u.s. after 1865 vocabulary. reviewing reconstruction

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 Taylor2. Woodrow

Wilson3. Andrew Johnson4. 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. Yankees2. Carpetbaggers3. Immigrants4. Scalawags

Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race…

1. Plessy Laws2. Ferguson Laws3. Jim Crow Laws4. 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 Redeemers3. The Enforcers4. 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 Tests3. Poll Tax4. 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. Buffalo Soldiers2. Carpetbaggers3. Scalawags4. 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. John J. Dunbar2. John J. Pershing3. George Custer4. 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. Rangers4. Grangers

A political party formed after the civil war who opposed reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation …

1. The Grange2. The Democrats3. The Greenbacks4. The 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 Townshend Act

2. The Homestead Act

3. The Land Grant Act

4. The Westward Act

III. Industrialism

Scottish-born American industrialist made his fortune in the steel industry …

1. John D. Rockefeller

2. Henry Ford3. William Wallace4. 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 Ford3. Nelson

Rockefeller4. 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. Vandals2. Socialists3. Robber Barons4. Philanthropolist

The theory that people are subject to natural selection and wealth was a sign of superiority…

1. The Gospel of Wealth

2. Capitalism3. Communism4. Social

Darwinism

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French term which means allow to do, the philosophy that government should stay out of the market …

1. feminin’2. laissez-faire3. adieu4. souffle’

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When one company controls the market for a certain product, there is no competition…

1. socialism2. communism3. open market4. monopoly

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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 Edison3. George

Washington Carver

4. Ben Franklin

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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’ Act3. The Chinese

Exclusion Act4. 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 Addams2. Marcus Hull3. Susan B.

Anthony4. Edward L. Hull

A rise in a society's city population…

1. Urbanization2. Suburbanization3. Immigration4. Migration

V. Progressivism

A political reform movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to protect working class citizens…

1. Progressivism2. Imperialism3. Colonialism4. 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. Interventionism4. 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. Suffragettes3. Yellow

Journalists4. Muckrakers

Laws and regulations designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices…

1. Muckrakers2. Anti-

Imperialism3. Anti-

Corporations4. 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. Taft4. Woodrow Wilson

Teddy Roosevelt's plans to help safeguard the rights of workers…

1. The New Deal2. The New

Frontier3. The Square Deal4. 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


3. Howard Taft 4. Woodrow

Wilson

This amendment gave women the right to vote…

1. The 17th Amendment




This amendment made personal income tax permanent…





This amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. senators…




4. The 21st Amendment

VI. Imperialism

Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy in Latin America…

1. Dollar Diplomacy

2. Big Stick Diplomacy

3. Interventionism4. Open Door

Policy

These are international relations influenced by economic considerations…

1. Dollar Diplomacy

2. Moral Diplomacy

3. Interventionism4. Open Door

Policy

A U.S. foreign policy that all countries should have equal access with China…

1. Open Door Policy

2. Boxer Policy3. Moral

Diplomacy4. Dollar

Diplomacy

Connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Central America…

1. The Suez Canal2. The Panama

Canal3. The Strait of

Gibraltar4. 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. Wilson Doctrine2. Wilson Corollary3. Monroe Doctrine4. 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 18122. The Spanish-

American War3. World War I4. 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…



3. Taft4. Woodrow Wilson

This was the use of sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation…

1. Muckraking2. The Dredge

Report3. Yellow

Journalism4. Dollar

Journalism

U.S. Since 1865 VocabularyMr. Shultz

U.S. from 1865 Vocabulary – Part II

I. WWIII. 1920’sIII. 1930’sIV. WWIIV. The Cold WarVI. The Civil Rights MovementVII. The 1960’sVIII.Economic TermsIX. Modern Issues

I. World War I

This is a policy of nonparticipation in international affairs.

1. Internationalism2. Interventionism3. Isolationism4. Imperialism

The sinking of this ship brought the U.S. into WWI.

1. Maine2. Lusitania3. Titanic4. 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).



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 Note3. Roosevelt

Telegram4. 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 Gehrig2. Babe Ruth3. Charles

Lindbergh4. Sammy Sosa

This amendment prohibited the sale and use of alcoholic beverages.

1. 16th2. 17th3. 18th4. 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 Gehrig2. Babe Ruth3. Charles

Lindbergh4. 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. Suffragettes2. Flappers3. The Feminist

Movement4. The Feminine

Mystique

This was the movement in the early 1900s which resorted to violent crime.

1. Imperialism2. Nationalism3. Industrialism4. Gangsterism

This was the period during 1920’s of outstanding creativity centered in New York's black ghetto.

1. Progressivism2. Urbanism3. Black Renewal4. Harlem

Renaissance

U.S. foreign policy during the 1920’s.

1. Isolationism2. Collectivism3. Internationalism4. Imperialism

This was a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism.

1. Good Ole Boys2. Ku Klux Klan3. Skinheads4. 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. Protectionism2. Chauvinism3. Nativism4. The Great

Awakening

This was the outlawing of the sale, production, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.

1. Inhibition2. Prohibition3. Protectionism4. 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. McCarthyism2. Anti-

Communism3. The Red

Menace4. 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 Rights3. Equal Rights

Amendment4. 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 Boys4. 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 Bowl3. The Prairie4. 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 Bowl2. The Red Scare3. The Great

Depression4. 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


Freedom4. 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 Hitler2. Benito Mussolini3. Winston

Churchill4. 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 Rommel2. Dwight

Eisenhower3. William

Westmoreland4. 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 Rommel2. Dwight

Eisenhower3. William

Westmoreland4. Douglas

MacArthur

This was a British statesman and leader during World War II.

1. Nevelle Chamberlain

2. Paul McCarthy3. Winston

Churchill4. John Lenin

These were the nations united against the Axis during World War II.

1. Triple Entente2. Triple Alliance3. The Central

Powers4. The Allies

This was the alliance of nations that opposed the Allies in World War II.

1. Triple Entente2. Triple Alliance3. The Central

Powers4. The Axis

This was a rapid new attack method used by Nazi Germany in WWII.

1. Blitzkrieg2. Shock and Awe3. Gutentag4. Auf

Wiedersehen

This was the act of genocide carried out by Germany on the Jewish population of Europe.

1. Krystal Nacht2. Holocaust3. My Lai

Massacre4. 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 Trials2. Nuremberg War

Trials3. Bad Godesberg

War Trials4. The Inquisition

This is the U.S. Naval base attacked by the Japanese that brought the U.S. into WW II.

1. Midway Island2. Hawaii3. Alameda Naval

Air Station (NAS)

4. Pearl Harbor

This is a centralized government that does not tolerate opposing political opinions.

1. Totalitarianism2. Democracy3. Oligarchy4. Republic

XI. The Cold War

This was a delivery of supplies in a German city to circumvent the Soviet blockade.

1. Berlin Airlift2. Munich Airlift3. Allied Transport4. 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. Diminution2. Détente’3. Cool Down4. 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 War4. 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. McCarthyism2. Trumanism3. The Red Scare4. The Red

Menace

This was a Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet powers for space exploration.

1. Sputnik2. The Apollo

Program3. Space Race4. 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. NATO2. The Molotov

Plan3. The Moscow

Pact4. 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.




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.”




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 Bois2. Booker T.

Washington3. Marcus Garvey4. 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 Tax3. Jim Crow Laws4. 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 X3. Dr. Martin Luther

King4. 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. ACLU2. Ku Klux Klan3. NAIA4. NAACP

This is the movement aimed at equal rights for women.

1. Equal Rights Amendment

2. The Civil Rights Movement

3. The Anti-Establishment 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.


Freedom3. The New

Frontier4. 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. Kennedy3. Lyndon B.

Johnson4. Richard M.

Nixon

These are people opposed to violence to attain end goals.

1. Hawks2. Conscientious

Objectors3. Pacifists4. Gandhittes

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