1. Name________________________________________________Date_______________Block_________
Flashcard Test 1-70
1. made his fortune in oil________________________________________
2. made his fortune in steel_______________________________________
3. made his fortune in railroad shipping and has a University named after him in
Nashville________________________________________
4. created airbrakes for trains_____________________________________________
5. belief that government should be “hands off” or have limited
involvement__________________________________________
6. responsible for spurring American Industrial growth and creating markets for steel, coal, timber, and
other materials_____________________________-
7. when a single company takes control of an entire market_______________________________
8. idea created by Karl Marx that believed the wealth should be evenly divided in
society__________________________________________
9. president during the Civil War(ended in 1865)__________________________________
10. first president to be impeached ____________________________________________
11. term that means an extreme dislike of immigrants/ foreigners by native-born
people_________________________________
12. deal between Theodore Roosevelt and Japan that limited Japanese immigration to the United
States________________________________________________
13. the political boss of Tammany Hall in NYC________________________________________
14. president during World War I________________________________________
15. president during the Women’s Suffrage movement_________________________________
16. amendment that feed the slaves_____
17. amendment that gave freed slaves citizenship_______
18. amendment that gave freed slaves the right to vote_______
19. amendment that banned the sale and manufacturing of liquor______
20. amendment that gave women the right to vote________
2. 21. word that means the right to vote_____________________________
22. president of the U.S. during WWII (1939-45)___________________________
23. city in TN where the atomic bomb was built_________________
24. secret project developed by scientists and military officials to create the atomic bomb used during
WWII______________________________________________________-
25. Army base in TN that worked on the Manhattan project- Ft. Campbell
26. Jewish scientist from Germany that created the atomic bomb____________________________
27. delivered the speech Ain’t I a Woman- Sojourner Truth
28. delivered the speech known as the Atlanta Compromise_______________________________
29. Black separatist who created the shipping line known as the Black Star
line____________________________
30. African-American graduate from Harvard who disagreed with Booker T. Washington’s approaches to
achieving equality- W. E. B. Dubois
31. agency that helped freed slaves and other southerners immediately after the Civil War- the
Freedmen’s Bureau
32. senator that hunted for Communists in government_______________________________________
33. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis_____________
34. president that replaced FDR during WWII and was strong anti-
Communist_______________________________________
35. issued and Executive Order in 1947 to desegregate the military____________________________
36. helped pass the Federal HWY Act_________________________________________
37. Granger laws were designed to help people in this industry_________________________
38. process that took the impurities out of steel___________________________________________
39. term coined by Mark Twain meaning that things are pretty on the outside, but ugly and rotten on
the inside (refers to political corruption in 1800s)_________________________________________
40. created by Jane Addams to help immigrants__________________________________________
41. famous for taking pictures during the Gilded Age and the Great Depression_____________________
42. invented the telephone_____________________________________________________
3. 43. founder of the Standard Oil Company______________________________________
44. court case that determined that separate was indeed equal_________________________________
45. exaggerated form of reporting news_________________________________________
46. journalists that found the filth and gossip in society
47. court case that determined that separate was indeed equal- Plessy vs. Ferguson
48. author of the book the Jungle
49. launched crusade against lynching
50. launched crusade against Rockefeller
51. gave aid to wounded civil war soldiers
52. American belief that it was our duty to expand and spread democracy
53. started Mc Donald’s
54. real estate developer that built twin towers
55. started amazon-
56. president involved in Watergate scandal
57. White House staff member that testified against Nixon at Watergate hearing
58. Washington Post reporters that helped cracked the case on Watergate-
59. president that was strong conservative- increased defense spending during his “Peace through
Strength” campaign _____________________________________________
60. WWI hero from TN that won Congressional Medal of Honor
61. studio where Elvis first recorded
62. Vietnamese offensive in 1968 during the New Year holiday
63. first televised war
64. former head of Chrysler
65. Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps during this war
66. wrote the book Roots
67. name of president LBJ’s plan to end poverty in the U. S
4. 68. court case that said police must read rights to citizens who are being arrested
69. city in Alabama were 4 black girls were killed in church bombing
70. city where I have a dream speech was delivered
JFK Alex Haley Lincoln Johnson Bessemer Eisenhower Garvey
FDR 19th 18th 13th 15th
Hull House Joseph McCarthy FDR
W.E.B. Dubois Alexander Graham Bell suffrage Carnegie Rockefeller
Nativism D.C. Birmingham Ida Tarbell Ida B. Wells Ray Kroc Jeff Bezos
Lee Iaccoca Great Society Reagan Nixon Upton Sinclair
Donald Trump Johnson Vanderbilt Jacob Riis Harry S. Truman Oak Ridge
Manifest destiny Vanderbilt Gentlemen’s Agreement