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100
What event helped Lincoln win the presidential election of 1864?
Sherman took Atlanta
100
It was led by John Brown to start a slave revolt.
The raid on Harper's Ferry
100
Mr. Polk believed in this concept when pursuing a war with Mexico.
Manifest Destiny
100
What political party was formed by mostly farmers in the late 19th century?
Populist Party
100
It was the era of Louis Armstrong, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Charleston.
Jazz Age
200
What group led Congress in overriding President Andrew Johnson 15 times?
Radical Republicans
200
He was the leader of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
200
The US wanted this in order to keep trading with China.
Open Door Policy
200
This Amendment allowed the federal government to replace tariffs with an income tax to fund the federal government.
16th Amendment
200
He was widely critisized for not vetoing the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, keeping the US on the gold standard, and raising taxes.
Herbert Hoover
300
The North was based on a federal system.  What type of system was the South based on?
Confederacy
300
He debated Lincoln seven times.
Stephen Douglas
300
It was President Taft's foreign policy.
Dollar Diplomacy
300
The name given to the ban on alcohol instituted by the 18th Amendment.
Prohibition
300
This agency was created to insure bank deposits.  It is still around today.
FDIC
400
Which President supported the 15th Amendment, the 1875 Civil Rights Act, and cracked down on the KKK?
Ulysses S. Grant
400
This party would allow slavery in the existing states but not in the new territories to the west.
Free Soil Party
400
It gave the US the right to interfere in Cuba's affairs.
Platt Amendment
400
Identify one positive of mass immigration in the late 19th century.
steady supply of cheap workers and lots of people to buy new products
400
The name given to FDR's agencies to help people during the Depression.
The alphabet agencies
500
Identify one reason why the Southern states seceded.
states rights, fear of Lincoln, fear for the traditional southern economy
500
This Act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
What event brought the US prestige but did little to stop the build up of navies in the 1930s?
Washington Naval Conferences
500
What political party did Theodore Roosevelt represent in the election of 1912?
Bull Moose Party
500
This New Deal program was designed to help the elderly.  It is still around today.
Social Security