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What is significant about the battle at Gettysburg?

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Turning point of the war, 1st clear cut victory for the North

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What was the Anaconda plan?

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North’s offensive goal was to capture Richmond and the Mississippi River to blockade ports, cutting off imports and exports

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Who was General Stonewall Jackson?

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Confederate general, remembered for his Christian testimony

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What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Statement made by Lincoln which declared freedom for slaves in the Confederacy (after the Battle of Antietam)

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What were the North’s advantages in the Civil War?

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Advantage in population, food production, and industrial output; also had a strong Navy and good transportation facilities

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What were the South’s advantages in the Civil War?

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Better trained leaders, head start in preparation and accustomed to outdoor life, had Slaves to take care of crops

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What was the central issue surrounding the Civil War?

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Whether states that voluntarily joined the Union leave the Union

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What town gave the Union control of the entire Mississippi River?

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Vickburg

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Where was the South’s surrender signed?

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Appomattox Courthouse

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How could Southern states be readmitted into the Union?

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States could be admitted after they met certain requirements, i.e. their citizens declaring allegiance to the Union, and meeting qualifications for Southern leadership and pardons

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What was the 13th amendment?

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Permanently abolished slavery

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How did Congress attempt to impeach President Johnson?

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House brings charges abainst Pres. Johnson; he is tried by the Senate. One vote short of 2/3rds needed to remove him from office

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Who were carpetbaggers?

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Northern politicians who went South after the war to take advantage of political opportunity

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What was sharecropping?

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A system of farming in which a plantation owner divided his land into small plots worked by former slaves and their families

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What was the Ku Klux Klan?

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Secret society that used illegal methods in an attempt to improve the situation in the South

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Who was Ulysses Grant?

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President from 1869-1887, Civil War Hero

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What was the Compromise of 1877?

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Provided for the removal of all federal troops from Southern States

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What were the Twin Pillars of trade for the South?

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Tobacco and textiles

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Who won the 1896 election?

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William McKinley (front porch campaign)

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Who was Fanny Crosby?

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Blind hymn writer

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What was the Interstate Commerce Act?

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Passed to provide federal regulation for the Railroad Industry

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Who were the first baseball World Series champions?

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the Boston Pilgrims

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What is Social Darwinism?

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Used to defend the development of monopolies in industry

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What was Manila Bay?

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US victory over the Spanish fleet in the Pacific by Commodore George Dewey

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What was the De Lome letter?

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Derogatory comments about the President, was intercepted and printed

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What project was finished in 1869 that connected the United States from each end?

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the Continental Railroad

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What animal was key to Native American’s nomadic life?

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Buffalo

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Who was Sitting Bull?

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Famous Indian medicine man

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What caused land rushes?

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When the government decided to open large sections of the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to white settlement, it decided to do so in five large blows called land runs

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Who produced the first affordable automobile in 1908 and developed the assembly line process?

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Henry Ford

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What were Jim Crow laws?

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Laws in the South that forced segregation

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Who was William Howard Taft?

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Teddy Roosevelt’s successor on the Republican ticket

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What is Dollar Diplomacy?

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Attempt to influence foreign affairs through investments

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What is segregation?

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Occurred mostly in the South, separated black and white people

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What is the 19th amendment?

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Attempt to influence foreign affairs through investmentS

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Who was Susan B. Anthony?

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Suffragette

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What was Prohibition?

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Ban on manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages (18th amendment)

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What event sparked World War 1?

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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdienand and his wife Sophia in Sarajevo

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Who opposed the Treaty of Versailles because of the threat to America’s national sovereignty?

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Who led Germany in World War 1?

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Who was Major Whittlesly?

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Leader of the Lost Battalion

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What countries were in the Triple Entente?

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Great Britain, France, and Russia

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What events caused America’s entry into World War 2?

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Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman note, U-boats sunk unarmed vessels

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What was the Lusitania?

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Ship that was sunk off the coast of Ireland (128 Americans killed)

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What ended World War 1?

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Treaty of Versailles

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What is speculation?

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Buying at a low price hoping to sell at a higher price

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What was the Scopes Trial?

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Effort to remove teaching of evolution in public schools

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What was the 1st commercial radio station broadcast the election results?

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KDKA

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Who were flappers?

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Young women who attempted to look liberated

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Who was the 1st man to fly a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic?

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Charles Lindbergh

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Who won the 1920 election with the slogan “Return to Normalcy”?

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Warren Harding

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What event began the Great Depression?

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Market Crash of 1929

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What was the Red Scare?

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Wave of leftist bombings

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What was the Dust Bowl?

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A severe drought that hit the Great Plains (Oklahoma was the hardest hit)

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What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

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First Lady, advocate against racial discrimination

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What were fireside chats?

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Roosevelt would be broadcasted on the radio, talked about economic recovery for America

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What was the Great Depression?

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Downfall of America’s economy in the 1930’s

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What were the causes of the Great Depression?

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Growing debt of consumers, greedy businessmen, government failure to intervene, European debt to US, growth of pessimism

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What was the Bonus Expeditionary Force?

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A group of WWI Veterans demanded an early bonus

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What were the 3 R’s?

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Relief, Recovery, and Reform

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What was internment?

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Placement of Japanese Americans in detention camp

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What was Pearl Harbor?

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Japan’s on the US, event that caused the US to enter World War 2

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Who was the appointed Supreme Allied Commander?

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General Dwight Eisenhower

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What is the German term for ‘lightning war’?

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Blitzkreig