US History STAAR EOC 11th Grade Flashcards

Based on steel, railroads, electricity, and oil-based products.

An American inventor known for developing the telephone.

<p>Inventing the electric light bulb.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A device that converts sound into electrical signals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An economic system where people operate businesses with little government interference.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No government intervention in business.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A business owned by many investors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process for making steel more efficiently, patented in 1856.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Accepting the risk of starting and running a business.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A market with many buyers but only one seller.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A businessman who controlled all phases of steel production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creator of the Standard Oil Company, known for forming monopolies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A negative term for business leaders who acquired wealth through unethical means.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A business leader who has a positive impact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Giving money to help the poor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in cities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Coming to live permanently in a foreign country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Push factors drive people away, pull factors draw them to new locations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>U.S. citizens who opposed immigration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Areas where immigrants lived due to cultural similarities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The practice of children working in various sectors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organization of workers aimed at improving conditions and wages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When workers refuse to work until conditions improve.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first effort to create a national union.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A peaceful protest ended in violence when a bomb was thrown at police.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A labor union created by Samuel Gompers for skilled workers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The creator of the American Federation of Labor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A labor organization for unskilled workers, formed in 1905.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The movement of people to western and mid-western states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law providing free land in the west for settlement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A railway linking the eastern and western railroad systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A flat and grassy region of western North America.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wilderness at the edge of settled areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A frenzy of immigration and gold prospecting in the Yukon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conflicts between the U.S. Army and Native American tribes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Areas of federal land set aside for American Indians.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An 1887 law giving Native American males 160 acres to farm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An immigrant receiving station opened in 1892.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A building where several families rent rooms, often with poor conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law requiring merit-based appointments to federal jobs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An 1882 law that denied Chinese laborers entry into the U.S.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A time of reform efforts in America during the early 20th century.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A lawyer and politician who advocated for free silver.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A political movement focused on addressing farmers' issues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Challenges related to agricultural production and profitability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A movement emphasizing charity and social responsibility.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of adopting American characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging subject peoples to adopt dominant cultural practices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A muckraker who exposed poor living conditions in NYC.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The founder of Hull House, providing services to immigrants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the WCTU, promoting temperance and women's rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He argued for a strong navy to protect U.S. interests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wealthy plantation owner and President of the Republic of Hawaii.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The 26th President of the United States known for progressive reforms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensationalized journalism that distorts news.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Yellow journalism, imperialism, and the explosion of the USS Maine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam became U.S. territories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A U.S. policy ensuring equal trading rights in China.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The policy of a strong nation dominating weaker countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A foreign policy linking U.S. interests with economic investment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first U.S. law to limit monopolies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law to regulate railroad and interstate businesses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Also known as the Bull Moose Party, formed by Theodore Roosevelt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Processes for increasing public participation in government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A muckraker who revealed issues in the meatpacking industry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A government agency created for land preservation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act prohibiting the sale of impure food and drugs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law establishing a system of federal banks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The power of Congress to tax income.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct election of senators by the voters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to vote to women in federal and state elections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A leader in the women's suffrage movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Supreme Court case ruling separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An advocate for immediate civil rights for African Americans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An African American journalist who published anti-lynching statistics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alliances, nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and assassination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1914-1918.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law requiring men to register for the military draft.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Combat characterized by fighting in trenches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>General of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A major Allied offensive involving 1 million American soldiers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A soldier credited with killing 25 German soldiers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Airplanes, poisonous gas, tanks, machine guns, zeppelins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A proposal by Wilson for lasting peace post-WWI.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The treaty that imposed reparations on Germany after WWI.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organization aimed at promoting international cooperation and peace.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The movement of over 300,000 African Americans to Northern cities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law making it illegal to criticize the government.</p> Signup and view all the answers