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  • What was the New Deal?
    FDR’s programs to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
  • How did the cotton gin impact slavery?
    It increased the demand for slave labor in the South.
  • What reforms did Progressives fight for?
    Regulation of business, women’s suffrage, and government reform.
  • What caused the Great Depression?
    Stock market crash, bank failures, overproduction, and poor credit practices.
  • What was the result of the Civil War?
    Preservation of the Union and the end of slavery.
  • What was the name of the US policy to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War?
    Containment
  • What did the Monroe Doctrine state?
    Europe should not interfere in the Americas; the U.S. would stay out of European affairs.
  • What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project?
  • Why did the U.S. enter WWI?
    Unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram.
  • What compromise created a bicameral legislature?
    The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise).
  • What caused the Civil War?
    Sectionalism, states’ rights, and slavery.
  • What did the 19th Amendment do?
    Granted women the right to vote.
  • Why did Reconstruction end?
    Compromise of 1877—federal troops were withdrawn from the South.
  • What were the main reasons for founding the Southern colonies like Virginia?
    Economic opportunities, especially for tobacco and plantation agriculture.
  • What was the outcome of the Korean War?
    A stalemate; Korea remained divided at the 38th parallel.
  • Why didn’t the U.S. join the League of Nations?
    Many feared it would drag the U.S. into future wars.
  • What do we call the conflict between the U.S. and the USSR over ideology, without direct military conflict?
    The Cold War
  • What did Executive Order 9066 do?
    It authorized Japanese internment during WWII.
  • What do we call Powerful industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller accused of exploiting workers?
    Robber Barons
  • What movement did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?
    The Civil Rights Movement.
  • What was the Treaty of Versailles’ impact on Germany?
    It blamed Germany for the war and imposed harsh reparations.
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