8th grade America Land I Love test 9 study guide(by epj1112)

John D. Rockefeller

Associated with the Standard Oil Company in 1870.

Adam Smith

Author of 'Wealth of Nations'.

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the telephone.

Thomas Edison

Credited with creating the first successful incandescent light bulb.

Andrew Carnegie

Headed the largest steel company in the world.

Promontory

Location in Utah where the first transcontinental railroad was completed.

1893

year of worlds fair.

Inflation

Rapid increase of prices due to the increase of money in circulation.

Samuel Gompers

Leader of the first successful national labor union.

Homestead Act

Legislation that opened the Great Plains for settlement.

Grover Cleveland

President who served two nonconsecutive terms.

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Provided for competitive examinations for civil service workers

Gilded Age

Known as the Age of Industry.

William McKinley

President in favor of the gold standard.

Monopoly

A company with complete market control.

16th Amendment

Granted Congress power to tax personal income.

Communism

Ideology promoting a classless society.

1903

year first powered flight

Selective Service Act

Required men from 21-30 to register for the draft.

Charles Lindbergh

First person to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Billy Sunday

Baseball player turned evangelist.

William Jennings Bryan

Won the scopes trial

John J. Pershing

Led the American Expeditionary force in WWI.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Aimed at peace among nations.

18th Amendment

Prohibition of alcohol sales.

John Maynard Keynes

British socialist economic who thought that the government must take control of breaking a nation out of economic depression

John L. Lewis

Organized the Committee for Industrial Organizations.

John Steinbeck

Author of 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

Dividends

Profits and earnings on stock.

Speculation

Practice of buying risky investments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Implemented the New Deal and Social Security Act.

FDIC

Organization that insured all member bank accounts for up to $5000 per account

Tennessee Valley Authority

One of the first government project plan by the new deal created for the purpose of controlling flooding, conserving soil, and bringing hydrologic power to the mid South

1929.

Start of the Great Depression

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Was shot resolving in the World War I

Russia

What nation was taken from World War I with the treaty of Brest Latowsk

Third communist international

Treaty of Versailles

peace treaty signed at the end of World War I

Herbert Hoover

What is known as the great humanitarian

William H Taft

Supported the dollar diplomacy

Warren G Harding

Remembered for the tea pot dome scandal

Alvin York

Greatest World War I hero

W. E. B. Du Bois

Founded the NAACP

Colorado

Known as the centennial state

Philippines

Where is the first fights of the Spanish-American war started

Babe Ruth

Great baseball hits home runner

1914

Start of World War I

Third communist international

Terrorist organization that was dedicated to worldwide communist revolution

Social Security act

What government act created a fund for unemployed an old age insurance

Works progress administration

What government project built roads buildings and other public structures

Harry rimmer

Lectures against evolution in colleges and universities

J Edgar Hoover

Investigated communist activities in America

1869

Start of the Spanish American war

1917

Year of the Bolshevik Revolution

1914

Year of the panama opening

Bessemer

Englishman who developed an inexpensive method of turning iron ore into steel

Cuba

Haiti

Jamaica

Label the starred and circled