The Civil War
He was president during the Civil War
What is Abraham Lincoln?
One of the many reasons that immigrants and rural dwellers moved to cities
What are jobs?
Area in Central America bought by the United States from Panama for $10 million dollars
What is Panama Canal Zone?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is Propaganda?
President of the United States during World War II
What is FDR?
The main reason for the Civil War
What is slavery?
Island in New York City where many immigrants arrived
What is Ellis Island?
The belief that the U.S. would inevitably expand throughout the American continent because that was its fate
What is Manifest Destiny?
Symbol used to represent the U.S. government, usually in propaganda posters
What is Uncle Sam?
The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews. A word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire"
What is The Holocaust?
Name of an important speech given by Abraham Lincoln
What is A House Divided?
Cities are known as urban areas, the country side is known as
What is rural?
School where Native American children were being assimilated into the American mainstream
What is Carlisle Indian School?
Period of economic hardship that affected the United States and countries around the world
What is The Great Depression?
What is Benito Mussolini?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment were written during this period
What is Reconstruction?
Name of a book written by Jacob Riis
What is "How the Other Half Lives?"
The Spanish American War started because of this type of journalism.
What is yellow journalism?
A note where Germany offers to support Mexico if they invade the United States
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Government programs with the goals of Relief, Recovery, and Reform
What is The New Deal?
Laws enacted in the South after the Reconstruction
What is Jim Crow?
The process by which a people give up their heritage, customs, and language in order to fit in with another group.
What is assimilation?
Two territories acquired by the U.S. during the expansion era
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
MAIN causes of World War I
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
What is Winston Churchill?