Presidents
He was the president during the Civil War.
Lincoln
He invented the light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph.
Edison
This best-selling anti-slavery book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This cornerstone of American Foreign Policy warned Europeans not to colonize the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
This was the most deadly disease brought over by Europeans to the Americas.
Smallpox
He was America's third president, first Secretary of State, and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson
He invented the cotton gin and brought interchangeable parts to the United States.
Whitney
This type of music, popular in the 1920s, was a combination of different musical styles.
Jazz
President Jefferson attempted this strategy to get France and Britain to stop interfering with American shipping. Those who hated the strategy called it O Grab Me.
Embargo
This British tax was placed on all legal documents and paper products.
Stamp
Roosevelt
He used the assembly line to mass produce cheap cars in the 1920s.
Ford
What literary genre was typical of the writings of e e cummings?
poetry
This treaty ended WWI.
Versailles
This Russian satelite was the first man-made thing to go beyond earth's atmosphere.
Sputnik
He had a reputation as a man of the people, partly because of his veto of the Bank of the United States.
Jackson
He invented the telegraph.
Morse
James Fennimore Cooper's most famous book, that was about the struggle between nature and civilization.
The Last of the Mohicans
This more aggressive approach to fighting the Cold War said that sometimes it was necessary to get to the very edge of war to make the Soviets back down.
Brinksmanship
Sharecropping
He was president during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Kennedy
He invented bifocals.
Franklin
This movement in painting was famous in the mid-19th century for expansive landscapes that dwarfed the people in them.
Hudson River School
Dollar Diplomacy was associated with this president.
Taft
This World War 1 Act made it illegal to criticize the government.
Sedition