US History Midterm

Illegal saloons operating during Prohibition

Concept of the US spreading its will to other countries through expansion during imperialism

What was the attitude of most Americans towards the purchase of Alaska, or "Seward's Folly"

This concept, that citizens could determine if a state would have slavery, failed

Rebuilding of the South after the CW

Andrew Johnson was accused of wrongdoing through formal charges brought forth as a step toward

New Deal program to improve the Dust Bowl affected lands and expand parks

Nation that dropped out of WWI due to a revolution within this nation

According to the Compromise of 1877, which group suffered the greatest?

Organized massacres of Jews, which prompted many of them to immigrate to the USA

Why was Pres. Johnson impeached

System that effectively replaced slavery in the South until well into the 20th century

Era of political corruption of the mid to late 1800s in America

Young, progressively thinking women of the 1920s

Ways that American citizens could support the WWI effort

Famous quote of Theodore Roosevelt to reflect the US role of imperialism

How did the Spanish American War begin

The PRIMARY goal of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

This book brought revisions by government after showing the horrors of the meat-packing industry

Which best describes the "white man's burden"

Amendment to grant citizenship to those born in the USA

End to fighting in WWI

The NORTH did NOT have this advantage during the Civil War

Economic policy whereby the government does NOT get involved with business

The idea that the wealthy should make money and use $ to benefit society

Common names the SOUTH would have referred to the Civil War as would NOT have included

Type of journalism whereby exaggerated or fabricated stories were printed to sell newspapers

President of the Confederate States of America

New Deal reform of the banking system

Idea that drinking was wrong and should be ended

Plan for the Union to blockade all southern ports and not allow travel/trade

Movement of late 1800s - early 1900s whereby the government instituted reforms to better society

Those who helped FDR with the recovery from the Depression

With the loss of this Mississippi River city, the Confederacy was in effect cut in half in 1863

With the quota acts of the 1920s, what impact did they have upon immigration to the US

Major effect(s) of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN included

Many people wanted a "return to ____________" at the beginning of the 1920s

Biblical story of man being formed in the image of God