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US His Bj 6-16 Final
US His Final Chp. 6 - 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Central electric power station | Thomas A. Edison |
| Developed a new way to make steel | Henry Bessemer |
| Standard Oil Company | John D. Rockefeller |
| Replaced striking workers | scabs |
| Patented the telegraph | Samuel F. B. Morse |
| Led the Sioux in war | Sitting Bull |
| Theory that discouraged government interference in economic matters | Social Darwinism |
| Company that has no competition | Monopoly |
| Breaking down a job into separate tasks | Division of Labor |
| Oppose all forms of government | Anarchists |
| Bought up large areas of land in the hope of selling it later for a profit | Land Speculators |
| Migrated to western lands to escape racial violence faced in the South | Exodusters |
| Led the United Stated cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn | George Armstrong Custer |
| Raced across Indian Territory to stake land claims | Boomers |
| Stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations | Imperialism |
| To join a new territory to an existing country | Annexation |
| National pride combined with an aggressive foreign policy | Jingoism |
| Areas of economic and political control | Sphere of Influence |
| Gave the U.S. equal access to trading rights in China | Open Door Policy |
| A grant of land in exchange for a promise to use it for a specific purpose | Concession |
| Policy that established "an international police power" | Roosevelt Corollary |
| Germany's promise that it would warn ships before attacking | Sussex Pledge |
| Cease-fire between opponents in a war | Armistice |
| Pres. Wilson's program for peace | Fourteen Points |
| World-wide organization aimed at ensuring security and peace | League of Nations |
| Payment for economic injury suffered during a war | Reparations |
| Court case established "separate but equal" | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
| Popular form of entertainment in late 1800's | Amusement Parks |
| Result of Spanish-American War | Cuba recognized as independent nation, US bought Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam from Spain for $20 million |
| Main belief of Progressives | Protect people-help the poor |
| Expose political and business corruption | Muckrackers |
| Event that sparked WWI | Assination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Reason why US entered WWII | Germany kept sinking American ships |
| Long-term effect of Prohibition | Organized crime |
| KKK's target | African Americans, Catholics, Jews |
| Economic crisis that triggered the Great Depression | Great Crash |
| Group of people that prospered in the 1920's | Wealthy |
| Group of people that suffered in the 1920's | Farmers, poor |
| Environmental crisis of the 1930's | Dust Bowl |
| Collapse of the American economic system in the 1930's | Great Depression |
| FDR declared a "banking holiday" to... | Inspect financial health of banks |
| Goal of the Sherman Anti-trust Act | To prevent monoplies by breaking up trusts |
| American Federation of Labor included | Only skilled white male workers |
| Response to the Pullman Strike | Use of Federal troops to stop it |
| Result of Massacre at Wounded Knee | More than 200 Sioux, mostly women and children, lay dead |
| Early 1900's public school became | Required |
| Author of "The Jungle" | Sinclair Lewis |
| Purpose of the Selective Service Act | Increase the number of soldiers |
| Movies added this in the 1920's | Sound |
| Advantage of u-boats | Travel undected underwater |
| Nicknames of the 1920's | Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age |
| 1920's Americans bought goods | On credit |
| Symbol of hope during the Depression | Empire State Building |
| Purpose of Second New Deal | More social reforms |
| Part of New Deal legacy | Hope for Americans |
| Government spending during the Depression doubled the nations | Debt |
| What did immigrants encounter when they came to the United States? | Prejudice, physical exams and deportation if had a contagious disease |
| List and explain two main strategies of women suffragists | They wrote books and obtain a hearing before every meeting of Congress from 1919 to 1969 |
| Four main causes of WWI | Imperialism, Militarism, Nationalism, Alliances |
| Imperialism | Competition for land and consumers |
| Militarism | Aggressively building up armed forces and giving more authority over govern and foreign policy to the military |
| Nationalism | Love of ones nation |
| Alliances | Complicated system that pulls countries into war to aide those in trouble |
| Explain the theory of social Darwinism and how it shaped the government's relationship with the American people. | Survival of the fittest in business- |
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