Fall Final Exam Study Guide

Negative term use to describe big businessmen who dominated industries by driving competitors out of business.

What was the US position at the beginning of WWI?

What legal means did the US government and President Roosevelt use to issue internment of Japanese- Americans during WW2

This act prohibited child labor in the United States

What is sharecropping

Who crated the theories that lead to the atomic bomd and the creation of the Manhattan Project?

The main goal of Wilson's 14 points was to

Who made their money by buying out failing companies and turning them into profitable ones?

The American President who oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal and secure US rights to the Canal Zone.

The Axis powers' alliance worried FDR because he was that the US, if drawn into the war, would have to

The United States acquired Hawaii by

These were people who expressed anti-immigrant sentiment and supported policies which favored native born Americans.

What was Franklin Roosevelt's reforms to the Great Depression called?

The United States entered WII as a direct result of what?

What was the Hepburn Act of 1906?

The writing of W.E.B DuBois promoted the idea that

Which of the following was a major invention in the 1st Industrial Revolution.

All of the following were leaders of totalitarian governments in the 1930's and 1940's (WW2) except:

Southern whites restricted the freedom of African Americans soon after the Civil War by using

What was one law that was passed as a result of the novel "The Jungle"?

Which amendment abolished slavery?

How were the working conditions for people in the factories of these big industry leaders such as Rockefeller?

_____ believed that society was a competition in which the fittest came out on top.

What treaty ended the Spanish American War?

Which nation did NOT join the League of Nations when WWI ended?