Unit 6
What was the nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jackson?
Stonewall Jackson
What were the mining towns that popped up very quickly called?
Boomtowns
What was the name of Upton Sinclair’s book?
The Jungle
What Native American tribe did the Code Talkers come from?
Navajo
Who was the first female supreme court justice?
Sandra Day O’Connor
Why was control of the Mississippi River important during the Civil War?
To move troops, to move supplies, to cut the south in half
What is journalism that exaggerates the truth called?
Yellow journalism
Which Secretary of State purchased Alaska?
William Seward
What were people who moved West during the dust bowl called?
Okies
Who assassinated President Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What was the name of the union’s plan in the Civil War
The Anaconda Plan
Which African American inventor improved the design for the lightbulb?
Lewis Latimer
Which constitutional amendment gives women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What is the day that allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy called?
D-Day
What was Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan for the U.S. called?
“Great Society”
Which document proposed the banning of slavery in territory acquired from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
Who was the chief of the Nez Perce who led them on a long trek to the Canadian border?
Chief Joseph
How did Theodore Roosevelt end the 1902 Miners’ strike?
By threatening to send federal troops to work the mines
On what city did the United States drop the second atomic bomb?
Nagasaki
To whom did MLK Jr. write his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?
White church leaders who wanted calm
List the following battles as either Union or Confederate victories:
Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg
Union: Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg
Confederate: Bull Run, Chancellorsville
What were the discounts railroad companies offered to their biggest customers called?
Rebates
What legislation made Cuba a protectorate of the United States?
Platt Amendment
What do the acronyms FERA, AAA, and PWA stand for?
Federal Emergency Relief Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Public Works Administration
What was the name of the aid program the United States started in Europe after WW2?
Marshall Plan