United States History  3rd Quarter Review Sheet  

Hay-Banau-Varilla Treaty     this granted the US a 10 mile wide building zone in the Isthmus of Panama

Great White Fleet      fleet of ships sent by Roosevelt around the world

Year Panama Canal opened  1914

"Speak softly but...."    carry a big stick    symbolized Roosevelt's foreign policy

Mann-Elkins Act    this law greatly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission

Roosevelt Corollary  Pres Roosevelt's expanded foreign policy added to Monroe Doctrine

Boxer Rebellion    Chinese rebellion,  many missionaries killed

Gentleman's Agreement  President Roosevelt's peace negotiated with Japan

air brake              invented by George Westinghouse

Hatch Act            made funds available to establish agricultural experiment stations

Great Northern RR    built by James J. Hill

barbed wire   invented by Joseph Glidden

the Grange   farmer's union founded by Oliver Kelley

J.P. Morgan   America's wealthiest financier

Wealth of Nations   economics book written by Adam Smith in early 1800's

Salvation Army   founded by General William Booth

Frederic Bartholdi    designed the Statue of Liberty

Hull House    1/2 way settlement house founded by Jane Adams

Sheldon Jackson   home missionary to Alaska

Pledge of Allegiance    Francis Bellamy

Year the troops were removed from the South   1877

Yellow fever in Cuba    eliminated by Dr. Walter Reed

Year Presidents were assassinated                  McKinley  1901

Klondike state?  year gold was discovered?   Alaska   1890"s

1st Democrat President after Civil War     Grover Cleveland

James Cook      discovered the Hawaiian Islands & named the Sandwich Islands

Foraker Act       law that declared Puerto Rico an unorganized territory

Teller Resolution    statement that declared that the U.S. had no intention of ruling Cuba

Commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet   Commodore George Dewey

George W. Goethals   army engineer appointed to take charge of building the Panama Canal

Pendleton Act          law passed by Congress in 1883 classified certain federal jobs

Yellow journalism publisher    William Randolph Hearst

socialism      all economic, political and social life must be controlled by the state

17th Amendment     provided for the direct election of Senators

Federal Reserve Act         created a central banking system under the authority of the feds

Underwood-Simmons Bill          provided for a tax on personal incomes

modernism      denied many of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible

19th Amendment    guaranteed women the right to vote

National Defense Act  increased size of regular army and organized the national guard

materialism  the idea that everything can be explained in terms of  matter

President during Spanish American War  William McKinley

Pancho Villa  Mexican bandit General Pershing chased into Mexico

KDKA     first commercial radio station 

Titanic- Year?    1912

German leader during WWI    Kaiser Wilhelm II

WWI year      1914-1918

Lusitania   British luxury liner that was sunk by German U-boats in 1915

National war Labor Board    created to settle labor disputes during the war

Food Administration Director   Herbert Hoover

WWI flying Ace       Eddie Rickenbacker

Communist leader in Russia in 1917   Nikolai Lenin

11th day, 11th month, 11th hour, 1918    Armistice ending WWI

League of Nations    international organization established after WWI to maintain peace

Rutherford B. Hayes   removed the troops from the South ending Reconstruction

John L. Sullivan     a well known boxer

Joel Chandler Harris   wrote Uncle Remus tales

Currier and Ives        famous local color artists produced a pictorial history of America

William McKinley   conducted a "front porch campaign"

Mark Twain     wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

George Pullman        invented the sleeping RR car

James Garfield         Assassinated in 1881

"Boomers"               Oklahoma settlers in 1889

African American agricultural scientist  George Washington Carver

founder of the American Federation of Labor   Samuel Gompers

America's first possession outside North America     Tutuila

Cleveland's firsts      1st to be married, 1st Demo since Civil War

Ford's most famous automobile           Model T

Year of the Wright Brother's successful flight              1903

Whose Presidential administrations were progressive in nature?   Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

Whose assassination sparked WWI?               Archduke Ferdinand of Austria

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