Civil War
Reconstruction
Expansion and Growth
Era of Total War
America in the World
100

THIS is the term for the growing regional conflict (primarily between North and South) that led to the Civil War.

What is sectionalism?

100

THIS amendment abolished slavery in 1865.

What is the 13th?

100

Segregation was declared constitutional in THIS Supreme Court decision in 1896.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

100

The sinking of THIS ship in 1915, with 123 Americans on board, prompted many Americans to support America's entry into WWI.

What is the Lusitania?

100

THIS is the key idea in the Truman Doctrine, which held that America needed to keep communism from spreading after WWII.

What is containment?

200

In this famous speech, Abraham Lincoln said that the US was undergoing a "new birth of freedom."

What is the Gettysburg Address?

200

Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction and tended to vote Republican were hated by many white Southerners and were known as THIS.

What are carpetbaggers?

200

Like Rockefeller in the oil industry, THIS tycoon led the steel industry.

Who is Carnegie?

200
In the aftermath of WWII, Wilson encouraged world powers to form THIS organization, although the US ultimately did not join.

What is the League of Nations?

200
In the patriotic enthusiasm following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the US annexed THIS island chain.

What is Hawaii?

300

THIS abolitionist's raid on a US arsenal in Virginia increased sectional tensions in 1859.

Who is John Brown?

300

Reconstruction ended with THIS compromise.

What is the Compromise of 1877?

300

THIS act of Congress offered cheap or free land to settlers willing too move West beginning in 1862.

What is the Homestead Act?

300

THESE were long-term causes of WWI in Europe (name at least two).

Militarism, nationalism, imperialism, entangling alliances.

300

THIS international organization was President Wilson's idea, even though the US never joined it.

What is the League of Nations?

400

THIS term refers to the system that allowed new states and territories to decide whether they would be slave or free.

What is popular sovereignty?

400

THIS president took power after Lincoln's assassination and was more conciliatory toward the South than many in his party wanted him to be.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

400

Many Chinese immigrants came to the US to take jobs building the transcontinental railroad, but THIS act of Congress in 1882 blocked Chinese immigration.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

400
THIS American invasion of France turned the tide of WWII in favor of the Allies.

What is D-Day?

400

THIS term refers to Nixon's policy of shifting the military burden of the Vietnam War onto South Vietnamese forces.

What is Vietnamization?

500

THIS person was the president of the Confederacy.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

500

Republicans in Congress who wanted a strong push for racial equality in the South were known as THESE.

Who were the Radical Republicans?

500

As corporations and railroads grew bigger and more powerful in the second half of the nineteenth century, Congress was pressured to limit their power through acts of legislation such as THIS (name one).

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Interstate Commerce Act, or the Clayton Antitrust Act.

500

WWI involved the use of many new and deadly weapons, including THIS kind of poison gas.

What is mustard gas?

500

During the Cold War, the US intervened on behalf of the capitalist SOUTHERN HALF of BOTH of these countries.

What are Korea and Vietnam?

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