The Civil War
The first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
The Amendment that banned slavery
13th Amendment
Who did the U.S. fight a war against in 1898?
Spain
The amendment that allows for people to directly elect Senators
17th Amendment
The president during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
The general of the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
The first state to be readmitted to the Union
Tennessee
Railroads
The country the US helped to gain independence in 1903
Panama
The president for whom the Teddy Bear may have been named
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
The capital of Confederacy after Virginia seceded
The name for the laws that allowed discrimination against Black Americans
Jim Crow laws
The reason people left Ireland for the U.S. and other countries?
The Potato Famine
The award won by both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Nobel Peace Prize
The president during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
The naval commander who was born in the south
David Farragut
What the group in Congress pushing for real reform in the South was called
Radical Republicans
The religion practiced by Irish and many other immigrants
Roman Catholic
The act that created a central bank for the U.S.
The Federal Reserve
The heaviest president in U.S. history.
William Howard Taft
The place where General Lee surrendered
Appomattox
Mississippi
The year the first railroad across the U.S. was finished
1869
The novel where Upton Sinclair exposed abuses in the meatpacking industry.
The Jungle
The president whose assassination allowed Theodore Roosevelt to become president?
William McKinley