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Regents Exam Review
People -US History Regents Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Creation of a national bank | Alexander Hamilton |
| Beleived that the responsibility of the wealthy is to share the excess wealth with the community | Andrew Carnegie |
| He funded numerous libraries and educational institutions | Andrew Carnegie |
| Founded vocational training to improve economic opportunities of African Americans | Booker T. Washington |
| Two men noted for their contributions to the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington |
| When writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by the ideas of | John Loke's natural rights |
| Two people most noted for aiding the urban poor | Jane Addams and Lincoln Steffens |
| Idea that African Americans should have increased civil rights was supported by (2) | Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois |
| Three women who supported the passage 19th amendment | Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| He was most noted for devising a plan to pay off the nation's debts | Alexander Hamilton |
| Supreme court decisions under him increased federal power at the expense of the states | Chief Justice John Marshall |
| Yellow Journalism durning the Spanish American War was used by | Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst |
| Improving working conditions | Samuel Gompers |
| Individuals who wanted to correct abuses of the Industrial Revolution | Dorthea Dix, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell |
| Improve working conditions for migrant laborers | Cesar Chavez |
| Exposing poverty and corruption with How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis |
| Exposed problems associated with rapid industrialization and urbanization | Upton Sinclair |