1st Semester SS Review

What political party took control during Reconstruction?

Most immigrants settled in cities because ...

Southerners justified secession with the theory of ...

At the beginning of WWI, President Woodrow Wilson believed that the U.S. should ...

Many immigrants from Russia were Jewish. What is the primary reason they came to the U.S.?

The Spanish-American War was fought during the presidency of ...

Southern people who supported Republican policies during Reconstruction were called ...

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S.?

Confederate general famous for his victories in the Shenandoah Valley

Which form of communication was introduced in the 19th century and is still widely used today?

Place where Americans could get food during the Great Depression

The raid on Harper's Ferry convinced many Southerners that ...

Peace agreement that ended World War One

Long period of dry weather with little to no rain caused terrible storms in the midwest

Flew the first motorized airplane

Put young American men back to work preserving the nation's natural resources

Developed hundreds of products from the peanut

Invented the electric lightbulb

United States president during the Civil War

Commander of the Confederate army during the Civil War

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...

Commander of the Union army during the Civil War

The Civil War was more devastating in the South than in the North because ...

Why did cattle trails develop?

Laws that required African Americans to be separated from whites in public places were ...

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Theodore Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy was known as ...

Time period after World War One

Construction of the Panama Canal was begun during the presidency of ...

Famous hitter for the New York Yankees baseball team

The U.S. entered WWI on the side of the Allied Powers, which included all except ...

Invented the telephone

What Civil War battle was fought in Pennsylvania?

The discoveries of George Washington Carver had the greatest impact on the economy of the ...

Sherman's destructive advance from Atlanta to Savannah is referred to as the ...

Northern people who moved to the South after the Civil War were called ...

African American writer during the Harlem Renaissance

First man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

President of the United States during the 1929 stock market crash

What actions by Germany in 1915 made Wilson rethink his position?

How did the invention of the electric lightbulb change the American economy?

Where did the Civil War begin?

Which Union general captured Atlanta?

In 1890, most immigrants to the U.S. came from what continent?

The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin contributed to the start of the Civil War by ...

In the system known as sharecropping, a farmer ...

Time period when African Americans artists and writers expressed their talents

What action by Germany in 1917 helped bring the U.S. into the war?

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave African-American men the right to vote?

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

The Roaring Twenties was also known as the

At the end of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. acquired all of the following except ...