history row 3

Question 1

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 1

American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist who served as the 26th pres. 1901-1909

Question 2

Dawes Act

Answer 2

Authorized the pres. of U.S. to survey American indan tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual indians.

Question 3

Sharecropper

Answer 3

A farmer who works land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and recieves a share of the crop.

Question 4

Carpetbagger

Answer 4

Name given to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war and supported the republicans.

Question 5

15th Amendment

Answer 5

You can never deny a citizen based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude to vote.

Question 6

Muckrakers

Answer 6

A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society.

Question 7

Monopoly

Answer 7

Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company.

Question 8

Vertical Integration

Answer 8

The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by seperated companies.

Question 9

Social Darwinism

Answer 9

A philosophy based on Charles Dawin’s theories of evolution and natural selection.

Question 10

Segregation

Answer 10

The seperation or isolation of a race, class, or group.

Question 11

Militarism

Answer 11

A policy or aggressive military preparedness.

Question 12

Flappers

Answer 12

Women who smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, and wore makeup and sleeveless dressed with short skirts

Question 13

Creationism

Answer 13

The belief that god created the world and everything in it, usually in the way descibed in the bible.