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USH Final Exam
Question | Answer |
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GI Bill | gave education to veterans, gave federal loan guarantees to vets buying loans |
Operation Overlord | invasion of France |
Yalta Conference | last meeting of Churchill Stalin FDR |
16th Amendment | income tax |
17th Amendment | direct election of senators |
John Rockefeller | oil industry |
JP Morgan | banking industry |
Andrew Carnegie | steel industry |
William Vanderbilt | railroad industry |
William Randolph Hearst | newspaper, exaggerated |
Spirit of St. Louis | Charles Lindberg's plane |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war but no way to enforce it |
Palmer Raids | govt trying to find radicals during Red Scare |
FDIC | insurance for bank accounts up to $5000 |
TVA | made dams, jobs, hydroelectric power |
Federal Securities Act | made sure stock info was correct |
CWA/PWA | govt provided money to make jobs |
NIRA | set working hours and prices |
Social Security | old age insurance, unemployment compensation system |
Isolationism | America during WWII, disconnected from foreign countries |
Iwo Jima | brought Japan into easy air range of our bombs |
Midway | AF, 3-4 US Carriers, we knew the Japanese code |
The Jungle | book written about meat packing companies |
Muckrakers | writers who wrote about bad working conditions |
The Grange | farmers, main enemy: railroads |
Plessy v. Fergusen | it's okay to have "seperate but equal" |
Gilded Age | USA 1875-1900, good on outside bad on inside |
Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt program |
Margin Buying | paying small amount for down payment and borrowing the rest |
Bull/Bear Market | stocks rise/fall |
New Deal | FDR's plan to end Great Depression |