final exam us hist

Homestead Act & Transcontinental Railroad

Helped settle and connect the American West

Andrew Carnegie

Steel

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroads

J.P. Morgan

Banking

John D. Rockefeller

Oil (gasoline)

Thomas Edison

Electrical power

Labor unions

Improved working conditions, higher wages, shorter hours

Chinese Exclusion Act

Banned Chinese immigration

Interstate Commerce Act

Regulated railroads

Sherman Antitrust Act

Broke up monopolies

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Ended spoils system (merit-based jobs)

Pure Food and Drug Act

Regulated food and medicine safety

Meat Inspection Act

Ensured sanitary meat processing

Temperance Movement

Movement to ban alcohol

NAACP

Organization Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois were in

Guam

Territory gained from Spanish-American War

Philippines

Territory gained from Spanish-American War

Puerto Rico

Territory gained from Spanish-American War

Monroe Doctrine

No European interference in the Americas

Dollar Diplomacy

Economic influence over other countries

Open Door Policy

Equal trade access in China

Roosevelt Corollary

U.S. can intervene in Latin America

William McKinley

Boxer Rebellion, Annexation of Hawaii, Spanish-American War

Theodore Roosevelt

Russo-Japanese War, Panama Canal, Great White Fleet

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Cause of U.S. entering WWI

Zimmerman Telegram

Cause of U.S. entering WWI

list the time periods in order

WWI → Roaring 20s → Depression → Guilded Age → Progressive Era

Automobiles

1920s consumer good

Radio

1920s consumer good

list of the presidents in order and major events for each one.

Hoover (Guilded Age) , FDR (Great Depression, WWII) , Truman (Marhsall Plan, NATO, Korea War), Eisenhower (Cold War)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President during Great Depression/WWII

Stock market crash, bank failures, overproduction, high tariffs, income inequality

Cause of Great Depression

Winston Churchill

Great Britain

Joseph Stalin

Soviet Union

Adolf Hitler

Germany

Benito Mussolini

Italy

Emperor Hirohito

Japan

Franklin D. Roosevelt

United States

D-Day

Allied invasion of Europe (WWII)

Liberation of France

Allied victory in Europe

Fall of Berlin

End of war in Europe

Bataan Death March, Battle of Midway, Battle of Okinawa, the Manhattan Project

major events the pacific WWII

Pearl Harbor

Start of U.S. involvement in WWII

Island hopping

Strategy in Pacific

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Atomic bombings ending WWII

WASPs

women airforce service pilots (ww2)

Tuskegee Airmen

African American pilots

Code Talkers

Navajo communicators

Nisei

Japanese Americans

Baby Boom

Post-WWII population increase

GI Bill

Helped veterans with education and housing

Berlin Blockade

containment policy

Marshall Plan

Containment through economic aid

Korean War

Containment of communism

Harry Truman

Desegregated the military

Dwight Eisenhower

Ended Korean War

John F. Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sent troops to Vietnam

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolent civil rights leader

Thurgood Marshall

Nonviolent civil rights leader

Rosa Parks

Nonviolent civil rights leader

Malcolm X

Militant civil rights leader

Stokely Carmichael

Militant civil rights leader

SNCC

Militant civil rights group

Black Panthers

Militant civil rights group