Final Exam Review

What negative stereotypes were associated with Irish immigrants?

The Bessemer Process

In which area of the United States did the Dust Bowl of the 1930's occur?

The 15th Amendment

The 13th Amendment

Advantage: Population

During the Great Depression, one main objective of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats was to

Muckrakers

Advantage: "Homefield advantage"

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

Advantage: Production of goods

Between 1933 and 1941 which style of foreign policy did the US choose to implement?

The Freedman's Bureau primarily helped which group of people?

Between 1800 and 1900 the urban population in the United States increased.

Dark hair, dark skin, shorter

The United States responded to the December 7,1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by

Which continent did most immigrants to the United States come from?

American settlers did not settle the Great Plains right away because they believed that the land was

How did the US govt enforce the 15th amendment?

Which document lead to the rise of Adolph Hitler?

What was the first federal law to restrict immigration to the United States?

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

Advantage: Better trained military

The purpose of the Lend- Lease Act was to provide economic assistance to war torn countries.

Prohibition failed because Americans just didn't support it.

Rosie the Riveter propaganda was designed to

Which type of propaganda creates it's message by showing the "worst case scenario"

The "Reconstruction Amendments" were added to the Constitution in order to...

Old immigrants easily assimilated to American culture.

Early industrial factories provided safe, healthy, and well payed opportunities for employment.

Catholic

Where did most people work during the cottage industry period?

Italy, Greece, Poland

Advantage: More miles of rail road tracks

What region did African Americans migrate to to find better jobs in the 1800's?

Which side was more prepared to fight the Civil War?

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's influenced American society by

Protestant

British, Swedish, Irish

Which group faced discrimination because they come from culturally different backgrounds than most Americans?

Why did people move to cities in the late 1800's?

What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of WWI?

The election of which President in 1860 led directly to the Civil War?

Which document contains President Woodrow Wilson's call to crate the League of Nations?

Black codes limited the freedoms of black people in the south.

Which New Deal law established a system of unemployment insurance and pensions for retired workers?

What was the first battle of the Civil War?