U.S. History A Final Exam Study Guide

What companies raised most of the money they needed to build their railroads from selling government land grants?

Why did president roosevelts advisers who supported New Nationalism want government agencies to work with businesses

The deffinition of Imperialism:

WW2 veterians would camp out in buildings in washington D.C hopes that the senate would promise them 1,000 for serving

What did the fuel administration introduce in WW1 to conserve energy

What role did Secretary Interior ALbert B Fall play in the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Who set the stage for legalizing segregation by overturning the Civil Right Act of 1875?

What was the name of the philosophy that American with money should use it for social progress?

What allowed some government jobs to be filled by applications who performed well on competitive written exams?

Who offered each railroad comapny that was building the transcontinental railroad land to encourage rapid construction

State govoners declared "bank holidays" Durring the great depression to sace banks from going out of business

Waht name did homeless people give vommunities of shacks they lived in?

What war did woman officially serce in the armed forces?

Where were more than half of all immigrants to the U.S. NOT coming in the 1890s?

What foreign policy did the U.S. adopt after ww1 to stay out of world affairs

John T. Scopes was put on trial because he refused to teach evolution

When African Americans from the South moved to the North in great numbers:

Who looked overseas for places to sell their products because tariffs reduced trade among industrialized nations?(1800s)

Buying stock on margin worked: People could pay 10% of stock and borrow the money from a broker

Due to a shortage of U.S. workers, who was hired ti work for the central pacific railroad company?

The Property of the 1920s dampened commerce (businesses) on BOTH sides of the Atlantic?

term given to roosevelts radio broadcasts that were meant to inform and reassure americans that things would be better

The deffinition of Jingoism

this president believed that part of his job was to make sure the government interfered as little in business aspossible

What was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine

What was the name given to journalist who exposed political corruption and social injustices in society?

Who got rich by paying inflated bills from a construction company they controlled in the Credit Mobilier Scandal?

What allowed a company to become efficient by breaking down tasks into small parts and using standardized tools?

President wilsons peace plan, that was believed to establish conditions for a long last peace in Europe:

Why were labor unions against immigration?

What impacy did new technology have on farmers' crops?

What organization provided aid and religious counseling to the urban poor?

Thhe 1920s was referred to as the roaring 20's because people embraced a less-inhibited lifestyle in this period

The Ohio gang was a gang of troublemakers that interfered with the president decesions

The YMCA set up private organizations to give the poor meals

Who won the Election by appealing to Americans desire to return to normalcy after WW1?

When banks collapsed durring the Great Depression, people were abke to get their money back years later

The SEC means Securities and Extra Commission and was created to regulate the stock market

What was the belief that people can go as far as their talents will take them in life?

The Harlem Renaissance was the African American artistic development

Who of the following did not attend the peace conference at the end of WW1

Who pushed for closed shops, stating the companies could only hire union workers?

Who created the Assembly Line

Who arrived in Edo Bay, Japan to force Japan to trade with the U.S.?

Who was viewed was suspicious because they were both Itialian immigrants and ararchests

The Ku Klux Klan added to its membership by hiring professional promoters.

What type of stores changed the idea of shopping by brining together a wide array of different products?

what was passed in Western states to limit the rates railroads could charge companies?

The Cotton Club was a club that mainly African Americans would perform at

What was the purpose of the Open Door Notes?

Who were hired to work when a union called a strike?

What was the name of the technique that company employers used to break a union by refusing to allow workers on property

Whihc country did NOT make up the Triple Alliance?

First thing President Roosevelt set out to do when he took office to fight the great depression: Send bills to congress

Who overthrew the Hawaiin monarchy?

The disarment of Germany, and payement of very large reparations to the allies and demilitarization of the rhineland:

Which of 3 countries did NOT make up the Triple Entete?

The Espionage act made it illeagle ti speak against war publicly

Who created Time Zones to make rail service more reliable

What was the developed to relieve congestion on city streets?

The News of Hardings landslide election vistory was first heard/seen on:

What did the U.S. want to build in the province on Panama and negotiated with the country of Colombia in order to build

The Sedition act made it ileagle to aid the enemy, and give false reports or interfere with war effort.

What allows all party members ti vote for a candidate running in the general election?

Purpose of the Volstead act was NOT carryout the intent of the 18th amendment-establish prohibition in the United States

What provided city dwellers with jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for votes?