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Roper - 11-1 - Final
History Final
Question | Answer |
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Dates of the Battle of Gettysburg | July 1,2,3, 1863 |
He defeated the left flank of the Union line on the second day of the Gettysburg Battle | Chamberlin |
Where would he do this? | Little Round Top |
This famous charge took place of the 3rd day of the battle at Gettysburg | Pickett's Charge |
He spoke for 2 hours at Gettysburg | Edward Everett |
Grant took this city on the Mississippi on July 4, 1863 | Vicksburg |
He marched through Georgia | Gen. William T. Sherman |
Lee surrendered to Grant in their front yard | The McLean's |
Lincoln was assassinated in this theatre in Washington, DC | Ford's Theatre |
His statue stands across from the Plaza Hotel on 5th Ave | Gen. William T. Sherman |
Only president entombed in NYC | President Ulysses S. Grant |
Thaddeus Stevens was one of their leaders | Radical Republicans |
This amendment outlawed slavery | 13th |
Lincoln's greatest speech | Second Inaugural |
Became Vice-President on March 4, 1865 | Andrew Johnson |
Northerners who went South to help the freed Blacks | Carpetbaggers |
Southerners who help the freed Blacks | Scalawags |
He won the popular vote in the election of 1876 | Samuel Tilden |
He won the electoral vote in the election of 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
He used vertical integration | Andrew Carnegie |
He used horizontal inegration | John D. Rockefeller |
He was the founder of the AF and L | Samual Gompers |
He invented the elevator brakes | Otis |
He was the 'grandfather' of the skyscraper | Louis Sullivan |
Where primarily are the skyscrapers in Manhattan | Midtown and Downtown |
Where did the German Jews live in Manhattan | East Harlem |
What type of workers were they | Skilled |
Where in Manhattan did the Eastern European Jews settle | Lower East Side |
They lived in this type of structure | Tenements |
He wrote about the ending of the geographical frontier in the U.S. | Frederick Jackson Turner |
Tenements with 'air shafts' were called | Dumbbell shafts |
Only immigration law that actually had the name of the group to be kept out of the U.S. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
A leader of Tammany Hall in NYC | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed |
Tammany Hall was associated with this political party | Democratic Party |
This reality was the 'bottom ine' to Tammany Hall | Votes - to keep the power |
Segregation laws in the South | Jim Crow Laws |
Plessey vs Ferguson gave us this famous legal phrase | "Seperate but Equal" |
A co-founder of the NAACP | W.E.B. DuBois |
He believed that education was the road to racial equality | Booker T. Washington |
How many inventions to Thomas A. Edison's credit | 1,093 |
List four of them | Phonograph, Amplifier, first motion picture, filament inside the light bulb |
She believes that you had to live among the poor to help them | Jane Addams |
He lost all his troops at Little Big Horn | Gen. George Custer |
This was the army's revenge for Little Big Horn | Indian Policy |
This Act attempted to Americanize the Native Americans | Dawes Act |
This president and Washington would take the Oath in NYC | President Chester A. Arthur |
This Act of Congress would create the Civil Service | Pendleton Act |
A Party founded by farmers | Populist |
It wanted government to regulate these | Railroads |
Congress would pass this Act to do it | Interstate Commerce Act |
The farmers wanted this to be the U.S. monetary standard | Silver |
"...not at rest nor necessarily its final destination" - Who wrote those words | William Howard Taft |
What was the name of the Supreme Court case from which they came | Stafford vs Wallace (sausages) |
Populist - Democratic candidate in 1896 | William Jennings Bryan |
He would win the election in 1896 | President William McKinley |
She said - "Plant less corn and raise more hell!" | Mary Ellen Lease |
What was Alaska called | Seward's Folly |
He said that the U.S. needed a strong Navy | Alfred Mahan |
It would become a U.S. naval base in Hawaii | Pearl Harbor |
Was wanted by the U.S. as a refueling station in the Pacific | Hawaii |
This President did not want to annex Hawaii | President Cleveland |
He ordered the U.S. Pacific fleet to Manila Bay in the Philippines | Theodore Roosevelt |
What position did he have in the McKinley administration | Admiral of the Navy |
It sunk in Havana Harbor | USS Maine |
Secretary of State - American Imperialism | John Hay |
These two newspaper owners sent reporters to Cuba | William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer |
The 'Rough Riders' charged up this hill | Kettle Hill |
He was the actual commander of the 'Rough Riders' | Leonard Wood |
They went before the 'Rough Riders' up Kettle Hill | 9th and 10th black regiment |
He was ordered by TR to go to Manila Bay | Admiral Dewey |
Name of the U.S. Naval and Marine base in Cuba | Guantanamo Bay |
He negotiated the peace between Japan and Russia | Theodore Roosevelt |
Where did he do this | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
He won this for doing so | Nobel Peace Prize |
Term used for the 'carving-up' of China | Spheres of Influence |
John Hay's policy concerning China | Open Door Policy |
In 1900's - it was becoming the most industrial nation in Asia | Japan |
T.R. initiated this major project | Panama Canal |
Book written by Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
This book would give us this Act of Congress | The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act |
T.R. sent this around the world | Great White Fleet |
How many battle ships did it have | 16 |
Panama originally belonged to this country | Columbia |
T.R. extension of the Monroe Doctrine was called this | Roosevelt Corollary |
Amendment - Income Tax | 16th |
Amendment - No denial to vote because of sex | 19th |
Amendment - Direct election of U.S. Senators | 17th |
Amendment - Prohibition | 18th |
Name of a high tariff | Aldrich Payne-Aldrich Tariff (?) |
The 'Czar of the House' | Joe Cannon |
This man challenged his power | George Norris |
Elected President in 1908 | William Taft |
He was very critical of Taft as a President | Theodore Roosevelt |
The three elections that William Jennings Bryan ran in and lost | 1896, 1900, 1908 |
President - 'Dollar Diplomacy' | William Taft |
The three presidential candidates in 1912 | Taft, Roosevelt, Wilson |
This would lower tariffs | Underwood-Simmons Tariff |
The 'banks' bank | Federal Reserve |
Woodrow Wilson had been President of this University | Princeton University |
Woodrow Wilson's father was a ____ | Presbyterian Minister (supported South's secession from the Union) |
Woodrow Wilson was the only President to have one of these | PHD (in History) |
It sunk off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 | Lusitania |
Woodrow Wilson was the son of a ____ | Presbyterian Minister |
Telegram from Germany to Mexico | Zimmerman Telegram |
He was making a disturbance on the U.S. southern border | Francisco "Pancho" Villa |
How many Americans died on the 'Lusitania' | 128 |
The German Plan to take Paris | Schrieffer Plan |
Commander of U.S. troops in Europe in 1917 | Gen. John J. Pershing |
Was the Gaptain of the U.S. Battery 'D' in the Great War | Truman |
Represented France at Versailles in 1919 | Clemenceau |
Month/Day/Year - the Great War ends | November 11, 1918 |
Represented Britain at Versailles in 1919 | Lloyd George |
Represented Italy at Versailles in 1919 | Orlando |
Represented the U.S. at Versailles in 1919 | Wilson |
This nation involved in the Great War was not represented at Versailles in 1919 | Germany |
France and Prussia met here after the Franco-Prussian War | Versailles |
France had to pay these to Prussia | Reparations |
He helped to feed Europe - especially Belgium - during the Great War | Hoover |
Name two countries that were created in Europe at the Versailles Conference | Yugoslavia and Czechoslavakia |
Part of Germany added to create Czechoslavakia | Sudetenland |
What were taken away from Germany and given over to Poland | Water Ports |
The U.S. would not join this international organization | League of Nations |
What U.S. Senator would be most responsible for this | Henry Cabot Lodge |
This nation was created by putting three different Islamic groups together | Iraq |
Only two men to run for national office five times | FDR and Richard Nixon |
Which one received the most popular vote | FDR |
The word Warren G. Harding made-up | Normalcy |
Two Italians - Symbolic of the 'red scare' | Nicola Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti |
Gov. of Mass. - put down a police strike in Boston | Calvin Coolidge |
Name given to the 1920's | Roaring Twenties |
The Immigration Act of 1921 went back to this census | 1910 |
The Immigration Act of 1924 went back to this census | 1890 |
These two naval vessels were not limited by the disarmament conference of the 1920's | Submarines and Aircraft Carriers |