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USH EOC Exam 25-26
End of Course Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| American settlers treatment of Native Americans | forced movement and broken treaties |
| Men who mostly worked on the Transcontinental RR | Irish and Chinese immigrants |
| Cause of most military deaths during WWI | Artillery gun fire |
| 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-thirds died in the Holocaust |
| Reason wheat was grown on the Great Plains | it did not require as much rainfall as other crops |
| Treated American POWs the best during WWII | Germans |
| 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 |
| Name of 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.... |
| Year Native Americans gained US citizenship | 1924 |
| Brown v Board of Education Topeka, Kansas (1954) | Reversed Plessy v Ferguson separate but equal is unconstitutional |
| 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 |
| Division of Korea before and after the Korean War | 38th parallel |
| Homestead Act | allowed Western settlers to get free land after living on it for 5 years and making improvements |
| Reason many labor unions opposed immigration | they thought immigrants 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 Royal Air Force (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 North America and it was okay to remove Native Americans |
| Reason 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 Teddy 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 |
| Policy to stop the spread of Communism during the Cold War | containment |
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