Unit 1
What president's election led Southerners to believe that he would be to their institutions leading to secession?
Abraham Lincoln
Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?
women’s suffrage
Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in ____ in 1853 & organized a treaty that opened trade to the United States.
Tokyo Bay, Japan
This individuals movement fell apart due to having no effective leadership after he was deported to Jamaica.
Marcus Garvey
The delegate who designed the Virginia Plan and became known as the “Father of the Constitution”
James Madison
Anti-federalists disliked the Constitution because it did not include a
Bill of rights.
The growth of a ___ caused the expansion of higher education.
middle class
He led the attack at Manila Bay which was ruled by Spain, and destroyed ships belonging to the Spanish.
Commodore George Dewey
As the 1920s progressed, what happened to farm incomes?
Declined
A single corporation that controls an entire industry.
Monopoly.
After what Union victory did the South not attempt another invasion of the North during the Civil War.
Gettysburg
By assigning stock to a board and then combining the stocks into a new organization, companies form a
trust.
A volunteer cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War.
Rough Riders
In 1933, Congress repealed Prohibition with the __ Amendment.
President Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy.
“Moral Diplomacy”
The ___ appeased southern states by counting each slave as three-fifths of a person.
Great Compromise
What labor organizations slogan was “Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, eight hours for what we will”?
American Federation of Labor
The 1898 Treaty of Paris dealt with which territory or territories? (State 1 of the 3)
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines
African Americans in the 1920s faced discrimination, especially in the South, where the __ laws were in effect.
Jim Crow
African American leader who urged African Americans to demand immediate recognition of their rights.
W.E.B. DuBois
Many political leaders wanted to change the ___ because it reserved too much power for the states.
Articles of Confederation
Upton Sinclair’s novel ___described the living and working conditions in Chicago’s stockyards during the Progressive Era.
The Jungle
What new relationship with Hawaii did Congress approve in 1898?
Annexation
What led to the growth of organized crime by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity
Prohibition
A statement intended to protect the Americas from European interference.
Monroe Doctrine