American History Final Review

Public Transportation systems built to move many people and ease traffic in crowded cities

He earned the nickname "Stonewall" for his bravery

Held over 1,000 patents for his inventions

Most New immigrants moved into areas with people of their own nationality

Amendment that made slavery illegal

He was the President of the Confederate States of America and came up wit the strategy of Cotton Diplomacy

He wrote “The Jungle”

A system of messengers that carried mail between relay stations on a route 2,000 miles long in 1860 and 1861

Complete control over the entire supply of goods or a service in a particular market

Encouraged African Americans to improve their educational and economic well-being

A settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen GAtes Starr

Law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade

A term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the US beginning in the 1880s

Roosevelt’s Secretary of War who ran against him in the Presidential election of 1912

This was passed under Woodrow Wilson to address banking reform

An undeveloped area

A railroad system that crossed the continental US- It's construction began in 1863

Which amendments were known as the Civil War Amendments?

He was the commander of Union Forces in the western campaign and eventually took control of Union Army

Who wrote a book about the meatpacking industry in Chicago to expose the troubles there?

Area on a ship where the steering mechanisms were located and where cramped quarters were provided for people

One of America’s first amusement parks, located in New York

Which of the following was not a lasting effect on the country after the Civil War

A law passed by congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers

A constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote

Where was the main immigration processing center

A short-lived political party that attempted to institute social reforms

Several Southern states seceded when he was elected President

Boss of Tammany Hall political machine

A law that set regulatory standards for industries involved in preparing food

Nevada gold and silver mine discovered in 1859

What document freed slaves in Confederacy controlled states

The first to implement the moving assembly line in manufacturing

A powerful organization that influenced city and county politics in the late 1800's

A constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the US

He ran on the Socialist Party ticket in the election of 1912

300 mile march made by Navajo captives to a reservation in New Mexico that led to the deaths of hundreds of Navajo

A battle between US soldiers led by George Armstrong Custer, and Sioux warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

A method of allowing voters to propose a new law if enough signatures are collected on a petiton

An area of the great plains on which many ranchers raised cattle o in the late 1800's

Sold equipment to miners, and eventually became the governor of California

He replaced McClellan as leader of the Army of the Potomac

The main immigration center on the West Coast

A factory fire that killed 146 workers trapped in the building

Which of the following did not help lead to an increase in the size of city population

Business that sells portions of ownership called stock shares

Invented a faster and cheaper way to make steel

He invented the safety elevator

Federal lands set aside for American Indians

He led the Union navy up the Mississippi River

A western community that grew quickly because of the mining boom and often disapeared when the boom ended.

He designed Central Park in New York City

A group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems in the late 1800's

A constitutional amendment allowing American voters to directly elect US senators

He led an attack on the Union center at Gettysburg and the charge was later named after him

The leader of the oil industry in the late 1800s

Economic system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production

These women founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association

An economic system in which private businesses run most industries

What city grew very large as a result of railroads and meat processing centers?

Became famous for storming into saloons with a hatchet and smashing liquor bottles

Made the first piloted flight in a gas-powered plane in 1903

He called his reform policy the Square Deal

He was the publisher of the New York Journal

Exclusive right to make or sell an invention

Wrote articles about the unequal education available to African American chlden

Organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans

What were conditions like in tenements in the late 1800s

A view of society based on Charles Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection

He wrote "How the Other Half Lives"

Believed that African Americans should protest unjust treatment and demand equal rights

Democrat who won the Presidential election of 1912

This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War resulting in over 51,000 deaths

A procedure that allows voters to approve or reject a law already proposed or passed by the government

A religious movement among Native Americans That spread across the Plains in the 1880s

Laws which guarantee a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job

Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote

What are three effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

An amendment to the constitution that allows personal income to be taxed

Neighborhood centers staffed by professions and volunteer for education, recreation, and social activities in poor areas

Her work helped raise awareness about the problems in sweatshops

The leader of the steel industry in the late 1800s

The planned management of natural resources to prevent their destruction

Organizations created by immigrants to help each other in times of sickness, unemployment, or other troubles

A long journey on which cowboys herded cattle to northern markets or better grazing lands

Owning a share of a company

Leader of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Which of the following was not considered a "border state"

Patented the telephone in 1876

She established a hospital fin Richmond, Virginia for Southern soliders

A neighborhood right outside of a downtown area

A term coined for journalists who "raked up" and exposed corruption and problems in society

She opened the Hull House with the help of Ellen Gates Starr

A term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the US before the 1880s

The main immigration center on the East Coast

US Colonel who was destroyed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

Leader of the Sioux who helped lead several attacks on US troops

A trail that ran from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas established in the late 1860's for cattle drivers

He was the leader of the Confederate Army

Law banning Chinese people from moving to the United States