A secret network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape from the South and reach the North.
What is The Underground Railroad
100
A term given to the process of reintegrating the Southern stated into the US and building new social structures in the South to replace the old slavery-based ones.
What is Reconstruction
100
This purchase doubled the size of the USA; President Jefferson gained it in 1803.
What is The Louisiana Purchase
100
A Scottish immigrant who created a multi-million dollar steel business.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
100
These two individuals served as US presidents during the Great Depression and tried to solve the economic and social problems.
Who is Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
200
This person was a Democrat and won several debates against Lincoln. However he lost the presidential election of 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglas
200
Adopted on December 6th 1865, this amendment changed the federal position on slavery.
What is The 13th Amendment
200
______ was the notion that the US was destined to expand into, settle and rule over the whole Native American continent
What is Manifest Destiny
200
This movement was created by organizations and people coming together with no specific leaders. Reasons why they created the movement were:
- Unemployment
- Bad living conditions
- Fear of Revolution
- No welfare system in the US
What is The Progressive Movement (1890's-1910's)
200
This Act was created to prevent further foreclosures that were making millions homeless; it had a limited effect.
What is The Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932
300
The attack/surrender of this naval base was the start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter
300
The process of Reconstruction began long ____ the end of the Civil War.
A) After
B) Before
What is Before
300
The main short-term cause of the US-Mexican War was the election of which president?
Who is President James Polk in 1844
300
Something that was very controversial at the time and people in the South and West disapproved this because it increased farming operation costs. Manufactures especially in the North likes this because it reduced competition overseas.
What is Tariffs
300
True of False:
The impact of the First World War was one of the reasons for the Great Crash and economic depression.
What is True
400
A code of duties imposed by a social group on its members.
What is Honour
400
After the Reconstruction Acts, this Amendment was created to help the Reconstruction Process. This amendment included allowing people of all race to vote.
What is The 15th Amendment
400
A treaty that ended the US-Mexican War
What is The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo 1848
400
True or False:
Thomas Edison was the first one to discover electricity?
What is False; Michael Faraday from Britain was the first one to discover electricity. However, Thomas Edison was the first one to make it commercial in the US.
400
A team of advisors, many of them were young, helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt analyze problems and suggest solutions.
What is Brains Trust
500
These four states were know as "boarder states" and they all joined with Northern states before the Civil War because they were less committed to slavery.
What is Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri
500
A firm president who was elected in 1868 and was in favor of being strict with the South in the Reconstruction Process.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
500
An act created to break up Native American tribal system and push them into normal US society.
What is The Dawes Act
500
This was important during the Gilded Age for growing companies. This term was used when a company had different properties of the company in other states. Different people would run these properties and would be told what to do by their boss so they could avoid state laws.
What is A Trust
500
This Deal's main components were:
- The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
- Social Security Act
- The 1955 Banking Act
- Wealth Tax