Final Review
This battleship was sunk, starting the Spanish American War.
What is the Maine?
The final surrender of the Confederates in the Civil War happened here.
What is Appomattox Court House?
resident Wilson’s plan for peace was ignored by the Allies. The plan was called this.
What are the 14 Points?
The U.S. bought the Louisiana Territory from this country.
What is France?
The 18th Amendment did away with. It was also called prohibition. This was a result of the Temperance Movement.
What is the manufacture and sale of alcohol?
African Americans were guaranteed the right to vote by this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 15th amendment?
Jim Crow Laws were intended to do this.
What is to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights as citizens and limit their freedoms?
This was the bloodiest war in American history (because Americans fought one another).
What is the United States Civil War?
Prior to the U.S. entry into World War I, public opinion was divided between the isolationists who believed it was Europe’s war and that America should stay out, and those who argued for preparedness and entry into the war on the Allied side. In 1914, 1915, and 1916 the majority of Americans did not want to get involved in the war, yet by the spring of 1917 most Americans supported going to war. The sinking of this ship with American passengers and the Zimmerman Telegram shifted public opinion to support going to war.
What was the Lusitania?
Slavery was abolished by this amendment.
What is the 13th amendment?
J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller were leaders of this in the second half of the 19th century.
What is industry? They were the wealthiest men in the world due to their investments and control over the steel, railroad, oil and banking industries.
President Andrew Jackson's plan to deal with the "Indian Problem" was to do this.
What is remove Indians to the west and have them live on reservations?
Women’s suffrage means this.
What is the right to vote?
The west was opened up by the completion of the this at Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution that to this day protect individual liberty and are at the center of many court decisions balancing the rights and responsibilities of citizens are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The three main branches of the US federal government are this.
What are the executive, legislative and judicial branches?
This president delivered the Gettysburg Address, was assassinated and was President during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The period of rebuilding and re-uniting the country after the Civil War was known as this.
What was Reconstruction?
The result of the Great Compromise between large and small states during the Constitutional Convention was this.
What was the House of Representatives was based on population and each state had two Senators?
This war was the last time the United States fought the UK or tried to invade Canada. We didn't lose so we felt like we won.
What was the War of 1812?