Unit 3
A long and carefully organized journey.
What is an expedition?
This abolished slavery in the United States in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Someone who fought to destroy slavery and promote civil rights
What is an abolitionist?
A statement that said should any Latin American nation engage in continued "wrongdoing," the United States military would get involved.
What is Roosevelt’s Corollary?
A British passenger ship sailing off the coast of Ireland that was shot by a German U-boat.
What is the Lusitania?
A government order that forbids trade.
What is an embargo?
The statement in which President Lincoln legally freed 3 million enslaved people. Lincoln delivered this before the end of the Civil War
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A period in our history that resulted in an increase in new technologies, overcrowded tenement housing, and bad sanitation in cities.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Germany, Austria- Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
What is the Central Powers?
Germany asked Britain for this because, by the fall of 1918, they knew the war was a lost cause.
What is an armistice?
The law that was signed on May 28, 1830, that authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The famous battle of the Civil War took place in Pennsylvania in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The act that caused an increase of organization and participation in the Underground Railroad.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
An economic and social philosophy based on the biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. This theory was used to justify policies of U.S imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
An organization created by Woodrow Wilson designed to resolve international disputes, that the U.S did not join.
What is the League of Nations?
The battle when the Texans shouted “Remember the Alamo” to the Mexican forces, and fought to secure independence for Texas with their victory.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
The organization that provided food, housing and medical care for freed slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The weaponry created during the Civil War that led to an extreme number of casualties in the war.
What is the Gatling Gun?
The three primary factors that caused the U.S to join WWI.
What are Militarism, Nationalism, and Imperialism?
The document that said Germany had to take the blame for the war, Germany would pay for damages it caused and give back the land it took, and the League of Nations would be established to “safeguard the peace.”
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The treaty that brought an official end to the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The supreme court decision that stated "separate was equal" and segregation was constitutional.
What is Plessy Vs. Ferguson?
The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused the repeal of this previous law.
What is the 1820 Missouri Compromise?
An unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to get an easy sea route to link up with Russia in the Black Sea during World War I.
What is the Battle of Gallipoli?
The event where world leaders came together after combat halted after World War I in January 1919.
What is the Paris Peace Conference?