Charles Lindbergh
Versailles
Dates of the Reconstruction Era
[1865-1877]
This Constitutional amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol.
18th Amendment
The explosion that destroyed this ship in Havana's harbor enraged Americans and contributed to the Spanish American War
U.S.S. Maine
The assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie to _________ River
Hudson
What year did the Titanic sink?
1912
This act essentially nullified the Missouri Compromise by allowing western settlers to decide on the issue of slavery for themselves.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Era from 1865-1900, according to Samuel Clemens, was known as the _______________.
Gilded Age
Discovered multiple uses for the sweet potato, peanut and soybean
George Washington Carver
Custer's Last Stand a.k.a. The Battle of __________
Little Bighorn
The year that Alexander Graham Bell patented his first telephone.
1876
This act, approved by Congress in March 1941, gave the President sweeping powers to lend or lease war supplies to any non-belligerent nation.
Lend Lease Act
Founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton (Angel of the Battlefield)
Family name for those who built the Brooklyn Bridge
Roebling (John, Washington, and Emily)
Single bloodiest day of the Civil War took place at the Battle of _____________
Antietam
What is the full date of the assassination of JFK?
November 22, 1963
This legislation both ended Reconstruction in the South while simultaneously finalizing the Election of 1876.
The Compromise of 1877
Seventh of March Speech
Head military leader of Japan during World War II
General Hideki Tojo
The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the two lines met in 1869 at this Utah location.
Promontory Summit
V-J Day
September 2, 1945
This legislation, perhaps the most important factor to stimulate western settlement in the United States, provided that a settler could acquire up to 160 acres of land by living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of ten dollars.
Homestead Act (1862)
First Black American to reach the rank of 4-Star General in the United States Air Force
General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.