Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

11th grade US History > Final Exam - Sheet1 > Flashcards

Final Exam - Sheet1 Flashcards

1
Q

-

President during the Great Depression, polio, from a wealthy family

A

FDR

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

-

Roosevelt’s wife and greatest asset. An advocate for minorities.

A

Eleanor Roosevelt

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

-

March 6 to 10 1932, closed banks in order to prevent withdraws (“runs on banks”), and in turn failures

A

Banking Holiday

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

-

Name given to FDR’s economic plan to fight the Great Depression

A

New Deal

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

-

The informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with the people to keep spirits up. It was a means of communicating with the people on how he would take on the depression.

A

Fireside Chat

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

-

A group of close advisers to FDR. These were academics, lawyers, economists, and social scientists.

A

Brain Trust

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

-

When the government spends more money than it has

A

Deficit Spending

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

-

economic policy where government would pump money into the economy in order to stimulate economic recovery

A

Pump Priming

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

-

Nickname for FDR’s New Deal programs

A

Alphabet soup

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

-

insures depositor’s money in the banks

A

FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

-

Funded artists, musicians, and bigger construction projects (Old Valley Stadium and old Phenix elementary

A

WPA, Works Progress Administration.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

-

Federal money to the state for direct help to people

A

FERA, Federal Emergency Relief Act. (called FEMA today)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

-

Policies the stock market

A

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

-

reached 25%

A

unemployment rates

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

-

eliminate competition businesses will continue to operate

A

NRA National Recovery Act,

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

-

immediate needs fulfilled; (Acronym here)

A

Relief- FERA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

-

putting people back to work; (Acronym here)

A

Recovery-WPA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

-

change the system so the market doesn’t crash again; (Acronym here)

A

Reform-FDIC

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

-

make shift homes made out of cardboard and scrap materials

A

Hoovervilles

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

-

increase size of government to deal with Great Depression

A

FDR policies

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

-

made simple inexpensive cars by using the assembly line

A

Henry Ford

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

-

baseball great

A

Babe Ruth

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

-

most notorious gangster from Chicago who was found guilty of income tax evasion

A

Al Capone

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

-

first male to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

A

Charles Lindbergh

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

-

fear of communism

A

Red Scare

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

-

Teapot Dome, Veteran’s Bureau, Daugherty Attorney General

A

Harding Scandals

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

-

give big tax breaks to the wealthy so the money can trickle down to the poor. High protective tariffs so US will buy American

A

Trickle Down Theory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

-

famous dance performed by a flapper

A

Charleston

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

-

Exploded with popularity and encouraged people to buy products

A

Advertising

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

-

illegal bars of the 1920s

A

Speakeasies

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

-

crashed when everyone sold their stock and the prices dropped. People who never played the stock market lost everything because the banks played the market with their money

A

Stock Market Crash

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

-

to buy stock by putting a small amount down and borrowing the rest

A

buying on margin

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

-

when a small amount of money is put down to buy a product and then the rest is paid off in installments with interest

A

installment buying

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

-

days of racial rioting broke out when a young black boy is drowned by whites

A

Chicago Riot of 1919

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

-

Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested, tried and executed for a robbery/murder

A

Sacco and Vanzetti

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

-

membership increased during the 1920s

A

KKK

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

-

Ford made cheap inexpensive cars affordable for the common person; assembly line

A

Automobiles

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

-

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

A

Jazz

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

-

explodes with popularity in the 1920s

A

radio

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

-

period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages was prohibited

A

Prohibition

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

-

Alliance system, Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism

A

Causes of WWI

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

-

murdered by Gavrilo Princip in Bosnia while on a good will visit

A

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

-

Total years of WWI

A

1914-1918

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
44
Q

-

Treaty that ended WWI on the Western Front

A

Treaty of Versailles

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
45
Q

-

Wilson’s plan for peace following WWI

A

Fourteen Points

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
46
Q

-

Note written by German foreign minister to Mexico promising Mexico Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if they join the war against America

A

Zimmerman Note

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
47
Q

-

Germany’s plan to avoid a two front war by taking out France quickly and then turning all their attention to Russia. Failed because of the Belgium resistance. (6 days to 18 days)

A

Schlieffen Plan

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
48
Q

-

Peace keeping organization designed to create long lasting world wide peace. # 14 of Wilson’s 14 point plan. Never ratified by the Senate so US was never a part of it.

A

League of Nations

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
49
Q

-

harsh because of trench foot, trench mouth, disease, shell shock

A

Trench Warfare Characteristics

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
50
Q

-

US wanted to return to this policy following WWI

A

Isolationism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
51
Q

-

responsible for pulling a lot of countries into WWI

A

Alliance system

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
52
Q

-

exaggerated stories designed to evoke an emotional response. Hearst and Pulitzer battled for the best story.

A

Yellow Journalism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
53
Q

-

leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War and took the Panama Canal

A

Teddy Roosevelt

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
54
Q

-

Chinese militant group that worked to get rid of foreign influence

A

Boxer Rebellion

55
Q

-

sinking of the Maine, De Lome letter

A

Causes of the Spanish American War

56
Q

-

need for new markets, need for raw materials, religious missionaries, White Man’s Burden

A

Why Imperialism

57
Q

-

George Dewey conquers and provides a foothold into China

A

Philippines

58
Q

-

corporate rebellion to overthrow the queen and set up the annexation process

A

Hawaii acquisition

59
Q

-

policy signed by Secretary of State John Hay to open trade in China

A

Open Door Policy

60
Q

-

Washington’s Farewell Address, Monroe Doctrine, Declaration of Independence

A

Documents supporting Isolationism

61
Q

-

tried to return Hawaii to the Hawaiians

A

Queen Liliuokalani

62
Q

-

Inventor of the light bulb, phonograph and motion picture

A

Edison

63
Q

-

Inventor of the telephone

A

Bell

64
Q

-

Author of the book The Jungle

A

Upton Sinclair

65
Q

-

known as the trust buster, wanted to break up monopolies

A

Teddy Roosevelt

66
Q

-

immigrants worked long hours with low pay in dangerous working conditions

A

working conditions

67
Q

-

when one company controls an entire industry; discourages competition and increases prices

A

monopoly

68
Q

-

hands off policy by the government used during this era

A

laissez-faire

69
Q

-

survival of the fittest in social settings or society

A

Social Darwinism

70
Q

-

tycoons gave charitable donations to build things such as Carnegie Hall and Rockefeller Center

A

philanthropy

71
Q

-

location where over 17 million European immigrants were processed. 3rd class passengers endured medical tests (trachoma) and mental testing (branded with chalk)

A

Ellis Island

72
Q

-

prohibition, to prohibit the sale, consumption and distribution of alcohol

A

18th Amendment

73
Q

-

women’s right to vote

A

19th Amendment

74
Q

-

stopped the sale of contaminated foods and called for truth in labeling

A

Pure Food and Drug Act

75
Q

-

required strict cleanliness for meat packers and began federal meat inspections

A

Meat Inspection Act

76
Q

-

natural resources, new inventions and cheap labor

A

Industrial Revolution Characteristics

77
Q

-

sewing machine, typewriter, Morse code

A

Inventions of the late 19th Century

78
Q

-

used during the Industrial Revolution to help families survive financially

A

Child Labor

79
Q

-

encouraged to acquire an unskilled labor force

A

Immigration

80
Q

-

when the people vote directly on an issue; like for a casino in their county

A

referendum

81
Q

-

when the people can vote to remove an elected official before their term is up; this happened to Gov. Davis which is how Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor

A

recall

82
Q

-

when the people initiate legislation like Megan’s law or the Amber Alert

A

initiative

83
Q

-

awarded people willing to move west 160 acres if they were willing to build a homestead and farm for 5 years

A

Homestead Act

84
Q

-

created ag based universities all over the country

A

Morrill Act

85
Q

-

to make Indians more like white people

A

Assimilation

86
Q

-

railroad that connects the country from coast to coast; met in Promontory Point, Utah

A

Transcontinental Railroad

87
Q

-

high railroad rates and low crop prices

A

Farmer struggles

88
Q

-

destroyed buffalo, reservation life, white settlement in the West

A

Indian Struggles

89
Q

-

Rabid Abolitionist who attempted to incite a slave revolt by raiding Harper’s Ferry and killed 5 pro-slavery supporters in Pottawatomie, Kansas

A

John Brown

90
Q

-

Missouri slave sued his owner for freedom because his owner took him to a free state.The court decided that Scott was property and therefore the 5th amendment applied and the government can not forbid one of their property therefore allowing slavery to be everywhere

A

Dred Scott Case

91
Q

-

President before Lincoln who did nothing when the South seceded

A

Buchanan inaction

92
Q

-

Confederate who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.

A

John Wilkes Booth

93
Q

-

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

A

Plessy v. Ferguson

94
Q

-

Years of the Civil War

A

1861-1865

95
Q

-

abolishes slavery

A

13th Amendment

96
Q

-

equal rights to blacks

A

14th Amendment

97
Q

-

Right to vote for blacks

A

15th Amendment

98
Q

-

Considered the military turning point in the war because it was the first major victory by the North in the Eastern Theater against Lee

A

Gettysburg

99
Q

-

Slave states that fought for the North because they believed it was a war about preserving the union, not slavery

A

Border States Role

100
Q

-

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

A

sharecropping

101
Q

-

When the people of a territory vote for themselves if they want to be a free state or slave state

A

popular sovereignty

102
Q

-

if your grandfather could vote prior to 1867, you could vote; designed to limit black voting

A

Grandfather Clause

103
Q

-

test required of blacks to take and pass before they could vote; designed to keep blacks from voting

A

Literacy Test

104
Q

-

frees the slaves in states of rebellion (not everywhere)

A

Emancipation Proclamation

105
Q

-

required blacks to pay a fee in order to vote

A

Poll Tax

106
Q

-

slavery, states rights, tariffs, Lincoln’s election, preservation of the Union

A

Causes of the Civil War

107
Q

-

increase a need for slave labor in order to keep up with the new machines

A

Cotton Gin Impact

108
Q

-

1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution; rights are limited by the rights of others

A

Bill of Rights

109
Q

-

In 1773, Boston rebels dumped 18,000 pounds of the East India Company’s tea into the waters of Boston harbor as a protest, because the company was not being taxed to sell tea, but the colonial tea sellers were.

A

Boston Tea Party

110
Q

-

based on population of the state

A

House of Representatives

111
Q

-

Constitution Written

A

1787

112
Q

-

American Declaration of Independence

A

1776

113
Q

-

based on equal representation (2 for each state)

A

Senate Representation

114
Q

-

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

A

Articles of Confederation

115
Q

-

Right to bear arms

A

2nd Amendment

116
Q

-

Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause

A

4th Amendment

117
Q

-

Double Jeopardy: Can’t be tried twice for the same crime; Self Incrimination: Right to remain silent; Must be paid for property if taken for public use

A

5th Amendment

118
Q

-

Guarantees the right to jury trial in civil suits involving $20.00 or more.

A

7th Amendment

119
Q

-

  • farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton’s excise tax on whiskey; the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion with 13,000 troops; showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem
A

Whiskey Rebellion

120
Q

-

1770; 5 civilians who were part of a mob killed by British soldiers; depicted as a brutal slaughter in colonial newspapers

A

Boston Massacre

121
Q

-

Branch of government that makes the laws

A

Legislative Branch

122
Q

-

Branch of government that enforces the laws

A

Executive Branch

123
Q

-

Branch of government that interprets laws

A

Judicial Branch

124
Q

-

Declaration of Independence, Louisiana Purchase, strict interpretation of the Constitution

A

Thomas Jefferson

125
Q

-

1786-1787; broke out in Massachusetts due to high taxes and heavy debts; demonstrated the need for a stronger national government

A

Shay’s Rebellion

126
Q

-

taxation, colonists not allowed to expand, Boston forced to provide for troops

A

Revolutionary War Causes

127
Q

-

landmark case establishing the principle of judicial review

A

Marbury vs. Madison

128
Q

-

no more further European colonization of the Western Hemisphere

A

Monroe Doctrine

129
Q

-

War between the US and Britain. Dolley Madison saves Washington’s portrait, the British burn the White House down and the Star Spangled Banner is written by Francis Scott Key. Treaty of Ghent ends the war.

A

War of 1812

130
Q

-

The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled more than 800 miles to the Indian Territory. More than 400 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

A

Trail of Tears

131
Q

-

created insane asylums and rights for prisoners

A

Prison and Mentally Insane reform movement

132
Q

-

fought to end slavery

A

Abolition reform movement

133
Q

-

worked for women to have the right to vote

A

Women’s reform

11th grade US History (23 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions