Pre-Civil War
The Trail of Tears occurred because the Cherokee in Georgia refused to follow this law, which targeted native Americans
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The greatest general of the Confederate army who kept the South competitive long after they should have been
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This president was forced to deal with Reconstruction when his predecessor was assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was created through persuasion of Pres. Roosevelt to improve trading between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
The name of the telegram that prompted the US to declare war on Germany
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
The creation of this in 1825 vastly improved transportation and trading in the state of New York and also made New York City grow into a economic powerhouse
What is the Erie Canal?
The main characteristic of this Reconstruction plan was to allow for an easy path for southern states to be readmitted into the union
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
Reporting on the explosion of the USS Maine was an example of this, which is exaggerated stories used to sell newspapers
What is yellow jouralism?
The ship destroyed by German U-boats who were practicing unrestricted submarine warfare
What is the Lusitania?
The name of the reform movement that encourage moderation in the consumption of alcohol
What is temperance?
The Compromise of 1850 created the Fugitive Slave Act, which pleased the south and made this new state free territory
What is California?
These are known as the "civil war amendments"
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
The term that could be used to describe US foreign policy after the Spanish American War, based on how many new territories were overtaken
What is imperialism?
The law forbidding anyone to speak out against the government during WWI
What is the Espionage Act?
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison were all major participants in this reform movement
What is abolitionism?
The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, was a suggestion that all new territory gained from this country would be free territory
What is Mexico?
Before they were called Jim Crow Laws, these early laws were aimed at resisting racial equality in southern states
What is Black Codes?
The name of Theodore Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry that fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
Who is the Rough Riders?
Due to this new idea, eastern European immigration was given a quota and far less were allowed into the US
What is the Red Scare?
Reform movements of the 1800's came about as a result of this religious movement, the second of its kind
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This incident in Maryland became the bloodiest one day battle in American history
What is Antietam?
The reason that the presidential election of 1876 marked the official end of Reconstruction. Democrats were willing to let Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes become president if this promise was made
What is that Union troops would finally leave the south?
This policy was added to the Monroe Doctrine and stated that the U.S. would get involved in all Latin American affairs whenever they saw it necessary
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The name of the treaty that ending WWI