U.S. History Exam

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allowed Americans to move to suburbs

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automobile

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organization that worked to ban lynchings in the United States

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NAACP

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this policy kept the US out of WWI for three years

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Neutrality Act

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this proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany

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Zimmerman Telegraph

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this led Wilson to no longer call for peace

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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

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belief that a country should maintain control through a strong military force

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Militarism

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pride in ones country

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Nationalism

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extending a country’s power through diplomacy and/or military force

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Imperialism

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countries promising protection in the event of conflict

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Alliances

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his assassination was the beginning of WWI

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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the use of trench warfare lead to this

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Stalemate

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American families conserving resources for the war

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rationing

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women in WWI

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clerics, pharmacists, photographers, nurses

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proposed by Wilson- did not punish Germany for WWI

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14 points

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made it illegal to resist the draft

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Schenk v United States

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US refused to approve, making the League of Nations ineffective

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Treaty of Versailles

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proposals of peace between global nations

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League of Nations

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American policy stated that any disorder in Latin America could force the United States to act as an international police power

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Big Stick Diplomacy

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advocated that US protect nations that agree with Democracy

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Moral Diplomacy

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gained Guam, the Philippines and Cuba

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Spanish-American War

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exaggerated form of writing intended to attract readers, rather than informing

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Yellow Journalism

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exploded in the port of Havana Harbor

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USS Maine

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Factors for Imperialism

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acquiring new markets and raw materials

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Great Migration

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Migration of a group of people to northern cities

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Americas first form of mass media

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Radio

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allowed Americans to move to the suburbs

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automobile

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wrote about African American experiences

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Langston Hughes

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contrbutions in WWI led to this

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women's suffrage

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sentenced to murder and death due to communist fear

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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limited immigration to 2-3%

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Immigration Quota Acts

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targeted immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans

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KKK

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fear of communism in the United States

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Red Scare

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mass arrests made by the government based on fear of communism and little to no valid evidense

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Palmer Raids

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Tennessee teacher convicted of teaching evolution in class

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Scopes Trial

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made it illegal to teach anything that denies creationism

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Butler Act

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using credit to buy stocks on the stock market

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buying on margin

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form of installment buying for consumer goods

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buying on credit

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who led the Great Migration from Tennessee to Kansas?

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Pap Singleton

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oil tycoon who used horizontal integration to increase profits

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John Rockifeller

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developed a process to make steel stronger

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Henry Bessemer

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invented the first telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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financier who dominated Wall street in the 1930s

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J P Morgan

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steel tycoon of the US Industrial Revolution

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Andrew Carnegie

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railroad tycoon considered a ruthless businessman

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Cornelious Vanderbuilt

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invented the light bulb, phonograph, and battery

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Thomas Edison

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Laws that enforced segregation in the South

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Jim Crow Laws

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allowed African Americans to claim 160 free acres of land

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Homestead Act

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westward expansion boomed after this development of travel

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Transcontinental Railroad

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applied to railroad to regulate shipping rates

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Interstate Commerce Act

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allowed federal government to break up tribal lands

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Dawes Act

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former slave who founded the Tuskegee institute

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Booker T. Washington

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founder of the NAACP

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WEB DuBois

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exposed political corruption during the Gilded Age

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Thomas Nast

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corrupt mayor of NYC

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Boss Tweed

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investors lost confidence in the market and rushed to share stock

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Bank failures

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caused by intensive farming practices and the removal of native grasses

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Dust Bowl

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Hoovers response to GD

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believed in rugged individualism and self reliance

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this was one of the first institutions to feel the GD effects causing depositors to remove their money from this system

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Stock Market Crash

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unemployment rate in the GD

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25%

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Hoovervilles

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homeless communities during the 1930s

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program used to promote relief, recovery, and reform

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New Deal

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this plan of FDR interfered with the separaion of powers

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Court Packing

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hired 8.5 million workers who built highways, roads etc., also hired artists and writers

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PWA | Public Works administration

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regulated the stock market

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SEC | securites exchange committee

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provided some security to the elderly and for unemployed workers, as well as welfare fore needy people

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SSA | social security administration

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employed single men ages 18-25 for natural resource conservation

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WPA | Works Progress Administration

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built hydroelectric plants and dams for southern states

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TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority

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reduces agricultural surplus and increased prices for farmers

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AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Act

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designed to eliminate competition by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create fair practices

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NRA | National Recovery Administration

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guaranteed bank deposits up to $250,000

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FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corperation

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Organized industrial unions of skilled and unskilled workers

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CIO | Congress of Industrial Organization

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a government that maintains complete control over its citizens

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Totalitarianism

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American Isolationists pushed for this to keep the US out of WWII

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Neutrality Act of 1939

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the day of Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941

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agreed to invade Poland with Hitler

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Joseph Stalin

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General who staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

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Hideki Tojo

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dictator who wanted to unite the Germanic people into one state

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Adolph Hitler

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Prime Minister of Great Britain

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Winston Churhcill

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document that strengthened the alliance between the US and Britain

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Atlantic Charter