History of the Americas
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- Freed the slaves, President in 1861, a lawyer, tallest president
- Put an end to one of the bloodiest battles in history, Lee surrenders
- a person who buys land with the hope of selling it for a large profit
- Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith in the election of 1928 because the focus of his campaign was on the fact that Al Smith was ______________________
- (1) the desire of a few to get rich quick (2) the widespread practice of buying goods on credit (3) government interference in the free market economy
- Turning point of the war stopped confederate momentum, over 51,000 casualties
- People who went to California looking for Gold (They left in 1849)
- Mass migration to California following the discovery of gold in 1848
- member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints, which was organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith
- a person of Mexican heritage who considers Texas home
- Which of the following areas was NOT annexed by Hitler and his Nazi army?
- The treaty that ended World War I, known as the __________________, treated Germany very harshly and paved the way for Adolf Hitler to rise to power.
- Which of the following did NOT see a great benefit from the New Deal policies of FDR?
- Which of the following was not a group that was identified by the Nazi's to be removed fromsociety?
- Hitler's invasion of ____________________ was the official start of WWII in Europe.
- That main reason the USA used atomic weapons was the fear over how costly an invasion of Japan would be.
- At it's worst point the unemployment in the United States during the Great Depression reached as high at 60% nationwide.
- Bloodiest single day of combat in US history; emancipation proclamation
- While it was able to help many people survive the Great Depression, the New Deal policies of FDR did not bing the Depression to an end.
- Prior to the Great Depression that spread all throughout the world, which of the followingcounties had the strongest economies?