wh 6th grade history Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
26th president lead ruff riders set aside vast area of land fo national parks | Theodore Roosevelt |
28th president phd was one former president of princeton university won noble peace prize for league of nations | Woodrow Wilson |
was the leading voice for educational reform in the mid-1800s | Horace Mann |
was the first co-educational college in the U.S | Oberlin |
was the first female college and level inststution for women | Troy Female Seminary |
the effort to have all children regardless of their class or background educated in a common place | common- school movement |
1st college to except blacks | New york African Free School |
the complete end to slavery | abolition |
freedom from slavery for all enslaved African Americans | emancipation |
32nd president; only president to serve four terms | Franklin D. Rosevelt |
what was the bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War | Battle of Antientan |
a strong voice in the movement through the New York Tribune | Horace Greeley |
one of the most out outspoken and conterversal leaders in the abolisionist movement began publishing his anti slavery newspaper the liberator equality | William Lloyd Garrison |
One of the best known slavery activist of the 1830s | Angelina Grimke |
a slave who escaped slavery at the age of 20 and became one of the most important African American leaders today | Frederick Douglass |
a network of peopl who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives | Underground Railroad |
was one of the most famous conducters of the Underground railroad | Harriet Tubman |
how many states seceded from the union before lincoln took office | 7 |
31st president; quacker; did not accept a salary; was president during Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
was the 33rd president; was the president responsible for dropping the atomic bomb | Harry S. Truman |
states in the north that were for the confederate | upper south |
what was the capital of the Confederacy | Richmond, Virginia |
slave states that lay between the north and south and did not join the confedracy | border states |
was the first major clash between the union and the confederate forces | First Battle of Bull Run |
heavily armored with iron ships | ironclads |
call for all slaves in states rebbeling agianst to be freed | Emancipation Proclamation |
german submarines | U-boats |
british passenger ship | Lusitania |
promise not to sink merchant vessels "whithout warning or trying to save lives" | Sussex Pledge |
what were the american troops called | American Expeditionary Force |
north | union |
south | confederacy |
slaves had very poor living conditions- cabins with _____ _____, _____ ____, and _____ _____ | dirty floors ; leaky roofs ; minimal furniture |
stories with a moral which taught lessons how to survive under slavery | folktales |
emotional christain songs which blended african and european traditions | spirituals |
slave from Virginia believed God called him to overthrow slavery | Nat Turner |
people who leave one community and come to another to live | immigrants |
belief shared by many americans in the mid 1800s that the US should expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean | manifest destiny |
made durable pants for mine workers | Levi Strauss |
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beacher Stowe |
act of formally withdrawing from the union | secession |
first president of CSA | Jefferson Davis |
focused on gaining control of the Mississippi | Union stratgy |
the most important figure in the western theature of war | Ulysses S. Grant |
made slavery illegal through the U.S | 13th Amendment |
gave all african american men right to vote | 15th amendment |
gaurented citizenship & equal protection under the law to all born and naturilied in the U.S | 14th amendment |
the practice of extending a nation power by gaining territories for a colonial empire | imperialism |
34th president; first president to serve with all fifty states; last term served under the 22nd amendment | Dwight Eisnhower |
35th president; youngest president ever elected; peace core stablished under his term; assainated in dallas 1963 | John F. Kennedy |
small landowning farmers | yeomen |
they believed that salavation was avaliable to all people | quakers |
system of employing young women and of spinning thread and weaving cloth in one mill | lowell system |
when an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by attacking civilian,economic, and military targets | total war |
built across the Isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | Panama Canal |
escaped or captured slaves taken in by the Union armies during the civil war | contrabands |
payments for damages and expenses brought on by war | reparations |
old guns that outdated by civil war | muskets |
president that was assasinated ;was president during civil war | Lincoln |
locomotive | railroad |
created morse code | Samuel Morse |
patented sewing machine | Elias Howe |
invented cotton gin created interchangable parts | Eli Whitney |
a refusal to work until needs met | strike |
created the dewey system | George Dewey |
came up with a unique stratgy to destroy southern railroads and industry | general Sherman |
bought Alaska | william seward |
designed the steel plow | John Deere |
brought the british cocept to america | Samuel Slater |
system of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks used in mills | Rhode Island System |
a period of widespread evanglism | Second Great Awakening |
lived an extremely plain life style , banned private ownership of property , and had a tendency to shake thier bodies during worship | Shakers |
immigrants from Ireland lived mostly in ______, ____ ____, __ _____, and ________ | Massachuttes; New York; New Jersey; Penslvannia |
Irish were _____ | Catholic |
______ were Catholics, Jews, and Lutherans | Germans |
________ went to Michigan, Winsconsin, and Ohio | Germans |
led by Theodore Roosevelt had a diverse group | rough riders |
where foreign nations control much of the trade and natural resource | spheres of influence |
that all nations have equal access to trade with china | open door policy |
a seige by chinese nationalist angered by foreign involvement in chinese affairs | boxer rebellion |
created by pres. wilson to increase public support for the war | Committe of Public Information |
provided bonds to allies to allow them to purchase food and war supplies | liberty bonds |
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