Civil War/Westward Expansion
Which animal did Native Americans rely on for food, shelter, and clothing?
Buffalo
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Who caused the government to create new laws to fix the problems caused by industrialists?
Muckrakers
What country did we fight the Spanish to free during the Spanish American War?
Cuba
What was the main reason the US did not join the League of Nations and rejected the Treaty of Versailles?
The US wanted to follow isolationism to they wouldn't get caught in any more global conflicts.
What technological development established time zones?
Railroads
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What was the anaconda plan?
Naval blockade of the south during the Civil War to cut them off from supplies.
Name one immigration policy during this time period
Chinese exclusion act
Which new addition to the US in 1867 provided timber, gold, and oil?
Alaska
What were Wilson's 14 points?
The plan for post-war peace.
What was a speakeasy?
-A hidden bar you could only get into with a code word.
What is sharecropping?
Sharecropping is when a farmer allows a tenant to use their land in exchange for crops.
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Why did the US Navy want the Panama canal?
To make it easier to travel from the east to the west in a ship quickly (makes trade and travel faster and cheaper).
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What was the selective service act?
Allowed the government to draft men into the military during WW1.
Why did African Americans move during the Great Migration?
Equality, higher wages, less racism, better education.
Why did the federal government move Native Americans to reservations?
They wanted their land
What was a labor union and why were they created?
- Groups of workers that joined together to try and get fair work hours, wages, etc.
- They were created because workers were working in poor conditions.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What was the pure food and drug act?
Required business to label contents of products
What did the Sacco and Vanzetti trial prove?
There was discrimination against immigrants in the US government.
What was the Homestead Act?
Gave free 160 acres of land for 5 years for people to move out west.
What did the 13th/14th/15th amendments have in common?
Ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves
Who exposed the oil industry?
Ida Tarbell- Muckraking journalism.
What was the social gospel?
Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools. Helped immigrants.
Who was Langston Hughes?
Leader of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote jazz poetry.
What did William's Jennings Bryan warn against in his speech?
Gold Standard