U.S. History Flashcards
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The day affer the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions
vote
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1884 the Central Labor Union selected the first Monday in this month for their “workingmen’s holiday”
September
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| This president’s second inaugural address was 135 words long; he had us at “Fellow citizens”
Washington
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The 1914 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty gave the U.S. the right to build a canal across this country NW of Panama
Nicaragua
$6000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| 1967 saw the amendment on presidential succession pass & this future V.P. become governor of Maryland
Spiro Agnew
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| William McGuffey compiled his first one in 1836
a reader
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| At Jefferson Davis’ suggestion, in 1855 Congress bought some of these animals from Egypt for the Southwest
camels
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Franklin Pierce’s hope for glory in this war ended when he was thrown from his horse & injured
the Mexican-American War
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Founded in 1886, it became the major rival of the Edison Electric Company
Westinghouse
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In November 1903 troops from the U.S.S. Nashville were used to stop Colombians from reaching this now-capital city
Panama City
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Charles Evans Hughes was picked to represent the U.S. at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in this city in 1926
The Hague
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1963 he spoke of his “dream” that his children would one day “not be judged by the color of their skin”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| On August 21, 1959 it became our 50th state
Hawaii
$1500 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Seen <a>here</a>, he was the earliest president ever to be photographed, & the first to have a middle name
John Quincy Adams
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| It’s the period, 1920 to 1933, when alcoholic beverages were illegal
Prohibition
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Stephen Douglas proposed the act that repealed the Missouri Compromise & created these 2 territories
Kansas & Nebraska
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| A 1924 law gave citizenship to all these members of what were called “domestic dependent nations”
Native Americans
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive
William Tecumseh Sherman
$200 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1949 he presented his “Fair Deal” as part of his State of the Union address
Truman
$400 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| The U.S. blockade of this country was made public October 22, 1962
Cuba
$600 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| When these people struck in Boston, Coolidge said, “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone”
the police
$800 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| In 1851 students at VMI couldn’t stonewall this professor of natural & experimental philosophy
(Stonewall) Jackson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| Marcus Garvey, born on this island nation in 1887, was deported back there by the U.S. in 1927
Jamaica
$None ||| Category: U.S. HISTORY ||| For evading taxes on profits earned, former CIA agent Thomas Clines was the only one sent to prison over this scandal
Iran-Contra