AMH2020 US HISTORY FINAL EXAM REVIEW GUIDE There will be eight on the exam and you will answer only five Define the term or person in paragraph form explaining its significance Why is this term person important in American history This study guide includes 23 of the 30 terms and names provided by our professor In all honesty those are the only 23 I m going to study because we really only need to know 5 out of the 8 she ll provide on the exam I think 23 out of 30 is a pretty solid amount Sorry if this is inconvenient for you but here are the remaining seven terms and names I left out of this guide Double V Campaign The Great Society Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Reagan Democrat Military industrial complex Bill Clinton Whitewater I hope you found this helpful Thanks for purchasing and good luck on your exam Four Freedoms On January 6 1941 President FDR delivered his State of the Union address This speech later became known as the Four Freedoms Speech because he spoke about a hopeful future for the world based on the essential human freedoms four fundamental freedoms he believed everyone ought to enjoy 1 Of speech 2 Of worship 3 From want 4 From fear When WWII began this became his statement of Allied goals in the war He said these were rights of everyone in the world regardless of race or creed The Allies fought to defend these rights In 1943 Normal Rockwell famously illustrated the Four Freedoms which became some of the most iconic images of the 20th century These illustrations translated the ideas of the Four Freedoms into instantly recognizable images Stokeley Carmichael Carmichael was a Trinidadian American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven he graduated from Howard University and rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC and later as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party Levittown After WWII most of the economic growth involved home building and spending on consumer goods This era saw a baby boom sparking development of American suburbs There were enormous demands for housing home appliances television sets and cars These items were all made in the US which boosted job opportunities By 1960 American suburb residents outnumbered both urban residents and rural people Nearly all of the home growth was from suburbs the number of houses between 1945 and 1960 nearly doubled The majority of Americans were able to purchase a home for the first time ever William and Alfred Levitt figured out a way to construct prefabricated homes quickly Within months their first suburban development in PA went from an empty field to the home of more than 40 000 people living in single family homes Houses also provided returning veterans and their families with a place to live an alternative much better than cramped central city locations and apartments Later on a lot of children would condemn Levittowns as little boxes made of ticky tacky little boxes all the same due to the fact that all of the homes were identical to one another This sparked people to quickly make their homes their own Home improvement projects became popular with suburban men as a result National Organization for Women Frustration over the Civil Rights Act of 1964 led to the founding of NOW in 1966 Betty Freidan and Pauli Murray who we talked about in lectures on civil rights were the co founders and wrote the group s first Statement of Purpose They called for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment enforcement of CR Act equality in education and employment help for women in poverty changes in marriage and divorce law and abortion rights Goal was To take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men They like the NAACP used the court system to bring about change Brought lawsuits when they saw unequal treatment and did win equality for women in many areas of the law GI Bill Servicemen s Readjustment Act of 1944 The GI Bill is a law that provided a range of benefits for returning WWII veterans The GI Bill made middle class status more accessible than ever before Postwar years more than 50 of all college students who were US veterans got paid to attend classes by the government This made more people attend college By 1950s 2 2 million vets attended college and another 5 6 million attended trade school with government financing Before the GI Bill young veterans believed that education was nearly going to be impossible for them to attend Government financing of education made the workforce more educated as well Students began to flood colleges causing schools to expand Better education meant that there would be a higher earning power and that translated into consumer spending influencing the postwar economy positively Everyone was very impressed with the GI Bill because it helped provide people with educations who wouldn t have had a chance at a better life otherwise Betty Freidan After suffrage organized feminism virtually ceased to exist Women made gains but there started to be more of a disconnect in the 1950s between the expectations that society placed upon women and what they were actually doing Betty Friedan capitalized on this and created a movement She was born in 1921 in Peoria IL and grew up in a middle class Midwestern Jewish family The anti Semitism that she experienced growing up in Peoria made her sensitive to injustice She worked as a journalist for a variety of left wing and labor union newspapers after attending Smith College and UC Berkeley She was fired from her job when she became pregnant with her second child strictly because she was pregnant so she began life as a housewife In 1957 Freidan attended her 15 year college reunion and distributed a survey among her classmates asking them if they were married had children what if any career they pursued before marriage and whether they were satisfied with their lives She found that the vast majority of them were married and had children She found that they were happy with their marriages and families but wished they could do something with their education and training They felt discontent with life as a housewife and the expectations that had been placed on them She called this the problem that has no name She continued her research
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