72 questions
The economic principle used to justify extreme wealth and argue that the rich deserve to be wealthy, while poverty is necessary within society, is called
communism
Manifest Destiny
Social Darwinism
assimilation
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller increased their wealth and expanded their businesses by
taking advantage of wartime rationing to increase their production of war goods
forming labor unions to help improve conditions and raise pay
using vertical integration and horizontal integration to eliminate competition and build monopolies
The United State government encouraged westward expansion during the 1800s by
passing the Homestead Act.
continuing efforts to move Native Americans off of their traditional lands.
pushing for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
All of these are correct
When a company has complete control over an industry’s production, quality, wages paid, & prices charged, it is known as a
Monopoly
Trust
Rockefeller
Captain of Industry
This wealthy industrialist made his fortune in the steel industry, has a university in Pittsburgh named after him, and donated much of his fortune to the establishment of public libraries.
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jay Gould
____________ controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age and was the wealthiest American of all time.
Samuel Gompers
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
If someone takes advantage of people for their own gains as an industrialist, they are likely to be considered a
mass producer
captain of industry
innovator
robber baron
Fears of spies and sabotage in the US during World War I led to
restrictions on immigration
discrimination and violence toward Germans
placing limits on freedom of speech
all of the above
Living within a city?
Rural
Urban
Metropolitan
Aerial
What was a tenement?
Hotel
Mansion
House
Cheap Apartment
These laws allowed African Americans and whites to be separate in public?
Jim Bob Rules
Mike Smith Laws
John White Rules
Jim Crow Laws
This case stated that separate but equal was constitutional?
Brown vs. Board of Education
Scott vs. Sandford
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Roe vs. Wade
Who was the US President during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
George Bush
Bill Clinton
The world organization was formed following WWI in hopes of preventing future wars?
United Nations
NAFTA
League of Nations
European League
President Wilson's ideas for ending WWI would called
European Resolution
Great Ideas
Fourteen Points
Ideas to end WWI
When a county focuses only on what is happening within their country and stays out of global conflict
Isolationism
Militarism
Socialism
Fascism
Rising prices are also known as ?
Inflation
Depreciation
Reduction
Diminishing
The banning of alcohol was established in the United States with the passing of what Amendment?
16th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
21st Amendment
People who illegally made or sold alcohol during Prohibition were known as ?
Mobsters
Moonshiners
Brewers
Bootleggers
What Amendment repealed Prohibition?
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
21st Amendment
The crash of the stock market marks the beginning of ?
WWII
Great Depression
WWI
Dust Bowl
Breadlines were a place people could get free ?
Shoes
Clothing
Money
Food
Makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks were known as ?
Hoovervilles
Hooverlands
Hooverprops
Hoovershacks
Storms in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado that had 100 mph winds and reached 8,000 feet in height
Dust Bowl
Tornado Alley
Storm Chaser
Windy Region
WWI veterans which protested in Washington DC hoping for money they were to get in 1945 ?
Free Army
Bonus Army
Veteran Army
Extra Army
Programs and legislation which was enacted once FDR was elected President was known as ?
New Project
New Ideas
New Promise
New Deal
Dictator of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party?
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
This occurred on December 7, 1941, a day which will live in infamy
D-Day
V-E Day
V-J Day
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Patrick Henry and many Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution because...?
The states would give too much power to the Federal government
The Federal government would give too much power to the states
He was the main author of the Articles of Confederation
He wanted the U.S. to be part of England again
Which law created an orderly procedure for adding a new state to the union?
Northwest Ordinance
Land Ordinance
Territories Ordinance
Ohio River Valley Ordinance