Question | Answer |
American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Alexander Graham Bell |
Central electric power station | Thomas A. Edison |
Developed a new way to make steel | Henry Bessemer |
Standard Oil Company | John D. Rockefeller |
Replaced striking workers | scabs |
Patented the telegraph | Samuel F. B. Morse |
Led the Sioux in war | Sitting Bull |
Theory that discouraged government interference in economic matters | Social Darwinism |
Company that has no competition | Monopoly |
Breaking down a job into separate tasks | Division of Labor |
Oppose all forms of government | Anarchists |
Bought up large areas of land in the hope of selling it later for a profit | Land Speculators |
Migrated to western lands to escape racial violence faced in the South | Exodusters |
Led the United Stated cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn | George Armstrong Custer |
Raced across Indian Territory to stake land claims | Boomers |
Stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations | Imperialism |
To join a new territory to an existing country | Annexation |
National pride combined with an aggressive foreign policy | Jingoism |
Areas of economic and political control | Sphere of Influence |
Gave the U.S. equal access to trading rights in China | Open Door Policy |
A grant of land in exchange for a promise to use it for a specific purpose | Concession |
Policy that established "an international police power" | Roosevelt Corollary |
Germany's promise that it would warn ships before attacking | Sussex Pledge |
Cease-fire between opponents in a war | Armistice |
Pres. Wilson's program for peace | Fourteen Points |
World-wide organization aimed at ensuring security and peace | League of Nations |
Payment for economic injury suffered during a war | Reparations |
Court case established "separate but equal" | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
Popular form of entertainment in late 1800's | Amusement Parks |
Result of Spanish-American War | Cuba recognized as independent nation, US bought Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam from Spain for $20 million |
Main belief of Progressives | Protect people-help the poor |
Expose political and business corruption | Muckrackers |
Event that sparked WWI | Assination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
Reason why US entered WWII | Germany kept sinking American ships |
Long-term effect of Prohibition | Organized crime |
KKK's target | African Americans, Catholics, Jews |
Economic crisis that triggered the Great Depression | Great Crash |
Group of people that prospered in the 1920's | Wealthy |
Group of people that suffered in the 1920's | Farmers, poor |
Environmental crisis of the 1930's | Dust Bowl |
Collapse of the American economic system in the 1930's | Great Depression |
FDR declared a "banking holiday" to... | Inspect financial health of banks |
Goal of the Sherman Anti-trust Act | To prevent monoplies by breaking up trusts |
American Federation of Labor included | Only skilled white male workers |
Response to the Pullman Strike | Use of Federal troops to stop it |
Result of Massacre at Wounded Knee | More than 200 Sioux, mostly women and children, lay dead |
Early 1900's public school became | Required |
Author of "The Jungle" | Sinclair Lewis |
Purpose of the Selective Service Act | Increase the number of soldiers |
Movies added this in the 1920's | Sound |
Advantage of u-boats | Travel undected underwater |
Nicknames of the 1920's | Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age |
1920's Americans bought goods | On credit |
Symbol of hope during the Depression | Empire State Building |
Purpose of Second New Deal | More social reforms |
Part of New Deal legacy | Hope for Americans |
Government spending during the Depression doubled the nations | Debt |
What did immigrants encounter when they came to the United States? | Prejudice, physical exams and deportation if had a contagious disease |
List and explain two main strategies of women suffragists | They wrote books and obtain a hearing before every meeting of Congress from 1919 to 1969 |
Four main causes of WWI | Imperialism, Militarism, Nationalism, Alliances |
Imperialism | Competition for land and consumers |
Militarism | Aggressively building up armed forces and giving more authority over govern and foreign policy to the military |
Nationalism | Love of ones nation |
Alliances | Complicated system that pulls countries into war to aide those in trouble |
Explain the theory of social Darwinism and how it shaped the government's relationship with the American people. | Survival of the fittest in business- |