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Sem 1 exam US history Flashcards

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Booker T Washington

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Founded the Tuskegee Normal Institute

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Orville and Wilbur wright

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Invented “flight machines” right here in Dayton Ohio

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Tuskegee institute

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An all black college in Alabama where blacks could go for a advanced education

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Jim Crow laws

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Required segregation between whites and blacks

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Started the large Sunday newspaper, it included more than just news

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George Eastman

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In 1888 he invented the first roll film camera

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W.E.B Du Bois

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Was the first African American Doctoral graduate from Harvard and founded the NAACP

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Ida b Wells

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Led the anti lynching campaign

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Fredrick Olmsted

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Planned urban parks(Central Park was his most famous)

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Mark twain

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One of them most influential authors in American history

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Brooklyn bridge was first bridge to use this type of system

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Cables and suspension

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The key to urban developments

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Skyscrapers, roads, bridges

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Immigrants were critical for expansion because

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Provided cheap workers

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The shift from a farming nation into an industrial nation had the largest impact on

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Education

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By 1910 the literacy rate(age 10 and up) in the US was

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92%

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First air plane took place on December 17, 1903 in what state

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North Carolina

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The Niagara Movement would become this organization

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NAACP

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The 24th amendment would abolish these taxes that had to be paid prior to an election

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Poll

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Plessy vs ferguson was the most importabt case this group ruled on

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Supreme Court

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By 1990 at least on of these was placed in every large city

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Art gallery

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The public library system was referred to as this

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The poor mans university

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Woolworths was known as a “chain store” and it’s goal was to get people to purchase things

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Spur of the moment

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The first department store in America was in Chicago and was called

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Marshall field

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True/false new technologies increased leisure time and activities

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True

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By the end of the war the alliance consisted of France, Great Britain and the USA

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Allies

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These people opposed the war because of the violence

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Pacifists

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These people opposed the war because they saw it as an imperialist struggle

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socialists

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A German U-boat sank this cruise liner, causing the US to enter the war

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Lusitania

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What is it called when you continue to add new territories and land

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imperialsim

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This long term effect on the war encouraged nations to become proud of their countries and what they stand for

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nationalism

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This was what created the terms at the end of the war

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Treat of Versailles

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In the Battle of Somme, this resulted in the exchange of 1.2 million casualties for 7 miles of territory

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Trench Warfare

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This alliance had Germany in it

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Axis

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This letter suggested that Germany and Mexico had entered into an alliance and it would lead to an attack on the US

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Zimmerman Note

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His assassination sparked WWI

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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He was the leader o the US troops during the war

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General Pershing

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draft

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selective service act set up a compulsory military service

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President —— had a peace plan that contained 14 points

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Wilson

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What were the US soldiers known as because of their pasty white skin and clean clothes

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dough boys

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The song the troops sang going into battle was

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Over There

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Four main allied powers for the war

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France, Great Britain, USA, Russia

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three main central powers for the war

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire(turkey)

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most famous pilot of WWI

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Rickenboker

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won the war(allies or axis)

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allies

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Germany violated the terms of neutrality in the Atlantic when

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U-Boat sank the British passenger liner, killing 1,200

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War Industries Board head that had the authority over all war industries was

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Bernard Baruch

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Wilson envisioned the League of Nations as an international congress of nations designed to

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settle disputes and protect democracy

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The African American 396th US infantry, the Harlem Hell Fighters

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were awarded Frances highest military honor for their bravery

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who said “the world must be made safe for democracy”

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Woodrow wilson

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Most of the fourteen points dealt with

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future of specific nations and regions

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The war which later was known as WWI was originally called the

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Great War

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the powder keg in Europe was lit

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by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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The war was a conflict unlike any other due to

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new war strategies and new weapons

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two new nations that were formed by the Treaty of Versailles

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Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia

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This movement that was aimed to return control of the government to the people

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progressive movement

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upton Sinclair wrote ‘the Jungle’ which dealt with this industry. The plant was in Chicago

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Meat Production

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Name the three presidents from 1901-1920

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Roosevelt Taft and Wilson

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This deal was used to describe the various progressive reforms in the Roosevelt administration

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square

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The boys who worked in this factory would run for 22 miles in an 8 hour time shift

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glass runners

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how much money total did they make for 8 hours work

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$0.60-$1.00

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