Enslaved people in states still fighting the Union were freed by the
What is Emancipation Proclamation
100
This form of transportation opened up the west and was the inspiration for that great song "I've been working on the....".
What is the railroad
100
This man's invention helped cities get electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison
100
This time period was so named because wealthy people lived well and spent a great deal of money.
What is the Gilded Age
100
During the Spanish-American war one of the U.S. battleships took so long to get there they almost missed the war. This lead to Roosevelt's desire to build what short-cut?
What is the Panama Canal
200
Five days after the Civil War ended, President Lincoln was assassinated by a Confederate supporter named
Who is John Wilkes Booth
200
The federal government hoped that setting aside these areas of land would help solve difficulties with the Native Americans.
What are reservations
200
John D. Rockefeller had almost entire control of all of the oil industry. This form of control is also the name of a very famous, endless game.
What is monopoly.
200
These forward thinking people wanted their members to solve political and social problems through working together with the government.
Who are Progressives
200
During WWI Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were know as this group.
What is the Central Powers
300
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments said that the federal government had more power to protect the rights of minorities especially
What is African Americans
300
There were three major ways of making a living on the Great Plains.
What were ranching, farming and mining
300
The Exclusion Act was an example of what kind of feeling?
What is Nativism
300
Thanks to the Nineteenth Amendment women gained this right.
What is the vote
300
President Wilson and his congress where not to happy with this document, not only because Germany had to take all the blame. They also did not like that Germany had to pay billions of dollars they did not have.
What is the Treaty of Versailles.
400
This plan, created by Lincoln, allowed the former Confederate states to rejoin the Union
What is Reconstruction
400
Thanks to the Homestead Act and the transcontinental railroad, this area of the U.S. was rapidly settled.
What is the Great Plains
400
This strike, which could easily be called pushperson, resulted in a riot.
What is the Pullman Strike
400
Because of trade with China and Japan, the U.S.wanted this place to "gas" up.
What is Pearl Harbor
400
Though it sounds like a heart condition this is actually a document, added to the Monroe Doctrine, giving the U.S. the right to interfere in the affairs of other countries in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary.
500
Due to the inability of Reconstruction to protect civil rights over a long time period, Congress had to add these three changes to our Constitution
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.
500
This group of homesteaders was created to help one another through hard times.
What is the Grange
500
A leader in the movement for equal rights for African Americans who met with other leaders to form a protest.
(not Spiderman)
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
500
The Progressives felt that this teddy bear of a president was helpful in getting their reforms pushed through.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt.
500
Who knew that this little piece of paper, from one German diplomat to another in Mexico, would throw our country into war.