The economies of the North and South differed in the mid-1800s because the Northern economy was based upon _____, whereas the Southern economy was based upon____.
What is industry and farming?
100
To leave one's country
What is to emigrate?
DJ- To enter into another county.
100
During the Spanish American War, President Teddy Roosevelt led a group known as the
What are the Rough Riders?
100
The United States refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles after World War I because
What is the League of Nations could draw the United States into future wars?
100
At the outbreak of both World War I and World War II in Europe, public opinion in the US generally favored
HINT:Stay out of European Affairs
What is isolationism/remaining neutral?
200
As the United States began to expand Westward, Congress recognized ______ would be a major issues when admitting new states into the Union.
What is slavery?
200
The substandard, multi-family dwelling; usually occupied by the poor in urban areas
What are tenements buildings?
200
Superior nations had the right to take over the inferior nations
What is Social Darwinism?
200
After World War I, the United States entered a time period of economic prosperity titled the
What are The Roaring 20s?
200
The event pushed the US into World War II
What is Pearl Harbor?
300
The United States government set up the following program to help those displaced by the Civil War, especially the newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
One reason people came to America
What are religious and political freedom, more land, job opportunities?
300
The Allied Powers during WWI
What are France, Germany and GB?
300
In the 1930s, shantytowns, often called “Hoovervilles,” sprang up across the United States because President Hoover’s
What is refusal to provide direct federal aid to the homeless?
300
Germany’s mass murder of Jews and other people deemed by the Nazis as inferior across Europe
What is the Holocaust?
400
The Industrial Revolution impacted the industrialized countries of the world by
What is increasing the urban population?
400
One of the trails that led people out West.
What is Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail?
The railroad Lincoln approved to connect the two coasts.
400
The TWO events that drew the US into WWI.
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
One major factor that led to the Great Depression
What is excessive speculation in the stock market, people buying on credit?
400
To avoid war, European powers adopted the policy of ____, satisfying Hitler’s desire for territorial expansion
What is appeasement?
500
one country using force against another to gain political, social, and economic control of another country in order to gain access to more natural resources
What is imperialism?
500
The term that led Americans to believe they were destine to control the North American land from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
World War I had FOUR MAIN causes
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism?
The LAST spark of WWI?
500
President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported domestic policies that
What is provided direct help to those in need?
His programs were part of a government aid program known as the ____?
500
The two cities were destroyed by atomic bombs before Japan agreed to surrender