Fall Final Exam Review

What makes novels like The Jungle, Grapes of Wrath, and The Great Gatsby significant in U.S. History?

How did Hoover and Roosevelt differ in addressing the Great Depression?

What was the name of the top-secret program in the U.S. government to research and build (and later use) atomic weapons?

What 1882 law put the first restrictions on immigration to the U.S.?

Which Era was characterized by political, economic, and social reform?

Free enterprise system led to some questionable business practices, what did it do for the ordinary consumer?

What occurred at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869?

This ethnic group later received an official apology for its treatment during World War II.

How did the women’s suffrage movement finally obtain the vote?

What actions played a significant role in creating the prosperity of the 1920s?

What events triggered the Spanish American War in 1898?

What territorial changes to the U.S. occurred as a result of the Spanish American War?

List in order the Eras in U.S. History we've studied thus far this year.

What African American art form impacted and characterized the 1920s?

What were the names of the two Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs at the end of WWII?

What was Woodrow Wilson’s intent in putting forward his Fourteen Points?

Organization founded in 1909 to ensure equality for all, no matter a person's race. What was its name?

What effects arose from the rise of nativist attitudes during the 1920s?

What were the two main causes for America’s entry into World War I?

What caused the Dust Bowl?

What was the purpose of “island hopping” in World War II’s Pacific Theater

What role did the railroads play in the development of the West?

Breadlines and soup kitchens were characteristic of this Era.

Why did the U.S. government spend more on Navy expenditures between 1890 and 1905?

Who were the people responsible for writing about corruption in big business and government?

What caused African Americans to move north from the south during the Great Migration?

What made Ford Motor Company the most dominant auto manufacturer of the 1920s?

He was responsible for training and leading A.E.F. during World War I. Who was he?

What characterized the 1920s?

What was the Mexican Repatriation Act?

What business practices eventually led to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act?

What event caused the United States to enter W.W.II on Dec. 7, 1941?

During the 1920s, this product changed the landscape of America as well as the way people traveled.

What characterized the onset to the Great Depression?

“Those powers not delegated to the United States…are reserved to the states…” What amendment is being described?