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US History esse term
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction came after the war (true or false) | true |
| The telegraph was used during the Civil War to communicate to another person in another place (True or False) | True |
| The major crop during the Civil War was tobacco (True or False) | False |
| Most women worked as teachers during the Civil War (True or False) | False |
| Clara Barton was the wife of Robert E. Lee. (True or False) | False |
| More people died from disease than they did from being shot during the Civil War (True or False) | True |
| When was the Emancipation Proclamation signed? | 1763 |
| Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation into the law | Lincoln |
| What is the percentage of people that died during the Civil War | 2% |
| How many years did the Civil War last? | 4 |
| What were the roles of trains during the Civil War | Transport troops across the country, and Transport food and ammunition to troops |
| Which document made into law says that all black men were free men | Emancipation Proclamation |
| One of the most important advancements in weapons technology during the Civil War was | Bullet Shape |
| What made it possible for the black men to serve as soldiers in the Civil War | The Emancipation Proclamation allowed them to be free and enlist as soldiers |
| The most significant factor of the Transcontinental Railroad was | A person could travel across the country in six days instead of six months |
| What country did America look to seek help in building the Transcontinental Railroad | China |
| The trail of Tears is referred to the journey made by | American Indians to a new location where the soil and hunting of buffalo was poor |
| a speech given by President Lincoln at the site of America's first national cemetary. | THe Gettysburg Address |
| people who own part of a company by buying stock in the company | Stock holders |
| companies give their stock to a board, and then the stocks are gathered to form a new organization, the resulting organization is called a | trust |
| The Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed | monopolies |
| What pushed immigrants from their home countries | religious persecution and military service |
| people in rural areas were attracted to cities because of | a more cosmopolitian lifestyle |
| Many Southern farmers had to move north to find work after crops were wiped out by | boll weevil |
| Who led the fight for the rights of women | Susan B. Anthony |
| a single corporation that controls an entire industry | monopoly |
| businessman who sold his steel business to became one of the richest men in the world | Andrew Carnegie |
| businessman who gained control of the oil industry through his company, Standard Oil | John D. Rockefeller |
| organization formed to improve wages and working hours | American Federation of Labor |
| location in San Francisco at which many Asian immigrants arrived | Angel Island |
| crowded, rundown building divided into apartments that housed several families | tenement |
| hard monetary policy | gold standard |
| legislation that encouraged Native Americans to be absorbed into the main culture of American society | Dawes Act |
| the idea that those who were very rich should share their riches for society's benefit | Gospel of Wealth |
| group that favored lower transportation costs and 'free silver' | populist party |
| people who wrote accounts of corporate and political evils | muckrakers |
| Who wrote " The Jungle" | Upton Sinclair's |
| another name for reform | law |
| where someone claims the rights to an idea | patent |
| a movement to address social problems through reform | Progressive Era |
| the southern states left the northern union | secession |
| court case: Mr. Plessy (a man that was 1/8 black) refused to get off the "white" railcar and was jailed | Plessy vs Ferguson |
| Which novel revealed the unsanitary conditions found in Chicano's stockyards? | Upton Sinclair's: The Jungle |
| The Social Gospel encouraged people to | follow the Bible's teachings in order to imporve society |
| Americanization efforts aimed to | teach immigrants to adopt white Protestant lifestyles |
| Which League helped poor African American families send their children to school | The Urban League |
| Which Antitrust Act allowed workers to organize more freely | Clayton Antitrust Act |
| What resulted from the passage of the Daws Act? | Native American reservations were divided into smaller plots |
| a movement that arose in the 1890's to address social problems through reform | Progressivism |
| a community center that provided social services to the urban poor | Settlement House |
| a movement that promoted the practice of never drinking alcohol | Temperance movement |
| an African American Leader who urged hard work and patience in the pursuit of full citizenship rights | Booker T. Washington |
| a group that planned to use the courts to challenge laws that were unfair to African Americans | NAACP |
| Theodore Rossevelt's program for fair government | Square Deal |
| a change to the Constitution that gave Congress power to create an income tax | 16th Amendment |
| a volunteer unit led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War | Rough Riders |
| When did the Philippines gain independence? | at the end of World War 11 |
| What piece of U.S. legislation restricted the rights of Cubans after theier independence from Spain? | Platt Amendment |
| a foreigh policy based on human rights, equality, honor, and understanding | moral diplomacy |
| f foreign policy that relies on military strength to achieve goals | "big stick" diplomacy |
| The policy in which strong nations control weaker conuntries or territories | imperialism |
| Social Darwinism was the idea that | the best country would win any international competition |
| The Triple Alliance nations were | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| One reason for the German surrender in 1918 was that | many German soldiers were no longer willing to fight |
| The League of Nations can best be described as | mutual defense agreement |
| payment for war damages | reparations |
| a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German ship | Lusitania |
| banned certain printed materials | Espionage Act |
| soldiers killed, wounded, and missing | casualties |
| created a military draft | Selective Service Act |
| As the 1920's progressed did farm incomes increase or decline? | decline |
| Where did African Americans in the 1920's face the most discrimination? The north or south | The south where there were Jim Crow law's |
| WHat kinds of illegal activity did organized crime engage in during Prohibition? | drugs, robbery, and murder |
| Many African Americans became most successful in what major citie? | New York, Chicago, and Cleveland |
| set the theory of evolution against fundamentalism | Scopes Trial |
| 1920's African American cultural outpouring | Harlem Renaissance |
| African American who wrote poetry about the experience of being black | Langston Hughes |
| car manufacturing method copied from meatpacking plants | mass production |
| targeted blacks Jews, Catholics, and immigrants | Ku Klux Klan |
| Which group had the greatest financial difficulty during the 1920's: farmers or industrial workers | farmers |
| Why did the stock market crash? | Investors panicked and started to sell |
| A factor that contributed to the spread of the Great Depression overseas? | a decline in investment from the United States |
| Why did volunteerism fail during the Great Depression? | Businesses and citizens acted in their own best interests. |
| a risky stock purchase | speculation |
| the general who ordered federal troops to attack protestors with tear gas | Douglas MacArthur |
| agricultural workers who do not own their own land | tenant farmers |
| The theory that money invested in business will also reach and help workers | trickle-down economics |
| The event of a stock market crash | Black Tuesday |
| What did the FDIC insure? | bank deposits |
| THe National Labor RElations Act gave workers the right to | join labor unions |
| The __________ provided jobs for men, replanted forests, and fought fires. | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| a government that is responsible for the welfare of certain citizens is a | welfare state |
| Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about the Joad family | John Steinbeck |
| The problems caused by the Great Depression made German peoplemore likely to believe promises made by | Hitlers Nazi Party |
| Which was seen as an economic declaration of war against of the Axis Powers: Tripartite Pact, Atlantic Charter, or Lend-Lease Act | The Lend-Lease Act |
| What country would you find the Bataan Peninsula | Philippines |
| About how many miles did U.S. troops travel on the Bataan Death March? | 90 miles |
| theory of repressive government | totalitarianism |
| dictator and head of the nazi Party | Adolf Hitler |
| prime minister of Britain during World War II | Winston Churchill |
| the army auxiliary corps for women | WAC |
| general who led the United States Army in Asia | Douglas MacArthur |
| Which group faced the most restrictions in the United States during WWII? | Japanese Americans |
| The Nuremberg Laws denied Jews | German citizenship and other rights |
| What event may have been on of the "barbarous acts" that influenced the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? | Holocaust |
| organization formed in 1945 to promote cooperation between the Great Powers | United Nations |
| limiting the amount of certain foods that civilians can buy | rationing |
| willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group | genocide |
| What best describes the underlying cause of the Cold War? | political and economic differences between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Why was the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States described as a "Cold" war? | The two sides did not engage each other directly in a military conflict |
| In the Korean war, United Nations forces fought together with U.S. troops against | North Korea |
| WHich country was the first to begin accumulating nuclear weapons? : Soviet Union or the United States | United States |
| endless race to acquire greater numbers of more and more powerful weapons | arms race |
| fear of communists, both outside and within the United States | Red Scare |
| Which African American is famous for breaking into major league baseball? | Jackie Robinson |
| How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last? | more than a year |
| Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. choose Birminghan, Alabama, for a civil rights campain? | It was considered the most segregated city in the South. |
| What president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964? | President Johnson |
| While in prison, Malcome X became a convert to a religious sect called | the Nation of Islam |
| What civil rights law was passed by Congress shortly after King was killed? | the Fair Housing Act |
| most well-known African American radical activist | Malcolm X |
| bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes | freedom ride |
| banned tests to see if someone could read or write in order to vote | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson | Brown v Board of Education |
| African American lawyer who led a legal challenge against segregation | Thurgood Marshall |
| The Marshall Plan contributed to economic growth by stimulating | foreign demand for American products |
| After WWII what medicine was invented that saved many lives? | antibiotics |
| the habit of buying as much as one can | consumerism |
| an independently owned retail outlet of a larger company | franchise business |
| the central part of a city | inner city |
| The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ended | aboveground nuclear tests |
| According to President Johnson, the purpose of government is to | support individual effort |
| Why was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 necessary? | existing immigration policies were discriminatory |
| Physical sign of Germany's political division | Berlin Wall |
| plan to offer basic health care to poor and disabled Americans | Medicaid |
| legislation that banned discrimination based on race or sex | Civil Rights Act |
| strategy used by Kennedy to improve the economy | deficit spending |
| President Nixon's "peace with honor" policy focused on | ending the war without abandoning South Vietnam |
| guerrilla fighters in Vietnam | Vietcong |
| rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| a jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped in large canisters | napalm |
| the idea that if Vietnam fell to communish, its neighbors would follow | domino theory |
| why was the baby boom generation hard to ignore? | There were so many of them |
| Unlike feminists of the past, second-wave feminists wanted to | achieve equality with men |
| How did life change for people with disabilities in the 1960's and 1970's? | Congress passed several laws granting them equal access to education |
| _____celebrations remind people to protect the environment | Earth Day |
| Baby boomers listened to the _________on their radios. | Beatles |
| ___________made abortion legal | Roe v. Wade |
| a poisonous by-product of human activity is __ | toxic waste |
| a person who believes that men and woman are equal believes in | feminism |
| _______move from farm to farm in search of work. | migrant farmworkers |
| principle that the president has the right to keep certain information private | executive privilege |
| scandal that led to Nixon's resignation | Watergate |
| the basic rights automatically held by every human being | human rights |
| to officially forgive | pardon |
| a plan to help African Americans overcome past discrimination | affirmative action |
| a disease of the immune system that first appeared in 1981 | AIDS |
| The leader of Iraq who invaded Kuwait in 1990 | Saddam Hussein |
| the first leader of South Africa elected in free elections | Nelson Mandela |
| the theory that people will work more to make and spend more money if their taxes are lower | supply-side economics |
| development of satellite technology increased the | speed of worldwide communications |
| agreement to lift North American trade restrictions | NAFTA |
| a law that broadens government's powers to prevent terrorism | Patriot Act |
| a law that increased the number of immigrants allowed into the United States | Immigration Act of 1990 |
| an Islamic fundamentalist government | Taliban |
| the process by which economics and cultures become integrated with those of other nations | globalization |
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