Popular Movements
In the 1960's, African Americans fought for these when the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing segregation wasn't enough
What is Civil Rights?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
This chemical weapon and other chemical weapons like it were banned following the war's conclusion with the signing of the Geneva conventions
What is Mustard Gas?
A period of global recession on a very large scale, mobilizing the American economy for war was what finally brought us out of this in 1939
What is the Great Depression?
The Emancipation Proclamation orated in 1863, shifted the original primary focus of the war from keeping the Union together to this
What is Ending Slavery?
Running for the presidency three times, this "Great Compromiser" was one of the founder of the Whig Party specifically designed to oppose his Democratic rival Andrew Jackson
Who is Henry Clay?
This political ideology favored new reform movements like temperance, trust busting, reducing class disparity, and spark political changes in the government; presidents who practiced policies of these ideas included Taft, Teddy Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson
What is Progressivism?
This treaty was signed in 1919 France at the conclusion of the war and sent Germany into a depression which eventually led to WWII
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This government institution was first created by Alexander Hamilton in 1791, but Andrew Jackson stopped supporting it in 1833 and he removed all federal funds from it as a result
What is the National Bank?
Four and a half months after a battle of the same name, president Lincoln gave this address for "a new birth of freedom"
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Who is William Jennings Bryan
This "People's Party" was made up of largely farmers and the movement favored the nationalization of railroads, a graduated income tax, and most prominently the unlimited coinage of silver
What is the Populist Movement?
Many historians site the death of this Austrian Archduke as the main catalyst for the start of the war
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
This man created the New Deal programs in order to help pull the US out of the Depression and expanded government socioeconomic programs while he was in office
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The single bloodiest one day battle in US military history, the conclusion of this conflict gave Abraham Lincoln the military victory he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam
This third American Vice President lost to his Democratic Republican opponent Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800, he also went on to fatally wound another Founding Father in a duel and was eventually arrested for treason after moving West
Who is Aaron Burr?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
After the first movement starting in the 1730s, this sequel to the original religious revival movement lasted from about 1795-1835
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This type of warfare was popularized in this war, it involved soldiers sitting in an easily defensible position and making little to no progress along a massive battlefield each day
What is Trench Warfare?
Because of the bursting of the housing bubble and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, this event in 2008 put the US economy into a brief recession
What is the Stock Market Crash of 2008?
This man led a brutal campaign into the South, burning all crops and towns in his way, referred to as his March to the Sea
Who is Sherman?
After multiple contested Florida recounts and a drawn electoral vote, this Democratic Vice President narrowly lost to his Republican opponent George W. Bush via a 5-4 Supreme Court decision in 2000
Who is Al Gore?
While most American adults suburbanized and formed a unified, completely alike civilian culture, the American youths formed this in response
What is Counter Culture?
The leaders of Great Britain, Russia, and Germany were all direct or indirect descendants of this queen of the United Kingdom; a whole era was named after her!
Who is Queen Victoria?
In 1837, widespread speculation and the bank run that followed caused some historians to point to Andrew Jackson as one of the main causes for this near 7 year recession
What is the Panic of 1837?
This pair of Union generals each had something named after them following the war's conclusion, the former for his beautiful beard style, and the latter for the multiple camp followers he liked to keep in his company
Who are Burnside and Hooker?
At 50.9% of the popular vote, this man is the only presidential candidate to have ever won a total popular majority and still lose, he also had 184 electoral votes, just one shy of a majority, but a Congressional bipartisan committee with a one seat Republican advantage selected his opponent Rutherford B. Hayes as the victor of the 1876 election instead
Who is Samuel Tilden?