The Civil WAR
Reconstruction
Western Expansion
Industrialization
The Labor Movement
Urbanization
The Progressives
Imperialism
WWI
100

General Winfield Scott proposed a plan to cut off Southern Ports with a naval blockade and slowly strangle the South into Submission. 

What is the Anaconda Plan?

100

Ended Slavery in the United States making it illegal to own another human being.

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

The government should interfere in the free market as little as possible. 

What is Laissez-faire?

100

First President of the American Federation of Labor. 

Who is Samuel Gompers?

100

Political Machines controlled strong leaders known as Party Boss's and did favors for citizens in exchange for their __________

What is Votes?

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 to start 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

The reason Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the Civil War. 

What is, the union won this battle

200

Those that opposed Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson's plans for Reconstruction and wanted to protect Black Americans 

Who were the Radical Republicans?

200

Helped bring an end to the "Long Drive".

What is Barbed Wire?

200

Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while making it stronger and more durable at the same time. 

What is Bessemer Process?


200

Yellow Dog Contracts.

Blacklisting

Lockouts

Strike breakers

What is tactics of Management to resist labor?

200

One big difference between the "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" is that the New Immigrants ______________

Religious and cultural differences?


or: Name where they were from 

200

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

What is the 19th Amendment?

200

A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.

What is Yellow Journalism?

200

Because of Germany's use of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, US citizens died in the explosion of this ship

What is the Lusitania?

300

John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fredrick Douglas....

Who are Abolitionist?

300

Federal troops were removed from Southern territories.

What is the Compromise of 1877?

300

Crazy Horse surrounds General Custer and his 700 of his men killing almost 300 of them and also General Custer. 

What is the Battle of Little Big Horn? 

300

Thomas Edison invented ________

George Pullman invented _____

Gustavus Swift invented _______

What is Light Bulb?

What is Sleeping Car?

What is the Refrigerated Car?

300

Only hired union workers

What is a Closed Shop?

300

Stopped the immigration of Chinese workers 

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

300

As a result of this disaster, new state laws providing safety and fire codes in factories 

What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

300

Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S. 

What is The De Lome Letter?

300

The German Foreign Minister promised to return New Mexico, Arizona and Texas to Mexico if they would would attack the US.  

What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).

400

Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was 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

Elected as a Senator from Mississippi in 1870, he became the first African American to sit in Congress.

Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?

400

Threatened the survival of Indian culture.

Often the land was arid and infertile.

Would lead to the sell-off of Indian reservation land.

Prohibited Indians from selling the land given to them.

What is the Dawes Act?

400

He expressed his views of Philanthropy in his book, "The Gospel of Wealth".

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

400

Impersonal working conditions

Long working hours

Low wages

Lack of opportunity for advancement

Child Labor

What is Problems Faced by Industrial Workers?

400

The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.  

What is Nativism?

400

Ida Tarbell revealed how Rockefeller's success was largely base on ruthless business practices.

What is, "The History of Standard Oil"? 

400

He wrote, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?

Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?

400

One sided information designed to persuade listeners. 

HINT: During WWI, This was passed onto the public via, posters, political cartoons and The Committee of Public Information.   

What is Propaganda?

500

Preservation of the Union

Abolition of Slavery

Tremendous loss of property and life

Power of the federal government strengthened

What is Consequences of the Civil War?

500

If a sharecropper owed any money to the landlord for a loan or use of his tools, he or she could not leave until the debt was paid off.  

What is Debt Peonage?

500

The creation of this helped to move people west and connected the west with the east by train

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

500

The "Boss" of Tammany Hall

Who is William "Boss" Tweed

500

When workers act together in negotiating new contracts for higher wages and better working conditions.

What is Collective Bargaining?

500

Agricultural overproduction

International competition

Scarcity of money.

What is why food prices fell in the late 19th century.

500

Acts as a, "Bank to banks". Also has the power to expand or contract the money supply by setting a Federal Reserve, setting interest rates, selling U.S. bonds on the open market.

What is the Federal Reserve Act?

500

Gave the U.S. right to intervene in Cuban affairs at any time by stating that Cuba would place naval bases at the disposal of the U.S. and not borrow any amounts from foreign countries that they could not repay. 

What is the Platt Amendment?

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

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which criticized the practice of slavery

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

600

President Johnson was impeached because he violated __________.

What was the Tenure of Office Act.

600

A designated area for Native Americans where they were forced to relocate due to western expansion 

What are reservations? 

600

Allowed Floridians to export citrus, vegetables, tobacco, cotton, beef and cattle. Also brought tourist to Flagler's luxury hotels.

What is The Florida East Coast Railroad?

600

A radical political theory opposing all forms of government in favor of self-governing communities.

What is Anarchism?

600

Many of its ideas were later adapted such as, the direct election for senators. The Secret Ballot. Income Tax. 8 hour workday. 

What is the Populist Platform? (Omaha Platform)

600

A newly formed third party was created to run against current president Taft and Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson. The party was called the Progressive Party. Its name will change when Theodore Roosevelt decides to run on its ticket. 

What is The Bull Moose Party?

600

Theodore Roosevelt accepted a Japanese invitation to mediate the conflict of the _____________. President Roosevelt would receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.

What is Russo-Japanese War?

600

Demanded by President Wilson that it be included in the Treaty of Versailles.

Had no real army and depended on the goodwill of its members.

It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate 

What is The League of Nations?