Test Qs Flashcards
1-2. ___&____ The first transcontinental railroad was completed by the construction efforts of which two railroads
Union pacific/central pacific
The US changed to standard time zones when
the major rail lines recognized the necesity to keep schedules and avoid accidents
the first important federal law aimed at regulating the transportation industry?
interstate commerce commerce act
after the Granger Laws ran into legal problems and were overturned in the case of Wabash v Illinois, Congress attempted to provide relief through the
Interstate Commerce Act
the steel industry owed much to the genius of
William Kelly (bessemer process)
Americas first billion dollar corporation was
US steel
andre carnegie’s “gospel of wealth” proclaimed his belief that:
those who acquired great wealth were morally responsible to use it for the public good
she opened the hull house
Jane Addams
she founded the Nat. American Suffrage Assoc.
S. B. Anthony
she help found the Nat Assoc of Colored Women
Ida B Wells
First female member of House of Reps
Jeanette Rankin
Founder of the christian sci church
Mary Baker Eddy
He was the first african american to graduate from harvard
WEB DuBoise
dem candidate in 1896
Wm Jennings Bryan
He enforced the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
Led the national grange
Oliver Kelly
he was the president of the american tobacco company
J. Buchannan Duke
invented movie camera
edison
invented metal detector
Alex G Bell
in what US city were the first underground transit trains?
boston
the countries from which many “new immigrants” came included:
Italian Croatian and Slovakian
one immigrant group that was totally banned from the US after 1882 as a result of nativist agitation was the
chinese
the dawes severalty act was designed to promote Indian
assimilation
Carnegie used the combination form of:
vertical integration
Rockefeller used the combination form of:
horizontal integration
JP Morgan uses the combination form ofL
interlocking directorate
the first major product of the oil industry
kerosene
the knights of labor was weakened by
its association in the public mind with the haymarket riot
late 19th century farmers believed that their difficulties stemmed primarily from
the currency supply
the question of the annexation of ____ touched off the first major imperialistic debate in american history
Hawaii
US naval captain Alfred Mahn argued that
control of the sea was key to the US world domination
to justify american intervention in the Venezuela boundary dispute with Brtain, Sec State Olney invoked the
Monroe Doctrine
President McKinley primarily justified American acquisition of the Philippines by emphasizing that
there was no acceptable alternative to their acquisition
a major factor in the shift in the american foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century was
the need for over seas markets for increased industrial and agricultural products
during the spainish/american war the entire spanish fleet was destroyed at the battle of
santiago
in an attempt to persuade Spain to leave Cuba or to encourage the US to help Cuba to gain independance, Cuban insurrectos
burned the cane field and sugar mills
which of the following became a US possession under the provisions of the treaty of paris, that ended the spainsh american war:
puerto rico, guam, philippine Islands
as a result of the settlement of the venezuelan boundary dispute
latin american nations were pleased by the determination of the US to protect them
in his book Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis the Rev Josiah Strong advocated American expansion
to spread American religious values
as whether the US laws applied to the territories acquired in the Spanish American War, the Supreme Court decided in the insular cases that
american laws did not necessarily apply
by acquiring the Philippine Islands at the end of the s/a war the US:
became a full-fledged far eastern power
what best explains the influence of yellow journalism on US foreign policy in the 1890s?
sensational news stories stirred the anger of the American people
the Us gained a virtual right of intervention in Cuba in the
Platt Amendment
the numerous wars and diplomatic crisis of the US in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated
the aggressive new national mood
at the time the most controversial event associated with the s/a war was the
acquisition of the Philippines
what country attempted to interfere with the U Navy in the batle of manila Bay, causing Dewey to threaten them with war
germany
president cleveland rejected the effort to annex hawaii because
the majority of the native hawaiians opposed the annexation
Because of economic expansion, yellow press, and the economic completion w European nations
this turned american away from isolation and toward international involvement in the 1890s
because of the venzuelan boundary dispute the effect was:
strengthen the monroe doctrine and made GB more willing to accommodate US interests
because of the white planter revolt again Queen Lili the effect was:
se off the first debate about american overseas expansion
because of the cuban revolt against spanish rule the effect was:
created an emotional public demand for war
because of the explosion of the USS Maine the effect:
aroused strong sympathy from most americans
Effect of TR’s secret orders to Commodore Dewey
led to the surprising US victory over Spain at Manila Bay
the weakness of spain’s army and navy; effect:
enables america’s unprepared forced to gain quick and easy victories
Mckinley’s decision to keep the Philippines; effect:
set up a bitter debate about imperialism in the senate and the country
WJ Bryan’s last minute support for the treaty acquiring the Philippines; effect:
tipped the narrow senate vote in favor of the imperialist acquisition of the Philippines
