Civil War
Name 2 causes of the Civil War.
Slavery, Sectionalism, State Rights, Western Expansion, Breakdown of Compromise
What did they call a person that moved from the North to the South for political or economic gain?
Carpetbagger
What did they call newspaper articles that overexaggerated the truth in order to gain support for the Spanish American War?
Yellow Journalism
Name two Big Businessmen.
Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan
What type of warfare was used during WWI?
Trench warfare
Name at least 1 of the compromises that broke down.
Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850
What term means to be permanently in debt to a person, in this case a land owner?
Debt Peonage
What was the immediate cause of the Spanish American War?
Sinking of the USS Maine off the coast of Cuba (Blame the Maine on Spain)
What type of monopoly eliminated the middle man and controlled the entire product making process?
Vertical Integration
What new inventions were created and used during WWI?
Planes, Tanks, Machine Guns, Chemical Weapons, Uboats
What was the plan used by the North to surround and cut off supplies to the South?
Anaconda Plan
Who was in charge of the Congressional Reconstruction plan?
Radical Republicans
Why did Teddy Roosevelt help liberate Panama from Colombia?
Panama Canal
What were writers called that wrote books to change societal problems such as meat packaging, slums, etc. in the cities?
Muckrakers
What was the immediate cause for US to enter WWI?
Sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegraph
Why did the North have the advantage during the war?
More industry, more people, moral fortitude
Because Johnson's reconstruction plan was so forgiving to the South, what discriminatory laws were passed in the South?
Black Codes
Who was the historian that suggested that in order for the US to be an Imperial power, they needed a modern Navy?
Alfred T Mahan
What strike occurred at the Carnegie steel plant headquarters that caused Pinkertons to fire upon the crowd in a riot?
Homestead Strike
What were some of the long term causes of WWI?
Militarism, Nationalism, Secret Treaties
What document did Abraham Lincoln create that freed slaves in any Confederate State occupied by the Union?
Emancipation Proclamation
What ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877, the election of Rutherford B Hayes
What was the document called that Roosevelt added to the Monroe Doctrine that made the US a police power in Latin America?
Roosevelt Corollary
What strike disrupted railroad businesses and caused the President to send out the National Guard to put it down?
Pullman Strike
What was the article in the Treaty of Versailles that was so controversial and blamed the entire war on Germany?
Article X