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SS Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economics | 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 the past events. |
| Civics | SS term that is concerned with the study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| Geography | SS term that is related to the study of land areas, locations, and physical features of the earth such as mountains, deserts, rivers, and oceans. |
| Imperialism | Extending power by gaining territories to build an empire (taking blocks) |
| isolationism | Avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs/business (MYOB) |
| Militarism | Aggressive strengthening of armed forces. |
| During the early 1800's the US places a 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 the US? | Ellis island New York |
| A Factory fire that killed 146 workers that were trapped in the building thus leading to new safety standard laws in buildings called what? | Triangle shirtwaist fire |
| The Transcontinental RR was completed in 1869 when the central specific RR and the Union Pacific RR met in Promontory Utah. what did they hammer in there to celebrate this great achievement? | A gold spike |
| What was the destruction of what American ship directly led to the start of the Spanish American war? | USS Maine |
| A term that came to describe journalists who "raked up." and exposed corruption and problems of society was called what? | Muckrakers |
| A muckraker, Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the nasty conditions in a meat packing plant. it was called what? | The Jungle |
| What were the four M.A.I.N causes of WW1? | Militarism, alliances imperialism, nationalism. |
| Whose assassination sparked WW1.? | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| In the Zimmerman note/telegram, Germany invited what country into an alliance.? | Mexico |
| At the end of WW1, Woodrow Wilson proposed the league of nations (now referred to as the United Nations). What was their purpose? | To find peaceful solutions to disagreements |
| What was the purpose of the 19th amendment?? | Allowed women to vote. |
| Henrey ford credited ______________ _________________ which greatly reduced the cost of automobiles. | Assembly line |
| The 1st national labor union with the leader, Terence V. Powderly was called what? | The Knights of labor |
| One infamous bass that ran political machines, which were powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to the public office, went by what name? | Boss tweed |
| What did the Seventeenth amendment do? | Allowed Americans to vote for US Senators |
| Jacob Riis wrote about life in the ___________________ in his book How the other half lives. | Tenements |
| If you're injured on the job, you are guaranteed lost wages in the _______________ _______________ law. | Workers' compensation |
| What did the 18th Amendment ban? | The production or sales of alcohol |
| On August 15,1914 the ___________ _________________ was complete which linked the pacific and Atlantic Oceans and was called the "highways between the oceans". | Panama Canal |
| A type of warfare where you defend your position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches. | Trench Warefare |
| why did the US eventually enter WW1 on April 6, 1917? | Because the Germans sank our ships, and sent the Zimmerman note. |
| In 1917, this required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted. | The selective service act. |
| What was the program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population in Europe was called? | Holocaust |
| During the great depression, a massive dust storm that swept the region with intense depletion of the topsoil in the Midwest led to what historical event? | Dust bowl |
| what was the day of the week described as "black" after the stock market investors bought stocks on margin causing crash of the market? | Black tuesday |
| which US president proposed a new deal (alphabet agencies) that brought the country out of the great depression? | FDR |
| 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 fascist political system. what does fascism mean? | When the government is more important than people. |
| The allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, historically known as? | D-Day |
| During the Cuban missile crisis, what country was asked to remove nuclear weapons from Cuba? | SU |
| A harbor in Hawaii that served as the base of the US pacific fleet that was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, by Japan? | Pearl Harbor |
| During WW11, Japanese military that purposely crashed piloted planes into enemy ships were called what? | Kamikaze |
| The phrase ____________ ______________ came to be used to describe the struggle for global power between the US and SU. | Cold war |
| The countries that are still communist today are? | Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, China, North Korea. |
| FDR created this that provided some financial security for the elderly, the disabled, children and the unemployed is the? | Social Security Act |
| In 1961, a barrier of concreate and barbed wire between east and west berlin that was torn down in 1989 was called what? | Berlin wall |
| On June 20, 1969, _______________ _______________ and Buzz Aldrin became the 1st people to walk on the moon. | Niel Armstrong |
| The amendment that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 was the _______ Amendment | 26th |
| An economic system in which private businesses run most industries and competition determines the price of goods is ___________. | Capitalism |
| An economic system in which all recourses are shared equally, and each person is paid according to their abilities and needs is called? | Communism |
| A group of African American pilots who flew missions in WW1 were called_________. | Tuskegee airmen |
| Henry ford's affordable automobile was called what? | Model t |
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