History Exam
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)