American History

Question 1

What was the purpose of Sherman‘s march to the sea

Answer 1

Destroying all civilian and military services

Question 2

Who is the president of the Confederacy

Answer 2

Jefferson Davis

Question 3

The battle is considered the turning point of the war

Answer 3

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 4

The president during the Civil War

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

Who was the southern general from Virginia, offered the chance to lead the union army but chose to leave the largest confederate army instead

Answer 5

Robert E Lee

Question 6

Where did the confederate army surrendered to the union army to end the war

Answer 6

Appomattox courthouse

Question 7

Which southern general was one of Lee’s most important generals it was accidentally killed by his own man

Answer 7

Stonewall Jackson

Question 8

Who was the union general who led the army at the end of the war and excepted the southern surrender at Appomattox courthouse

Answer 8

Ulysses S Grant

Question 9

Which was the battle that begin the Civil War

Answer 9

Battle of Fort Sumter

Question 10

What was the main cause of the Civil War

Answer 10

Disagreements bout slavery

Question 11

Written in 1820 and help set up the debate over slavery for territories in the Louisiana purchase becoming states

Answer 11

Missouri compromise

Question 12

By late 1800s why did industrialize western nations such as Great Britain France and Germany look to Africa Asia and Latin America

Answer 12

Military needs
New customers
New places to invest
Raw material

Question 13

What did US Secretary of State John hey propose the open door policy in China in opposition for

Answer 13

Spheres of influence

Question 14

What did social Darwinism encourage people in industrialized nations to believe

Answer 14

That they can save them

Question 15

The Roosevelt corollary is in addition to the previous foreign policy document

Answer 15

Monroe doctrine

Question 16

In the late 1800s what motivated the US to Claim territory abroad

Answer 16

New markets
Military advantages
Religious ideas

Question 17

Did the explosion of the USS Maine cause

Answer 17

US declaration of war on Spain

Question 18

Who laid the foundation of progressive movement

Answer 18

Muckraker

Question 19

What Event was a turning point for reform in the workplace safety

Answer 19

Triangle shirtwaist company fire

Question 20

A struggle for women suffrage resulted in a final victory with the ratification of the amendment

Answer 20

19th amendment

Question 21

What did the 14th amendment guarantee

Answer 21

Full rights of citizenship

Question 22

What in the native American resistance to the US government on the plane

Answer 22

Army

Question 23

How did social darwinists apply Darwins theories to Society

Answer 23

They thought they were more powerful so then they were better than everyone else

Question 24

What was the result of the United States becoming a major supplier for the Allied powers

Answer 24

Troops in Europe got the supplies they need it quicker

Question 25

How did the 1917 uprising against the czar Nicholas the second push the United States of the entering World War I

Answer 25

We start to question how long Russia could hold of Germany

Question 26

What are the basic principles of communism

Answer 26

No private property

No economic classes

Question 27

What effect did the increase in European farm production after World War I have on American farmers

Answer 27

European farmland was destroyed after the war

Question 28

What was the Direct goal of most of President Coolidge policies

Answer 28

Business will provide the energy resource

Question 29

What was the regimen teddy Roosevelt organize to fight for Cuban independence

Answer 29

Rough Riders

Question 30

President Woodrow Wilson sent troops into Mexico to arrest which Mexican outlaw after his raid into New Mexico and killed 17 Americans

Answer 30

John J Pershing

Question 31

Who did Theodore Roosevelt administration file hundreds of lawsuits against

Answer 31

Monopolies

Question 32

What was the labor system that developed in the south after the Civil War that kept most freedom economically dependent called

Answer 32

Sharecropping

Question 33

Where did most people in the cities in the late 1800s live

Answer 33

Tenement houses

Question 34

Who made his fortune designing and building sleeper cars for real roads, which made long-distance travel more comfortable

Answer 34

George Pullman

Question 35

What is a business with a legal status of an individual

Answer 35

Monopoly

Question 36

What act gave state land to build colleges to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts

Answer 36

Morrill land act

Question 37

What did the treaty of Versailles make Germany do

Answer 37

Except full responsibility for causing the war

And pay $33 billion in reparations

Question 38

How did government policies toward Indians change in the mid-1800s

Answer 38

They broke their treaties and began to force them off their land into reservation so that they can settle the land

Question 39

How did railroads affect the settlement of the west

Answer 39

They helped increase it

Question 40

What jobs did military women have during world war one

Answer 40

Nurses, typists, bookkeepers, radio keepers and electricians or telegraphs

Question 41

Whom did the treaty of Versailles Demand except sole responsibility for starting the war

Answer 41

Germany

Question 42

What length 14 million people dead at the end of the war

Answer 42

Combat, disease, starvation

Question 43

How did Henry Ford innovative thinking impact the auto industry

Answer 43

He made his cars affordable for people to buy

Raised his workers pay