Civil War/Reconstruction
This event marked the beginning of the Civil War
What is the attack at Fort Sumter, SC?
Belief that the US was destined to settle the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
economic phrase adapted during the Gilded Age that emphazied the lack of federal government intervention in the economy
women during the 20s who leaned into the "modern" woman by drinking, smoking, dancing and went against fashion norms
Who are flappers?
What is the Cold War
This Battle in the Civil War ended with the Union having control of the Mississippi River
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This Act provided settlers out west with 150 acres of free land if they were able to live on it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
This book exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry during the Gilded Age
What is The Jungle?
Over 6 million Blacks left the south to the west and north in hopes of finding jobs mainly in large cities
The US response to the Berlin Blockade in which US Military dropped supplies from plane for an entire year.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This compromise that admitted Missouri into the US and Maine as a free state, this also set all territory above the 36;30 parallel as free
What is the the Missouri Compromise?
Journalists during the Gilded Age who exposed the horrors/corruption of working conditions of the working class
Court case in Tennessee that challenged the state law of teaching evolution in public schools
What is the Scopes trial?
This senator claimed he has a list of communists that were working for the US government
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This Union general used his "March to the Sea" plan to destroyed and burned down anything and everything that he went across on his path
Who is General Sherman?
This president promoted westward expansion and justified the start of the Mexican American War
Who is James K. Polk
What is Vertical Integration?
African American cultural movment that flourished in the 1920s that started in Harlem, NY
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Grant surrendered at this location which offically ended the Civil War
What is the Appomattox Court House?
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder
This Muckraker exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil Company
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This US foreign policy limited immigrants coming into the US by putting a cap on the number of immigrants coming in from certain countries based on its population
What is the Immigration Quota Act of 1924?
This government committee was established to investigate and find alleged communists within the US
What is HUAC?