History of the United States (1964–1980) Flashcards

These are for Blinn Colleges Final in history 1302 Wright's class.

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Cards In This Set

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The time period after the American Civil war was known as?
"Reconstruction Era"
What formed the first "big business" and in all the late nineteenth century employed more people than the federal government?
The railroad industry
Who decided all clocks should be set to a standard time?
The largest railroad corporations
In the late nineteenth century who employed more workers than the federal government?
Railroad companies
Who became a rich industrialist and made his fortune in the steel business
Andrew Carnegie
____ helped create the Socialist Party, whos doctrine maintained that the major American businesses should be owned by the public and operated by the national government, as opposed to the capitalist system in which the wealth is created and distributed by private companies
Eugene V. Debs
A poor farmer in the 1890's would have been most likely to support the?
Populist party
____called the late nineteenth century the?
Mark Twain...."gilded age"
The creation of what led to the drop of manufactured goods prices?
Monopolies
What country was the primary theater of operation in the Spanish-American war of 1898?
Cuba
From 1899-1902 the U.S. fought a guerrilla war against who? Americans became victorious after a bloody struggle
Philippians
What was the name of the early 20th century middle class reform?
"Progressivism"
Restrictions on immigration in the early 20th century were mainly due to social Darwinist fears that immigrants would undermine American?
"racial purity"
What was the 16th amendment
Gave the federal government the power to tax individual incomes
Who was president during WW I?
Woodrow Wilson