Politics
What are Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This president created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which gave young men jobs planting trees and improving parks during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The three people that explored Louisiana territory
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea
Social trends during the 1920s
what are flappers, jazz, speakeasies, F. Scott Fitzgerald – Great Gatsby, Harlem Renaissance?
In 1986 the event where US sold military equipment to Iran for helping free Americans held hostage.
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
The act following 9/11 that enhanced surveillance across the US
What is the Patriot Act?
This 1930s ecological disaster, caused by drought and poor farming techniques on the Great Plains, forced thousands of migrant families westward.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What are South America, Caribbean, Mexico, FL, and SW region of N. America?
the book which focused on nasty conditions of meat industry
What is "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?
The 1935 act that prohibited shipments of arms to either side in a war-US is neutral/isolated
What is the Neutrality Acts?
Jefferson forbade any American ship to leave port for any foreign nation. Hoped that British trade would be hurt so they would stop violating the neutral rights of the U.S. The act backfired and resulted in a brief economic depression.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
This river was heavily polluted for years and famously caught fire in 1969, helping inspire environmental reforms.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
The place where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant.
Where is Appotomax Court House?
authorized the U.S. President to break up tribal reservation land into small, individual allotments (usually 160 acres for households) to promote farming and assimilate Native Americans into Western culture. It resulted in the loss of roughly 90 million acres of tribal land, which was sold to non-native settlers
What is The Dawes Act of 1887?
This was the name of the belief that America should colonize in order to help bring civilization to less developed countries
What is Social Darwinism?
The judge that worked against the separate but equal policies from Plessy v. Ferguson
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Created in 1872, this was the first national park in the United States and is often considered the first national park in the world.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
President that signed a resolution on July 7, 1898, and the formal transfer of Hawaiian sovereignty to the United States took place in Honolulu on August 12, 1898.
Who is President McKinley?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
What is the populist movement?
This 1919 agreement included Article X establishing collective security through the League of Nations, a provision that helped lead to its rejection by the U.S. Senate.
What is the Treat of Versailles?
Added to the Monroe Doctrine to make the US an international police power
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This 1906 law, signed during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, gave presidents the power to create national monuments without congressional approval.
What is the Antiquities Act of 1906?
The guy that bought Alaska for the US
Who is William Seward?
This 1925 trial in Tennessee highlighted the clash between modern science and traditional religious values when a teacher was charged for teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
US naval commodore whose job it was to rebuild Japan after dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Who is Douglas McArthur?