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EOCT Review US Hist
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What served as an immigration welcoming station for hundreds of thousands of Europeans coming into the United States on the Eastern Coast? | Ellis Island |
| Who founded the American Federation of Labor to help workers gain better wages, better working conditions, and shorter hours? | Samuel Gompers |
| What was the last battle between Native Americans and the American military? | Wounded Knee |
| What were journalists called who investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, and other social conditions? | Muckrakers |
| Which Muckraker exposed Rockefeller and his unfair business practices such as monopolies and trusts? | Ida Tarbell |
| What book did Upton Sinclair write to expose working conditions and unsanitary conditions in meat packing factories? | The Jungle |
| What woman of the progressive movement opened Hull House to aid the urban poor? | Jane Addams |
| What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson 1896? | That "seperate but equal" doctrine was constitutional. |
| Laws passed in southern states that created an environment much like slavery. | Jim Crow Laws |
| Congress passed this act which banned all future Chinese immigration to the United States for ten years. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| What were some causes of the Spanish-American War? | Americans had business interests in Cuba and the Phillipines and Americans wanted to expand (imperialism) |
| What did the United States get as a result of the Spanish-American War? | Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines |
| What did the Panama Canal do? | Allowed the U.S a quicker sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |
| What did the Roosevelt Corollary do? | It announced to the world that the United States had the right to intervene in Latin American countires in economic crisis. |
| The policy of the United States staying out of World War I is known as what? | Neutrality |
| What propelled the United States into World War I? | Unrestricted German submarine warfare as seen in the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram. |
| What was the Zimmerman telegram? | It was intercepted and asked Mexico to ally with Germany if the U.S. entered into World War I. |
| What is the Great Migration? | Large numbers of African Americans leaving the South and going North for job opportunities. |
| What made it a crime to communicate any information that would interfere with U.S. military operations or aid its enemies? | The Espionage Act |
| Who was convicted for hindering military recruiting by making a speech against it? | Eugene Debs |
| What was Fourteen Points? | Woodrow Wilson's peace plan for World War I. |
| What was the only part of Wilson's plan that was accepted? | The League of Nations, an international peace keeping organization |
| What did the 18th amendment do? | Prohibited the sale of liquor. |
| What did the 19th amendment do? | It gave women the right to vote. |
| Americans became fearful of communists, which started an international time known as the _______________. | Red Scare |
| Henry Ford used a process called _____________ to manufacture his Ford Model T. | mass production |
| What celebrated the art of AFrican American culture through words, music, and song? | The Harlen Renaissance. |
| Who was the best poet during the Harlem Renaissance? | Langston Hughes |
| Irvin Berlin was one of the famous musicians during this movement. | Tin Pan Alley |
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