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Billy the Kid

(William H. Bonney) Involved in the Lincoln County cattle wars and he was seventeen when he began to get involved in crime and murder.

Bull Moose Party

A name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt's candidacy for the presidency in 1912.

Carpetbaggers

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states

Imperialism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the war zone

John Rockefeller

Created the Standard Oil Company

What is amendment 17 about?

Direct Election of Senators

Who was the fourteenth president?

Franklin Pierce

Who was the first President?

George Washington

Who was the twenty-fourth president?

Grover Cleveland

Who was the twenty-second president?

Grover Cleveland

Joseph Pulitzer

He used yellow journalism in competition with Randolph Hearst to sell more newspapers

Ellis Island

Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

What is amendment 16 about?

Income Tax

Joseph Glidden

Invented barbed wire

Eli Whitney

Invented the cotton gin

Thomas Edison

Invented the light bulb

Alexander Graham Bell

Invented the telephone

Who was the fifteenth president?

James Buchanan

Who was the twentieth president?

James Garfield

Who was the eleventh president?

James K. Polk

Who was the forth president?

James Madison

Who was the fifth president?

James Monroe

Who was the second president?

John Adams

Who was the sixth president?

John Quincy Adams

Who was the tenth president?

John Tyler

Who was the twelfth president?

Zachary Taylor

Referendum

a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.

Amnesty

a pardon to a group of people

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

fought in the 1st Battle of Bull Run; got his nickname because he encouraged his men to stand firm like a stonewall; was shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville by his own men

Archduke Ferdinand

heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.

Doughboys

nickname for American troops in Europe

Recall

procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office

Reconstruction

rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Urbanization

the growth of cities

Dollar Diplomacy

the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.

Who was the ninth president?

William Henry Harrison

Who was the twenty-seventh president?

William Howard Taft

Who was the twenty-fifth president?

William McKinley

What is amendment 19 about?

Women's voting rights (women's suffrage)

Who was President during World War I?

Woodrow Wilson

Who was the twenty-eighth president?

Woodrow Wilson

Who was the twenty-first president?

Chester A. Arthur

What is Amendment 14 about?

Citizenship

Robert E. Lee

Commander of the Confederate Army

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States known for trust busting

Woodrow Wilson

28th president he was president during World War 1

Who was the sixteenth president?

Abraham Lincoln

Roosevelt Corollary

Addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting America's right to intervene in Latin American affairs

Radical Republicans

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.

League of Nations

An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.

Who was the seventh president?

Andrew Jackson

Who was the seventeenth president?

Andrew Johnson

Central Powers

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey

Who was the twenty-third president?

Benjamin Harrison

What is amendment 15 about?

Black Voting Rights

Who was the eighth president?

Martin Van Buren

Who was the thirteenth president?

Millard Fillmore

Yellow Journalism

Newspaper articles that have fake news

Republican Party

Political party formed in 1854. Its main goal was to stop the spread of slavery.

What is amendment 18 about?

Prohibition of alcohol

Materialism

Putting a higher value on money and possessions than on God and Christlikeness

Bourbon Reconstruction

Reconstruction led by Conservative Southerners or "Redeemers".

Popular Sovereignty

Rule by the people

Who was the nineteenth president?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Union Pacific

The railroad company that began building the transcontinental railroad

What is Amendment 13 about?

Slavery

Who was the twenty-sixth president?

Theodore Roosevelt

Big Stick Policy

Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy motto was to "speak softly and carry a big stick". By acting boldly and decisively in a number of situation, Roosevelt attempt to build the reputation of the United States as a world power.

Who was the third president?

Thomas Jefferson

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

Who was the eighteenth president?

Ulysses S. Grant

George A. Custer

United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876)


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