Maps and Expansion
What is a physical map used to show?
Geographic features like mountains, rivers, and elevation.
The issue of Federal power versus states' rights was a cause of which war?
Civil War
What event officially started the Civil War?
The attack on Fort Sumter
What is a monopoly?
Complete control of an industry by one company
What event caused the US to enter WWI?
Sinking of the Lusitania / Zimmermann Telegram
What is a political map used to show?
Borders, cities, countries, and states
What was the immediate effect of Lincoln's election?
Southern states began to secede
Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
What is the goal of labor unions?
better wages, better working conditions, better hours
What new German technology helped draw the US into WWI?
U-Boats / Submarines
What was the belief that the US had a divine right to expand westward?
Manifest destiny
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is total warfare and who used it during the Civil War?
Destroying all enemy resources; William T Sherman (Sherman's March to the Sea)
During 1880-1920, most immigrants came from this part of Europe.
Southern and Eastern Europe
What strategy did the US use to win battles in the Pacific in WWII?
Island Hopping
What was the major railroad that connected the East and West coasts?
Transcontinental Railroad
What supreme court case said African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott Case
What did the 13th amendment do?
Abolished Slavery
What is nativism?
What Japanese cities were bombed with atomic weapons?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This act gave land to settlers willing to move west to farm it.
Homestead Act
This man led a violent raid at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to end slavery.
John Brown
What were Black Codes designed to do during Reconstruction?
Limit the rights of African Americans
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
To ban Chinese immigration to the US
What did the Berlin Wall separate?
Communist East Berlin from Democratic West Berlin