Unit 0: Connecting With Past Learning (1492-1865)
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The name of early jazz created by African Americans during the Gilded Age.
What is Ragtime?
It's explosion was a leading cause for America to start the Spanish-American War (1898)?
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
16th President, Republican, Election of 1860, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first secretary of the treasury and co-author of the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Lincoln’s vision for Reconstruction, allowing many former Confederates to receive pardons.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
The process when a city becomes more city-like, increasing in density and population.
What is Urbanization?
Intervention in this allowed the United States to establish an Open Door Policy in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
19th President, Republican, Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The president and their cabinet make up this branch in government.
What is the Executive?
He believed in economic upliftment for African Americans and encouraged working with white Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
He coined the term “Gilded Age” to describe America in the final decades of the 19th century.
Who is Mark Twain?
It officially ended World War I and made Germany pay reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (1919)?
22nd & 24th President, Democrat, Pullman Strike troops.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
The infamous Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens and would not benefit from any rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)?
The nation’s first civil rights law and declared and defined citizenship regardless of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
An arrangement between businesses to limit products in order to keep prices high.
What is a Cartel?
Declared that Cuba is in the sphere of the United States, granting the US the "right to intervene" to preserve order and keep Europe out.
What is the Platt Amendment?
25th President, Election of 1896, Spanish-American War.
Who is William McKinley?
It established the power of judicial review for the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
An economic and political system that values public, instead of private, owner of property and economy.
What is Socialism?
At the end of WWI, it was where all countries discussed peace and reparations.
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
27th President, Republican. "Dollar Diplomacy."
Who is William Howard Taft?