Civil War
This runaway slave became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to their freedom.
Harriet Tubman
Landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for part of the crops they raise. It has similarities to slavery.
sharecropping
A type of music of black American origin which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm.
jazz
The region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s.
Dust Bowl
Why did America join World War II?
The attack at Pearl Harbor by Japan
Why did free-soilers oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories?
They didn’t want African Americans to take away jobs from white men.
Which supreme court case famously stated "separate but equal" is constitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
A flowering of African American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
This president was largely blamed for not alleviating the suffering during the Great Depression. He also has a famous dam named after him.
Herbert Hoover
A totalitarian political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator. It supports private ownership of business and industry.
fascism
What were border states?
Slave states that did not secede from the Union.
What are two ways voting rights for black men were restricted?
-poll tax
-literacy test
-grandfather clause
-harassment and intimidation
A day in American history where more than 16.4 million shares of stock were sold, causing the stock market to crash.
Black Tuesday
Which New Deal program created jobs through a series of projects including buildings, roads and parks and controlling soil erosion and flooding?
Civilian Conservation Corps
What was the Manhattan Project?
The top-secret program to develop the nuclear bomb.
What were two parts of the ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Scott remained a slave
African Americans weren’t citizens
Scott had no right to file a lawsuit
Banning slavery violated a white man’s “property” under the Fifth Amendment
The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
What are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments?
13- ended slavery
14- citizenship to all African Americans
15- black men can vote
What are two details that describe a flapper?
-short, bobbed hair
-knee-length skirts
-makeup
-sexual freedom
-dancing
-drinking and smoking
-unfazed by previous social conventions or taboos
What were the Three R's of Roosevelt's New Deal?
Relief
Recovery
Reform
Why did France and Great Britain declare war on Germany, starting World War II?
Germany invaded Poland
What are the three parts of the Anaconda Plan?
1) navy blockade of southern ports
2) take the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two
3) capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia
What were two parts of the Compromise of 1877?
Made Republicans happy: Hayes would become president
Made Democrats happy: 1)Withdrawal of federal troops from LA and SC (Republicans still governed); 2) Federal money to build a railroad from TX to the West Coast and improve southern rivers, harbors, and bridges; 3)Hayes had to appoint a democratic southerner to the cabinet
i.e. an end to Reconstruction and a return to Democrats having home rule
What were two results of prohibition?
-rise in organized crime
-illegal production and sale of alcohol
-speakeasies
-increase in smuggling
-decline in tax revenue
What were two parts of the Social Security Act?
-insurance for retired people 65 and over
-weekly payments to people who were unemployed
-aid to people who were disabled and to families with children
What was Executive Order 9066?
It incarcerated Japanese Americans in internment camps.