMPETITION among other entrepreneurs
American Dream - ✔✔The widespread belief that the United States is a land of OPPORTUNITIES and that
individual initiative and hard work (JOBS)= economic success.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - ✔✔placed a ban on all new immigrants from China B/C loss of Jobs:
IMPACT - Increased Nativism & Anti- Immigrant Attitudes
Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US
helped complete the SETTLEMENT of the WEST
Dawes Act of 1887 - ✔✔Sought to "Americanize" Native Americans. and ASSIMILATE them into US
culture - Put Indian children into schools
Bessemer Steel Process - ✔✔A new way to create steel that led to mass production of steel IMPACT:
Building of Skyscrapers
Child Labor Act - ✔✔prohibited the shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by
children under 14 years old due to the Progressive Movement
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 - ✔✔1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or
adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of
drugs Still in existence as the FDA.- due to Progressive Movement, Muckrakers, Upton Sinclair
Alexis de Tocqueville - ✔✔*Assessed the American attempt to have both liberty and equality and
INDIVIDUALISM
15th, 19th, 26th Amendments - ✔✔black males gain the right to vote women gain the right to vote. - 18
year olds gain the right to vote. SUFFRAGE Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - ✔✔Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine,
stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central
America by using military force - US INTERVENES in Western Hemisphere
Annexation of Hawaii (1898) - ✔✔Strategic Military reasons & valuable resources - gained after the
Spanish American War
Lusitania (1915) - ✔✔passenger ship sunk by Germany to get US involved in WW1 - used as propaganda
to join the war... made Germany the enemy
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) - ✔✔did not want to join the league of nations to protect American
Sovereignty - wanted to avoid Foreign conflict
Spanish-American War (1898) - ✔✔Conflict between the U.S. and Spain that began the rise of the U.S. as
a world power. The U.S. gained possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, resulted in
GROWTH in Trade and Resources.
Espionage and Sedition Acts - ✔✔laws that enacted harsh punishments against anyone who opposed
participation in the war? RESULTED in Limiting of Constitutional Rights during War
19th Amendment (1920) - ✔✔Gave women the right to vote - women now began participating in
political processes, such as the temperance movement
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) - ✔✔Organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association to increase
racial pride and promote black nationalism, pride and economic Independence by supporting Black
owned businesses and culture
Henry Ford and the Assembly Line - ✔✔Ford revolutionized the efficiency of manufacturing with the
assembly faster, cheaper and with less labor. in the 1920's
Harlem Renaissance - ✔✔A period in the 1920s of the celebration of African-American achievements in
art and music and literature flourished, IMPACT: literacy rates increased, Great Migration, 1st Civil
Rights movement
Causes of the Great Depression - ✔✔credit buying, overproduction, less consumer spending, falling
stocks, increase in tariffs, Bank Failures, Resulted in Massive unemployment, homelessness
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - ✔✔This corporation insured individual bank deposits
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - ✔✔New Deal program that hired/aided unemployed men to work on
natural conservation projects - combated unemployment during the Great Depression
Court Packing Plan - ✔✔FDR's failed plan to pack the court with hand picked judges because it would
have weakened the principal of separation of powers
Pearl Harbor, 1941 - ✔✔United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, brought US
into WWII. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - ✔✔This was the final event of World War II. The U.S.
dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Japan surrendered unconditionally soon after.
War Bonds - ✔✔Certificates sold by the United States government to Americans pay for the costs of
World War II
Homefront during WWII - ✔✔Increase in Women Workforce, War Industry, Rationing of Supplies and
Taxes
Korean War (1950-1953) - ✔✔began as civil war b/w North and South Korea (quickly became
international when, under Truman,, the United Nations & US joined to support South Korea to STOP the
SPREAD of COMMUNISM
G.I. Bill, 1944 - ✔✔Provided for college or educational training and home loans for WWII veterans as
well as one year of unemployment comp
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