Settlement/Colonization
What colonial region was founded for religious freedom?
New England
___________ directly led to secession: South Carolina broke away from the rest of the United States, with the rest of the Confederacy soon following.
Lincoln's Election of 1860
What group was founded by W.E.B. DuBois in response to the Plessy V. Ferguson case in order to fight for Civil Rights?
NAACP
What was the British ship sunk in 1915, where hundreds of civilians, including Americans, were killed?
Lusitania
Reaganomics (Trickle-Down Economics)
What colonial region was the most diverse?
In what battle did the Union gain control over the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two?
What was the first monopoly in the United States?
Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company
What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI?
The Fourteen Points
Watergate Scandal
What was mercantilism?
Everything had to benefit the mother country/England
The 14th Amendment stated that no person should be denied of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. What Supreme Court case happened prior to the Civil War that made this amendment necessary?
Dred Scott V. Sanford
What group of immigrants built the railroad system in the United States?
Chinese (and some Irish)
What was the pattern of African American movement from share-cropping in the South to factory jobs in the North as white men left to fight in WWI?
The Great Migration
Clinton was the second president to experience this; mainly due to power struggle with Congress.
What was the Great Awakening and why was it important in relation to the Revolution?
Religious revival movement that encouraged the colonists to question traditional authority(like the government).
How was Congressional Reconstruction different than Presidential Reconstruction?
Congressional Reconstruction wanted to punish the South for the Civil War and wanted to add Freedman's Bureau.
What company was known for developing monopolies through vertical and horizontal integration?
Carnegie Steel
D-day was the Allied invasion of __________________ in order to _________________________.
Normandy, France to push German forces back to Germany.
What president pardoned Nixon?
Gerald Ford
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
What was the significance of the Compromise of 1877?
It ended Reconstruction.
What was founded by Samuel Gompers and was the first major labor union in the United States?
American Federation of Labor
What actually ended WWI but set the stage for WWII by blaming Germany, closing down their industry, and requiring millions of dollars of reparations from Germany to the Allied victors?
Treaty of Versailles
What President developed a friendly relationship with China?
Nixon