War Times
The name for the largest land invasion in human history that occurred on June 6, 1944
What is D-Day?
The act that was part of the Second New Deal, giving Americans a government-organized retirement plan
What is the Social Security Act?
The failed mission of the US to arm Cuban exiles and send them into Cuba to attempt to overthrow President Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
These women were much more liberated and free-spirited in the 1920s. They cut their hair shorter, wore shorter dresses and began to have active social lives
Who are flappers?
This large project was created due to the dedicated hard work of Chinese laborers
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the Civil War amendments. Name them in order.
Slavery outlawed, citizenship granted to all natural born citizens, voting rights given to all men regardless or race
What is the launching of Sputnik?
The court case that formally declared that African-Americans were not considered US citizens and a slave owner could take a slave into any territory
What is the Dred Scott case?
Based on a fear of Communism infiltrating into America during the WWI era, immigrants from Eastern Europe were given a quota as part of this movement
What is the Red Scare?
The Union general responsible for the Battle of Atlanta, cutting off the major Confederate transportation hub, as well as the March to the Sea
Who is William T. Sherman?
The policy that made veterans returning home from WWII have better access to housing, education, healthcare, etc.
What is the G.I. Bill?
The deal initiated by President Jimmy Carter which brokered peace between Israel and Egypt
The Compromise of 1877 which granted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency marked the official end of this post-Civil War era
What is the Reconstruction Era?
The French aristocrat that aided Washington at Valley Forge but also led troops in the Battle of Yorktown. (He would later going on to name one of his children after George Washington)
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
The incident that is considered the first battle of the Civil War
What is the bombardment of Fort Sumter?
The Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan were combined to form this, which gave us a bicameral legislature where states are represented equally in one house and by population in another
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
Also known as the European Recovery Act, this policy gave money to war-torn countries in Europe after WWII to keep them from falling to communism
What is the Marshall Plan?
The main difference between Congressional (Radical Republican) Reconstruction and Presidential Reconstruction after the Civil War
Congressional (Radical Republican) Reconstruction wanted to punish the southern states before readmitting them to the Union and Presidential Reconstruction did not
Big business in the late 19th and early 20th century centered around John D. Rockefeller, oil tycoon, and this man, a poor immigrant from Scotland turned multi-millionaire steel tycoon
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The Republic of Texas was annexed into the US just in time to help their country fight in this conflict
What is the Mexican American War?
The policy made by the British that allowed the colonies more independence and decision making as long as they kept providing raw materials for the British economy
What is Salutary Neglect?
America became this after acquiring many overseas territories after the Spanish American War
What is an empire?
What is the Battle at Wounded Knee Creek?
This British immigrant would go on to fight for the rights of workers in America by founding the American Federation of Labor, one of the largest labor unions of the time period
Who is Samuel Gompers?