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SS final
By: Pepto Bizmol lololololololololololololol
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economy | Element of SS concerned with the production, consumption, and distribution of goods, services, and the flow of money. |
| Government | Element of SS that is concerned with the study of and the conducting of policies and actions of a country, state, territory, city, or organization. |
| History | SS term that is concerned with the study of past events. |
| Civics | SS term that is concerned with the study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| Geography | SS term that is concerned with the study of land area, locations, and physical features of the Earth such as mountains, deserts, rivers, and oceans. |
| Imperialism | Extending power by gaining territories to build an empire. |
| Isolationism | Avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs/business. |
| During the early 1800's, the US placed few restrictions on immigration because the industrial economy was creating new jobs. What was the name of the immigration station where most European immigrants entered in the US? | Ellis Island, New York |
| Militarism | Aggressive strengthening of armed forces. |
| A factory fire that killed 146 workers that were trapped in the building thus leading to new safety standard laws in buildings called what? | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
| The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 when the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific met in what location? | Promontory, Utah |
| Seward's Folly refers to what? | Seward's purchase of Alaska. |
| The destruction of what American ship directly led to the start of the Spanish American War? | USS Maine |
| What does the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People do? | Bring attention to racial inequality. |
| A term that became to describe journalist who "raked up" and exposed corruption and problems of society were called what? | Muckrakers |
| What Muckraker wrote a book called The Jungle about the conditions in a meat-packing plant? | Upton Sinclair |
| What are the four main causes of WW1? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism |
| Whose assassination sparked WW1? | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| In the Zimmerman Telegram, Germany invited what country into an alliance? | Mexico |
| At the end of WW1, Woodrow Wilson proposed the League of Nations. What was their purpose? | To find peaceful solutions to disagreements. |
| What was the purpose of the 19th Amendment? | It allowed women to vote. |
| Henry Ford is credited for his Assembly Line which greatly reduced the cost of Automobiles. | |
| The 1st National Labor Union was called what? | The Knights of Labor |
| One infamous boss that ran political machines, which were powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to Public Office, went by what name? | Boss Tweed |
| What did the Seventeenth Amendment do? | It allowed Americans to vote for US Senators. |
| Jacob Riis wrote about life in the Tenements in his book, How the Other Lives. | |
| If you're injured on the job, you are guaranteed lost wages in the Workers' Compensation law. | |
| What did the 18th Amendment ban? | The production and sale of alcohol. |
| Theodore believed that the interests of business people, laborers, and consumers should be equal for the public good. What was this policy called? | The Square Deal |
| On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was completed which linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and was called the "Highway between the oceans". | |
| A type of warfare where you defend your position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches is called what? | Trench Warfare |
| Why did the US eventually enter WW1 on April 6, 1917? | The Germans continued to sink our ships and then wrote the Zimmerman Telegram, trying to encourage Mexico to join them in return for land they lost from the war with the US. |
| In 1917, this required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted. | Selective Service Act |
| This Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers that was signed on the 28th of June, 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which had directly led to the first World War in whic | Treaty of Versailles |
| What was the program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population in Europe was called what? | The Holocaust |
| The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson established a doctrine known as what? | Separate by Equal |
| In the 1920's, a period of artistic achievements by African Americans was known as what? | Harlem Renaissance |
| What was the significance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact? | It outlawed war. |
| What American president was associated with the Teapot Dome scandal? | Harding |
| During the Great Depression, intense depletion of the topsoil in the Midwest led to what historical event? | The Dust Bowl |
| What is the practice of buying on margin? | Purchasing stock on credit. |
| What day of the week was described as "black" after stock market investors bought stocks on margin causing the crash of the market? | Tuesday |
| Which US president proposed the New Deal that brought the US out of the Great Depression? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| What was the name of the severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930's called? | The Great Depression |
| The Nazi party was a fascist political system. What does Fascism mean? | The government is more important than the people. |
| The Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, is historically known as what? | D-Day |
| What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project? | To develop an Atomic Bomb. |
| The wall that divided East and West Europe into separate areas from the end of WW2 in 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991 was called what? | The Iron Curtain |
| During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what country was asked to remove Nuclear Weapons from Cuba? | The Soviet Union |
| A harbor in Hawaii that served as the base of the US Pacific fleet that was bombed on December 7th, 1941, by Japan was called what? | Pearl Harbor |
| The Cold War was a war of words and ideas between the US and the Soviet Union over different economic and political systems. While the two countries never declared war on another, there were two wars that both countries became involved in that are conside | The Korean and Vietnam War. |
| What was the name of the scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon? | Watergate Scandal |
| A group of African American pilots who missions in WW2 were called what? | The Tuskegee Airmen |
| A global system of computer networks through which people anywhere in the world can communicate and share information, which later was enhanced by the World Wide Web allowing us to access information from computers around the world is called what? | The Internet |
| What was the name of the Terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden? | Al-Qaeda |
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