Colonial to a New Nation
His famous midnight ride warned the minutemen that British troops were approaching but he never said the famous line "The British are Coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
This was accomplished by the 13th amendment.
What is abolishing slavery?
The idea that it was the United States' right to expand democracy and American ideals from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
He wrote the Jungle, trying to expose poor working conditions in the meat packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
President during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is the number of original North American colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War.
What is 13?
He became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The year gold was discovered in California sparking the Gold Rush.
What is 1848?
She was a muckraker who made it her goal to expose Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
The sinking of this ship with Americans onboard drew the US closer to war.
What is the Lusitania?
This can be considered our official break up letter with the British.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The 15th amendment established this.
What is the inability to deny the right to vote based on color or race?
The invention of this revolutionized ranching and helped to "close" the frontier.
What is barbed wire?
This was a place immigrants could go if they needed food, shelter, or help filling out forms.
What is the Hull House?
The United States intercepted this, which was intended for Mexico and promised the Mexican government the return of territory in CA, NM, AZ and parts of CO.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
The "shot heard round the world" was fired here.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The 14th amendment protected these rights.
What is citizenship?
This connected the United States and led to the need for time zones.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Powerful individuals or groups of individuals that ran local and state governments- usually corruptly.
Who are political machines?
This was the name of the side the United States was fighting against.
What is the Central Powers?
This document was our final attempt to avoid war with the British and get back together. It is unknown if King George even read it.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This was the name of Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
What is the 10% plan?
This gave settlers willing to go west 160 acres in Kansas and Nebraska if they lived on it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This presidents foreign policy was characterized as "dollar diplomacy."
Who is William Taft?
Acts passed that limited freedom of speech during WWI.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?