Unit 1 Civil War & Reconstruction
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared that Congress banning slavery in the territories was unconstitutional
A. Dred Scott v. Sandford
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Brown v. Board of Education
What is the Dred Scott Decision/Dred Scott v. Sandford
Organization created in the Gilded Age that pushed to ban alcohol throughout the US and succeeded with the 18th Amendment
A. Social Gospel Movement
B. Women's Christian Temperance Union
C. Populist Party
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Which of the main motivations for Imperialism made the US want more things like coal, oil, iron, lumber, etc.?
A. Natural resources
B. Larger Navy
C. Social Darwinism
What are natural resources
This message from Germany to Mexico promised Mexico some of their lost territories in the West if Mexico joined WWI against the US but caused the US to join the war against Germany
A. Zimmerman Note/Telegram
B. The Enigma Code
C. Lee's Correspondence Letter
What was the Zimmerman Note
This government plan sought to make money for the US by investing in Germany to pay off their war reparations for WWI.
A. Dawes Plan
B. German Partition
C. 14 Points
What was the Dawes Plan
This railroad tycoon led the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway that stretched from Jacksonville to Miami and eventually Key West
A. Henry Flagler
B. Henry Plant
C. Henry Ford
Who was Henry Flagler
Term meaning putting the interests of your state or region over the rest of the country. Further divided the North and South prior to the Civil War.
A. Popular Sovereignty
B. Sectionalism
C. Nationalism
What is sectionalism
Organizations in the Gilded Age that rigged elections and politics through bribery and favors.
A. Labor Unions
B. Political Parties
C. Political Machines
What are Political Machines
This ideology led many Americans to believe that imperialism was a moral good by bringing technology and "civilization" to lesser people.
A. Social Gospel
B. Social Darwinism
C. Social Distancing
What was Social Darwinism
This strategy included sending battleships with merchant ships as a group across the Atlantic Ocean to keep them safe from U-boats.
A. Trench Warfare
B. Creeping Barrage
C. Convoy System
What was the Convoy System
This new way to buy goods in the 1920s made is so consumers could pay for an expensive product by paying in smaller amounts month to month rather than all at once.
A. Credit
B. Buying on the Margin
C. Installment Plans
What are Installment Plans?
This railroad tycoon led the construction of the Florida West Coast Railway that stretched from Tallahassee to Tampa to Fort Myers
A. Henry Flagler
B. Henry Plant
C. Henry Ford
Who was Henry Plant
Laws passed throughout the South after Reconstruction that enforced segregation and exploited loopholes in the 14th and 15th Amendments restricting freedmen from voting.
A. Black Codes
B. Jim Crow Laws
C. Nadir
What were Jim Crow Laws
Law passed in 1882 that heavily restricted immigration from China for decades.
A. Chinese Exclusion Act
B. Gentlemen's Agreement from Japan
C. Emergency Quota Act
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act
This form of writing overexaggerates stories to gain more readers and led to more support for war with Spain in 1898.
A. Red Readers
B. Blue Writing
C. Yellow Journalism
What is Yellow Journalism
This Supreme Court Case in 1918 challenged the Sedition Act, but the court ruled in favor of the Act citing national security being more important than individual freedoms in war time.
A. Plessy V. Ferguson
B. Schenck v. United States
C. Korematsu v. United States
What was Schenck v. United States
A. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
B. Scopes "Monkey" Trial
C. McCarthy Trials
What was the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
This name was given to the scramble for real estate in Florida in the mid 1920s but crashed due to overspeculation in 1927
A. Florida Land Boom
B. Florida Real Estate Boom
C. Florida Beach Boom
What was the Florida Land Boom
Laws passed throughout the South after the Civil War that heavily restricted the rights of freedmen. Very little difference with the slave laws before the war.
A. Jim Crow Laws
B. Nadir
C. Black Codes
What were the Black Codes
Law passed in 1890 that cracked down on the power of monopolies in the US economy and politics.
A. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
B. Interstate Commerce Act
C. Pendleton Act
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Waterway built over Central America that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Heavily funded by the US for economic and strategic purposes.
A. Panama Canal
B. Suez Canal
C. Erie Canal
What is the Panama Canal
This group of Americans saw their language, food, and culture suppressed because the US was at war with their country in WWI
A. Mexican Americans
B. African Americans
C. German Americans
Who were German Americans
A. Suffragists
B. Flappers
C. Tempists
What are Flappers
This Florida city was the meeting point for the US Army and Navy, including Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, preparing to invade Cuba in the Spanish American War in 1898
A. Miami
B. Sarasota
C. Tampa
What is Tampa
Constitutional Amendment that established citizenship for freedmen and guarantees equal protection under the law.
A. 13th Amendment
B. 14th Amendment
C. 15th Amendment
What is the 14th Amendment
Book published in 1904 that described the disgusting conditions inside meat packing factories and led to Pres. Roosevelt passing the Meat Inspection Act.
A. The Shame of Cities
B. How the Other Half Lives
C. The Jungle
What was The Jungle
President Roosevelt's addition to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the US would use force if necessary in the Americas to keep our influence over the region stable.
A. Roosevelt Doctrine
B. Roosevelt Proclamation
C. Roosevelt Corollary
What was the Roosevelt Corollary
The US Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles because of this part of the League of Nations that required member nations to come to the aid of other member nations under attack.
A. Article 10
B. Section 5
C. Category 7
What was Article 10
This African American leader in the early 1900s advocated African Americans to get active in politics and push for immediate civil rights
A. Booker T. Washington
B. W.E.B. Du Bois
C. Marcus Garvey
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois
This Florida city was considered by film makers to be the new center of the film industry in the early 1900s, but was abandoned for Hollywood, CA instead.
A. Tampa
B. Jacksonville
C. Daytona Beach
What is Jacksonville