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Feivel Goes West
Right Away!
Let's Be Civil
It is Your Destiny
Because I Said So
100
Under the Homestead Act, how could homesteaders gain title to the land?
They had to live there for five years
100
This Constitutional Amendment granted citizenship to anyone born/naturalized in the U.S. except American Indians
14th Amendment
100
He was the President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
100
This is "survival of the fittest" applied to humans
Social Darwinism
100
This was the exaggeration or fabrication of stories to sell more newspapers
Yellow Journalism
200
What invention closed off the open range?
Barbed wire
200
What did the 15th Amendment do for African American men?
Gave them the right to vote
200
What was the goal of President Lincoln at the beginning of the Civil War?
Preserve the Union
200
The belief that English speaking nations are superior
Anglo-Saxonism
200
Name given to Teddy Roosevelt's method of handling foreign affairs
Big-Stick Diplomacy
300
The process of farming when there is little to no rainfall
dry farming
300
This Constitutional Amendment gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
300
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
Antietam
300
Explain how the Platt Amendment violated the Treaty of Paris
It placed the U.S. in a position of power over Cuba while Cuba was supposed to be an independent country
300
What was the name for foreign policy where "dollars were substituted for bullets?"
Dollar diplomacy
400
This man struck it rich in Nevada when he discovered a silver lode
Comstock
400
Which Constitutional Amendment made slavery illegal in the U.S.?
13th Amendment
400
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
400
Name two territories the U.S. gained as a result of the Spanish-American War
Philippines, Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico
400
Explain how a political machine worked
Party boss would "aid" the poor in order to gain votes for the next election
500
What was known as Indian Territory is now what U.S. state?
Oklahoma
500
Abraham Lincoln suspended this right during the Civil War to prevent rebellion
Habeas Corpus
500
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the purpose of the war for the North?
It was now a war of liberation
500
What is a sphere of influence?
An area where a foreign nation controlled economic development
500
Who said, "Come here, Watson, I want you?"
Alexander Graham Bell