Civil War & Reconstruction
This Union military strategy sought to divide the Confederacy by controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This novel exposed abuses in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This treaty ended World War I but was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This Supreme Court case upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This president was impeached by the Radical Republicans.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This political cartoonist's attacks on New York City's political machine helped expose corruption associated with Boss Tweed.
Who is Thomas Nast?
Wilson cited unrestricted submarine warfare and this diplomatic message as reasons for entering World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This attorney gained national attention by defending John Scopes during the 1925 "Monkey Trial."
Who is Clarence Darrow?
This policy represented a significant shift in U.S.-Chinese relations during the Nixon administration.
What is détente?
This Union general's capture of Vicksburg in 1863 gave the North complete control of the Mississippi River.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers and collective bargaining.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This policy sought equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This "Second New Deal" legislation created a permanent federal pension system.
What is the Social Security Act?
This doctrine pledged U.S. support to nations resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This disputed election led directly to the end of Reconstruction through an informal political bargain.
What is the Election of 1876?
This 1887 legislation attempted to regulate railroad rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This policy expanded the Monroe Doctrine by asserting a U.S. police power in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This program paid farmers to reduce production in an effort to raise agricultural prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
This conflict became the first major military confrontation of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
These congressional acts imposed military governance on the former Confederate states and required ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
This 1892 strike at Carnegie Steel's Homestead Plant ended with the defeat of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This treaty ending the Spanish-American War transferred Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
This secretary of the interior secretly leased federal oil reserves to private companies in a major scandal of the Harding administration.
Who is Albert Fall?
This program provided billions of dollars in economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?