The Civil WAR
General Winfield Scott proposed a plan to cut off Southern Ports with a naval blockade and slowly strangle the South into Submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Ended Slavery in the United States making it illegal to own another human being.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
The government should interfere in the free market as little as possible.
What is Laissez-faire?
First President of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?
American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba to start the Spanish American War.
What is the USS Maine?
The two alliances to start WWI.
What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Allied Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy). ?
The reason Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the Civil War.
What is, the last time the South entered Northern territory?
Those that opposed Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson's plans for Reconstruction because it did not go far enough.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Helped tame the wild country of the West, negatively effected migration patterns of buffalo.
What is Barbed Wire?
Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while making it stronger and more durable at the same time.
What is Bessemer Process?
Scabs
Blacklisting
Lockouts
Strike breakers
What is tactics of management to resist labor?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Because of strong sentiments of U.S. citizens both wanting to remain neutral and those wanting to support their homelands, these two sides emerged.
What are Isolationists and Interventionists?
People who want to end slavery
What are Abolitionists?
Federal troops were removed from Southern territories.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Crazy Horse surrounds General Custer and 700 of his men killing 300 of them as well as General Custer himself.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Thomas Edison invented ________
What is the Light Bulb?
A political theory advocating for government control of industry
Communism
As a result of this disaster, new state laws providing safety and fire codes in factories
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
This was NOT a territory gained by the US after the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
The German Foreign Minister promised to return New Mexico, Arizona and Texas to Mexico if they would would attack the US.
What is the Zimmerman Note (Telegram)?
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. Also, slavery prohibited in any land from the Louisiana Purchase north of 36, 30'N.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Amendment made in unconstitution to withold the ability to vote on the basis of race.
15th Amendment
This Sioux leader was known for his staunch opposition to US advancement into Indigenous territory.
Who is Sitting Bull?
He expressed his views of Philanthropy in his book, "The Gospel of Wealth".
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Impersonal working conditions
Long working hours
Low wages
Lack of opportunity for advancement
Child Labor
What are the problems faced by Industrial Workers?
This business controlled 90% of the oil industry in the US. at it's peak
What is Standard Oil
Famous battle that Teddy Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" participated in during the Spanish-American War.
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
One sided information designed to persuade listeners.
HINT: During WWI, This was passed onto the public via, posters, political cartoons and The Committee of Public Information.
What is Propaganda?
The issue of slavery and its expansion.
What is the cause of the Civil War?
The economic arrangement wherein some formerly enslaved stayed on their plantations and worked a section of a field.
What is Sharecropping?
A massacre of Indigenous women and children by US troops.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
A journalist who spends their time reporting on the dregs of society, focusing on the worst things happening
What is a Muckraker?
When workers act together in negotiating new contracts for higher wages and better working conditions.
What is Collective Bargaining?
This muckraker took photos of the poverty-stricken conditions of the urban poor during the turn of the century
Who is Jacob Riis?
The queen of this Pacific island was overthrown with the support of American businessmen before it became a state in the US.
What is Hawaii?
Brought an end to WWI.
Imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large repartitions.
Included the League of Nations.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
General for the Union, used a strategy of total war when campaigning in GA.
William T. Sherman
President Johnson was impeached because he violated __________.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
A religious movement used for the restoration of Indigenous lands and the return of the buffalo as a resource.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
This muckraker was responsible for the creation of the FDA, when they reported on Chicago meat packing plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
A radical political theory opposing all forms of government in favor of self-governing communities.
What is Anarchism?
This president was responsible for the passing of the FDA, increased antitrust legislation, and the creation of many of the nation's national parks.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
To protect the newly built canal and other U.S. interests in the Caribbean, Teddy Roosevelt issued an addendum to the Monroe Doctrine stating the U.S. will use force to protect Latin American nations.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Demanded by President Wilson that it be included in the Treaty of Versailles.
Had no real army and depended on the goodwill of its members.
It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate
What is The League of Nations?