A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
What is Sharecropping
100
The belief that it is Americans’ God given right to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
This federal agency puts land aside to protect natural resources.
What is The National Park Service
100
The belief that the United States should stay out of world events
What is Isolationism
100
A system of government that has total control.
What is Totalitarianism
200
This was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
What is the 14th Amendment
200
More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears
200
A novel that portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century.
What is The Jungle
200
Devotion to one's country
What is nationalism
200
The dictator of Italy,communist, axis powers
Who is Benito Mussolini
300
The only time that congress overrode the president’s veto with a ⅔’s vote.
What is the Civil Rights Bill
300
The treaty signed by the U.S. and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican-American War; Mexico had to give up much of its northern territory to the U.S (Mexican Cession); in exchange the U.S. gave Mexico $15 million.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
The outlawing of the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol.
What is Prohibition or 18th Amendment
300
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
What is Lusitania
300
Dec 7 1941; Japanese attack American naval base and airforces in Oahu; US declares war on japan, Italy and Germany declare war on US
What is Pearl Harbor Attack
400
These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What are the Black Codes
400
This was an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states. Slavery is prohibited in the lands north of latitude 36°30.
What is the Missouri Compromise
400
Complete control of the entire supply of goods or of a service in a certain area or market.
What is a monopoly
400
A message from the German foreign secretary to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany
What is Zimmermann Telegram
400
Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
What is Axis Powers
500
The ruling determined that segregation of black and white was legal in the United States.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
500
A U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
500
The right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office.
What is Women's Suffrage or 19th Amendment
500
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
What is Treaty of Versailles
500
The policy of making concessions in order to avoid conflict.