CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
What is sectionalism?
What is loyalty to one's own region
Who was President of the Union during the Civil War?
What is Abraham Lincoln
What amendment abolished slavery?
What is the 13th amendment
What law gave 160 acres to settlers who farmed the land?
What is the Homestead Act
What was the economic policy of the US Government during this time that meant hands off in the economy (gov. would not interfere)?
What is Laissez-Faire
What is an organization to fight for worker's rights?
What is Labor Unions
What is the word for rise of cities?
What is urbanization
What is it called when strong nations control weaker territories?
What is imperialism
What is militarism
What law started the WWI draft?
What is the Selective Service Act
What was Wilson’s peace plan called?
What is Wilson's 14 points
What law regulated railroad rates?
What is the interstate commerce act (1887)
What compromise maintained balance between free and slave states in 1820?
What is the Missouri Compromise
Who was the Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox?
What is Robert E. Lee
What were laws restricting rights of freedmen including the right to travel freely, serve on juries, and vote?
What is the Black Codes
What invention ended the Open Range that farmers used to protect their land?
What is barbed wire
Who monopolized the oil industry?
What is John D Rockefeller
What violent strike involved steelworkers?
What law banned Chinese immigration?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
What caused the Spanish-American War?
What is Yellow Journalism and USS Maine explosion
What is a cause of WW1 that is an agreement to defend each other in case the other is attacked?
What is alliances
How did Americans help finance WWI?
What is buying liberty bonds
What group did Wilson propose to keep peace that the US did NOT join?
What is the League of Nations
What law banned unsafe foods and drugs?
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
What idea let territories decide the issue of slavery?
What is Popular sovereignty
What Union general led the North to victory?
What is Ulysses S. Grant
What amendment granted citizenship and equal protection and was passed to stop the Black Codes?
What is the 14th amendment
What caused towns to quickly grow in the West?
What is the discovery of gold out west
What INTEGRATION is controlling all parts of production?
What is vertical integration
What event hurt the public image of labor unions?
What is the Haymarket Riot
Who founded Hull House to help immigrants get affordable housing?
What is Jane Adams
What amendment promised Cuban independence?
What is the Teller Amendment
What is a cause of WW1 that means one's pride in their country?
What is nationalism
What was the Act that punished American citizens for anti-war activities?
What is the Espionage Act
What treaty ended WW1?
What is the Treaty of Versailles
What amendment introduced income tax?
What is the 16th amendment
What 1854 law reopened the slavery debate by repealing the Missouri Compromise?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
What is Battle of Gettysburg
What system kept freedmen in debt to landowners?
What is sharecropping
What is a rapidly growing town near gold mines called out west?
What is Boomtowns
What term describes many firms joining to control a market?
What is a Trust
Who founded the American Federation of Labor?
What is Samuel Gompers
What term describes corrupt city organizations that ran politics in early cities?
What is Political Machines
What amendment allowed U.S. involvement in Cuba?
What is the Platt amendment
What event started WW1?
What law expanded limits on free speech during WWI?
What is the sedition act
How did the Treaty punish Germany?
What is reparations, loss of territory, loss of military
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendment
Who led a raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt?
What is John Brown
What was the Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and divide the Confederacy?
What is the Anaconda Plan
What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Acts?
What is Divided South into military districts; required 14th Amendment ratification
What is the area where cattle grazed freely without fences?
What is the Open Range
What law first aimed to control monopolies?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
What was the strike of railroad workers protesting wage cuts and increased rent?
What is the Pullman strike
What is Muckrakers
What policy gave western countries equal trade access in China?
What is the Open Door Policy
What style of fighting dominated WWI?
What is Trench Warfare
Who commanded American forces in Europe?
What is John J. Pershing
Why did the U.S. reject the League of Nations?
What is fear of being dragged into future wars
What law set up banking regulation?
What is the Federal Reserve Act
How did Lincoln's election in 1860 lead to secession?
What is Southern states feared he would end slavery
What document freed slaves in Confederate-held areas?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
What event marked the end of Reconstruction, made Rutherford B. Hayes President, and had federal troops withdrawn from the South?
What is the Compromise of 1877
What group symbolized the rugged west? (Known as Mexican Vaqeuros in Mexico)
What is Cowboys
What financial magnate created General Electric?
What is JP Morgan
What is the incident where a factory caught on fire with the workers locked in the building and it resulted in workplace safety reforms?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
What law improved food and drug safety?
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
What did President Teddy Roosevelt accomplish during his presidency that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans together and made world trade faster/easier?
What is the construction of the Panama Canal
What German policy angered the U.S.?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare
What organization ran WWI propaganda?
What is Committee on Public Information
What global trend did WWI spark post-war that made people paranoid about communists in America?
What is the Red Scare
What was the Espionage Act?
What is banned anti-war actions during WW1
What violent conflict happened in Kansas over slavery?
What is "Bleeding Kansas"
Where did the Civil War end?
What is the Appomattox Court House
What were laws in the south enforcing racial segregation?
What is Jim Crow Laws
How did railroads affect Western expansion?
What is connected markets and encouraged settlement
What innovation made cars affordable?
What is Henry Ford's assembly line
What movement demanded better farm prices and regulations?
What is the Granger Movement/Populist Movement
What did the Federal Reserve Act create?
What is the Central banking system/ Federal Reserve
What was Roosevelt's policy to use military power to influence affairs, but before using military's power, speak softly to compromise? (speak softly, but carry a big stick)
What is "Big Stick Policy"
What were the two reasons the US joined WW1?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram and the sinning of the Lusitania
Who replaced the men in the factories when the men went off to war and how was this group rewarded?
Who were the two Italian anarchists arrested and executed during the Red Scare?
What is Sacco and Vanzetti
What was the Sedition Act?
What is restricted anti-war speech during WW1
What law forced citizens to help catch runaway slaves under the Compromise of 1850?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
What event officially started the Civil War?
What was the Attack on Fort Sumter
What president was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act?
What is Andrew Johnson
What policy of the US Government did events like the Battle of Little Big Horn represent?
How did the Gilded Age get its name?
What is Wealth masked corruption and poverty
What was the goal of the Granger Movement?
What did William Jennings Bryan deliver for this movement?
What is to Regulate Railroad Rates and Cross of Gold speech
Name 3 muckrakers and what they exposed:
Upton Sinclair - Meat Industry
Ida Tarbell - Corrupt Oil Industry
Jacob Riis - difference in life between rich and poor in cities
Who wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History which influenced American politicians we need to imperialize other countries to have naval bases in other countries?
What is Alfred Thayer Mahan
Name 5 different inventions of warfare during WW1 that made this one of the bloodiest wars ever:
How did Native Americans help allied powers during WW1?
What is using their native language as a code to confuse enemies
How did WWI alter U.S. foreign policy?
What is isolationist policy
What conference was trying to create and maintain world peace without the League of Nations?
What is the Washington Naval Conference