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The Americans – Final Examination Chapters 13 to 33 – Review Worksheet
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?
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?
The Americans – Final Examination Chapters 13 to 33 – Review Worksheet
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?
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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.
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The Americans – Final Examination Chapters 13 to 33 – Review Worksheet
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 Kaishek.
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The Americans – Final Examination Chapters 13 to 33 – Review Worksheet
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.