US History Final Exam Review

American writers who exposed corruption & scandals in business & politics:

Invented a spinning machine in 1769 called the water frame:

Brought the secrets of textile milling from Great Britain to the US:

Nearly every state limited or banned child labor by 1948.

This led America out of the Great Depression:

One of the causes related to the Great Depression:

A failed invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA:

Senators elected by the popular vote:

Policy to prevent the USSR from enlarging its communist sphere of influence:

Woodrow Wilson's program was called:

Competition between two or more states to have superior military forces and technology:

First group of workers to benefit from reduced working hours:

First state to give women the right to vote:

A state with a dominant position & capable of influencing the entire world:

Region of the US where industrialization started:

Created boom in business by reducing shipping costs and time:

This program created during the Depression insures deposits in banks:

Allow farmers to plant & harvest huge crop fields, helping the country prosper: steel plow and:

It was an undeclared war in which the communist faction gained control of the entire country:

This system collapsed and caused millions of citizens to lose their savings:

The 1st attempt to regulate big business was introduced by Robert La Follete in the state of:

Before becoming the 26th president, Teddy Roosevelt was:

During the Depression, groups of shacks or makeshift houses that the poor lived in:

Employing young, unmarried women, who were housed in boardinghouses:

A period of drought & storms caused by high winds on the Great Plains in the 1930s:

Invented the steamboat:

Programs & projects aimed to restore prosperity to Americans during the presidency of FDR:

At the end of the war, the peninsula went back to how things were before the conflict began:

The industrial revolution started in the:

Political barrier that separated the USSR from Eastern Europe:

US policy used to stop the spread of communism in Turkey & Greece:

During the Great Depression many people were:

A war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved:

Workers got organized to demand higher wages and better working conditions:

Formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance:

One of the goals of Progressivism was:

The main components of the New Deal were relief, recovery, and _____.

Introduced the idea of interchangeable parts:

A group that controls the activities of a political party:

The Stock Market Crash that is considered the spark of the Depression occurred in: