Transcript U.S. to 1865 Vocabulary

U.S. after 1865 Vocabulary
Reviewing Reconstruction
Politician from Tennessee who became President after
the assassination of Lincoln, and later became the first
President to be impeached (but found not guilty)…
1. Zachary Taylor
2. Woodrow
Wilson
3. Andrew
Johnson
4. Lyndon Johnson
People who moved to the South during or following the Civil War,
helped bring Republican control of southern state governments
during Reconstruction and were bitterly resented by most white
Southerners…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Yankees
Carpetbaggers
Immigrants
Scalawags
Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations,
public and private, be segregated by race…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Plessy Laws
Ferguson Laws
Jim Crow Laws
KKK Laws
A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War
to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism…
1. The Ku Klux
Klan
2. The Redeemers
3. The Enforcers
4. The Free
Masons
A payment meant to keep certain groups of people
(mainly former slaves and African-Americans) from
being allowed to vote…
1. Grandfather
clause
2. Literacy Tests
3. Poll Tax
4. Excise Tax
II. Closing of the Western Frontier
The nickname given to black soldiers with the U.S.
Cavalry who helped to spread the U.S. westward in the
decades following the Civil War …
1.
2.
3.
4.
Buffalo Soldiers
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
The
Massachusetts
54th
A Native American movement in the 1890s that believed
a ritualistic ceremony would result in reanimation of
Indian dead and defeat of white invaders in the West …
1. Flight of the
Bumble bee
2. The Ghost
Dance
3. Dances with
Wolves
4. Ode to Our
Fathers
U.S. Cavalry General whose unwise and reckless
conduct got him and over 200 soldier of the Seventh
Cavalry killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn …
1.
2.
3.
4.
John J. Dunbar
John J. Pershing
George Custer
Douglas
MacArthur
A group of American farmers who united in the late 19th
century to lobby Congress to pass laws protecting them
from unfair business practices of large industry …
1. Farmers Alliance
of America
(FAA)
2. Farmers for
Rights (FFR)
3. Rangers
4. Grangers
A political party formed after the civil war who opposed
reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation …
1.
2.
3.
4.
The
The
The
The
Grange
Democrats
Greenbacks
Federalists
Legislation passed in 1862 allowing any citizen or applicant for
citizenship over 21 years old and head of a family to acquire 160
acres of public land by living on and cultivating it for five years …
1. The
Act
2. The
Act
3. The
Act
4. The
Act
Townshend
Homestead
Land Grant
Westward
III. Industrialism
Scottish-born American industrialist made his fortune in
the steel industry …
1. John D.
Rockefeller
2. Henry Ford
3. William Wallace
4. Andrew
Carnegie
The New York industrialist who made hundreds of millions of
dollars in the 19th century with his Standard Oil Company and
pioneered the corporate strategy of vertical integration…
1. Commodore
Vanderbilt
2. Henry Ford
3. Nelson
Rockefeller
4. John D.
Rockefeller
American capitalists of the latter part of the 19th century who
became wealthy through exploitation (as of natural resources,
governmental influence, or low wage scales)…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Vandals
Socialists
Robber Barons
Philanthropolist
The theory that people are subject to natural selection
and wealth was a sign of superiority…
1. The Gospel of
Wealth
2. Capitalism
3. Communism
4. Social
Darwinism
French term which means allow to do, the philosophy
that government should stay out of the market …
1.
2.
3.
4.
feminin’
laissez-faire
adieu
souffle’
When one company controls the market for a certain
product, there is no competition…
1.
2.
3.
4.
socialism
communism
open market
monopoly
Known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” he is famous for
hundred of inventions, including the incandescent light
bulb, phonograph, the Dictaphone, and many more…
1. Alexander
Graham Bell
2. Thomas Edison
3. George
Washington
Carver
4. Ben Franklin
IV. Immigration
A law, passed in 1882, forbade (disallowed) any laborers
from China to enter the United States for 10 years…
1. The Gentlemen’s
Agreement
2. The Nativists’ Act
3. The Chinese
Exclusion Act
4. The Anti-Chinese
Act
A founder of Hull House, a settlement house that helped
immigrants of the late 19th century become acclimated to life in
the United States, and was a pioneer in the field of social work…
1. Jane Addams
2. Marcus Hull
3. Susan B.
Anthony
4. Edward L. Hull
A rise in a society's city population…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Urbanization
Suburbanization
Immigration
Migration
V. Progressivism
A political reform movement in the late 19th and early
20th centuries to protect working class citizens…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Progressivism
Imperialism
Colonialism
Commercialism
An American invention of John Audubon and others who wished
to protect natural habitat from man in the 19th century. They
lobbied for parks and human exclusion from the wild…
1. The Conservation
Movement
2. The Progressive
Movement
3. Interventionism
4. Environmentalism
A group of authors and journalists who wrote of horrible working
conditions in American industry in the early 20th century, resulting
in more governmental protection of workers…
1. The Lost
Generation
2. Suffragettes
3. Yellow
Journalists
4. Muckrakers
Laws and regulations designed to protect trade and
commerce from unfair business practices…
1. Muckrakers
2. AntiImperialism
3. AntiCorporations
4. Anti-Trusts
26th President; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama canal
built during his administration; said `Speak softly but carry a big
stick`; considered by many to be the 1st conservation President…
1. Theodore
Roosevelt
2. Franklin
Roosevelt
3. Taft
4. Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt's plans to help safeguard the rights of
workers…
1. The New Deal
2. The New
Frontier
3. The Square Deal
4. The Great
Society
28th President of the United States; led the United
States in World War I and secured the formation of the
League of Nations…
1. William
McKinley
2. Franklin
Roosevelt
3. Howard Taft
4. Woodrow
Wilson
This amendment gave women the right to vote…
1. The 17th
Amendment
2. The 18th
Amendment
3. The 19th
Amendment
4. The 20th
Amendment
This amendment made personal income tax
permanent…
1. The 16th
Amendment
2. The 18th
Amendment
3. The 19th
Amendment
4. The 20th
Amendment
This amendment provided for the direct election of U.S.
senators…
1. The 17th
Amendment
2. The 18th
Amendment
3. The 20th
Amendment
4. The 21st
Amendment
VI. Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy in Latin America…
1. Dollar
Diplomacy
2. Big Stick
Diplomacy
3. Interventionism
4. Open Door
Policy
These are international relations influenced by economic
considerations…
1. Dollar
Diplomacy
2. Moral
Diplomacy
3. Interventionism
4. Open Door
Policy
A U.S. foreign policy that all countries should have equal
access with China…
1. Open Door
Policy
2. Boxer Policy
3. Moral
Diplomacy
4. Dollar
Diplomacy
Connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through
Central America…
1. The Suez Canal
2. The Panama
Canal
3. The Strait of
Gibraltar
4. The Strait of
Panama
This policy reasserted the U.S. position as protector of
the Western Hemisphere, and stated that the U.S. can
act as a police power in that region.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Wilson Doctrine
Wilson Corollary
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt
Corollary
A regiment in the Spanish-American War organized and
led by Theodore Roosevelt that included cowboys,
miners, policemen, and college athletes…
1. The Rough
Riders
2. The Buffalo
Soldiers
3. The Calvary
Elite
4. The Three
Amigos
A conflict in which the U.S. gained many island
territories, particularly Puerto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines.
1. The War of
1812
2. The SpanishAmerican War
3. World War I
4. World War II
26th President; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama canal
built during his administration; said `Speak softly but carry a big
stick`; considered by many to be the 1st conservation President…
1. Theodore
Roosevelt
2. Franklin
Roosevelt
3. Taft
4. Woodrow Wilson
This was the use of sensationalized news in newspaper
publishing to attract readers and increase circulation…
1. Muckraking
2. The Dredge
Report
3. Yellow
Journalism
4. Dollar
Journalism
U.S. Since 1865 Vocabulary
Mr. Shultz
U.S. from 1865 Vocabulary – Part II
I.
WWI
II. 1920’s
III. 1930’s
IV. WWII
V. The Cold War
VI. The Civil Rights Movement
VII. The 1960’s
VIII.Economic Terms
IX. Modern Issues
I. World War I
This is a policy of nonparticipation in
international affairs.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Internationalism
Interventionism
Isolationism
Imperialism
The sinking of this ship brought the U.S.
into WWI.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Maine
Lusitania
Titanic
Chesapeake
28th President of the United States; led the United
States in World War I and secured the formation of the
League of Nations (1856-1924).
1. Theodore
Roosevelt
2. Franklin
Roosevelt
3. William Howard
Taft
4. Woodrow Wilson
Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador
to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S.
1. Zimmerman
Note
2. Kaiser Note
3. Roosevelt
Telegram
4. Bismarck
Telegram
VIII. The 1920’s
This baseball great played for the New York Yankees, was the
“Home Run King” until 1974, and is often credited with saving the
game of baseball after the disgrace of the 1919 World Series.
1. Lou Gehrig
2. Babe Ruth
3. Charles
Lindbergh
4. Sammy Sosa
This amendment prohibited the sale and use of
alcoholic beverages.
1.
2.
3.
4.
16th
17th
18th
19th
He was the first man to pilot the first solo non-stop flight
across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 aboard his airplane,
The Spirit of St. Louis.
1. Lou Gehrig
2. Babe Ruth
3. Charles
Lindbergh
4. Amelia Earhart
The nickname given to women of the 1920s who wore
their dresses short, their hair shorter, and lived a very
active social life.
1. Suffragettes
2. Flappers
3. The Feminist
Movement
4. The Feminine
Mystique
This was the movement in the early 1900s which
resorted to violent crime.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Imperialism
Nationalism
Industrialism
Gangsterism
This was the period during 1920’s of outstanding
creativity centered in New York's black ghetto.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Progressivism
Urbanism
Black Renewal
Harlem
Renaissance
U.S. foreign policy during the 1920’s.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Isolationism
Collectivism
Internationalism
Imperialism
This was a secret society organized in the South after
the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of
terrorism.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Good Ole Boys
Ku Klux Klan
Skinheads
Rough Riders
In the late 19th century, this political and social movement swept
through the United States, its followers believing that all people
who were not born in the U.S. and were of European heritage
should be banned from the country.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Protectionism
Chauvinism
Nativism
The Great
Awakening
This was the outlawing of the sale, production, or
transportation of alcoholic beverages.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Inhibition
Prohibition
Protectionism
Tolerance Act
This was the period after WWI which saw massive upheaval in the
U.S. and fear of many foreigners. It was characterized by
widespread fears of Communist influence on U.S. society and
Communist infiltration of the U.S. government.
1. McCarthyism
2. AntiCommunism
3. The Red
Menace
4. The Red Scare
This was a murder trial in Massachusetts in 1920 which stirred
national emotion about the death of two Italian immigrants. They
believed themselves to be victims of social and political prejudice.
1. Julius and Ethyl
Rosenberg
2. Plessy and
Ferguson
3. Sacco and
Venzetti
4. Bonnie and
Clyde
This was brought about due to the teaching of evolution
in a Tennessee classroom.
1. Marbury v.
Madison
2. Plessy v.
Ferguson
3. The Scopes
Trial
4. Brown v. Board
of Education
This was a movement to give females the right to vote.
1. Women’s
Suffrage
2. Women’s Rights
3. Equal Rights
Amendment
4. The Flapper
Movement
IX. The 1930’s
During the Great Depression (specifically 1932), this group of
veterans protested in Washington, D.C., to receive their “bonus”
for fighting in World War I, though payment was not required until
the next decade.
1. 52nd Rainbow
Division
2. 101st Airborne
Division
3. The Bonus Boys
4. The Bonus
Army
This was the term given to the area of the Great Plains
that was most greatly affected during the Great Drought
of the 1930's.
1. The Cotton
Bowl
2. The Dust Bowl
3. The Prairie
4. Death Valley
This was a period of global economic crisis that lasted
from 1929 to 1939. There was widespread poverty and
high unemployment.
1. The Dust Bowl
2. The Red Scare
3. The Great
Depression
4. Prohibition
This was the programs and policies to promote
economic recovery and social reform introduced during
the 1930's by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1. The Square
Deal
2. The New Deal
3. The New
Freedom
4. The Great
Society
This is a federal government program that provides
income support to people who are unemployed,
disabled, or over the age of 65.
1. Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA)
2. Works Progress
Administration
(WPA)
3. Civilian
Conservation
Corporation (CCC)
4. Social Security
X. World War II
This was the totalitarian leader of Nazi Germany during
World War II.
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Benito Mussolini
3. Winston
Churchill
4. Douglas
MacArthur
This was a United States general who supervised the
invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany;
34th President of the United States (1890-1961).
1. Erwin Rommel
2. Dwight
Eisenhower
3. William
Westmoreland
4. Douglas
MacArthur
This was a United States general who served as chief of staff and
commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II;
he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964).
1. Erwin Rommel
2. Dwight
Eisenhower
3. William
Westmoreland
4. Douglas
MacArthur
This was a British statesman and leader during World
War II.
1. Nevelle
Chamberlain
2. Paul McCarthy
3. Winston
Churchill
4. John Lenin
These were the nations united against the Axis during
World War II.
1. Triple Entente
2. Triple Alliance
3. The Central
Powers
4. The Allies
This was the alliance of nations that opposed the Allies
in World War II.
1. Triple Entente
2. Triple Alliance
3. The Central
Powers
4. The Axis
This was a rapid new attack method used by Nazi
Germany in WWII.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Blitzkrieg
Shock and Awe
Gutentag
Auf
Wiedersehen
This was the act of genocide carried out by Germany on
the Jewish population of Europe.
1. Krystal Nacht
2. Holocaust
3. My Lai
Massacre
4. Juden Mass
Murder
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of western
Europe that began on June 6, 1944.
1. The Battle of
the Bulge
2. Belgium
Invasion
3. Normandy
Invasion
4. Battle of the
Marne
Nazi World War II criminals were tried during these
before an international tribunal.
1. Berlin War Trials
2. Nuremberg War
Trials
3. Bad Godesberg
War Trials
4. The Inquisition
This is the U.S. Naval base attacked by the Japanese
that brought the U.S. into WW II.
1. Midway Island
2. Hawaii
3. Alameda Naval
Air Station
(NAS)
4. Pearl Harbor
This is a centralized government that does not tolerate
opposing political opinions.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Totalitarianism
Democracy
Oligarchy
Republic
XI. The Cold War
This was a delivery of supplies in a German city to
circumvent the Soviet blockade.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Berlin Airlift
Munich Airlift
Allied Transport
Axis Transport
This is the name given to the general reduction in the tension
between the Soviet Union and the United States that occurred
from the late 1960s until the start of the 1980s.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Diminution
Détente’
Cool Down
Adieu
This was a national conflict in an Asian country aided by Russia in
the North and the U.S. in the South (1950-1953).
1. Russo-Japanese
War
2. The Vietnam
War
3. The Korean War
4. The Persian
Gulf War
This was unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty to the
United States (as by saying they were Communists, usually with
sketchy or no evidence).
1.
2.
3.
4.
McCarthyism
Trumanism
The Red Scare
The Red
Menace
This was a Cold War competition between the U.S. and
Soviet powers for space exploration.
1. Sputnik
2. The Apollo
Program
3. Space Race
4. Rocket Race
This said that the United States would aid any nation in resisting
the growing threat of communism and became the guiding force of
American foreign policy during the Cold War.
1. The Monroe
Doctrine
2. The Truman
Doctrine
3. The McCarthy
Plan
4. The Marshall
Plan
This is an international organization created following
World War II to provide a way to negotiate disputes.
1. League of
Nations
2. A League of
Their Own
3. The United
Nations
4. NATO
This was a military alliance between the Soviet Union
and the countries of Eastern Europe.
1. NATO
2. The Molotov
Plan
3. The Moscow
Pact
4. The Warsaw
Pact
XII. The Civil Rights Movement
This 1954 Supreme Court case, declared that the
segregation doctrine of “separate but equal,” was not
Constitutional when applied to the public school system.
1. Marbury v.
Madison
2. Plessy v.
Ferguson
3. Brown v. Board
of Education
4. Kramer v.
Kramer
This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that
established the legality of racial segregation so long as
facilities were “separate but equal.”
1. Marbury v.
Madison
2. Plessy v.
Ferguson
3. Brown v. Board
of Education
4. Kramer v.
Kramer
This was a U.S. educator and reformer. He became
perhaps the most prominent African American leader of
his time.
1. W.E.B. Du Bois
2. Booker T.
Washington
3. Marcus Garvey
4. George
Washington
Carver
Signed into law by President Johnson, this bill protected
African Americans and women from job discrimination
and any discrimination in public places.
1. Civil Rights Act of
1964
2. Civil Rights Act of
1968
3. Equal Rights
Amendment 1964
4. Equal Rights
Amendment 1968
Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations,
public and private, be segregated by race.
1. Grandfather
Clause
2. Poll Tax
3. Jim Crow Laws
4. Literacy Law
Often associated with confrontational Civil Rights protest, he was
a leader in the Nation of Islam in the United States, an early
advocate of “Black Power,” but became a more moderate voice in
the Civil Rights movement before his assassination in 1965.
1. Elijah
Muhammad
2. Malcolm X
3. Dr. Martin Luther
King
4. W.E.B. Du Bois
This is the oldest and largest U.S. civil rights
organization. Members of this have referred to it as The
National Association.
1.
2.
3.
4.
ACLU
Ku Klux Klan
NAIA
NAACP
This is the movement aimed at equal rights for women.
1. Equal Rights
Amendment
2. The Civil Rights
Movement
3. The AntiEstablishment
Movement
4. The Feminist
Movement
XIII. The 1960’s
This is the name given to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s
domestic programs, among them VISTA, Job Corps, Head Start,
the “War on Poverty,” and the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
1. The New Deal
2. The New
Freedom
3. The New
Frontier
4. The Great
Society
The 35th President of the United States, he was known for
authorizing the failed “Bay of Pigs” invasion, successfully leading
the country during the “Cuban Missile Crisis,” and for being
assassinated while in Dallas, Texas, in November of 1963.
1. Dwight D.
Eisenhower
2. John F.
Kennedy
3. Lyndon B.
Johnson
4. Richard M.
Nixon
These are people opposed to violence to attain end
goals.
1. Hawks
2. Conscientious
Objectors
3. Pacifists
4. Gandhittes