Civil WAR
Reconstruction
Western Expansion
Industrial America
Labor Movement/ Urbanization
Urbanization/ Progressive Era
Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI
100
The _____________ allowed the residents of Kansas to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
Ended Slavery in the U.S. making it illegal to own another human being. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
100
Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
100
First President of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
100
Supreme Court case which declared "separate but equal" to be constitutional. Led to legal segregation in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?
100
American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba; started the Spanish American War.
What is USS Maine?
100
The two alliances to start WWI.
What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Allied Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy)?
200
Name of the most prominent Confederate General.
Robert E. Lee
200
Who became the president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
200
Changed life on the Great Plains by fencing off land which impacted the nomadic life of the Plains Indians.
What is Barbed Wire?
200
Founder of the Standard Oil Company. had a monopoly over the oil industry.
John D. Rockefeller
200
Strikes and protests were the tactics used by who?
Labor Unions
200
One big difference between the "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" is that the New Immigrants ______________
What is arrived mainly from Southern (Italy) and Eastern Europe?
200
Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
What is a muckraker?
200
A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
A policy of not choosing sides in a conflict; it was the reason the U.S. was slow to enter World War I.
What is neutrality?
300
John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fredrick Douglas....(Hint: What did they have in common? Hint, hint: What was their view on slavery?)
Who are Abolitionistists?
300
All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens; all citizens have equal protection under the law. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Crazy Horse fought General Custer killing him and 300 soldiers. It was one of the last Native American victories over U.S. troops.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
300
Thomas Edison invented ________
Alexander Graham Bell invented _____________
Light Bulb
Telephone
300
Controlled 95% of oil refineries by 1877.
Controlled by John D. Rockefeller.
Muckraker Ida Tarbell exposed their monopolistic practices.
What is the Standard Oil Company?
300
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.
What is Nativism?
300
This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
300
What country did we go to war with after the Spanish-American War? We ended up taking control of this country.
The Phillipines
300
A coded message sent by the German Foreign Minister to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).
400
Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine admitted as a free state. Also, slavery prohibited in any land from the Louisiana Purchase north of 36, 30'N.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
A welfare agency created to provide aid, school, healthcare, and clothing to poor whites and newly freed slaves
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Where were Native Americans moved after they were forced off of their land?
Reservations
400
A Captain of Industry who wrote the book, "The Gospel of Wealth" and made his fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
Better working conditions
Shorter working hours
Higher wages
Goals of Labor Unions
400
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
What amendment banned alcohol in the US?
18th Amendment
400
Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
The widespread migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
500
Preservation of the Union
Abolition of Slavery
These were the goals of who?
Abraham Lincoln
500
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War intended to deny former slaves their full civil rights.
What are Black Codes?
500
The last major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans in which an overwhelming force of U.S. soldiers killed over 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Indians. (Hint: Ghost Dance)
What is Wounded Knee?
500
Banned this group of laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for ten years because their efforts to build the railroad in the West created anger in white laborers.
What led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
Founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. It became a powerful force in fighting for workers' rights through strikes and through politics. (Hint: labor union)
What is the American Federation of Labor?
500
An economic philosophy that the government should not interfere in the free market (Hint: "hands off")
What is Laissez-faire?
500
A civil rights group founded in 1909 to work to end racial discrimination.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
500
What countries were taken over by the US during the time of imperialism? P,P,G
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam
500
Brought an end to WWI.
Imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large repartations.
Included the League of Nations.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
600
President Abraham Lincoln declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
600
President Johnson was impeached because he violated __________.
What was the Tenure of Office Act.
600
Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore
Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own
Connected the East Coast with the West Coast
The Transcontinental Railroad?
600
This California based immigration center processed immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
600
More factories created many more job opportunities in cities. People move from rural areas to large urban locations. Minorities and immigrants increased these numbers.
Urbanization
600
A deadly disaster in a New York City sweatshop that started a national movement to pass laws providing safety and fire codes in factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
600
Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools.
What are Jim Crow laws?
600
A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
600
An international peacekeeping organization that was part of President Wilson Fourteen Points.
It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate
What is The League of Nations?
