U.S. after 1865 Vocabulary

1. U.S. after 1865 Vocabulary

2. Reviewing Reconstruction

3. Politician from Tennessee who became President after the assassination of Lincoln, and later became the first President to be impeached (but found not guilty)… • Zachary Taylor • Woodrow Wilson • Andrew Johnson • Lyndon Johnson

4. 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… • Yankees • Carpetbaggers • Immigrants • Scalawags

5. Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race… • Plessy Laws • Ferguson Laws • Jim Crow Laws • KKK Laws

6. A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism… • The Ku Klux Klan • The Redeemers • The Enforcers • The Free Masons

7. A payment meant to keep certain groups of people (mainly former slaves and African-Americans) from being allowed to vote… • Grandfather clause • Literacy Tests • Poll Tax • Excise Tax

8. II. Closing of the Western Frontier

9. 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 … • Buffalo Soldiers • Carpetbaggers • Scalawags • The Massachusetts 54th

10. 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 … • Flight of the Bumble bee • The Ghost Dance • Dances with Wolves • Ode to Our Fathers

11. 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 … • John J. Dunbar • John J. Pershing • George Custer • Douglas MacArthur

12. 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 … • Farmers Alliance of America (FAA) • Farmers for Rights (FFR) • Rangers • Grangers

13. A political party formed after the civil war who opposed reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation … • The Grange • The Democrats • The Greenbacks • The Federalists

14. 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 … • The Townshend Act • The Homestead Act • The Land Grant Act • The Westward Act

15. III. Industrialism

17. Scottish-born American industrialist made his fortune in the steel industry … • John D. Rockefeller • Henry Ford • William Wallace • Andrew Carnegie

18. 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… • Commodore Vanderbilt • Henry Ford • Nelson Rockefeller • John D. Rockefeller

19. 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)… • Vandals • Socialists • Robber Barons • Philanthropolist

20. 32 13 Answer Now The theory that people are subject to natural selection and wealth was a sign of superiority… • The Gospel of Wealth • Capitalism • Communism • Social Darwinism

21. 32 14 Answer Now French term which means allow to do, the philosophy that government should stay out of the market … • feminin’ • laissez-faire • adieu • souffle’

22. 32 14 Answer Now When one company controls the market for a certain product, there is no competition… • socialism • communism • open market • monopoly

23. 32 13 Answer Now 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… • Alexander Graham Bell • Thomas Edison • George Washington Carver • Ben Franklin

24. IV. Immigration

25. Answer Now A law, passed in 1882, forbade (disallowed) any laborers from China to enter the United States for 10 years… • The Gentlemen’s Agreement • The Nativists’ Act • The Chinese Exclusion Act • The Anti-Chinese Act

26. Answer Now 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… • Jane Addams • Marcus Hull • Susan B. Anthony • Edward L. Hull

27. Answer Now A rise in a society's city population… • Urbanization • Suburbanization • Immigration • Migration

28. V. Progressivism

29. Answer Now A political reform movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to protect working class citizens… • Progressivism • Imperialism • Colonialism • Commercialism

30. Answer Now 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… • The Conservation Movement • The Progressive Movement • Interventionism • Environmentalism

31. Answer Now 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… • The Lost Generation • Suffragettes • Yellow Journalists • Muckrakers

32. Answer Now Laws and regulations designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices… • Muckrakers • Anti-Imperialism • Anti-Corporations • Anti-Trusts

33. Answer Now 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… • Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin Roosevelt • Taft • Woodrow Wilson

34. Answer Now Teddy Roosevelt's plans to help safeguard the rights of workers… • The New Deal • The New Frontier • The Square Deal • The Great Society

35. 28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations… • William McKinley • Franklin Roosevelt • Howard Taft • Woodrow Wilson

36. This amendment gave women the right to vote… • The 17th Amendment • The 18th Amendment • The 19th Amendment • The 20th Amendment

37. This amendment made personal income tax permanent… • The 16th Amendment • The 18th Amendment • The 19th Amendment • The 20th Amendment

38. This amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. senators… • The 17th Amendment • The 18th Amendment • The 20th Amendment • The 21st Amendment

39. VI. Imperialism

40. Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy in Latin America… • Dollar Diplomacy • Big Stick Diplomacy • Interventionism • Open Door Policy

41. These are international relations influenced by economic considerations… • Dollar Diplomacy • Moral Diplomacy • Interventionism • Open Door Policy

42. A U.S. foreign policy that all countries should have equal access with China… • Open Door Policy • Boxer Policy • Moral Diplomacy • Dollar Diplomacy

43. Connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Central America… • The Suez Canal • The Panama Canal • The Strait of Gibraltar • The Strait of Panama

44. 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. • Wilson Doctrine • Wilson Corollary • Monroe Doctrine • Roosevelt Corollary

45. A regiment in the Spanish-American War organized and led by Theodore Roosevelt that included cowboys, miners, policemen, and college athletes… • The Rough Riders • The Buffalo Soldiers • The Calvary Elite • The Three Amigos

46. A conflict in which the U.S. gained many island territories, particularly Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. • The War of 1812 • The Spanish-American War • World War I • World War II

47. 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… • Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin Roosevelt • Taft • Woodrow Wilson

48. This was the use of sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation… • Muckraking • The Dredge Report • Yellow Journalism • Dollar Journalism

49. U.S. Since 1865 Vocabulary Mr. Shultz

50. 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 • The 1960’s • Economic Terms • Modern Issues