Civil War & Reconstruction
(1850s-1870s)
(1850s-1870s)
1 - The President of the Confederacy
2 - First State to Secede from the Union
1 - Jefferson Davis
2 - South Carolina
1 - Business leader who seen as philanthropic & beneficial to society.
2 - Business leader who was seen as taking advantage of their workers, requiring long working hours and providing little pay.
1 - Captains of Industry
2 - Robber Barons
Territories acquired after the Spanish American War (3)
Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
1 - Program created that would allow for Veterans to have paid secondary education & get mortgage loans.
2 - Term used to describe the rise in population during the 1950's.
1 - GI Bill
2 - Baby Boom
What year did the "world wide web" open?
1989
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Ending of Slavery, Equal Representation Under the Law, Race Suffrage
1 - Credited for inventing the lightbulb.
2 - Credited for inventing the telegraph.
1 - Edison
2 - Morse
A style of journalism used to actively promote war fever in the United States. Used during the Spanish American War.
Yellow Journalism.
Program created by Reagan to protect the United States from nuclear missile attacks.
Strategic Defense Initiative "Star Wars"
Identify the nation that the US invaded AFTER the 9/11 attacks on American soil.
Iraq
Acted as a welfare program by providing food, shelter, aid for African American's during & after the Civil War - President Johnson later vetoed additional funding during Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
1 - When companies would buy up all of the necessary resources in order to produce their good.
2 - When companies would increase their production by merging their company w/ others that produce similar, or the same, type of good.
1 - Vertical Integration
2 - Horizontal Integration
Three specific reasons for the United States' involvement in WWI.
Zimmerman Telegraph, Russian Revolution, German submarine warfare
The number of Presidents that held office during the Cold War.
9
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush1
What industry crashed that caused economic turmoil in 2007/2008?
What is this referred to as?
Real Estate
Great Recession
An individual from the North who went to the South in search of cheap economic opportunities.
Carpetbagger
Strike that occurred in regards to a Labor Union pushing for better wages and fair working hours. Focused in Chicago IL, known for producing sleeping railroad cars. Led by Eugene V. Debs.
Pullman Strike
Program used to create the atomic bomb for the Americans.
What city was it organized in?
Manhattan Project
Chicago
The 3 policies the US used to "fight" the Soviets and Socialism during the Cold War.
Containment, Détente, Military Budget Increase
What year was Mr. Boudreau born?
What year was Mr. Emerson born?
1998
1990
The state that had the MOST amount of Civil War battles.
Virginia
Granted farmers 160 acres of land if they moved west to farm. They had to stay their for 5 years. Problems occurred such as poor soil & harsh conditions.
Homestead Act
The city in which the "Big 3" met to discuss the issues that remained after World War II.
Yalta
Define glasnost & perestroika
What Soviet leader used these methods?
"Openness" "Reform"
Gorbachev
"Hanging Chad"
Which state & what election coined these terms?
Incomplete ballot
Florida, 2000