Presidents
What is the state that most presidents were from in the 1800s?
Ohio
What ended WWII
Great Depression
Who created the traveling classroom, as well as developing 300 different uses for peanuts?
What was the Homestead Act?
160 acres to "occupy and improve" land for 5 years
What is the amendment gives women the right to vote?
19
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
"awakening" in arts and literature in NY amongst African Americans
What event occurred on February 14 between two rival gangs? (prohibition era)
St Valentines Day Massacre
Who created a third party called "Bull Moose" in the election of 1912?
Theodore Roosevelt
In the 1880s, what was the 2 groups that the republican party was divided into?
Stalwarts and Half Breeds
Which president is referred to as "The Idealist?"
Woodrow Wilson
What were the 2 reasons America joins WWI?
Zimmerman Nite and 3 ships sunk in the War Zone
Who invented the kinetoscope?
Thomas Edison
What act is considered the "Magna Carta of Labor" (worker protections)
Wagner Act of 1936
Who was the first black female millionaire?
Madam CJ Walker
Who was nicknames the "Black Moses"
Marcus Garvey
What was the Scopes-Monkey Trial?
Science teacher arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
What are the 4 reasons JFK wins the election of 1960
Who were the 3 "Captains of Industry?"
Who was the president involved with the Tea Pot Dome Scandal?
Warren Harding
What were the 2 acts passed during WWI that violated the 1st amendment?
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Who is the only person to lead an invasion in the continental US
Pancho Villa
What is the Keating-Owen Act of 1916?
first child labor act
Who founded the National Organization for Women and advocated for equal treatment and pay?
Betty Friedan
Who founded the NAACP?
WEB Dubois
What were 3 ways farmers "fought back" during the Great Depression?
1. Iowa Cow War
2. Farmer Holiday
3. Penny Auctions
Who beats Herbert Hoover in the election of 1932?
FDR
What were Muckrakers? Name one muckraker.
writers whose purpose is to educate and inform the public
Ida Tarbell, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis
Which president was a real life Horatio Alger story, and helped Europeans out during WWI?
Herbert Hoover
Who was the only neutral cabinet member under the Wilson administration in WWI?
William Jennings Bryan
Who solved the most crtitcal problem of the west by inventing barbed wire?
Joseph Glidden
What are the only 2 amendments that are related to each other, and what are they?
18th & 21st
Creates prohibitions, erases prohibition
Who was the richest woman in America during the Gilded age? (made money from wall street)
Hetty Green, Witch of Wall Street
What were the 2 supreme court cases that had to do with segregation in schools?
Brown V Board of Edu, Alexander V Holmes
What were 4 causes of the great depression?
1. poor organization
2. unregulated stock market
3. gov fails to regulate
4. poor banking
LN, McCarthy, RFK, Humphrey
Which group were considered to be the leaders of the progressive movement?
Urban Gentry
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F Kennedy
1. open treaties
2. freedom of seas
3. free trade
4. self determination of nations
5. reduction of arms
6. general association
Who were the 2 men who found a way to mass produce steel
Henry Bessemer and William Kelly
What was the main act that was passed under the "Great Society"
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who was the first president's wife to be called "First Lady?"
Lucy Webb Hayes
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? (Civil Rights)
13th: abolishes slavery
14th: grants citizenship to African Americans
15th: African American's right to vote
Name 4 of FDR's New Deal agencies (full names, not abriveations)
National Recovery Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Works Progress Admin, Civilian Conservation Corps, National Youth Authority, Fed. Emergency Relief Admin, TN Valley Authority, Social Security Admin
Who is the only president to serve 2 in-consecutive terms, and what years was he president?
Cleaveland, 1884 & 92
What were 5 farmer grievances?
1. railroads
2. banks
3. prices
4. image
5. gov aid
Presidents involved in the Cold War
Truman, Eisenhower, JFK,
Name 4 WWII Battles
Battle of Midway, Battle of Guam, Leyte Gulf, D-Day, Battle of Stalingrad, Persian Gulf
What is the American Myth and who was the first to write about it?
Anyone can make it, Horatio Alger
4 tools to enforce containment
UN, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO
What 2 first ladies were consulted by their husbands about everything (even US policy)
Edith Wilson and Nancy Reagan
Who were the 3 main people involved with the Black Muslim movement?
Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan, Malcom X
What were the 6 major reasons for Industrialization?
1. Raw Materials
2. Large and Growing Labor Supply
3. Tech Advancments
4. Business Organizers
5. Expanding Markets
6. Government Aid
Name 4 presidents that were Democrats (that we've covered)
What is the United Nations and who was involved when it was formed?
general assembly where nations can talk and avoid war
US, USSR, UK, France, China