1st Semester US History Final

Which of the following was NOT considered a "border state"?

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

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

This was termed "Seward's Folly".

Most new immigrants moved into areas with people of their own nationality?

Organizations that strongly influenced city, county and even federal politics in the late 1800s.

What were conditions like in tenements in the late 1800s?

Which amendments were known as the Civil War Amendments?

What country entered into war with the US over control of places like Cuba and the Philippines?

He was the commander of the Confederate Army?

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

Patented the telephone in 1876

A telegram from Germany to Mexico offering Mexico a return of territory in exchange for declaring war on the US.

Law that allowed the president to draft soldiers in times of war.

Federal lands set aside for American Indians

President of the US during World War I?

The main immigration center on the East coast.

Loans in the US paid to the government that aided the military to prepare for war.

He was the most famous leader of the Rough Riders.

What country had an Open Door Policy for years to the rest of the world?

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

A constitutional amendment that outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.

Where did the US create a canal so they could travel quicker between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

The leader of the oil industry in the late 1800s.

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

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

A term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. before the 1880s

Organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans.1

Winfield Scott's strategy of blockading Southern ports and taking control of the Mississippi River was known as

Amendment that allowed for women to have the right to vote.

He was nicknamed "Stonewall" for his bravery.

A railroad system that crossed the continental U.S. - It's construction began in 1863

Lee surrendered to Grant in this small town, ending the Civil War.

Several southern states seceded when Grant was elected president.

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

German submarines

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

A term coined for journalists who “raked up” and exposed corruption and problems of society.

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

Who assassinated President Lincoln?

What law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs?

He was the President of the Confederate States of America, and came up with the strategy of Cotton Diplomacy.

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

The first to implement the moving assembly line in manufacturing.