Civil War & Reconstruction
These were the two main causes of the American Civil War.
What are disagreements over slavery and states rights?
This 1862 Act promised settlers 160 acers of land for $1.65 an acre after they improved it for six months, or for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This man was a progressive politician who gave a very famous speech denouncing the banking system as evil and corrupt. He also exalted farmers as good citizens.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This system of countries agreeing to help each other out led to the majority of the nations in Europe battling it out in World War I.
This major experiment in public (government) ownership gave the U.S. control of 21 dams along the Tennessee River that were used for the production of hydroelectricity.
What is the TVA or Tennessee Valley Authority?
The military strategy used by the Union, with the goal of "starving" the South into surrender.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The nickname given to members of African American cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western United States from 1867 to 1896, mainly fighting Indians on the frontier.
What is buffalo soldiers?
Workers of this company owned town went on strike when their boss lowered wages, but refused to lower the rent and cost of groceries during what event?
What is the Pullman Strike?
This treaty brought an end to World War I.
Speculation and buying on margin helped to ignite this event, one of the causes of the Great Depression, also known as "Black Tuesday."
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
The two phases of Reconstruction.
What are Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional Reconstruction?
These small towns saw a very sudden increase in population and economic activity during the gold rush.
What is a boom town?
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," this famous scientist is most well known for inventing the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison
Great Britain used this war strategy to prevent Germany from getting much needed supplies.
What is a naval blockade?
Wind storms full of sand, or "dust," blew through the Mid-West, choking farmers and livestock during this event.
What is the Dust Bowl?
These were the two combatants of the American Civil War.
Who were the North and the South?
Who were the Union and the Confederacy?
This system of "letting the people decide" by a vote was used to decide the issue of slavery in new territories in the Compromise of 1850.
What is popular sovereignty?
Consumers paid higher prices for lower quality products due to these types of businesses.
What are monopolies?
The assassination of this Archduke of Austria while visiting Sarajevo was the triggering event of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This man was the United States President through the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
In this form of tenant farming the land owner provides a tenant not only with land but also with the money needed to purchase equipment and supplies and possibly also food, clothing, and supervision. - Led to a form of debt slavery after the war.
What is sharecropping?
One problem faced by farmers in the American Mid-West centered around unregulated and inconsistent prices charged by these companies.
What are railroad companies?
This inventor is thought to be the first African American self-made millionaire.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
*She is also the first recorded female self-made millionaire.
Many members of this group of Americans joined the armed forces to fight in World War I in hopes of creating better circumstances for themselves here in America. Many saw battle under French command.
Who are African Americans?
Americans gained the benefits of unemployment insurance, monies paid to the disabled, and retirement benefits from this Act in 1935.
What is the Social Security Act?