First 5 Presidents
Group of department heads who advise the president.
Cabinet
Part of his campaign asked the people: "Do you want someone who can write or someone who can fight?"
These two states were the center of the Missouri Compromise.
Missouri and Maine
This Amendment abolishes slavery except as a punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
For many Asians who immigrated to the US, they came through Angel Island. However, Europeans came through where?
Ellis Island
Overproduction of goods and speculative investing were some of the causes of this event, signaling the Great Depression in 1929.
Stock Market Crash
WWI began with Britain and France declaring war on Germany because they invaded this country:
Poland
These were the two main nations involved in the Cold War:
US and Soviet Union
The unpopular, one-term president who won against Thomas Jefferson and also introduced the Alien and Sedition Acts.
John Adams
Under Jackson's presidency, the Indian Removal Act forced thousands of American Indians (particularly the Cherokee in GA) to travel to the west, causing death along the way due to starvation, disease, and exhaustion. It would make you cry. What was the name of this event?
Trail of Tears
In 1857, this court case ruled that Black people could not be citizens (slave or free).
Dred Scott
They were left out of the principle of "equality" during the Reconstruction Era?
All women.
This is the city where the stockyard stories took place in the book, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Chicago
Over-farming and poor agricultural practices contributed to this misfortune in the Great Plains where part of the name is a dish used to eat cereal.
The Dust Bowl
Responsible for many heinous atrocities to Jewish people during WWII, Benito Mussolini inspired this man who became the leader of Germany:
Adolf Hitler
Although the Cold War was more of an arms and space race, how many casualties were suffered in DIRECT conflict between the US and the Soviet Union?
0
This president was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and held a controversial relationship with one of the enslaved women (Sally Hemings) on his property.
Thomas Jefferson
Even though the court decision sided with them in the Worcester v. Georgia case, this American Indian Nation in Georgia refused to give up their land to the state.
Cherokee Nation
This is the year the Emancipation Proclamation was implemented.
1863
Define or explain sharecropping.
Sharecropping kept many freed Black people in a cycle of debt and poverty. They had to rent land from white landowners and give a portion of their crops as payment.
Any one of four business tycoons who established and made famous the concept of "monopoly" during the Industrial Revolution.
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
JP Morgan
This term refers to makeshift shantytowns created by homeless people as a result of President Hoover's lack of attention.
Hooverville
In WWII, he held office as the president for more than the normal number of terms set by George Washington:
Franklin D Roosevelt
The Soviet Union was the first to send a human to:
Space
The War of 1812 (return of the British) took place under his presidency.
James Madison
Another principle of Jacksonian Democracy was that politicians should be allowed to appoint their followers to government jobs as a way of limiting the power of elite groups. This process became known as the spoils system. Jackson believed that the President had to make sure the executive branch employees were carrying out the business of the government according to the plans of the party in power. In current events, who does this resemble?
Pres. Donald Trump
He suggested to Lincoln to make the war about emancipation and to enlist Black men.
Frederick Douglas
Explain the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
EP - Abolished slavery in the Confederate States.
13th - Abolished slavery nationwide.
Samuel Morse is best known for inventing (they even named the code for him) this.
Telegraph
They were the new workers in factories during World War I.
African Americans and women.
The United States entered WWII because of Japan's attack on this place in Hawaii:
Pearl Harbor
The Manhattan Project introduced this to WWII and was then used by the US to attack Japan. The Soviet Union became a threat to the USA because it now had access to this:
Atomic Bomb (Nuclear Weapons)
Under this doctrine of the same name, President James Monroe warned the nations of Europe not to meddle in the politics of North and South America.
The Monroe Doctrine
Out of respect for the "common man", the Jacksonian Democracy sought to broaden public participation in government, so it expanded voting rights to include not just landowners but .......?
All adult white males.
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
Initially suggested by Gen. Sherman and supported by President Lincoln, this was a Field Order later rescinded (denied) by Andrew Johnson after Lincoln was assassinated.
40 Acres (and a mule)
Black Gold is another name for what John D. Rockefeller became rich and famous for.
Oil
By attacking an American ship, this country led the United States to enter World War I:
Germany
Name the Axis Powers
Germany
Italy
Japan
These are the two nations that emerged as a result of the Korean War:
North and South Korea