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Ss final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| economy/economics- | element of ss concerned with the production consumption and distribution of goods services and the flow of money |
| Goverment | 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 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 placed 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 in the us? | ELLIS ISLAND IN NEW YORK |
| a factory fire that killed 146 workers that were trapped in the building thus leading to new safety standard laws in buildings that was called? | TRINGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE |
| The transcontinental RR was completed in 1869 when the central pacific RR and the union pacific RR met in Promontory Utah what did they hammer in there to celebrate this great achievement | A gold spike |
| 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 plants. it was called what | The Jungle |
| what was the four M.A.I.N causes of WW1 | Militarism, Alliances, IMPERIIALIISM, Nationalism |
| whos assassination sparked ww1 | ardhduke 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 there purpose? | TO FIND PEACEFULL SOLUTIONS TO DISAGREEMENTS |
| What was the purpose of the 19th amendment? | ALLOWED WOMEN TO VOTE |
| Henry ford is creadited for his moving which greatly reduced the cost of automobiles | ASSEMBLE LINE |
| The 1st national labor union with the leader Terence v Powderly 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 too public office went by what name? | BOSS TWEED |
| what did the seventeeth amendment do? | Allowed Americans to vote for us senators |
| jacob riiis wrote about life in the in his book how the other half lives | TENEMENTS |
| if your injured on the job you are guaranteed lose wages in the law | workers compensation |
| what did the 18th amendment ban? | the production or sales of alcohol (Carrie nation would be happy) |
| 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 | TRENTCH WARFARE |
| why did the us eventually enter ww1 on april 6, 1971 | BECAUSE THE GERMANS CONTINUED TO SINK OUR SHIPS THEN WROTE THE ZIMMERMAN NOTE ENCOURAGING MEXICO TO JOIN TWITH THEM IN RETURN FOR LAND THEY HAVE LOST IN WAR THEY HAD WITH US |
| In 1917 this required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted | SELECTIVE SERVICE |
| what was the program of the mass murder in which the nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population in Europe 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 day of the week was described as black after the stock market investorys bought stocks on margin causing the crash of the market | BLACK TEUSDAY |
| which us president proposed to the NEW DEAL (alphabet agencies) that brought the country out of the great depression? | FDR |
| what was the name of severe economic chrisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930s called? | THE GREAT DEPRESSION |
| The nazi party was a fascist political system. What does fascism mean/ | A SYSTEM WHERE GOVERNMENT IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN OTHER PEOPLE |
| The allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy. France on June 6,1944 is 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 wass 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. | 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 concrete 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 all resources 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 the | TTUSKEGEE AIRMEN |
| Henry ford's affordable automobile was called the | MODEL T |
| what did the seventeenth amendment do? | allowed Americans to vote for us senators (7th senators) |
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