American Civics
This is one power of the federal government
▪ to print money ▪ to declare war ▪ to create an army ▪ to make treaties
Three of the five wars we fought in the 1900s
▪ World War I ▪ World War II ▪ Korean War ▪ Vietnam War ▪ (Persian) Gulf War
A movement tried to end racial discrimination
Civil Rights
This unofficial agreement resulted in the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes, and the removal of northern republicans and federal troops from the South in the late 1800s
The Compromise of 1877
Upton Sinclair's 1914 exposé of the meat packing industry
The Jungle
▪ Everyone must follow the law.
▪ Leaders must obey the law.
▪ Government must obey the law.
▪ No one is above the law.
The "Rule of Law"
Born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, this person became a champion of the women's suffrage movement working alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
One of the two longest rivers in the United States
Missouri (River) ▪ Mississippi (River)
The process of farmers using profits to pay-off incurred debt.
Crop Lien Cycle
Name of the regiment Teddy Roosevelt led in the Spanish-American War
Rough Riders
A change or addition to the Constitution
Amendment
This man was a five star general in WWII before becoming a U.S. president in 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower
6 national holidays
▪ New Year’s Day ▪ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ▪ Presidents’ Day ▪ Memorial Day ▪ Independence Day ▪ Labor Day ▪ Columbus Day ▪ Veterans Day ▪ Thanksgiving ▪ Christmas
1887 legislation that prohibited collective land ownership, sold off excess reservation land, and abolish Native American tribes.
Dawes Act
Winner of 1912 presidential campaign in a race against Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
This sector of congress has 435 voting members in office
The House of Representatives
The United States main concern during the Cold War
Communism
Name three federally recognized Indian tribes
Cherokee ▪ Navajo ▪ Sioux ▪ Chippewa ▪ Choctaw ▪ Pueblo ▪ Apache ▪ Iroquois ▪ Creek ▪ Blackfeet ▪ Seminole ▪ Cheyenne ▪ Arawak ▪ Shawnee ▪ Mohegan ▪ Huron ▪ Oneida ▪ Lakota ▪ Crow ▪ Teton ▪ Hopi ▪ Inui
The belief that you have to make sacrifices and to quench existential threat and bring on a better world and life.
Millenarianism
Constructed in 1886 and led by Samuel L. Gompers, this organization was an alternative to the socialist Knight of Labor Union and worked to expand workers' rights and power.
American Federation of Labor
This person serves as president if both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve
the Speaker of the House
Territory United States buy from France in 1803
▪ the Louisiana Territory ▪ Louisiana
Three federally recognized American Indian tribes
▪ Cherokee ▪ Navajo ▪ Sioux ▪ Chippewa ▪ Choctaw ▪ Pueblo ▪ Apache ▪ Iroquois ▪ Creek ▪ Blackfeet ▪ Seminole ▪ Cheyenne ▪ Arawak ▪ Shawnee ▪ Mohegan ▪ Huron ▪ Oneida ▪ Lakota ▪ Crow ▪ Teton ▪ Hopi ▪ Inuit
The New Mexican Horticulturist Fabian Garcia is most famous for cultivating this crop
Green Chile
This African American and Women's Right suffragist spent her time at the 1893 Columbian exposition with Frederick Douglass handing out pamphlets to protest the exclusion of Blacks
Ida B. Wells-Barnett