Sem 1 exam US history Flashcards
Booker T Washington
Founded the Tuskegee Normal Institute
Orville and Wilbur wright
Invented “flight machines” right here in Dayton Ohio
Tuskegee institute
An all black college in Alabama where blacks could go for a advanced education
Jim Crow laws
Required segregation between whites and blacks
Joseph Pulitzer
Started the large Sunday newspaper, it included more than just news
George Eastman
In 1888 he invented the first roll film camera
W.E.B Du Bois
Was the first African American Doctoral graduate from Harvard and founded the NAACP
Ida b Wells
Led the anti lynching campaign
Fredrick Olmsted
Planned urban parks(Central Park was his most famous)
Mark twain
One of them most influential authors in American history
Brooklyn bridge was first bridge to use this type of system
Cables and suspension
The key to urban developments
Skyscrapers, roads, bridges
Immigrants were critical for expansion because
Provided cheap workers
The shift from a farming nation into an industrial nation had the largest impact on
Education
By 1910 the literacy rate(age 10 and up) in the US was
92%
First air plane took place on December 17, 1903 in what state
North Carolina
The Niagara Movement would become this organization
NAACP
The 24th amendment would abolish these taxes that had to be paid prior to an election
Poll
Plessy vs ferguson was the most importabt case this group ruled on
Supreme Court
By 1990 at least on of these was placed in every large city
Art gallery
The public library system was referred to as this
The poor mans university
Woolworths was known as a “chain store” and it’s goal was to get people to purchase things
Spur of the moment
The first department store in America was in Chicago and was called
Marshall field
True/false new technologies increased leisure time and activities
True
By the end of the war the alliance consisted of France, Great Britain and the USA
Allies
These people opposed the war because of the violence
Pacifists
These people opposed the war because they saw it as an imperialist struggle
socialists
A German U-boat sank this cruise liner, causing the US to enter the war
Lusitania
What is it called when you continue to add new territories and land
imperialsim
This long term effect on the war encouraged nations to become proud of their countries and what they stand for
nationalism
This was what created the terms at the end of the war
Treat of Versailles
In the Battle of Somme, this resulted in the exchange of 1.2 million casualties for 7 miles of territory
Trench Warfare
This alliance had Germany in it
Axis
This letter suggested that Germany and Mexico had entered into an alliance and it would lead to an attack on the US
Zimmerman Note
His assassination sparked WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
He was the leader o the US troops during the war
General Pershing
draft
selective service act set up a compulsory military service
President —— had a peace plan that contained 14 points
Wilson
What were the US soldiers known as because of their pasty white skin and clean clothes
dough boys
The song the troops sang going into battle was
Over There
Four main allied powers for the war
France, Great Britain, USA, Russia
three main central powers for the war
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire(turkey)
most famous pilot of WWI
Rickenboker
won the war(allies or axis)
allies
Germany violated the terms of neutrality in the Atlantic when
U-Boat sank the British passenger liner, killing 1,200
War Industries Board head that had the authority over all war industries was
Bernard Baruch
Wilson envisioned the League of Nations as an international congress of nations designed to
settle disputes and protect democracy
The African American 396th US infantry, the Harlem Hell Fighters
were awarded Frances highest military honor for their bravery
who said “the world must be made safe for democracy”
Woodrow wilson
Most of the fourteen points dealt with
future of specific nations and regions
The war which later was known as WWI was originally called the
Great War
the powder keg in Europe was lit
by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
The war was a conflict unlike any other due to
new war strategies and new weapons
two new nations that were formed by the Treaty of Versailles
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
This movement that was aimed to return control of the government to the people
progressive movement
upton Sinclair wrote ‘the Jungle’ which dealt with this industry. The plant was in Chicago
Meat Production
Name the three presidents from 1901-1920
Roosevelt Taft and Wilson
This deal was used to describe the various progressive reforms in the Roosevelt administration
square
The boys who worked in this factory would run for 22 miles in an 8 hour time shift
glass runners
how much money total did they make for 8 hours work
$0.60-$1.00
