US History 1
What were the names of the 2 main places immigrants passed through? ("Islands")
What is Ellis Island & Angel Island?
The term that refers to the policy of building empires by imposing political and economic control over peoples around the world.
What is Imperialism?
This person urged African Americans to fight discrimination actively rather than to patiently submit to it. He established the NAACP.
Who is WEB DuBois?
Who wrote the Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Complete ownership or control of the entire supply of goods or a service in a certain market.
What is a Monopoly?
Name 2 causes of WWl?
What are imperialism, nationalism, militarism & alliances?
who was in charge of the NYC Tammany Hall political machine?
Who was William Tweed?
Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
What is reporter/writer that exposes filth of society
What is a Muckraker?
Who was responsible for coming up with the phrase the "Gilded Age" to describe the late 1800s?
Who was Mark Twain?
This journalist's newspapers became famous for its yellow journalism (name the journalist).
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (such as Vanderbilt and Carnegie)
Who is a Robber Baron?
What is the name of the document that was intercepted between Germany and Mexico and encouraged Mexico to attack the US (during WWI)?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
?fear of communism, socialism, and anarchism in the 1920's
What was the Red Scare?
Which event in 1914 sparked the beginning of WWI?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What was the term used to describe the states that had divided loyalties during the Civil War (Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky)?
What are Border States?
What was the name of the structures where many immigrants lived in cities.
What is a tenement?
What does the 13th Amendment accomplish?
What is Abolishes slavery?
What was the name of FDR's plan to pull the USA out of the Great Depression?
What is the New Deal?
What event was referred to when FDR described it as "A day that will live in infamy"?
What is the Bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Who was the Union General that acted too cautiously during the Civil War (much to Lincoln's dismay)?
Who was General George McClellan?
This battle is known as the turning point in the Civil War because after this battle, Gen. Lee was forced to fight a defensive war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Who were the three main "captains of industry"
Who are Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller?
The treaty ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Which event caused France and Great Britain to declare war on Germany (WW2)
What is the invasion of Poland by Germany?