Battles
What battle led by General Robert E. Lee was the single bloodiest day of battle?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Gave the U.S the right to lease a military base at Guantanamo Bay
What is The Platt Amendment?
The Dred Scott case was overturned by this amendment
What is the 14th amendment?
Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
What person oversaw the construction of the White House, but never lived in it?
George Washington
What battle was the 1st major battle and a Confederate victory?
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run/ Manasses?
Described the role of the U.S as a policeman that would keep European powers from intervening in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The Supreme Court ruled that this Compromise was unconstitutional despite the fact that the Kansas-Nebraska Act had made the Missouri Compromise null
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This man was an African American who favored the 'Talented Tenth', and was a founder of the NAACP
What president was able to articulate he purpose of the war as the preservation of the Union and"government of the people, by the people, and for the people
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What battle led by William T. Sherman, resulted in the evacuation and burning of this city?
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
Promised to protect the investments of American businesses in Latin American with a guarantee of U.S intervention if any problems arose.
What is the "Dollar Diplomacy"?
What Court ruled that although Marbury deserved his commission, the court could not order that it be delivered
What is the Marshall Court?
Whose actions struck fear into the hearts of slaveowners and made them determined to protect slavery and fearful of the intentions of Northerners
Who John Brown
These two people supported Western farmers who turned their grain into whiskey
Who is Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
As a result of the Americans supporting the Cubans and Filipinos this war was started
What is the The Spanish-American War?
Vowed to use this "Diplomacy" to intervene in Mexico to "teach [them] to elect good men"
What is the "Moral Diplomacy"?
This amendment was passed to ensure that the right of all male citizens to vote would not be denied based on "race, creed, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th amendment
The North Star was written by what former slave
Frederick Douglas
What president was determined to uphold the right of the federal government to collect the tariff in South Carolina
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Because of this war the Great Britain had to change its policy towards the colonies and imposed taxes to help pay the war debt
What is the French and Indian War?
Theodore first introduced this diplomacy when he made the statement, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick."
What is the Big Stick Diplomacy?
This amendment freed slaves throughout the U.S
What is the 13th amendment?
Who was the author of the Liberator, which was banned in the South
William Lloyd Garrison
What person proposed that Congress establish a national bank that would act as a repository for the nation's revenues
Who is Alexander Hamilton?