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Spring BMT Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| reconstruction | rebuilding the country after the civil war |
| segregation | separating people because of race |
| cotton gin | machine that increased the number of slaves needed |
| Louisiana Territory | land bought from France that doubled the size of the United States |
| 13th Amendment | amendment that officially ends slavery |
| 14th Amendment | gives former slaves citizenship and protection of rights by the law |
| 15th Amendment | amendment that gave former slaves the right to vote |
| 19th Amendement | amendment that gave women the right to vote |
| urbanization | people move to live closer to the cities and their jobs in factories |
| Uncle Sam | character used as a recruiting tool to get people to join the U.S. Army |
| Transcontinental Railroad | invention that helped goods travel faster and cheaper by land |
| The Great Depression | period of time in which many people lost all of their money due to bank failure |
| Three reasons people moved west | land, religion, better opportunities and jobs |
| Chinese Immigrants | group of people who performed dangerous work on the transcontinental railroad |
| The Dust Bowl | a period of extreme drought in the Midwest which led to thousands of people leaving the great plains and moving west |
| Harriet Tubman | former slave freed over 300 slaves using the underground railroad |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat on a bus, caused montgomery bus boycott |
| Barack Obama | first african american president elected in 2008 |
| Neil Armstrong | first human astronaut to set foot on the moon |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | civil rights leader that believed in non-violent protest, "I have a Dream" |
| Susan B Anthony | major leader of the women's suffrage movement, helped pass 19th Amendment |
| Fredrick Douglass | former african american slave who was a major contributor to the abolitionist movement |
| George Washington Carver | african american scientist whose major contribution was to create many uses of peanuts |
| Abraham Lincoln | president during civil war who's election helped cause the civil war |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote the star spangled banner during the war of 1812 |
| Tuskegee Airmen | america's first group of african american military fighter pilots |
| Jane Addams | woman who created the hull house in chicago |
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