WCBC US History 2 Final (Completion)

Whose company developed the refrigerated railroad car?

Edward Bellamy

Who created the first patented, commercially useful telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

What is the philosophy that the strongest business would survive?

Social Darwinism

In 1882, the government voted to halt immigration from which country?

China

What were men who were un-elected leaders in the cities called?

Boss

What is an example of a "chain store" given in the notes?

Sears

Who applied the theories of pragmatism to education

John Dewey

What is it called when the winning political party dispenses jobs to those who help them?

Patronage

What sport was invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891?

Basketball

Who was a powerful publisher who popularized "yellow journalism" and controlled 9 newspapers and 2 magazines

Hearst

Which brothers are known for flying the first successful airplane flight in 1903

wright brothers

Which president was assassinated after only a few months in office?

James A. Garfield

What book did William H Harvey write that argued persuasively for free silver?

Coin's Financial School

What Rebellion was a fierce Chinese uprising against all foreigners?

Boxer

Who was known as the father of scientific management?

Taylor

Who wrote How the Other Half Lives?

Riis

What religion was associated with Rum

Romanism

What terrible organization persecuted blacks, Jews, Catholics, and foreigners?

Klu Klux Klan

The ____ _____ happened when nearly 500,000 blacks left the rural South for the industrial cities in the North.

Great Migration

What act drafted men to serve in the military?

Selective Service Act

What term defined people who believed open migration was harming the nation

Nativists

What was the learning US medical school that was founded in 1893 in Baltimore?

John Hopkins

What novel by Chales Sheldon applied the teachings of Christ to modern times?

In His Steps

What amendment provided for direct election of senators previously appointed by state legislatures

17th

Who wrote a novel regarding unsanitary methods of meat preparation entitled "the jungle"?

Upton Sinclair

What association became a powerful force for insuring high standards in the medical profession?

American Medical Association

This was an alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Triple Alliance

The German advance was stopped and Allies began a great offensive in this battle

2nd Battle of Marne

Which Republican president was passive but reliable?

Coolidge

The ____ ____ was Jane Addam's effort to help immigrants get "settled" and adapt to their new country.

Hull House

What piece of land was purchased by Wilson in 1917 to keep Germany from getting it?

Virgin Islands

What is the date for Black Tuesday?

October 29, 1929

During the 1930's financial assistance to the unemployed .was called ____.

Relief

Who wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Who was the Nazi leader of Germany whose mad ambitions led to WWII

Hitler

Germany, Italy, and Japan were called the _____ Powers

Axis

What the ____ Conference, Hitler was awarded Sudetenland in exchange for his pledge of no further aggression.

Winston Churchill

The ___ ___ was a large area of the South and Midwest that experienced a severe drought during the 1930s

Dust Bowl

FDR's informal radio broadcasts in which he explained his plans and programs to Americans personally were called ____ ____

Fireside Chats

What country was Hideki Tojo prime minister and war leader of?

Japan

Which magazine focused on pictures rather than print (photojournalism)?

Life Magazine

What disease did FDR have?

Polio

Whose idea was it to pack the Supreme Court?

FDR

What was the name of Hitler's book?

Mein Kampf

Who made trains up on time?

Mussolini

Which city did the US supple with an airlift after WWII

Berlin

What does NATO stand for?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What is another name for Formose

Taiwan

Who did Truman defeat in 1948?

Nixon

What famous general was fired by Truman

MacCarther

Who was the Wisconsin senator that alleged there were Communists in the US govt?

MacCarthy

Who did Eisenhower defeat in 1952?

Stevenson

Who developed polio vaccine?

Jonas Salk

What famous amusement park was founded in 1955?

Disneyland

Who was the first African American to play major league baseball?

Jackie Robinson

Who was Eisenhower's Secretary of State?

Dulles

Who did Castro overthrow in Cuba?

Batista

In what year was Israel founded?

1948

What did Kennedy call his domestic program?

New Deal

Who did Johnson defeat in 1964?

Goldwater

Which cabinet department was aimed at helping cities (housing)

HUD

In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

1989