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US 11 midterm
Coach Fordham study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Explain the primary reason most kids that did not attend school didn’t. | Racism and Discrimination. |
| List 2 factors that made skyscrapers possible. | Elevator and Interior steel skeleton. |
| List popular activities at the turn of the century. | Bicycling, Tennis, Shopping, Boxing, Baseball, Amusement Parks, Theater. |
| What was the purpose for Jim Crow laws? | Legally segregated races. |
| Describe education trends in the 1890’s. | Growth of Elementary and High Schools, Americanization, Kindergartens, Expanding Colleges. |
| What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? | Separate but equal is legal. |
| What transit developments allowed cities to expand outward in the late 1890’s? | Mass transit systems of all kinds |
| What is segregation? | Separation of races. |
| Explain Booker T. Washington’s views on racism. | Education and good jobs should be main focus to end racism. |
| Bicycling and Amusement Parks represent what aspect of American life? | Growing Leisure Industry. |
| Where did the 1st successful airplane flight take place and when? | Kitty Hawk, NC |
| Explain the concept of a chain store. | Focus on Thrift and Multiple locations. |
| Explain the concept of the department store. | Luxury experience and offered many types of products. |
| What is the Tuskegee Institute? | Created by Booker T Washington in 1881 to educate African Americans. |
| List types of discrimination faced by African Americans in the North. | Job discrimination, violence, segregated neighborhoods, housing discrimination. |
| Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright? | Built the 1st airplane. |
| Explain how colleges developed in the late 1800's. | To teach skills needed in the new industrial society. Enrollment Quadrupled. |
| The Niagara movement was founded by whom? | W.E.B. Dubois |
| Explain the development of leisure time and activities at the turn of the century. | Enjoyed sports, Bicycling and Amusement Parks. |
| Who was George Custer? | Led the 7th cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Died. |
| What two RR companies built the Transcontinental Rail Road? | Union Pacific & Central Pacific. |
| What caused the Populist Movement? | Debt, Shipping Cost, Deflation. |
| What incident marked the end of conflict between settlers and Natives? | Wounded Knee |
| Explain the effects of Barbed Wire on the open range. | Brought an end to the days of the open range and the long cattle drive. |
| What was the purpose of the Homestead Act? | Encourage settler families to move west and occupy the lands. |
| Describe Social Darwinism. | Biological theories to explain the evolution of human society. |
| What factors led to the industrial boom of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s? | Industrial growth, the south was still trying to recover. |
| Explain how Andrew Carnegie gained control of the steel industry. | Began investing in other companies. |
| Describe the Sherman Anti Trust Act. | Outlawed efforts to consolidate business under trusts. |
| Explain vertical integration. | The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. |
| Describe the ICC Act. | A permanent international court established to investigate, prosecute and try individuals accused of committing the most serious crimes. |
| What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act? | Response to complaints by workers on the West Coast. |
| What was Tammany Hall? | The name given to the democratic political machine. |
| Describe the regulations of the Pendleton Civil Service Act. | To regulate and improve the civil service. |
| Explain the importance of the Supreme Court case Munn v. Illinois? | Its growth has been rapid. |
| Explain horizontal integration. | Occurs when there is a merger between two firms in the same industry. |
| Who did the term Robber Baron describe? | Business tycoons. |
| What was the effect of the Haymarket Affair on the Labor Movement? | 8 hour work day. |
| Describe the immigration shift of the late 1800’s. | Patterns. |
| Explain the movement of African Americans in the late 1800’s. | Freed people seeking a better life. |
| Who was William Tweed? | The "Boss of the Tammany Hall" |
| What time period is described as the Gilded Age? | 1873 |
| List causes of WWI. | 1. Mutual defense alliances 2. Imperialism 3. Militarism 4. Nationalism 5. Immediate cause: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Where was Franz Ferdinand assassinated and who assassinated him? | Sarajevo |
| What strategy did US ships use to protect against U Boats? | To create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons and sculptures promoting the war. |
| What is the purpose of the Selective Service Act? | Required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. |
| List new technologies of WWI. | Tank, plane, machine gun, poison gas. |
| What nations belonged to the “Big Four”? | Composed of Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittario Emanuel Orlando of Italy, and George Clemenceau of France. |
| Explain why the US wouldn’t join the League of Nations. | Woodrow Wilson could not get enough support from the senate. |
| Describe Neutrality. | Americans believed that the Monroe Doctrine encouraged them to follow a policy. |
| What was required of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles? | Required Germany to pay reparations to the Allied countries, reduced Germany's territory, and included the covenant for the League of Nations. |
| What caused a minor incident in The Balkans to turn into a world war? | Franz Ferdinand got assassinated. |
| What did the Espionage and Sedition Acts do? | Two laws, enacted in 1917 and 1918, that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against US participation in World War I. |
| List nations of the Triple Entente. | Russia, France, and Great Britain. |
| What was the Supreme Court’s ruling in Schenck vs. U.S. | The freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger." |
| What event sparked WWI? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot. |
| What was the intended purpose of daylight savings time? | Introduced in order to conserve fuel. |
| What was the Great Migration? | The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. |
| Who is Gavrilo Princip, what group did he belong too? | The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand. |
| List causes for American Entrance into WWI. | Wilson issues declaration of neutrality in 1914. |
| On what day was the armistice that ended WWI signed? | 11 November 1918 |
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