2023 SS 8 Final Exam Review

Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s became known as ___.

The Harlem Renaissance led to economic prosperity, new ideas, personal freedoms and developments in the fine arts.

In the fight against discrimination, Ida B. Wells drew attention to the lynching of African Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interest of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called ______.

Politicians best confronted corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age by _____.

What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?

The invention of the airplane led to increased demand for __________.

Workers' compensation laws prohibited companies from paying wages to employees injured on the job.

Child labor continued even after the reforms of the early 1900s because _______.

At a protest in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb killed eight police officers and injured many others.

John D. Rockefeller's control of about 90 percent of the oil refining business is an example of horizontal integration.

Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought ______.

An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade the nickname the ___.

Which of the following was an effect of factory specialization in the late 1800s?

Reformers called for an end to __, giving government jobs to supporters after a candidate wins an election.

A procedure called an initiative allows voters to propose new laws by using petitions.

Andrew Carnegie dealt with striking union workers at this Pennsylvania steel factory in 1892 by _____.

The Bessemer Process made steel production quicker and cheaper, which created a booming railroad industry.

Who encouraged African Americans to improve their opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly?

A major aim of the Society of American Indians was to preserve Native Americans' traditional culture.

Stockholders own a corporation, but they do not make its day-to-day business decisions.

School attendance decreased in the 20s.

When the US entered WWI, men left their jobs and women filled them.

Henry Ford made manufacturing more efficient with the moving assembly line.

To help the conservation movement, Roosevelt signed a bill requiring manufacturers to limit the use of fossil fuels.

Federick W. Taylor encouraged managers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process.

Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb.

The period of African American artistic accomplishment in the 1920s was known as the ____.

The 20s became a time of the female declaration of independence.

New York City was the world's largest black urban community in the 20s.

The Jazz Singer was the first __, or motion picture with sound.

____ founded the National Woman's Party (NWP).

___ was a famous writer who produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life.

Wilbur and Orville Wright built a lightweight airplane that ran on a gas-powered engine.

New technologies in the steel industry in the late 1800s increased productivity in the ________.

Collective bargaining is the _______.

Samuel Gompers led the American Federation of Labor.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other accidents led to the passage of laws improving factory safety.

The unions claimed that __ was unfair because it caused managers to consider profits more than safe working conditions.

How did the telegraph differ from the telephone?

Andrew Carnegie owned businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process in the steel industry.

___ was a trumpet player known for his method of stepping out from the band to perform a solo.

Which of these reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that government had proposed or passed?

The Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to create monopolies.

A majority of women earned more money than man in the same job.

In the 1920s, __ allowed people all of the country to listen to the same programs.

The ___ helped expand voting rights by allowing voters, and not state legislatures, to elect senators.

The "New Women" emerged, and women began to challenge the social view of a woman.

Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as _____.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other accidents led to the passage of laws improving factory safety.

In its first decade, the __ brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight for equal voting rights.

William Howard Taft's main criticism of Theodore Roosevelt was he ____.

____'s novel The Great Gatsby focused on a loss of morality behind the fun and free-spirited times of the Jazz Age.

The Homestead Strike was a protest _______.

The "lost generation" writers were critical of democracy, prosperity, and peace after WWI and ridiculed Americans.

City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called _______.

Sinclair Lewis became the first American to receive the ___ in literature.

Of the following, which was an effect of the expansion of railroads across the United States?

Many women made it to managerial positions.

This person's reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely.

Progressive reforms improved education for medical professionals.

Terence V. Powderly became leader of the Knights of Labor in 1879.

In Paris, in the 1920s, there was a community of American ___, or people who leave their country to live elsewhere.

How did the labor force change during the Second Industrial Revolution?

Social Darwinism is the idea that those who were "fittest" would be successful.

The Knights of Labor was the first national labor union.