A person who supported the British cause in the American Revolution
What is a torie?
100
Nurse during the Civil War; stared the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
100
The traditional beliefe that the U.S. should refrain from involvement in overseas politics, alliances, or wars and coinfe its national seucrity interest to its own borders
What is isolationism?
100
Code name for the U.S. effort during WWII to produce the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
Founder of Georgia who mortgaged his fortune for the success of the colony
Who is James Oglethorpe?
200
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain
What is Common Sense?
200
Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
The Archduke of Austria-Hungary in the early 1900s who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on
Who is Francis Ferdinand?
200
In 1853, presented the Japanese with a letter from the president calling for Japan to grant trading rights to Americans
Who is Matthew C. Perry?
300
50 South Carolinian slaves revolted and tried to march to Florida but failed
What is the Stono Rebellion?
300
Passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed, the Act declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally
What is the Declaratory Act of 1766?
300
After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South
Who were Radical Republicans?
300
Secret note intercepted by the U.S. that proposed a German-Mexican alliance
What is the Zimmerman Note?
300
This act allowed America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States"
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
During this time period farmers feeling where that of anger because of the land that was being taken from them as well as fear of being attacked by Native Americans
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
400
This man was blocked in by the French and Washington and his army, and was greatly outnumbered
Why did General Cornwallis surrender at the battle of Yorktown?
400
Two racist groups, one focused on attacking blacks while the other was focused on nativism
What is the difference between the Old and New KKK?
400
This person supported Wilson't war efforts and played a major role in public information by means of wartime propaganda.
Who is George Creel?
400
Crime in the inner-city along with "White Flight," the movement to the suburbs creating segregated neighborhoods, as problems during WWII.
What were the social effects of the black population in urban areas?
500
This huge movement along with its new ideas on religion shaped the colonists' way of thinking, leading them to a more revolutionary mentality
What is the Great Awakening?
500
This group was closely tied to the Tories, and had a large concentration in the area of the original colonies
What was the Anglican Church?
500
This group disliked both Cass and Taylor, supported the Wilmot Proviso, and was against slavery. What separated them from other antislavery groups was their advocating federal aid for internal improvements
What was the Free soil party?
500
One of the many ways America tried to keep domestic stability during a time of foreign turmoil, this act provided imprisonment of up to 20 years for persons who either tried to incite rebellion in the armed forces or obstruct the operation of the draft.
What is the espionage act?
500
The fear of Russians defeating Germans on their own and becoming powerful enough to control all of Europe.
What is the reason the United Stated decided to attack Germany?