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*Jefferson David

President of the Confederacy
William Sherman

Union General that burned Atlanta
*Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
*Andrew Johnson

President after Lincoln's death
*Ulysses Grant

The Union's greatest general
*Robert E. Lee

Surrendered at Appomattox
*John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated Lincoln
*13th Amendment

Abolished slavery
*14th Amendment

Defined citizenship
15th Amendment

Ensured blacks the right to vote
*William McKinley

President shot by anarchist
*Teddy Roosevelt

President who started building the Panama Canal
*Upton Sinclair

Muckracker who wrote The Jungle
*19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote
*Charles Lindbergh

Solo flight across the Atlantic
*Al Capone

Chicago gangster
*Henry Ford

Pioneered the use of the assembly line
*W.E.B. Dubois

Wrote "Souls of Black Folks"
Babe Ruth

Baseball slugger
*Bobby Jones

Champion golfer
*John Scopes

Arrested for teaching evolution
*Jack Dempsey

Professional boxer
*John J. Pershing

American General in WWI
Purpose of the Zimmerman Note

Germany's attempt to get Mexico to attack the U.S.
The "Big Four"
- France
- England
- Italy
- U.S.
*The Selective Service Act of 1917

Provided for the registration of men between 21 and 32 for the draft
Archduke Francis Ferdinand

WWI was started by his assassination
Liberty Loans

Sold by the U.S. to raise money for the war effort
*Woodrow Wilson

Democratic President at the end of the Progressive Era
Initiative

Citizen proposed law
17th Amendment

Allowed direct election of Senators
*18th Amendment

Established Prohibition of alcohol
16th Amendment

Established federal income tax
*The Butler Act/Law

Outlawed the teaching of evolution
*The Jazz Singer

First successful full length motion picture with sound
*Pleasey v. Ferguson

Established the rule of separate but equal
*Jim Crow Laws

Southern statutes forcing segregation of the races
Separation of Powers

The doctrine the divides power between the 3 branches of government
*Federalists

The group that favored the Constitution
*"ISM's" of WWI (x3)
- Nationalism
- Imperialism (Colonialism)
- Militarism
Jury's decision after the Scopes trial

Guilty and fined $100
*Anti-Federalists were most responsible for what part of the Constitution

The first 10 Amendments
Duke Ellington

Harlem Renaissance composer. Contributed to jazz music.
Anti-Federalists
- Opposed the Constitution
- Afraid of big government
- Wanted a Bill of Rights
The Virginia Plan (houses? representation?)
- 2 houses of congresses
- Representation based on population
The Great Compromise (houses?)
- 2 houses
- 1 based on population
- 1 with equal representation
Radical Republicans

Wanted to punish the south and make sure that newly freed slaves received fair treatment
*Grant and Lee arranged the surrender of Confederate forces at __

Appomattox
What was the major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

Lacked the power to collect taxes
*The president is a member of what branch of government?

Executive
3 Requirements to become President?
- Natural born citizen
- 35 years or older
- 14 year resident in the U.S.
How old do you have to be to get elected to the House of Representatives?

25 years old
Length of term of a Supreme Court Justice

life term
States in the confederacy (x11)

Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida
*First battle of the Civil War

Fort Sumter
Comparison of North and South population at time of Civil War
- North: 20 mil
- South: 9 mill, 3.6 mill slaves
*Lincoln's main concern in fighting the Civil War was __

Restoring the Union
Why did Americans tend to favor allies at the start of WWI?

Huge number of Irish and German immigrants in the U.S.
WWI was the bloodiest war in history because __

the development of new weapons
All are reasons why the U.S. entered WWI except..

B. American fears that Germany would help England
What did Americans fear most in Wilson's peace plan?

Promise to respect and preserve League members against external aggression
What was life like in the trenches?
- Daily death in the trenches
- Rats, Frogs, and Lice
- Got bored easily
- Smelly
- Sniper bullets
What provision of the Treaty of Versailles created the most problems in Germany after WWI?

The amount of reparations Germany was assessed
How did economy and manufacturing process affecting the sale of cars in the 1920s?

Economy was booming which caused the sale of cars to increase
At Shiloh, Grant learned the Northern victory in the Civil war would __

require a war of exhaustion
*What branch of the federal government has legislative power?

Legislative
*Who did the Virginia Plan give more power to?

Bigger states. The people.
*What issue was the "Great Compromise" primarily concerned with?

Representation of states
*What is the term for a type of government where power is shared between the central government and the states?

Federal
*Which state was the first to secede from the Union after the election of 1860?

South Carolina
*What group defended and saved Paris from the Germans in WWI?
- A.E.F.
- American Expeditionary Forces
*What did the "Big Four" think of Woodrow Wilson?

He was arrogant + annoying
*What was the penalty for American troops who fell asleep on duty in the trenches during WWI?

Death by firing squad
*Another name for the first 10 Amendments

Bill of Rights

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History Final

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Semester 1

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2013-01-15T02:00:18Z