US History Final
Treaty of Versailles
The ____ officially ended the Great War
George McClellan
Union military commander who wouldn't fight despite President Lincoln's orders to do so, ran against Lincoln for President
Calvin Coolidge
Vice President who became President upon the death of Warren Harding in 1923, was President during most of the "Roaring twenties"
1939
WWII began in what year?
Richard Byrd
flew over the North Pole
Oliver Kelley
founded the Grange
Samuel Gompers
founded the first successful national labor union in the US
19th Amendment
guaranteed women the right to vote
$20 million
how much did the US pay Spain for the Philippines
Titanic
in 1912, the ____ sank off the coast of Newfoundland
pools
informal agreement among competitors to limit competition and increase profit
Henry Bessemer
invented a new method of producing low cost steel
George Westinghouse
invented air brakes
George Pullman
invented the sleeping car
ironclads
iron plated battle ships, not wood plates
Potsdam Declaration
issued to call the Japanese to unconditionally surrender
Jimmy Doolittle
led bombing raid on Tokyo
PT Barnum
made the circus a national institution
trunk lines
major rail lines
modernism
movement which denied many fundamental doctrines of the Bible
feeder lines
smaller rail lines
he attacked civilian homes and farms
some criticized General Sherman's "March to the Sea" because
passing black codes
southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by
Wyoming
state that was the first to grant women full political rights
Homestead Act
stimulated Western settlement
Underwood-Sommons Bill
tax on personal incomes
ended slavery
the 13th Amendment did what
China
the Boxer Rebellion took place in ____
the confederate attack on Fort Sumter
the Civil War began with
US Grant
the Civil War hero elected President in 1868
Vladimir Lenin
the Communist revolutionary ____ came to power in Russia in 1917
enslaved people living in areas controlled by the Confederacy
the Emancipation Proclamation freed
Antietam
the Emancipation Proclamation was issued after which Union victory
providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people
the Freedmen's Bureau succeeded in
Allies
the Germans signed an armistice with the ____ on November 11, 1918
Russia
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk made peace between Germany and ____
Treaty of Paris
the ____ ended the Spanish-American War
Selective Service Act
the ____ required all men from age 21-30 to register with local draft boards
Platt Amendment
the ____ stipulated the conditions under which Cuba would be granted independence
Paris Peace Act
the ____ supposedly outlawed international war
Lusitania
the ____ was a British luxury liner that was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1915
League of Nations
the ____ was an international organization established after WWI to maintain peace
Volstead
the _____ act put the 18th Amendment into effect
gold standard
the abandonment of the ____ shook the public's confidence in the US monetary system
Austria
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of ____ started WWI
Battle of Midway
the battle that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Eddie Rickenbacker
the best-known American "ace" of WWI was ____
Thomas Edison
the famous inventor, ____, said that genius is "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"
materialism
the idea that everything can be explained in terms of matter
Wounded Knee
the last battle between Plain Indians and US took place at ____
prevent African Americans from exercising their rights
the main goal of the KKK during Reconstruction was to
Holocaust
the name ____ was given to the Nazi's systematic slaughter of 6 million Jews during WWII
atomic bomb
the new weapon, the _____, was developed as a result of the Manhattan Project
Washington DC
....
14th Amendment
"all persons born or naturalized in the US" citizens of the nation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American general appointed to be the Allied commander in Europe
Douglas MacArthur
American general sent to fortify the Philippines against a Japanese invasion
Central Powers
Austria-Hungary belonged to the ____ during WWI
Allies
China and the Soviet Union sided with the ____ in WWII
Joseph Stalin
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII
Benito Mussolini
Fascist dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII
Entente
Great Britain belonged to the Triple ____ before WWI
Model T
Henry Ford's ____ was the most famous automobile ever built
Hiroshima
Japanese city that was the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb
Adolf Hitler
Nazi dictator who led Germany into WWII
Copperheads
Northern Democrats who wanted peace with the South, not victory
Anaconda Plan
Northern strategy that included splitting the South in half
coaling station
Pago Pago
New Deal
President FDR called the ____ his social welfare program
Roosevelt
President ____ summarized his foreign policy with the slogan, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"
William McKinley
President that was assassinated in 1901
Herbert Hoover
President who was unjustly blamed for the Depression
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister who led Great Britain through most of the WWII
William Seward
Secretary of State ____ negotiated the purchase of Alaska
Sitting Bull
Sioux medicine man
William H. Taft
____ became the first civil governor of the Philippines
Paul Bunyan
____ was a mythical hero of the northern lumberjacks
Kaiser Wilhelm II
____ was the bold leader of Germany during WWI
Italy
____ was the first Axis Power to surrender to the Allies
Bell Telephone Company
____ was the first telephone company
Grover Cleveland
____ was the only President to serve two terms not in direct succession
D-Day
_____ marked the beginning of the end for WWII
Proprietorship
a business owned by one individual
monopoly
a business that has no competition
conscription
a draft that forced men to serve in the military
entrepreneur
a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking
Social Security Act
act that established government funding for unemployment and old age insurance
John Wilkes Booth
assassinated President Lincoln
socialism
belief that all economic, political, and social life must be controlled by the state
Joseph Pulitzer
bought the New York World newspaper business
Richmond, VA
capital of the Confederate States of America
John A. Roebling
chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge
Red Cloud
chief of the Sioux
write of Habeas corpus
court order that requires authorities to bring person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed
Federal Reserve Act
created a central banking system under the authority of the federal government
17th Amendment
direct election of senators by the voters
Edwin Drake
drilled the first oil well in the US
Soviet Union
nation that Hitler invaded in 1941 after he failed to conquer Britain
Soviet Union
nation that assisted Germany with the conquest of Poland
Japan
nation that began the wave of aggression that plunged the world into WWII
15th Amendment
no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to the
Sheldon Jackson
one of the best-known home missionaries of the 1800s
FDR
only man to serve more than two consecutive terms as President
John S. Pillsbury
owned the largest flour mills in the world
Chester Arthur
passed the Pendleton Act
Aaron Montgomery Ward
pioneered the mail-order business
Jefferson Davis
president of the Confederate States of America
James J. Hill
promoted the Great Northern Railroad
National Defense Act
provided for an increase in the size of the regular army and the organization of a national guard
Thomas Edison
this inventor was called the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
strike
what is a labor unions refusal to work called
1914
what year did WWI begin
Birmingham
which city was known as the "Pittsburgh of the South"
South Carolina
which state was the firs to secede form the Union
the creation of a public school system
which was a major success of Reconstruction in the South
stockholders
who actually owns a corporation
Warren G. Harding
who called for a "return to normalcy" in 1920
George Custer Armstrong
who was killed in the Battle of Little Big Horn
Guglielmo Marconi
wireless telegraph
Francis Bellamy
wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
1945
year that the UN was founded