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USH EOC 2016
End of Course Assessment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| American settlers treatment of Native Americans | forced movement and broken treaties |
| William M. "Boss" Tweed | party boss of Tammany Hall NYC political machine |
| Booker T. Washington belief as to how African Americans should seek civil rights | postpone the fight for civil rights & concentrate on economic goals |
| late nineteenth-century (late 1800s) middle class jobs | doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers |
| Reason armies dug trenches during WW I | machine gun fire |
| Reasons for the success of industry in the U.S. | an abundance of natural resources |
| Conditions imposed on the Germans in the Treaty of Versailles | only an all volunteer army could no longer build ships, tanks, planes must sign war guilt clause taking blame for start of WW I |
| SS St. Louis | ship full of Jewish refugees not allowed to disembark in Cuba/result: had to sail back to Europe & two-third die in Holocaust |
| Reason wheat was grown on the Great Plains | it did not require as much rainfall as other crops |
| Armistice Day | November 11, 1918 |
| Reason for spreading fear in the U.S. when strikes broke out in 1919 | people feared that Communists might take over the government which led to the Red Scare |
| President Wilson's peace plan | Fourteen Points |
| Reasons immigrants left Europe | to escape poverty, high food prices, population pressure, religious persecution, job opportunities, etc... |
| Problems in American cities in late nineteenth-century (late 1800s) | crime, overcrowding, lack of clean water, disease, pollution.... |
| Citizenship for Native Americans | 1924 |
| economies of scale | lower costs and increased production |
| Plessy v Ferguson (1896) | it was okay to have separate facilities for African Americans as long as they were of equal condition |
| Reasons Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. in the early 1860s | better economic conditions, jobs, to work on the transcontinental railroad, open Chinese restaurants |
| Reason corporations issue stock | to raise large amounts of money & spread the financial risk in order to build more stores, factories, etc... |
| Homestead Act | allowed Western settlers to get free land after living on it for 5 years and making improvements |
| Reason many labor unions oppose immigration | they think they will work for lower wages & therefore take jobs away from them |
| Two ways the government pays for a war | raise taxes or sell savings bonds |
| Battle of Britain Heroes that saved Britain | German bombing campaign of British cities & factories the RAF |
| self-determination | the right of a group of people to have their own country & government |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that Americans had the God-given right to settle in the North America |
| Reasion companies in the 1800s usually paid women less than men | they believed women had a man to support them |
| Tradition set by George Washington that every president had followed until Roosevelt runs for a third time | an unwritten rule that no one should be president for longer than two terms |
| WW I military branch that allowed women to enlist | the Navy |
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