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What did the Spanish bring that forever changed the lifestyle of the plains Indians

Horses

The Battle of Britain was a battle fought

In the air

What group is excluded under the 14th amendment

Indians

Who took an axe to bars

Nation

What secret radio language did the US use in the pacific

Navajo

Where did riots against the civil war occur

New York City

What jobs were African Americans initially trained for

Non combat

In which region were most urban race riots

North

Location of first American fighting in Atlantic theater of WWII

North africa

Where was segregation most prevalent

North and south

What was the prosecution of Nazi officials called

Nuremberg Trials

The battle of the Atlantic was a battle fought

On the sea

To what does the Panama Canal connect the Gulf of Mexico

Pacific

What antibiotic was discovered during WWII

Penicillin

What American visited Japan in the mid 1800s

Perry

Commander of AEF

Pershing

Who wanted government to mandate social changes

Progressives

What invention increased demand for beef

Refrigeration

What party was in office when the Great Depression began

Republicans

Which party dominated southern politics during reconstruction

Republicans

Who was the man made rich by petroleum

Rockefeller

Western boundary of the great plains

Rocky Mountains

Which man led a group of US volunteers in the Spanish American war

Roosevelt

Who concluded mosquito control is the way to stop yellow fever

Roosevelt

What was the name of the US volunteer group in the Spanish American war

Rough riders

Not an axis power

Russia

What was the initial cause in the Great Depression

Selling stocks

Who assassinated the ruler

Serbian nationalist

What allowed cities to become more densely populated

Skyscrapers

What government program was created to help retired Americans

Social security

How did most immigrants get to America in the late 1800s

Steam ship

What product did the Bessemer process make cheaper

Steel

Who is credited with inventing the AC

Tesla

What is the name of our nations banking system

Federal reserve

What was the number 1 cause of deaths in the Spanish American war

Food poisoning

Which industrialist was very successful in manufacturing and marketing

Ford

Where was Lincoln when he was assassinated

Ford's Theater

Which was a cause of the 1929 US economic collapse

Global trade issues

How many American soldiers died in france

116,000

Which amendment made slavery illegal in the US

13th

Which amendment allowed the government to directly tax residents

16th

When did women get the right to vote

1920

What amendment gave women the right to vote

19th

How many people participated in the Oklahoma land rush

50,000

How long is the Panama Canal?

51 miles

How many lives were lost while the US worked on the Panama Canal

6,000

How many men died during the civil war

620,000

What group did democrats include in relief programs

African Americans

When did the US declare war on Germany

After Germany declared war on us

Who established the National American women suffrage association

Anthony

Geronimo was a chief of this Indian tribe

Apache

Who was assassinated that began WWI

Austrian archduke

What invention doomed the open range of cattle barons

Barbed wire

Who was the union nurse that created the red cross

Barton

Which is not an advantage held by the north?

Better officers

What name was given the day the stock market crashed

Black Tuesday

What were African American soldiers in the west called by Indians

Buffalo soldiers

Who was the man made rich by steel

Carnegie

What was being dedicated when Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address?

Cemetery

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Charleston, South Carolina

What was the center of black society

Church

One of the first things freedom created or organized after emancipation

Churches

Where did villa attack the US

Columbus New mexico

Major problem during the reconstruction era

Corruption

US response to Japanese attacks

Declare war on japan

Whose money was lost when a bank closed

Depositors

Where was the first radio station

Detroit

American soldiers nickname

Doughboys

What made mining dangerous

Dust

Who helped invent motion pictures

Edison

Who was known as the wizard of Menlo park

Edison

What allowed for the invention of many consumer products

Electricity

What is the most famous immigrant processing center in the US

Ellis Island

What was the focus of the scopes trial

Evolution

Who was elected president of US in 1932

FDR

What was needed to creat the new south

Industry

What caused 30,000,000 worldwide deaths in 1918-1919

Influenza

What did the government do to instill the public's confidence in banks

Insured deposits

US treatment of Japanese Americans after war began

Internment

What territory did the US not get from Spain

Jamaica

What ethnic group did nazis persecute

Jews

Which slaves were not freed by the emancipation proclamation

Kentucky

What did sharecroppers always provide in a sharecrop agreement

Labor

Who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic

Lindbergh

Which resource did the union not not have more of than the south?

Mules

What organization used the courts to attack discrimination

NAACP

What was the union's strategy in Georgia called

Total war

Germany's main weapon in the battle of the Atlantic

U boats

Which country didn't join the League of Nations

United States

Where was the transcontinental railroad completed

Utah

What was the new electric appliance in 1922

Vacuum

What treaty ended WWI

Versailles

Who elected US senators under the 17th amendment

Voters

Which man established the Tuskegee institute

Washington

What state was formed by a splitting of one state over slavery?

West Virginia

What did immigrants bring to the west that helped farmers

Wheat

What did prohibition prohibit

Whiskey

What group was not happy about the 15th amendment

Women

Why were labor unions needed

Workers were over worked

What event finally drug the US into WWI

Zimmerman note


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