Civil War
This man was top commander of the southern army?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Period in U.S. history when the government acted to pass new laws and fix some of the problems brought on by Industrialization.
What is the Progressive Era?
This war was fought over Cuba, but the United States may have had its eye on expansion in the Philippines closer to Asia.
What is the Spanish-American War?
In the end it failed because the South wanted to keep return to repression of African-Americans and the north gave up trying to fix the South.
The U.S. plan to rebuild Western Europe after World War II?
What is the Marshall Plan?
Title of the government of the rebellious southern states.
What is the Confederate States of America?
The United States ______________ regulations on business and lowered taxes to make the economy boom during the Roaring 1920s.
What is decreased/lowered?
This man was the Supreme Allied Commander of World War II.
First African-American Baseball player in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This is the name of the military alliance between the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
What is NATO?
This man was president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
army of jobless vets who showed up to Washington demanding their benefits during the Great Depression. President Ordered ordered their camp removed from Capitol ground.
What is the Bonus Army?
Using the power of the American economy to conduct diplomacy.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Black Muslim minister who believed African-Americans should use whatever mean necessary to get their rights.
Who is Malcom X?
(Daily Double) During this event, President Truman ordered the military to fly supplies into West Berlin, because the Soviet Union had surrounded and cut off the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
(Daily Double) The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this location.
What is Fort Sumter?
These two men were oil and steel tycoons during the Industrial Revolution.
Who are Carnegie and Rockefeller?
Exaggerated or sensational news coverage.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This was the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This term was coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division of Europe after World War II.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Name two lasting results of the Civil War. (Not including northern victory.)
These "three R's" of the New Deal were intended to help Americans struggling through the Great Depression.
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
(Daily Double) This phenomena, considered one of the causes of both world wars, means extreme pride in one's country.
What is nationalism?
These two laws passed in 1964 and 1965 are considered a direct result of the work of the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.
What are the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act?
These two economic systems competed for supremacy during the Cold War.
What is communism and capitalism?