History Fall Final Exam

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DC U.S. History Fall EXAM

US History

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What impact did Bessemer Process have on manufacturing?

Andrew Carnegie, revolutionized steel production making it cheap/mass produced.

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What impact did free enterprise system have on big business?

Limited government involvement in business. Increases supply plus demand and businesse competiton.

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Henry Ford

maker of first automible model t car

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Andrew Carnegie

maker of mass steel production

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JP Morgan

banker, mos powerful investor in Edison

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John D Rockfeller

controlled 90 percent of all oil in U.S.

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16th ammendment

goverment collects income taxes

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17th ammendment

direct election of senators by people

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18th ammendment

prohibiton, right to alcohol

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19th ammendment

womens voting rights

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Teddy Roosevelt

President of U.S. advocated for conservation of natural resources led to national parks service.

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Ida B. Wells

advocate for anti-lynching, co-founder of NAACP

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W.E.B. Dubois

co-founder of NAACP, advocated for equal rights of blacks

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Upton Sinclair

exposed meat packing industry, led to food regulations

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Intiative

allows citizens to propose new laws

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Referendum

vote on proposed law

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Recall

enables citizens to remove elected offical

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Jacob Reiss

exposed extreme poverty in New York Slums

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Panama Canal

built by President Roosevelt for quicker navy route. Panama rebels took over columbia and Panama agreed to let U.S. build canal.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

“he who rules the sea, rules the world”

influenced increase in sea warfare

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WW1 - year, cause

1914-1918

Trench Warfare, assasination of franz ferdinand, sinking of lusitania, zimmerman note

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Military

Alliance

Imperalism

Nationalism

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Treaty of Versailles

last point was to form a league of nations,

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15th ammendment

black men can vote

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Great Migration

African Americans moving from rural south to north urban centers.

impacted Jazz, Harlem Renassiance

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Great Depression

overconsumption, stock market out of control, credit culture

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FDIC

federal deposit insurance corporation, FDIC insures corporation

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WW2

1939-1945

caused by pearl harbor and global conflict

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Flying Tigers

important in ww2 air combat against japanese

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