Terms Review VII

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Terms Review VII

• Expansion and Industrialization

2
What law abolished Native American tribes and
gave each family 160 acres to farm?

• Dawes Act

3
Who was the owner of the steel monopoly? He also
believed wealthy people needed to make society
better.

• Andrew Carnegie

4
Who was the owner of Standard Oil Company?

• John D. Rockefeller

5
This term describes business owners who acquired
monopolies through exploitation and ruthlessness.

• Robber Barons

6
What was the social movement which championed the
causes of the oppressed in society?

• Progressive Movement

7
What amendment gave Congress the power to collect
taxes on businesses and individuals?

• 16th Amendment

8
What amendment allowed a states residents, not
the state legislatures, to elect senators?

• 17th Amendment

9
What amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 19th Amendment

10
What amendment prohibited the making, selling, or
transporting of alcoholic beverages?

• 18th Amendment

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What term refers to the separation of the races?

• Segregation

12
This organization was devoted to ending
segregation, discrimination, and ensuring equal
economic and political opportunities for blacks?

• NAACP

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What does NAACP stand for?

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People

14
What term refers to the flight of blacks from
racial persecutions in the South to cities of the
North and the West?

• Black Exodus

15
What act, passed in 1924, significantly reduced
the number of immigrants from Eastern and
Southern Europe? It also prohibited immigration
from Asia.

• National Origins Act

16
What term refers to a farming cooperative in
which farmers pool their resources in the
purchasing and selling of farm machinery and
products?

• The Grange

17
This is the belief that only the strongest
businesses, people, or nations deserve to survive.

• Social Darwinism

18
Who was the writer of childrens books which
idealized gaining wealth through hard work?

• Horatio Alger

19
This was Andrew Carnegies idea that people with
wealth had a responsibility to use it to help the
poor.

• Gospel of Wealth

20
This term refers to when workers refuse to work
until a set of conditions are met?

• Strike

21
Who was president from 1901-1909? He initiated
progressive reforms in the fields of nature
conservation and business.

• Theodore Roosevelt

22
What was the title of Upton Sinclairs book
exposing the bad working conditions and dangerous
food quality in the meat processing industry?

• The Jungle

23
What cable was laid in 1866 that relayed messages
from Europe to the United States and vice versa
using the telegraph?

• Transatlantic Cable

24
Who was the founder of Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama? He accepted segregation but pushed for
equal economic opportunities for blacks.

• Booker T. Washington

25
Who was the student of Booker T. Washington who
gained fame for his research with peanuts,
soybeans, and cotton?

• George Washington Carver

26
What group of black intellectuals outlined an
agenda for black progress that was adopted by the
NAACP?

• The Niagara Movement

27
What Supreme Court decision allowed segregated
facilities for blacks and whites?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

28
What act, passed in 1882, prohibited Chinese from
legally immigrating to the United States?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

29
What term is used to describe when one company is
the only supplier of a particular good or service?

• Monopoly

30
What term refers to parcels of land set aside by
the federal government for the Native Americans?

• Reservation

31
What was the title of the book written by Ida
Tarbell exposing the abuses of the Standard Oil
Company?

• History of the Standard Oil Company

32
This man was a reformer and champion of
coeducational, nonsectarian public education.

• Horace Mann

33
This movement was designed to address the
concerns of farmers and other political reformers.

• Populist Movement

34
What term was used to describe intellectuals who
wrote stories concerning the abuses of big
businesses on workers and on consumers?

• Muckrakers

35
What President, elected in 1912, designed a
reform program that ensured competition in the
marketplace while keeping business out of the
governments control?

• Woodrow Wilson

36
What act passed in 1914 ensured that businesses
could not use anti-trust laws to break up labor
unions?

• Clayton Act

37
What federal agency was established in 1914 to
investigate companies for unfair business
practices?

• Federal Trade Commission

38
This school was established by Booker T.
Washington. It was a school for blacks that
provided training in the industrial and
agricultural fields.

• Tuskegee Institute

39
Booker T. Washingtons speech at the Atlanta
Exposition in 1895 that explained his philosophy
of maintaining social separation of the races.

• Atlanta Compromise

40
Who was the black intellectual who opposed Booker
T. Washingtons acceptance of segregation, a
founder of the NAACP and editor of its magazine,
The Crisis?

• W.E.B. Dubois

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An author (muckraker) who exposed the abuses of
the Standard Oil Company in her book The History
of the Standard Oil Company.

• Ida Tarbell