AmStud Fall24 Final Exam

In 1914, this alliance included England, France, Russia and eventually in 1917, the United States?

Provided for an income tax by the federal government. Booooo!

18th Amendment?

This proved to be a serious threat to our "freedom of the seas" in the North Atlantic during both WWI & even WWII?

His work, How the Other Half Lives, was mostly troubling photographs of NYC tenement housing?

woman's suffrage leader, she has a dollar coin, the 19th Amendment was originally named for her

1st African American to earn a Harvard degree, he wanted immediate desegregation and stressed political involvement

Armed with a rifle & pistol, killed 25 Germans & captured 132 POWs after starting the war as conscientious objector?

Two of the most prominent early women's suffragists?

Suffrage:

Former president of Princeton, and Former progressive governor of NJ, became president in 1912

One of our earliest urban disasters of 1871. Mrs O'Leary's cow may have started it!

Established by TR, one of our earliest, largest and still one of our most popular national parks?

Croatian immigrant, electrical pioneer who invented the alternating-current motor.

Allowed for the popular, or direct election of U.S. senators. Prior to this, state legislatures selected U.S. senators

Handpicked by TR, a progressive conservative & trustbuster, Republican candidate in 1908 & 1912, later a SC justice

With the Great Migration of southern black to the north for WWI job opportunities came the:

Settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago. Addams wins a Nobel Prize for Peace

Where did the assassination that triggered WWI take place?

Set up a plan to "Americanize" Native Americans in 1887 by providing 160 acre farm plots. Too much land went to whites

Controversial interrogation and/or torture technique used by American troops on Filipino rebel fighters?

this best describes the horrific style of WWI fighting

Members of WCTU fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing & praying

US Supreme Court case that legitimized the practice of racially "separate but equal"

Illinois farmer who pioneered barbed wire fence. Led to closing of open range cattle business

At the conclusion of WWI, ______was the most powerful nation in the world.

Over 400 southern laws mandating separation or segregation of races in various public places/services?

State policy of extending power & dominion, or direct territorial or economic control of another area/country?

The guns and carnage of WWI officially ended on:

long-time tough leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

This provided financial assistance for workers injured on the job?

"Captains of Industry." Built huge wealth usually thru shrewd, ruthless & maybe dishonest business practices?

Scottish immigrant who built a huge steel industry and wrote the essay, "The Gospel of Wealth"

Came out of Bolshevik Revolution & became first noted commie leader of Soviet Union or Russia

The burial site of famous laborer advocate Mary Jones or Mother Jones?

With the Great Migration came the "Red Summer," and____ ______in major cities like Chicago, Detroit, & E. Stl

Authored a Century of Dishonor in 1881, presenting the US treatment of Native Americans

Got his selling pocket watches to train workers, he created huge mail order catalog & eventually department stores?

In what year did the U.S. officially enter WWI?

Explosion of immigrants in the 1880s to the US, they came from Eastern & Southern Europe, more Slavs & Jewish peoples

Controversial interrogation and/or torture technique used by American troops on Filipino rebels

Attacked alcohol with her hatchet & Bible, stormin into saloons breaking up kegs, bottles, & the bar. "Kansas Cyclone!"

Which of the following was NOT a cause of WWI?

cheaper ticket to America, poorer folks made their passage in cramped, lower decks of ships.

According to the____US Census, when was the American "frontier" no more?

Generally marks the end of conflict with Native Americans. Started due to misunderstanding of Sioux Ghost Dance

Fear of Sioux Ghost Dance led to battle/massacre in 1890. Generally marks end of major conflicts with Native Americans

This was the song of America in WWI?

US Secretary of State John Hay tries to dictate terms of open trade with China in imperalist age & spheres of influence

The post-Civil War business and industry boom was spurred on by:

Roosevelt responded to this book by appointing a commission to investigate meatpacking industry

Most of the US casualties in the Spanish-American War were caused by:

Negotiated with the Russians in 1862, acquired Alaskan territory at under three cents an acre?

1st federal law to restrict immigration on basis of color/class. Migration from this country stopped for 10 years.

occurred in Chicago & known as one of our first terrorist bombings, anarchists were suspected

used presidency as a "bully pulpit" and Bull Moose party candidate in 1912?

This movement aimed to restore economic opportunity and correct injustices in American life?

President Woodrow Wilson's 1916 campaign slogan?

Result of President W. Wilson's long speaking tour to drum up support for Treaty of Versailles/League of Nation?

Former Princeton prez, governor of NJ & president in 1912. His image tarnished lately for being a segregationist

Famous WWI German flying ace, he may or may not have enjoyed frozen pizza!

Used concept of the "survival of the fittest" to justify class distinctions & explain poverty

famous Native American chief of the Sioux, he eventually joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

This was America's first big business?