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U.S. History A Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Migration | During and after World War One, African-Americans moved from rural areas in the South to urban areas in the North for economic opportunities |
| Freedmen's Bureau | organization that supplied former slaves with food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies. built schools to educate former slaves |
| sharecropping | former slaves worked for their former owners doing what they knew how to in exchange for a place to live, food, clothing, and a small amount of money |
| Jim Crow Laws | created to discriminate against African Americans by having "Seperate but Equal" schools, movie theatres, resturants, buses and trains |
| Panama Canal | a quicker shipping route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean that saved money and time |
| immigrant | someone who enters another country to live |
| Lusitania | British ship that was sunk by German U-Boats with 128 Americans onboard |
| Treaty of Versailles | signed by the Germans after World War I, stated that they had to payback for damages, not build an army, and say they where sorry for the damage they caused |
| Harlem Renaissance | a celebration of African American culture in the 1920's |
| Stock Market Crash | 1929, when the value of stocks crashed causing a worldwide depression |
| mass production | large scale product manufacturing usually done by machine increased number of products decreased cost |
| Henry Ford | man was responsible for manufacturing the Model T on an assembly line making it the first affordable reliable automobile in the U.S. |
| isolationism | no involvement in international politics and issues; Americans wanted to be left alone to pursue prosperity |
| 19th Amendment | prohibits any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote on basis of sex |
| bootleggers | people that sold illegal alcohol to consumers |
| 21st Amendment | repealed the 18th amendment and ended prohibition |
| Jazz | american music from that is based on improvisation combining blues ragtime and european based popular music |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad connecting U.S. from East to West; started in Omaha in East and Sacramento in West |
| Jamestown | the 1st successful English settlement in North America |
| Boston Massacre | the name of the event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of civilians and killed five people |
| Boston Tea Party | event in which colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Battle of Saratoga | the "turning point" of the American Revolution because the French began to help us out. |
| Manifest Destiny | name of the philosophy that it was America's right to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean and that western expansion was inevitable |
| "Trail of Tears" | the name of the Cherokee journey to Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the U.S. during the Civil War |
| Battle of Gettysburg | known as the "turning point" of the Civil War |
| Appomattox Court House | Where General Lee surrendered to General Grant |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment that abolished slavery |
| Battle of Yorktown | battle that marked the end of the American Revolution |
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army |
| Harriet Tubman | freed hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad |
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