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Semester Test Hall
Mrs. Hall SJMS - History Semester Test
| Answer/Questions | Answers/Questions |
|---|---|
| Place where many Asian immigrants were processed into the U.S. | Angel Island |
| Place where many European immigrants were processed into the U.S. | Ellis Island |
| The process by which people from other cultures who live in the U.S. gradually adopt American ways. | Assimilation |
| Leader of Tammany Hall, well-known example of political machine. | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed |
| Model of settlement houses, founded by Jane Addams | Hull House |
| An organization that held control by finding food, jobs, and other favors in exchange for votes. | Political machine |
| The growth of cities as a result of industrialization | Urbanization |
| Political machine led by "Boss" Tweed in New York City. | Tammany Hall |
| One of the reasons why industries were drawn to cities, the other reason was availibility of workers. | Transportation |
| Founded Hull House in Chicago. | Jane Addams |
| Led by ministers in the late 1800’s, dedicated to improving the lives of the urban poor. | Social Gospel Movement |
| Allowed people to live further away from their jobs and allowed suburbs to develop. | Streetcars and trolleys |
| Came from Eastern and Southern Europe | New Immigrants |
| Came from Western and Northern Europe | Old Immigrants |
| Immigrants settled in areas where they could finds jobs and people with similiar ethnic backgrounds. | Immigrant Neighborhoods |
| Thousands of miners ignored Sioux rights and rushed onto Sioux land when this was discovered in the Black Hills. | Gold |
| This group of people were attracted to the Great Plains because they wanted to escape discrimination in the South and have the chance to own land. | Former Slaves |
| The government gave this to the railroad which they advertised in Europe and sold to settlers. | Free land |
| Battle where General Custer and his men were outnumbered and killed by the Sioux | Little Bighorn |
| Government gifts given to the railroad companies to help the development of the transcontinental railroad. | Money and Land |
| Adventure, new beginning for freed slaves, cheap land, opportunity for wealth from silver and gold. | Reasons for Westward Expansion |
| Low wages, long hours and poor working conditions | Negative effects of industrialization |
| Captain of Industry who made his fortune in the oil refining business | J. D. Rockefeller |
| Inventor of the telephone | Alexander G. Bell |
| Railroads moved these from the west to the east. | Natural Resources |
| Eastern Factories | Railroads moved natural resources to these |
| Railroads brought goods to these | National Markets |
| New kind of stores in the 1880’s that sold many different kind of products | Department stores |
| Ragtime | New type of music created in the early 1900’s that was a mixture of African-American songs and European music. |
| Vaudeville | Popular live entertainment that mixed song, dance and comedy. |
| Free time | Leisure |
| Two major newspaper publishers who competed for readers in NYC. | Hearst and Pulitizer |
| Mail order catalogs | Booklets including pictures and descriptions of merchandise that were sent to customers so they could order by mail. |
| Composer of Ragtime and "Maple Leaf Rag" | Scott Joplin |
| 1st two mail order catalog companies | Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck |
| Group of laws enforced segregation of white and black people in public places | Jim Crow laws |
| African-American who helped found the NAACP, believed in full political, civil and societal rights for African-Americans. | WEB DuBois |
| US Supreme Court case the ruled "separate but equal" was allowed. | "Plessy v. Ferguson" |
| Rule in the South that allowed poor whites to vote, but kept African-Americans from voting. You could not vote if your grandfather could not vote. | Grandfather Clause |
| Used after Civil War and 15th Amendment to keep African-Americans from voting in the South. | Poll Tax, Literacy Test and Grandfather Clause |
| 1st city with electric streetcar system. | Richmond, Virginia |
| New technologies that helped cities grow in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. | Skyscraper and elevator |
| African-American journalist who led a fight against lynching. | Ida B. Wells |
| A group that used violence to keep blacks from challenging segregation, it was formed during Reconstruction. | Ku Klu Klan |
| African-American leader that helped found Tuskegee Institute and believed equality could be achieved through vocational education. He did not openly challenge racial segregation. | Booker T. Washington |
| "Speak softly but carry a big stick" was the motto of? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Muckrackers | Progressive journalists |
| What did Muckrackers do? | Expose corruption in American society to lead to reform. |
| What was the impact of corporations on the consumers? | Kept prices high and wages low |
| What was the fastest growing city in the US in 1900? | New York |
| Composed of groups opposed to the making and consuming of alcohol. | Temperance Movement |
| Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages. | 18th Amendment |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Upton Sinclair | Wrote the novel "The Jungle" which was set in the meat-packing yards of Chicago. |
| Who was President during the Spanish-American War? | William McKinley |
| What is racial separation called? | Segregation. |
| Who became President after McKinley? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Who did Theodore Roosevelt choose as his successor? | Taft |
| Theodore Roosevelt ran for President with this party in 1911. | Bull Moose Party |
| Amendment granting women the right to vote? | 19th Amendment |
| Susan B. Anthony | Famous worker for women’s voting rights. Once fined $100 for voting for Grant. |
| World War I | What marked the end of the Progressive Era? |
| Name 3 Progressive Movement reforms. | Improved safety conditions for workers, reduced work hours, child labor laws passed. |
| Boomtowns | Towns that sprang up quickly-often around mines |
| Homesteads | Land to settle and farm on. |
| Reservations | A place where Native Americans were forces to live |
| Great Plains | The area between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains |
| Sod Houses | The first homes many settlers had on the Great Plains |
| Vigilante | A person willing to take the law into his or her hands |
| Vaquero | A cowhand that came from Mexico with the Spaniards in the 1500's. |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | A showman who brought the West to the rest of the world through his Wild West Show. |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Wrote "A Century of Dishonor" in which the federals government's failures toward the Indians are listed. |
| Buffalo soldiers | African-Americans who served in the U.S. army in the West. |
| Corporation | Type of business in which investors own part of the company by purchasing shares of stock |
| Gilded Age | Name given to a period of time of fabulous wealth during the late 1800'. |
| Robber baron | Name used for a person who has become wealthy through dishonest means, such as bribery and cheating. |
| Trust | A legal body that is created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry. |
| Business cycle | The pattern of good and bad times in the economy. |
| Agriculture | The main economic activity of the South during the late 1800's/ |
| Pittsburg | City known for its steel mills |
| Bessemer Steel process | Increased the output of steel while reducing the cost. |
| Samuel Gompers | Helped form the American Federation of Labor and served as its president for 37 years. |
| Thomas Edison | Person who came up with practical electric lighting |
| Philanthropist | Person who gives large sums of money to charities |
| Generator | A machine that produces electric current |
| Patent | A government document giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell his or her invention for a specific number of years. |
| Monopoly | A company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry. |
| Henry Ford | The "Captain of Industry" for the automobile industry. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Person who made his fortune in the steel industry |
| Granville T. Woods | Person who improved telephone and telegraph devices. |
| Edwin Drake | Person who developed a workable oil well. |
| Howell and Singer | Two people associated with the sewing machine. |
| Partnership, sole proprietor, corporation | Three ways that a person can be an owner/part owner in a business. |
| Chief Joseph | The leader of the Nez Perce Indians who asked for equality for his people |
| Geronimo and Chief Joseph | Two Indian leaders who fled rather than move to reservations. |
| Frontier | Unsettled areas where mainly Native Americans lived. |
| Barbed wire | Used for fencing out West because there was little wood. |
| Long drives | Taking cattle by foot to the railroads. |
| Chaps | Seatless leather pants worn over trousers to protect legs from scrub, cactus and snakes. |
| Vast treeless wasteland | Before new technologies this is how people thought of the Great Plains. |
| Wheat | The most common crop on the Great Plains in the late 1800's. |
| Spanish | Responsible for bringing the first horses to the Great Plains. |
| Dry Farming techniques | Turning the soil after rain, leaving part of the field unplanted each year and planting seeds further apart in deep furrows. |
| Windmills | Brought water up from the deep wells on the Great Plains. |
| Who was the first African-American to play in the previously all-white National Baseball League? | Jackie Robinson |
| What is the main focus of the NAACP? | To end the discrimination against African-Americans. |
| What law ended Chinese immigration for a number of years? | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Where did advertisements begin to appear? | In newspapers. |