Amendment
What is the 15th Amendment
All men can vote
What are the 3 R's of FDR's New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
What crops were grown in Southern Colonies?
Indigo, Tobacco, Rice
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
extra points: What are the Paris Peace treaties?
The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
What is the 13th Amendment
No slavery
What is the name of th3e policy that the United States wanted to keep to stop the spread of Communism?
Containment
What countries are in the Transatlantic Trade?
extra points: What additional countries are added if this is the transatlantic slave trade?
United States, Europe, and Africa
Brazil and the Caribbean Islands
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
What is the compromise of 1850?
California becomes a state and the fugitive slave act is created
What is the 19th amendment?
What is the Harlem Renaissance and why was it important?
African American culture within Harlem NY that celebrated Jazz Music.
This was a movement in the time of Jim Crow on that showed black power and excellence
What is the Shays Rebellion?
A group of farmers fighting because of economic downfall. Argued that we needed a stronger national government because we could not organize militia to stop this rebellion.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
Prussian Military leader who trained colonists to fight
What are Jim Crow Laws?
segregation - "separate but equal"
What is the 17th Amendment?
allowed people to vote for senators
What are 2 causes of WWII?
unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
Why was Atlanta the capital of the South during the Civil War?
all railroads led to Atlanta.
What department George W. Bush create and what did it do?
The Department of Homeland Security. Goal to protect the United States from terrorism and respond to natural disasters
What is the Lend-Lease Act? Why is this important?
A program created by FDR to lend and lease weapons to our allies. Our way to get involved in WW2.
What is the 18th Amendment?
(for extra points please tell me what amendment changed this one)
Prohibition
What is the Marshall Plan?
It was a plan created by the United States that would help rebuild any non communist country that was effected by communism post WW2.
What is the Spanish American War?
Extra points: Why did we get involved in the Spanish American War?
United States and Spain are at war because Spain did not want to give independence to Cuban rebels.
Everyone else was doing imperialism and colonization, and Teddy Roosevelt wanted too as well.
Teddy Roosevelt - Tell me about his views on Business. Why is this odd for this time?
Did not like big business. Robber barons had lots of control and he was going against them.
What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do?
established a government for the Northwest territory, outlined how to admit a new state into the union, balancing of slave/free states.
One of many "compromises" that was done to try to maintain slave states.