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History Final
Question | Answer |
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Economy | Element of ss that is concerned with the production, consumption, and distribution of goods, services, and the flow of MONEY |
Government | Element of ss that is concerned with the study of and the conducting of policies and actions of a country, state, territory, city, or organization. |
History | ss term that is concerned with the study of past events |
Civics | ss term that is concerned with the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Geography | ss term that is concerned with the study of land area, locations, and physical features of the earth such as mountains, deserts, rivers, and oceans |
imperialism | extending power by gaining territories to build an empire |
isolationism | avoiding involvement in other countries' affairs/business |
During the 1800's, the US placed a few restrictions on immigration because the industrial economy was creating new jobs. What was the name of the immigration station where most European immigrants entered in the US? | Ellis Island in New York |
militarism | aggressive strengthening of armed forces |
a factory fire that killed 146 workers that were trapped in the building thus leading to new safety standard laws in buildings was called the what? | the triangle shirtwaist fire |
the transcontinental RR was completed in 1869 when the central pacific RR and the union pacific RR met in what location? | promontory, utah |
seward's folly refers to what? | seward's purchase of alska |
the destruction of what american ship directly led to the start of the spanish american war? | USS Maine |
what does the national association for the advancement of colored people do? | Brings attention to racial inequality |
a term that became to describe journalists who "raked up" and exposed corruption and problems of society was called what? | Muckracker |
what muckraker wrote a book called "the jungle" about the conditions in a meat packing plant? | upton sinclair |
what are the four m.a.i.n. causes of WWI? | militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism |
whose assassination sparked WWI? | archduke francis ferdinand |
in the zimmerman telegram/note, germany invited what country into alliance? | Mexico |
at the end of WWI, woodrow wilson proposed the league of nations . what was their purpose? | to find peaceful solutions to disagreements |
what was the purpose of the 19th amendment? | allowed women to vote |
henry ford is credited for his ______________ which greatly reduced the cost of automobiles. | assembly line |
the 1st national labor union was called? | the knights of labor |
one infamous boss that ran political machines, were powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office, went by what name? | Boss Tweed |
what did the seventeenth amendment do? | allowed americans to vote for US senators |
Jacob Riis wrote about life in the ____________ in his book how the other lives | tenements |
if your injured on the job, you are guarnteed lost wages in the __________ __________________ laws | workers comp |
what did the 18th amendment ban? | the production or sales of alcohol |
theodore believed that the interests of business people, laborers, and consumers should be equal for the public good. what did he call his policy? | the square deal |
on august 15, 1914, the _______ ______________ was complete which liked the atlantic and pacific oceans and was called the highway between the oceans. | panama canal |
a type of warfare where you defend your position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches. | trench warfare |
why did US eventually enter WWI on april 6, 1917? | because the germans continued to sink our ships and then wrote the zimmerman note encouraging Mexico to join them in return for land they had lost in the war they had with US |
in 1917, this required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted. | selective service act |
the treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers that was signed on 28 june 1919 in versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of aurthduke franz ferdinand, which had directly led to the war in which Germany had to eccep | Treaty of versailles |
what was the program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population in Europe called? | the holocaust |
The supreme courts decision inplessy v. ferguson established a doctrine known as what? | separate but equal |
in the 1920's a period of artistic achievements by african americans was known as what? | Harlem Renaissance |
what was the importance of the kellogg-briand pact? | outlawed war |
what american president was associated with the teapot dome scandal? | harding |
during the great depression, intense depletion of the topsoli in the midwest led to what historical event? | dust bowl |
what is the practice of buying on margin? | purchasing stock on credit |
what day of the week was described as black after stock market investors bought stocks on margin causing the crash of the market? | tuesday |
which US president proposed the New Deal that brought the country out of the depression? | FDR |
what was the name of the severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930s called? | the great depression |
the nazi party was a fascist political system. what does fascism mean? | a system where government is more important than the people |
the allied invasion at normandy, france on june 6th 1944 is historically known as? | d-day |
what was the purpose of the manhattan project? | to develop an atomic bomb |
the wall that divided east and west Europe to separate areas from the end of WWII in 1945 to the end of the cold war in 1991 was called? | the iron curtain |
during the cuban missile crisis, what country was asked to remove nuclear weapons from cuba? | SU |
a harbor in hawaii that served as the base of the US Pacific fleet that was bombed on dec. 7th, 1941 | pearl harbor |
the cold war was a war of words and ideas between US and SU over different economic and political systems. while the two countries never declared war on one another, there were two wars that both countries became involved in that are considered cold war c | korean war and vietnam war |
what was the name of the scandal that lead to the resignation of president richard nixion? | watergate scandal |
a group of african american pilots who flew missions in WWII? | tuskegee airmen |
a global system of computer networks through which people anywhere in the world can communicate and share information which later was enhanced by the world wide web allowing us to access info from computers. | internet |
what was the name of the terrorist group led by osama bin laden? | al-qaeda |