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How many immigrants came to the United States in the 50 years after the Civil War?

26 Million people

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What were the names of the two railroad companies which did the work on the transcontinental railroad?

Central Pacific and Union Pacific

100

What amendment gave black men the right to vote?

15th Amendment

100

List three things that caused people to move from the farm to the city.

Trains, tall buildings, steel plows, and sewing machines

100

Why was the Reconstruction unsuccessful?

Laws were passed that segregated society and made black men pay a fee to vote

200

Who was America’s most famous inventor? Name two things he invented.

Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, the record player, and the movie projector

200

What is the only answer to the problems in America today?

Repentance, hard work, and God's grace

200

How did World War I begin?

War began when Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in June of 1914

200

What was Ellis Island?

A reception center for immigrants where they were checked for proper papers and diseases

200

What were the Fourteen Points?

The Fourteen Points was a plan for peace, which included the idea for the United Nations by Woodrow Wilson

300

What is Theodore Roosevelt known for? Describe it.

Starting the Panama Canal, a short waterway through Central America between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 

300

Where did the most important and deadly battles of the “Cold War” take place for the U.S.?

Korea and Vietnam

300

What was the Great Depression?

An economic depression where wages were lowered, unemployment rose, people began to starve, businesses stopped making products because people couldn’t afford them

300

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

The Treaty of Versailles required severe punishment for the Germans.

300

When and how did World War II begin?

September 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland and began the blitzkrieg

400

What was the Chisholm trail?

One of the most famous cattle trails out of Texas

400

Who was the first man that the U.S. put into space?

Alan Shepard

400

Name two areas in which the United States became the world leader?

Military, food production, industry, medicine, and technology

400

Why did the US become the greatest manufacturer of goods in the entire world?

Because of World War II

400

What ultimatum did President Truman give to the Japanese? Because of their response, what did President Truman do?

President Truman dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan 

500

When and where did the completion of the transcontinental railroad occur?

Promontory Point, Utah May 10 1869

500

Name two powerful industrialists and what their companies made.

Andrew Carnegie (steel), John D. Rockefeller (oil), Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), Pillsbury, Kellogg, and Heinz (food)

500

What country put the first satellite into space and what was its name?

The USSR (Soviet Union) did, called it Sputnik

500

What was the “Space Race”?

The Space Race was US wanting to beat the soviets in space exploration

500

What was D-Day?

D-Day was on June 6, 1994 when the allied forces invaded German-occupied France with the 

largest fighting force ever assembled.