final exam the topics ut hist

  1. 2 things that separated the american west 

  •    homestead act & transcontinental railroad

  1. matching question. match the entrepreneur with innovation

  • carnegie (steel), vanderbilt(railroads), jp morgan (banker), rockefeller (gasoline),baron (electrical power) etc.

  1. labor unions and their affect

  2. chinese exclusion act, interstate commerce act, sherman antitrust act, penelton service act (replaces the spoils system)

  3. the two laws written in response to The Jungle

  • The pure food and drug act (FDA) & meat inspection act

  1. temperance movement

  2. what was the organization that Ida B Wells & Du Bois was in ? -> NAACP

  3. 3 territories that Spanish-American War: Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico

  4. following foreign policies: monroe doctrine, dollar diplomacy, open door policy, the roosevelt corollary

  5. American prez related to terms: boxer rebellions, annexation of Hawaii, Spanish-American War -> McKinley

  6. which president is responsible for the following events: Russo-Japanese War, Panama Canal, Great White Fleet  -> Theordore Roosevelt

  7. 2 main reasons for America declaring war on Germany: unresitricted submarine warfare & Zimmerman telegram

  8. time period in order: WWI, Roaring 20s, Depression, Gilded Age, Progressive Era

  • the events of these time periods

  1. choose the name / topic that is least related to African Americans: Charles Limberg

  2. consumer goods & if they were made in the 1920s

  • cell phones, automobiles, tunnel vision, radio, 

  1. put prez in chronological order

  • Herbert Hoover -> FDR -> Truman -> Eisenhower

  1. main causes of the Great Depression

  2. person w country

  • Churchill

  • Stalin

  • Hitler

  • Mussolini

  • Hirohito

  • Roosevelt

  1. order of major events in WW2 in the Pacific and in Europe

  2. relation of terms to ethnic group: the Wasps, Tuskegee Airman, Coat-talkers (Navajo), Nisei

  3. 2 factors for post-war prosperity: Baby Boom, GI bill

  4. of the following, which of these was not example of the containment policy

  • containment was German blockade

  • Marshall Plan: containment (bcs it funds for rebuilding Europe so no communism)

  • Korea war - communism

  1. the president’s and their actions

  • desegregated the military - Harriet Truman

  • bring an end to korea war - Eisenhower

  • solved US with Cuban Missile Crisis - Kenedy

  • put forces to Vietnam - Lyndon B Johnson

  1. militant or nonviolent members in the civil rights movement

  • nonviolent resistance: MLKThorgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, 

  • militant members: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael & SNCC, Black Panthers