Civil War
Immigration
Spanish American War
World War II
Reconstruction
100

The war took place between these two years

1861 and 1865

100

True or False. Immigrants came to the United States because of crop failures, rising taxes, famine, personal freedom among other things.

True

100

US President during the war

President McKinley

100

The Axis

Germany, Italy and Japan

100

A period of healing and rebuilding in the South

Reconstruction

200

The Civil War started with this battle

Battle of Fort Sumter

200

Large group of immigrants that came at the start of the California Gold Rush in 1849 until 1882

Chinese

200

This battle made Teddy Roosevelt famous

Battle of San Juan Hill

200

Name the leaders of the three Allied countries

FDR, Churchill and Stalin

200
Name 1 of the 3 groups of Southern Republicans

Carpetbaggers, Scalawags and African Americans

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!!! The North won because they had better finances, they were technologically superior, had a larger population, superior political leadership and _____________

More resources and supplies
300

Name of the most famous immigrant processing center in New York, opened in 1892

Ellis Island

300

The Spanish-American War brought an end to almost 4 centuries of this country's presence in the Americas.

Spain

300

Japanese slogan which meant the divine right of the Empire of Japan to unify the eight corners of the world.

Hakko Ichiu

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!!! President Johnson offered a pardon to all Southern whites except __________

Confederate leaders.

400

Name one legacy of the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, Established a powerful centralized federal government and laid the foundation for America's emergence as a world power in the 20th century.

400

This Bavarian immigrant helped the Gold Rush and the west's cowboys by inventing this sturdy garment

Levi Strauss

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! The exaggeration of facts by the media. A style of newspaper reporting based on sensationalism over facts.

Yellow Journalism

400

Name the three leaders of the Axis countries

Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito

400

President Lincoln announced the first comprehensive program of the Reconstruction: when one-tenth of a state's prewar voters took an oath of loyalty, they could establish a new state government

The Ten-Percent Plan

500

What is celebrated each June 19th, now known as Juneteenth?

The freeing the last slaves of the Confederacy

500

This chef born in Italy came to the United States and created an empire out of canned Italian food.

Chef Boyardee

500

US intervened in the Spanish American War was because of Yellow Journalism, the sinking of the USS Maine, the DeLome Letter and ____________

Cuba's struggle for independence

500

World War II started on ________and finished on ______

1 September 1939, 2 September 1945

500
The Civil Rights Act became the first significant legislation in American history to become law over this

President's Veto

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