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Question 1

What are the two main processing centers for immigrants?

Answer 1

Ellis island and Angel Island

Question 2

Where was Angel island located?

Answer 2

San Francisco bay, California

Question 3

Angel island was mainly used for processing _______ immigrants during the __________

Answer 3

Asian, 1910-1940

Question 4

Ellis island was mainly used for processing ______ immigrants.

Answer 4

European

Question 5

Where was Ellis island located?

Answer 5

Upper New York bay

Question 6

What is urbanization?

Answer 6

the population growth to urban areas (city areas)

Question 7

As urbanization increased, _______ increased.

Answer 7

Industrialization

Question 8

how did urban life differed from rural life in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Answer 8

Urban areas where less sanitary but provided better cultural and economic oppurtunities

Question 9

During the 1800s AA’s where most likely to move to _______.

Answer 9

Northern cities, to escape jim crow laws

Question 10

What caused the increase of urbanization ?

Answer 10

Jobs in urban areas

Question 11

what are the suburbs?

Answer 11

A place where people could live outside of the city but close enough to there job.

Question 12

Who would most likely live in the suburbs

Answer 12

Wealthier people

Question 13

Where would most immigrants live?

Answer 13

Tenement houses

Question 14

What are tenements?

Answer 14

Small, unsanitary houses, where lots of people would live

Question 15

What did transportation allow people to do?

Answer 15

Transportation allowed people to live in suburbs father away from there jobs.

Question 16

What was a main cause of the great depression?

Answer 16

The banks giving loans that they could not afford

Question 17

Banks encouraged citizens to buy goods on ______

Answer 17

credit, this was bad because the people could not afford the cost of the goods

Question 18

during the great depression the gov mad tax cuts (1920), why did these not help at all?

Answer 18

The tax cuts helped reduce wealthy peoples taxs

Question 19

What did high tarrifs do?

Answer 19

High tarrifs prevented trade with europe

Question 20

What did the high tarrifs effect do?

Answer 20

It prevented Europe from getting the money they needed to repay there debts to the us

Question 21

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 21

The Harlem renaissance was an AA cultural and artistic movement that developed in the 1920s

Question 22

Where was Harlem Renaissance mainly?

Answer 22

Harlem, New York

Question 23

What was the Great migration?

Answer 23

The Great Migration was the widespread migration of AA from rural south to urban areas in the North and West

Question 24

Who mainly moved during the Great migration?

Answer 24

African Americans

Question 25

During the great migration people moved from rural south to _________.

Answer 25

Urban North and West

Question 26

Who is Louis Armstrong?

Answer 26

Louis Armstrong is one of the most wezll known jaz artists

Question 27

Who is Billie Holiday?

Answer 27

Billie Holiday is one of Americas greatest Jazz singers

Question 28

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 28

The Monroe Doctrine was a policy in which it says the united states would not allow european countries to establish colonies or forces in North an south america

Question 29

Who came up with the Monroe doctrine?

Answer 29

President James Monroe showed it to congress

Question 30

When was the Doctrine Monroe presented to congress?

Answer 30

1823

Question 31

What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

Answer 31

This explained Roosevelt's approach to foreign policys in Latin American and the Caribbean

Question 32

What is prohibition?

Answer 32

Prohibition is when alcohol was banned

Question 33

When was Prohibition a policy?

Answer 33

1919

Question 34

What was the dust bowl?

Answer 34

The dust bowl was when a drought hit the Western and Southern plains, and strong winds blew dust everywhere.

Question 35

When was the Dust bowl?

Answer 35

1930s

Question 36

Where was the dust bowl?

Answer 36

Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado

Question 37

Cause of Dust bowl?

Answer 37

The cause of the dust bowl was a drought and over harvesting

Question 38

Explain remember the Maine?

Answer 38

This is when the warship USS Maine exploded

Question 39

When did the Uss Maine explode and sink?

Answer 39

February 15, 1898

Question 40

What did the Bessemer Process do?

Answer 40

make steel

Question 41

The U.S. and its allies needed goods, weapons, and uniforms, what did this cause?

Answer 41

It caused Roosevelt to turn ribbon factories into parachute factories

Question 42

The gov needed to keep up factories productions and ease the tax burden, this resulted in....

Answer 42

The NWLB being created to address these problems

Question 43

What did the NDRC do?

Answer 43

Improve technology in warfare

Question 44

What group gained power in the South following the Civil War?

Answer 44

carpetbaggers

Question 45

What best explains Southern whites’ reaction to the carpetbaggers?

Answer 45

carpetbaggers benefited from the Souths troubled economy

Question 46

To many white Southerners, the Reconstruction efforts of Republicans represented...

Answer 46

unwanted intrusion into their cultrue

Question 47

Which group was most strongly dedicated to preventing African Americans from exercising their civil rights during Reconstruction?

Answer 47

ku klux klan

Question 48

What term best describes the attitude many Southern whites held about the North during the Reconstruction era?

Answer 48

Distrust

Question 49

The sharecropping system was supported by....

Answer 49

laws that prevented AAs from owning land

Question 50

Reconstruction governments in the South were responsible for...

Answer 50

building a large number of schools

Question 51

What person would have best represented Booker T. Washington’s ideas about how African Americans could achieve racial equality?

Answer 51

an African American who ignored racial taunts and became a successful farmer

Question 52

What situation resulted from the Jim Crow laws that were passed after Reconstruction?

Answer 52

Racial separation of African American and white societies was reinforced.

Question 53

After Reconstruction, many southern states...

Answer 53

passed laws forbidding marriage between African Americans and whites

Question 54

What statement best describes the impact of poll taxes and literacy tests on residents of the South?

Answer 54

the policies disenfranchised most African Americans but few white citizens.

Question 55

What accurately compares Garrett Morgan and Madame C. J. Walker?

Answer 55

Though Morgan was primarily an inventor and Walker was an entrepreneur, they earned enough money through their work to support various civil rights causes.

Question 56

The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson allowed southern states to...

Answer 56

maintain separate facilities for African Americans and whites

Question 57

During the late 1800s, many African Americans moved from the South to the West or the North, where did they live?

Answer 57

African Americans moving west mainly settled in rural communities, while those moving north mainly settled in large cities.

Question 58

What was the purposeof jim crow laws?

Answer 58

to prevent African Americans from exercising basic rights

Question 59

Which African American leader worked as a journalist to investigate the practice of lynching

Answer 59

Ida B. Wells

Question 60

what did the U.S. do relating to immigration to the United States in the early 1900s?

Answer 60

The U.S. government placed barriers on immigration that made it difficult for some immigrant groups to enter.