This Amendment Ended Slavery in the U.S. making it illegal to own another human being. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the 13th Amendment?
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
The President who created the New Deal
FDR
The event that directly led the U.S. to enter WWII.
Peral Harbor
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; started the Spanish American War.
What is 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 ______________ __________plan wanted to give freed slaves homesteads, economic independence, and the right to vote. (Hint: This plan wanted to punish the South.)
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Changed life on the Great Plains by fencing off land which impacted the nomadic life of the Plains Indians.
What is Barbed Wire?
Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while also making it stronger and more durable.
What is Bessemer Process?
The nickname for shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
The U.S. response act that allowed sending weapons to Allied nations before joining the war.
Lend-Lease Act
Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
What is a muckraker?
A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.
What is Yellow Journalism?
What is neutrality?
All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens; all citizens have equal protection under the law. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the 14th Amendment?
Crazy Horse fought General Custer killing him and 300 soldiers. It was one of the last Native American victories over U.S. troops.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Thomas Edison invented ________
Henry Ford invented _____
What is Light Bulb?
What is Model T
The environmental disaster that forced many farmers to migrate westward.
Dust Bowl
Name the 4 dictators of the axis powers in WWII
Adolf Hitler-Germany
Benito Mussolini- Italy
Hideki Tojo - Japan
Jospeh Stalin-Soviet Union
This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S.
What is The De Lome Letter?
A coded message sent by the German Foreign Minister to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).
A welfare agency created to provide aid, school, healthcare, and clothing to poor whites and newly freed slaves
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Threatened the survival of Indian culture.
A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes), and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.
What is the Dawes Act?
A Captain of Industry who wrote the book, "The Gospel of Wealth" and made his fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A cultural and artistic explosion of African American talent in Harlem, New York.
Harlem Rennaissance
The project that developed the atomic bomb in the U.S.
Manhattan Project
Taken together, these increased the power of voters in the political process.
What is initiative, recall, and referendum?
Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
The widespread migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War intended to deny former slaves their full civil rights.
What are Black Codes?
The last major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans in which an overwhelming force of U.S. soldiers killed over 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Indians. (Hint: Ghost Dance)
What is Wounded Knee?
What led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The controversial trial that debated evolution vs. creationism in schools.
Scopes Monkey Trial
The name of the day Allied troops invaded Normandy, France.
D-Day
A civil rights group founded in 1909 to work to end racial discrimination.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
A treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that gave the U.S. increased control over the island in order to protect U.S. interests in the Caribbean.
What is the Platt Amendment?
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 repartations.
Included the League of Nations.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
President Johnson was impeached because he violated __________.
What was the Tenure of Office Act.
Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore
Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own
Connected the East Coast with the West Coast
What is the railroad industry?
This California based immigration center processed immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
The program that established retirement pensions and unemployment benefits.
Social Security
These camps held Japanese Americans during the war out of fear of spying.
Interment Camps
Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools.
What are Jim Crow laws?
A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
An international peacekeeping organization that was part of President Wilson Fourteen Points.
It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate
What is The League of Nations?