1-5 Flashcards
1
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Which President was a Lame duck
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Andrew Jackson
2
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_________ Wanted to continue Lincoln’s plan for the 10% loyalty on the south
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Andrew Jackson
3
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Where is the impeachment trial held for Andrew Jackson
A
Congress
4
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__________ required that 50 percent of a state’s white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union
A
Wade - Davis Bill
5
Q
which amendment ends slavery
A
13th
6
Q
A association that helped freed slaves out.
They provided food, housing, education.
A
Freedmen’s Bureau
7
Q
which amendment gave the slave citizenship
A
14th
8
Q
which amendment gave the slave voting rights
A
15th
9
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People who came against the south
They thought blacks had the same amount of rights that the white people did.
A
Radical Republicans
10
Q
why did the southerns hate the Radical Republicans
A
because they were trying to push the southerns out.
11
Q
what was the sharecropping system
A
You would have to give your landowner some of your crops
12
Q
Sharecroppers would charge to your account and pay it all when had harvest time.
A
Credit
13
Q
They had all of there things stuffed in the carpets.
Took advantage of the people post civil war
A
Carpetbaggers
14
Q
southerners
Was the same thing as a carpetbagger
A
Scalawags
15
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The widow women would marry other men for money not love.
A
Marriage of Economy
16
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Slaves moved all over and try to get away from the south.
A
Expansion
17
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when did We bought Alaska from Russia
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1867
18
Q
Sward’s Folly
A
They thought the man named seward was crazy because who would want to have alaska
19
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How much did we pay for Alaska
A
7.2 million
20
Q
what did we get from Alaska
A
Oil
21
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Alaska Becomes a state when
A
1959
22
Q
What will bring people over to Alaska
A
Gold and Oil
23
Q
Go to Oregon, Texas, the Great Plains
A
Westward Expansion
24
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What would people make their houses out of in the West
A
sod
25
The West had many names. Name 2
Tornado Alley
| Dust Bowl
26
What would farmers and train conductors do to the Bufflo
kill them because they were in the way
27
Before trains
How they would communicate across the country.
2 weeks one way
They would have a horse, saddle bag, and a gun
Pony Express
28
Alexander Gram Bell
Telegram
29
First time it was used was Titanic 1912 (SOS)
| A series of dots and dashes
Morse Code
30
1869, May 10th
first train
31
Promontory Point, Utah
where the train started
32
why did we hire Chinese people to work
because they would work for cheap money.
33
what did the native do to the trains
tear up tracks because they did not want the railroads to come through.
34
who was Sitting Bull
an Indian Cheif
35
Temporary General
George Armstrong Custer
36
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Graduated last in the class
Westpoint Military Academy
Sent to handle the Native population
Indian Name (sun of the morning star
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George Armstrong Custer
37
what did the Natives worship
sun
38
which battle had no native survivors
Wounded Knee
39
War hero; he could try to run in any party and he would win
Ulysses S. Grant
40
Construction of the transcontinental railroad
Credit Mobilier
41
what was the Teapot Dome Scandal
the Drilling of oil
42
where was the first oil in America found
Pennsylvania
43
Keep of the black people and slaves in order
Jim Crow Law
44
Gave white people authority over black
Black Code
45
what Nathan Bedford Forrest famous for
The KKK
46
What was Nathan Bedford Forrest's wife nickname and why was she called that
Lemonade Lucy
| She would not serve anything stronger than lemonade
47
opposed to alcohol
Temperance leagues
48
They would dress in all white
They would burn crosses in people’s yard
Throw rocks through their windows
The would play tricks in the middle of the night.
KKK
49
who was in the Election of 1877
Hayes vs. Tildon
50
How did Hayes win
Hayes agrees to end reconstruction if they vote him back in.
51
Made from roots
| Was actually tea but called beer because it was sold in salons
Root Beer
52
How did the South get more representatives in Congress
because slaves were now counted as whole people instead of ⅗
53
what was the Panic of 1873
it was a panic about paper money
54
Money you had to pay when you went to go vote
poll tax
55
Before you would go vote you had to take a literacy test,.
Literacy Test
56
If your grandfather couldn’t vote you couldn’t
Grandfather clause
57
what was the Apache Indians known for
fighting
58
Elected back to congress
| Mississippi was the first state to elect former slaves to congress
Jefferson Davis
59
Tuskegee Institute
| He started the school and changed to Tuskegee College
Booker T.
60
what was George Washington Carver known for
peanuts /peanut butter
61
Model T
Manual Crank
No Air/Heat
Henry Ford
62
You aren’t working on one car at a time you just had to do one job and put it on several cars.
Assembly Line
63
Sears
| Shopping has evolved.
Department Stores
64
One-Stop Stores=
Wal-Mart
65
Illegal
| One person owns everything
Monopoly
66
What is one Monopoly today
Alabama Power
67
Teddy Roosevelt started it
“Trust-Buster”
Prevented one company from taking over
Sherman Anti Trust Fund
68
Standard Oil
| Had a monopoly
John D.Rockefeller
69
who is famous for US Steel
Commodore Vanderbilt
70
Workers were treated badly so what would they do
they would go on Labor Strikes
71
AFL=
American Federation of Labor
72
Name the invention Thomas Edison
Lightbulb
73
Name the invention Alexander Graham Bell
telephone and telegram
74
Name the invention Orville and Wilbur Wright
Airplane
75
Why did Immigrants come to Merica
Chasing the “American Dream”
76
made the Square Deal and was a rough rider
Teddy
77
They rode horses
They looked rough.
Charge up San Juan Hill
Rough Riders
78
Who won the San Juan Hill
the Rough Riders
79
when did the Spanish - American War start
1898
80
what did the US get for winning the Spanish - American War
We won and got control of Cuba and Philippines
81
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Trust Buster
Had asthma as a child
Famous Quote
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
You can get people to do what you want them to do if you talk nice to them, or hit them with a stick.
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TEDDY
82
which President Won the Nobel Peace Prize
TEDDY
83
who was involved in Treaty of Portsmouth
Between Japan and Russia
84
why was the Panama Canal built
So you didn't have to go all the way around the continent
85
US finished the Canal but who started the Canal
France
86
When did it the Canal open and how did the boats get through
1914 and mules pulled them through
87
When did the US give the Canal to Panama
1999
88
Who started the National Park System
TEDDY
89
What child's toy was named after a President
teddy bear
90
What party did Teddy make to run for a 3rd term with
Bull Moose party
91
Who was Teddy's vice President and became President after him
Taft
92
What did Taft want to do and why did he not do it
He wanted to be in the senate but his wife wanted to be first lady so he ran for president instead.
93
He was the largest President.
300+ lbs
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft
94
What was the Dollar Diplomacy
If you throw enough money it will go away.
95
What did Taft do when he retired
Became Supreme Court Justice when he retired.
96
what were the 4 Presidents who were assassinated
Garfield,Kennedy,Lincoln,McKinley
97
King of Germany
| Roosevelt convinced him away from war
Kingsor Willingham
98
when did women get to vote and why were they not allowed to vote before then
1920
| People thought women weren’t smart enough to vote
99
Anyone that is open to new ideas
Progressivism
100
Women were supposed to stay a home and not do anything
Women did not have to option to go to college with men, they had a few women's only colleges like The W and UWA(Livingston College at that time)
Cult of Domesticity
101
why did the built skyscrapers
They started to go up because they were running out of space
102
Robber Barons
Rockefeller
| Vanderbilt
103
160 Acres
| You can apply to the government to get 160 acres to start your own farm.
Homestead Act
104
Who was Geronimo
a native Apache
105
who wrote How the Other Half Lives
Upton St. Clair
106
She shot guns and became apart of the circus
| Little Sure Shot
Annie Oakley
107
People would use it to keep the cows out of the garden because it was so expensive.
Barbed Wire
108
What percent of the country was involved with Agriculture
97%
109
I was a good military leader so I will be a good government leader
Waving the bloody shirt
110
Grant
corrupt the system
111
What did the native americans called 1877 and why
| How did Americans get revenge
Greasy Grass there was so much blood on the ground.
| Wounded Knee
112
It is when settlers headed out west. It was a fresh start for settlers
- When settlers moved out to the plain they had to build houses using sod
Oregon Trail
113
settlers used this to stay together
Wagon Trains
114
Everybody is equal
Socialism
115
Who made the New Deal and what was it
Stuff that came off of great depression
| FDR
