What Northerners who came to the South were called who profited from and took advantage of the policies of Reconstruction.
What were Carpetbaggers?
100
He formed the largest oil monopoly and was the first billionaire.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
100
His assassination by a Serbian anarchist was thought to be the catalyst for World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
100
Why was the decade of the 1920s called the Roaring 20s?
Because everything was fast-paced.
100
The fascist leader of Italy, he was originally more powerful than Adolph Hitler.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
200
An organization formed to terrorize newly freed blacks in the South to prevent them from voting or using any other legal rights they were granted after the Civil War.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
200
He formed the largest steel monopoly and later tried to get other Robber Barons to give much of their fortunes to charities.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
The three countries that made up the Allies at the beginning of World War I.
What were England, France and Russia?
200
Name two items that most households could now afford, and everyone wanted, during the Roaring 20s.
What were cars, dishwashers, refrigerators and radios.
200
Some say World War II actually began when Japan invaded this country in 1931.
What was China?
300
The system in which white land-owners rented to blacks who in turn paid them back with some of the crops they grew on these farms.
What is share-cropping?
300
The technological achievement that reduced the time it took to cross American from three months to three weeks.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad.
300
The ship sunk by Germany that helped America enter World War I.
What was the Lusitania?
300
The new law that banned the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages after 1919 (began in 1920).
What was Prohibition.
300
The name the Allies gave their top secret operation to perfect the creation of an atomic bomb.
What was The Manhattan Project?
400
The legal action taken by Congress against President Andrew Johnson because he would not enforce the new civil rights for blacks.
What is Impeachment?
400
This president was known to Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick. But, he was also known as a "Trust-Buster," someone who wanted to break up Robber Barons' monopolies.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
400
The Zimmerman Telegram.
What was the message from Germany that tried to entice Mexico to enter the war on the side of the Central Powers (with the promise of getting Texas and California back).
400
The system that allowed consumers to buy an item with the promise to pay it off with equal monthly payments.
What was Buying on Installment?
400
This American city was called "The Arsenal of Democrary" for its production of jeeps, tanks, trucks and airplanes that helped win the war.
What was Detroit?
500
Forty Acres and a Mule
What were newly freed blacks promised (with the unspoken agreement that they would vote Republican).
500
Although not Robber Barons, their inventions of the telephone and incandescent lighting changed the world and made them wealthy and famous.
Who were Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison?
500
Either of the two names that World War I was known by.
What was "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars"?
500
An overheated economy that forced a margin call caused this event in October, 1929.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
500
What Americans experienced on the Home Front during the war.
What was rationing, recycling, travel restrictions, Fireside Chats by President Roosevelt and blackouts.