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Reconstruction
Westward Expansion
The Progressive Era
WWI and the Great Depression
WWII
100
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
What is Sharecropping
100
The belief that it is Americans’ God given right to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
100

This president started a trend of putting land aside to protect natural resources.

Who is Teddy Roosevelt?

100

Treaty that ended WWI. It blamed Germany for WWI and made them pay war reparations to France and Britian. 

What is Treaty of Versailles?

100

The dictator of Italy

Who is Benito Mussolini

200
This was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
What is the 14th Amendment
200
More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears
200
A novel that portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century.
What is The Jungle
200

Americans who had lost their house during the Depression often moved to these shantytowns, nicknamed after a disliked President.

What are Hoovervilles?

200

Dec 7 1941; Japanese attack American naval base and airforces in Oahu

What is Pearl Harbor Attack?

300

The election of 1876 saw Rutherford B. Hayes win the presidency after this agreement between Republicans and Democrats, which also ended Reconstruction in the South.

What is the Compromise of 1877?

300

The creation of this linked the Eastern US to the Western US and drastically reduced travel time across the country. 

What is the transcontinental railroad?

300
The outlawing of the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol.
What is Prohibition or 18th Amendment
300

This colorful day marked the start of the Great Depression and the immediate down turn of the Stock Market.

What is Black Tuesday?

300
Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
What is Axis Powers
400

These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.

What are Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws?

400

This was an effort to maintain the balance between free and slave states. Slavery is prohibited in the lands north of latitude 36°30.

What is the Missouri Compromise

400

The amendment that allowed women the right to vote?

What is the 19th Amendment?

400

The belief that the United States should stay out of world events. Also the foreign policy stance adopted by the US during the "Return to Normalcy" movement.

What is Isolationism?

400

The policy of making concessions in order to avoid conflict. Used by Neville Chamberlin before WWII officially begins.

What is Appeasement?

500
The ruling determined that segregation of black and white was legal in the United States.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
500
A U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
500

Complete control of the entire supply of goods or of a service in a certain area or market. Many Robber Barons had these at one point or another in the career.

What is a Monopoly?

500
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
What is Lusitania
500

The heaviest fighting during D-Day occurred on this Beach on June 6th, 1944.

What is Omaha Beach?