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US History Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Who dominated the oil industry? | John D. Rockefeller |
| Who dominated the steel industry? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Who dominated the railroad industry? | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Who dominated the finance industry? | JP Morgan |
| What island did European immigrants pass through? | Ellis Island in New York |
| What island did Asian immigrants pass through? | Angel Island in San Francisco |
| What new building type was made possible by the Bessemer Process? | Skyscrapers |
| What is Laissez-faire? | When the government does not get involved with private businesses. |
| Describe what the assembly line was and its benefits. | A process where everyone does one job in a factory which makes producing products much faster. |
| Alaska Airlines buying out Hawaiian Airlines is an example of what? | Vertical Integration |
| McDonald's owning restaurants, their own delivery trucks, and farms to grow their food is an example of what? | Horizontal Integration |
| What kind of tactics did labor unions use? | Collective bargaining and strikes |
| What is a push factor? | Reasons for leaving someones homeland |
| What is a pull factor? | Attractions to bring immigrants to a certain place |
| Describe the labor conditions of the industrial age. | Unsafe conditions, low wages, and long shifts. |
| How did acquiring the Alaska territory help the U.S.? | |
| What is the social cause of imperialism? | The U.S. wanted to spread their cultural power and influence foreign countries. |
| What is the economic cause of imperialism? | The U.S. wanted access to more resources and more customers for American companies. |
| What is the military cause of imperialism? | The U.S. wanted to gain and maintain power. |
| How did the U.S. gain control of the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, and Puerto Rico | |
| Why did the U.S. want to build the Panama Canal? | To move their ships from the Pacific to Atlantic Oceans much faster |
| How was WWI different from previous wars? | |
| What was the U.S. stance on WWI when it started? | |
| What two events brought the U.S. into the war? | The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram. |
| How did Woodrow Wilson try to sell the war to the American public? | |
| What happens when a company becomes a monopoly? | Prices usually increase in that industry and their workers have worse labor conditions. |
| What is favoring people born in the U.S. versus foreign born known as? | Nativism |
| The idea of a mass movement of people moving from rural areas to cities is known as? | Urbanization |
| What did labor unions fight for? | Shorter working hours, higher wages, and safer working conditions |
| Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to the creation of what? | The Food and Drug Administration |
| What is conservation? | Limiting the use of natural resources |
| What is preservation? | Protecting wilderness lands from development |
| When did women gain the right to vote and with the passage of what amendment? | All women gained the right to vote with passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 |
| When child labor became illegal, what did the youth begin to do? | Go to school |
| Why did the U.S. acquire Hawaii? | Because of its valuable sugar and pineapple plantations |
| What were Propaganda Posters designed to do? | They were designed to “sell” the war to the public, recruit soldiers, and to buy war bonds. |
| What did the The Espionage Act do? | Made it illegal to spy on the U.S. government or resist the draft |
| What is the fear of communism and radical political ideas after World War I? | The red scare |
| What was the popular style of music of the 1920s with African American roots? | Jazz |
| What was cultural movement celebrating African American art, music, and literature? | The Harlem renaissance |
| In the 1920s, more Americans lived where than in rural areas for the first time? | Cities |
| What was the Constitutional ban on the production and sale of alcohol in the 1920s? | |
| What was the place where people bought and sold shares of companies? | The stock market |
| What is the society called where buying goods was viewed as good for the person and the economy? | Consumer culture |
| What was the movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities? | The Great Migration |
| What is buying now and paying later known as? | Credit |
| What is the name of secret nightclubs where alcohol was sold illegally? | Speakeasy |
| What was a person who illegally made or sold alcohol during Prohibition known as? | Bootleggers |
| Who were young women who challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s? | Flapper |
| What were new forms of communication like radio, movies, and newspapers? | Mass media |
| What did Henry Ford help popularize? | The assembly line |
| Who struggled in the 1920s despite economic growth for the country? | Farmers |
| What happened to 200k+ farms during the Great Depression? | Foreclosed |
| Severe economic downturn beginning in 1929 that led to massive unemployment and poverty | The Great Depression |
| Environmental disaster in the Great Plains caused by drought and poor farming practices | |
| The condition of being without a job | Unemployment |
| Makeshift shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the Depression | |
| New Deal goal focused on providing immediate help to the unemployed and poor | |
| Program created to provide pensions for the elderly and support for the disabled | Social security |
| The WPA, CWA, and PWA all completed public ____ projects like bridges, raods, schools, airports, etc | Works |
| Series of programs and reforms launched by President FDR to combat the Depression | The New Deal |
| The sudden collapse of stock prices in 1929 that helped trigger the Great Depression | The stock market crash |
| New Deal goal focused on preventing future economic crises | |
| The president who led the U.S. through most of the Great Depression | Roosevelt |
| Temporary closure of banks ordered by FDR to restore public confidence | |
| New Deal goal aimed at improving the economy and ending the depression | |
| A place where the needy could get food | |
| Who is Al Capone? | |
| How did Prohibition unintentionally help organized crime grow during the 1920s? | |
| What came with the severe dust storms that spread throughout the Great Plains in the 1930s? | |
| Before, During, or After the New Deal: The federal government generally believed it should not directly help unemployed individuals, leaving relief mostly to charities and local governments | |
| Before, During, or After the New Deal: The government created a program that insured Americans' bank deposits, helping to restore trust in the banking system | |
| Before, During, or After the New Deal: Young men were hired by the federal government to work in national parks, plant trees, and build | |
| Before, During, or After the New Deal: The idea that the federal government has a responsibility to protect citizens from economic collapse became widely accepted | |
| Unemployed Americans had few options beyond soup kitchens and breadlines for help |
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