1800s
This process moved cattle from the ranches of Texas and the Southwest to the railheads to send the cattle to Chicago for meatpacking.
What is the Long Drive?
Passed after WWII this gave veterans access to: money for college, low cost home loans, and other benefits.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
This was the most impactful battle of the European front in WWII?
What is D-Day?
This type of segregation was prevalent in the North and was harder to fight (legally) because there were no laws to find unconstitutional.
What is De Facto Segregation?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This created a system in the South that forced former slaves to work for low wages in unfair contracts or face jail time for new offenses.
What are the Black Codes?
This prevented this ethnic group from immigrating to the US starting in 1882 though the 1960s.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This battle made Teddy Roosevelt a household name during the Spanish-American war.
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
This feminist activist in the 70s argued that a woman needed a man like a fish needed a bicycle.
Who is Gloria Steinem?
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What are the Native American boarding schools?
This act was passed to end the spoils system of the 1800s and to establish a merit based hiring system for the federal government.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This battle marked the tide change for the Japanese in WWII, up to this point they had not lost a naval battle and after they will not win anymore naval battles.
This organization was led mainly by young people who used more confrontational methods.
What is SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
This amendment established the right of the US to tax income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This revolutionized the production of steel making it cheaper, stronger, and more flexible.
What is the Bessemer Process?
These two acts passed during WWI prevented war dissenters from speaking out against the war. Held up in Schneck v US
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This battle exemplified the type of war WWI was by being one of the longest and most brutal battles of WWI, with over 700,000 casualties, including about 300,000 killed.
What is the Battle of Verdun
This person received national fame for being the 1st openly gay man elected to a political position. He was later murdered by a disgruntled coworker.
Who is Harvey Milk?
This amendment gave us the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This was a movement led by the Southern widows after the Civil War and later taken up by the "redeemer" government after the Compromise of 1877.
What is the Lost Cause Myth?
This act passed in the 1930s separated commercial and investment banking to prevent risky investments with depositors' money.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act
This invasion by North Vietnamese soldiers and Vietcong was seen by the American public as a loss because it signified that the war was far from over.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This prison was occupied by Native American activists who claimed (after the prison was surplused) that the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, allowed Indians to claim surplus federal land
This amendment ended poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?