USH Final Exam
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| GI Bill | gave education to veterans, gave federal loan guarantees to vets buying loans
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| Operation Overlord | invasion of France
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| Yalta Conference | last meeting of Churchill Stalin FDR
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| 16th Amendment | income tax
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| 17th Amendment | direct election of senators
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| John Rockefeller | oil industry
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| JP Morgan | banking industry
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| Andrew Carnegie | steel industry
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| William Vanderbilt | railroad industry
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| William Randolph Hearst | newspaper, exaggerated
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| Spirit of St. Louis | Charles Lindberg's plane
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| Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war but no way to enforce it
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| Palmer Raids | govt trying to find radicals during Red Scare
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| FDIC | insurance for bank accounts up to $5000
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| TVA | made dams, jobs, hydroelectric power
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| Federal Securities Act | made sure stock info was correct
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| CWA/PWA | govt provided money to make jobs
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| NIRA | set working hours and prices
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| Social Security | old age insurance, unemployment compensation system
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| Isolationism | America during WWII, disconnected from foreign countries
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| Iwo Jima | brought Japan into easy air range of our bombs
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| Midway | AF, 3-4 US Carriers, we knew the Japanese code
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| The Jungle | book written about meat packing companies
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| Muckrakers | writers who wrote about bad working conditions
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| The Grange | farmers, main enemy: railroads
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| Plessy v. Fergusen | it's okay to have "seperate but equal"
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| Gilded Age | USA 1875-1900, good on outside bad on inside
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| Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt program
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| Margin Buying | paying small amount for down payment and borrowing the rest
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| Bull/Bear Market | stocks rise/fall
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| New Deal | FDR's plan to end Great Depression
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