History Fall Final Exam

DC U.S. History Fall EXAM

What impact did Bessemer Process have on manufacturing?

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

What impact did free enterprise system have on big business?

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

Henry Ford

maker of first automible model t car

Andrew Carnegie

maker of mass steel production

JP Morgan

banker, mos powerful investor in Edison

John D Rockfeller

controlled 90 percent of all oil in U.S.

16th ammendment

goverment collects income taxes

17th ammendment

direct election of senators by people

18th ammendment

prohibiton, right to alcohol

19th ammendment

womens voting rights

Teddy Roosevelt

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

Ida B. Wells

advocate for anti-lynching, co-founder of NAACP

W.E.B. Dubois

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

Upton Sinclair

exposed meat packing industry, led to food regulations

Intiative

allows citizens to propose new laws

Referendum

vote on proposed law

Recall

enables citizens to remove elected offical

Jacob Reiss

exposed extreme poverty in New York Slums

Panama Canal

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

Alfred Thayer Mahan

“he who rules the sea, rules the world”

influenced increase in sea warfare

WW1 - year, cause

1914-1918

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

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Military

Alliance

Imperalism

Nationalism

Treaty of Versailles

last point was to form a league of nations,

15th ammendment

black men can vote

Great Migration

African Americans moving from rural south to north urban centers.

impacted Jazz, Harlem Renassiance

Great Depression

overconsumption, stock market out of control, credit culture

FDIC

federal deposit insurance corporation, FDIC insures corporation

WW2

1939-1945

caused by pearl harbor and global conflict

Flying Tigers

important in ww2 air combat against japanese