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Into how many time zones is the continental United States divided? In 1870, how many railroads reached the West Coast? Which railway connected Butte and Minneapolis?
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The canal's length is approximately? What does a ship must pass through before entering Gatun Lake from the Caribbean Sea? How many miles would a ship traveling from San francisco to New York city need to travel nefore the canal was built?
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Identify which countries were the Allied powers. Which Axis-controlled country did the Allies invade first? Which city marked the farthest advance of Axis powers into the Soviet Union?
• The exodusters were former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains.
• The railroad was most responsible for bringing an end to the era of the wide-open western frontier.
• The election of William McKinley marked the collapse of Populism.
• The massacre at Wounded Knee marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians.
• Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
• Thomas Alva Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants.
• Alexander Graham Bell opened the way for worldwide communications with invention of the telephone.
• Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits.
• John D. Rockefeller created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company.
• The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called Angel Island.
• Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by social reformers.
• The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called graft.
• Tammany Hall was the name of a New York City political machine.
• An example of patronage would be appointing a friend to a political position.
• The Pendleton Civil Service Act required applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.
• Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of the elevator and a steel framework.
• Jim Crow laws were laws that separated the races.
• In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public facilities was legal.
• Progressivism was the reform movement that sought to return control of the government to the people.
• Upton Sinclair was the muckraking journalist who exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry.
• Square Deal was the term used to describe the progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt.
• Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the woman suffrage movement.
• A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as an initiative.
• The first person to use the presidency as a "bully pulpit" was Theodore Roosevelt.
• The primary goal of the NAACP was equality among the races.
• William Randolph Hearst told the artist Frederic Remington, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war".
• Puerto Rico's residents became citizens of the United States in 1917.
• Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to war between Russia and Japan.
• The Roosevelt Corollary builds on the Monroe Doctrine.
• The assassination that triggered World War I occurred in Bosnia.
• The United States used groups of guarded ships to overcome the threat of German U-boats.
• Airplanes and tanks, weapons of mechanized warfare, were introduced in World War I.
• Allied leaders rejected Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" peace plan.
• Senators gave the reason that it would drag the United States into European conflicts for opposing U.S. membership in the League of Nations.
• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of, robbery and murder.
• During the 1920s, union membership dropped considerably.
• The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was for carrying mail.
• The main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920s was the automobile.
• To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known as speakeasies.
• The Harlem Renaissance refers to a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.
• John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of evolution.
• "Double standard" refers to stricter social and moral standards for women than for men in the 1920s.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the Jazz Age.
• Jazz music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as Louis Armstrong.
• After the stock market crash of 1929, President Hoover tried to help the economy by asking businesses not to lay off employees.
• Buying a stock on margin means borrowing money to help pay for the stock.
• Hobo(es) was the name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work during the depression.
• Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president in 1932, and FDR won.
• To regulate the stock market was a goal of FDR's New Deal.
• The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was most directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work.
• Eleanor Roosevelt was an important advisor on domestic policy in the Roosevelt administration.
• John Steinbeck wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about the grim lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression.
• Among New Deal policies, the Social Security Act had the biggest long-term impact on the American economy.
• Woody Guthrie used music to express the hardships of American life during the Depression.
• Stalin transformed the Soviet Union from a rural nation into an industrial power during the 1930s.
• In following a policy of appeasement in the 1930s, Britain and France submitted to Hitler's demands.
• Genocide, as practiced by the Nazis is the deliberate extermination of a specific group of people.
• Jews suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust in WWII.
• The actions of Japan finally forced the United States to enter the war in December 1941 (Pearl Harbor).
• The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to stop the spread of communism.
• The Soviet Union set up the Berlin blockade in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany. The USA responded with the Berlin airlift.
• Joe McCarthy and HUAC are best known for investigating communism in the film industry.
• Mao Zedong was the leader of the Communists in China, fighting against our Nationalist ally, Chiang Kai-shek.
• In the early 1950s General Douglas MacArthur commanded U.S. forces in Korea.
• The South Koreans appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict.
• When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the United States responded by intensifying efforts to develop a hydrogen bomb.
• One of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was low-interest loans.
• A conglomerate is a large corporation that owns a number of smaller companies.
• The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in the suburbs.
• John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for President in 1960, was a senator from Massachusetts.
• The Peace Corps, a program of volunteer assistance to developing nations, was proposed by Kennedy and succeeded.
• After investigating the assassination of JFK, the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
• The Immigration Act of 1965 ended quotas based on nationality.
• Medicare, a federal program established for Americans age 65 and over, was intended to provide health insurance.
• The "separate but equal" doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
• The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination in selling or renting a home.
• Martin Luther King, Jr., was a founder and the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• The first organized movement by African Americans to fight segregation was the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.
• One legacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years is affirmative action programs.
• Containing the spread of communism was the United States' main goal in Vietnam.
• The Ho Chi Minh Trail enabled North Vietnam to send troops to South Vietnam.
• The main purpose of the War Powers Act was to restrict the power of the president.
• César Chávez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American farm workers.
• The demonstrations organized by the American Indian Movement designed to actively confront the federal government.
• Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique inspired women to question their lives.
• Nixon's visit to China in 1972 to begin normalizing relations was a reversal of previous American policy established in 1949.
• In the event known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate break-in.
• The U.S. government established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce pollution standards.
• President Carter's foreign policy was marked by a commitment to human rights.
• The New Right played a key role in helping Ronald Reagan become president in 1980.
• During Reagan's presidency, federal spending increased most for defense and the military.
• Presidents Reagan and Bush were most successful in meeting their goal of making the Supreme Court more conservative.
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