US History Final Exam

leader of the Sioux tribe who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn

Leader of the Lakota’s who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn

The first man to make a major attempt at industrial unionism

Scottish immigrant who began steel production

Founded the Standard Oil Trust in 1882

20^th president, Republican, assassinated by a disgruntled job seeker

Led the effort to give the vote to women

Led the Tweed Ring, a group of corrupt Democratic politicians in NYC during the ‘60s and ‘70s

A cartoonist who drew political cartoons against Boss Tweed

Battle on December 29, 1890 in which cavalry killed 250 Sioux Indians but only 25 whites were killed.

Labor demonstration in Chicago which ended violence and which resulted in the Labor Movement being set back

Industrial Workers of the World

Terrible fire which led to the deaths of 146 workers and highlighted the poor working conditions endured by employers

Multi–family dwellings where poor people lived

Democratic political machine in NYC that provided services to the general population in exchange for votes

Became president upon the assassination of William McKinley

Democratic candidate for President in 1912 election, won with 42% of popular vote

Pioneered the production of an affordable automobile, the Model T  

Founded the Tuskegee Institute

“Mark Twain”; wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Policy which allowed the major countries of the world to compete in China on equal terms

Group in China which attempted to stop what they saw as a foreign takeover of their country  

 journalists who exposed abuse and corruption in American society

Woodrow Wilson proposed this plan that included the League of Nations, freedom of the seas, no secret treaties, self-determination, and arms reduction; it was not accepted by Europe (colonies), it was hard to enforce, it had high standards, and Isolationists (US) did not want the US to become too involved in world affairs

Agreement which ended WWI

Prohibited the sale, production and consumption of alcohol

Gave women the right to vote

 the summer of 1919 when a wave of strikes and riots swept over the country  

Battle over whether a teacher was allowed to teach evolution in Tennessee

Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson

The first Catholic to be nominated by a major political party to run for President

A collection of reforms brought about by FDR’s New Deal

Hitler’s girlfriend

June of 1942 when the US forces destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers and turned control of the Pacific in favor of the Allied Forces  

A member of the Big Three (Prime Minister of England)

A member of the Big Three from Italy

The US provided weapons to countries which were fighting the spread of Nazism

Where the first atomic bomb was dropped (Japan)

Took over presidency after FDR

Senator who led a witch hunt for communists in the US government

 leader of the communist forces in China

African American civil rights leader who worked for integration in nonviolent ways; won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964  

JFK’s brother – was shot but not killed – ran for presidency in 1968

Youngest president; stimulated the economy and invested funds in NASA program

Led a communist revolution in Cuba

War on poverty; president upon JFK’s assassination

Elected president in 1968 and was impeached

 metaphorical divide between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe

Created a uniform civilian community

Prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin  

President Richard Nixon’s plan for gradually withdrawing American troops from Vietnam and letting the Vietnamese do most of the fighting

Unsuccessful attempt by the US government and Cuban refugees to overthrow the communist government in Cuba  

The first person to walk on the moon

Found out he was to become president on the day Richard Nixon resigned; the first person to occupy the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency without being elected to either office

Used his outsider status in Washington to his advantage when he said: “I have been accused of being an outsider.  I plead guilty.  Unfortunately, the cast majority of Americans are also outsiders.”

The Shiite Muslim religious leader who was living in exile in France that began flooding Iran with cassette tapes calling on the people to revolt during the Iranian Revolution; in January 1979 he returned to Iran in triumph and promptly set up a pure theocracy

The most innovative television program of the 1970s that aired racist and sexist behaviors and issues  

The economic policies of President Reagan based largely on supply-side economics, which advocates large tax cuts to increase private investments, which in turn will increase the nation’s supply of goods and services  

President Reagan’s plan to create a shield around the US that missiles could not penetrate.

The first woman to sit on the Supreme Court

A Nicaraguan group that overthrew President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979

A Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States

Held a variety of political positions prior to his presidency, including Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan (1981 – 1989) and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) under Gerald R. Ford

A tanker that gained widespread infamy after the March 24, 1989 oil spill in which the tanker, captained by Joseph Hazelwood and bound for Long Beach, CA, hit Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil  

Policies that take race, ethnicity, or gender into consideration in an attempt to promote equal opportunity  

A former general and the military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989

President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003

Father of scientific management

Papers released to the press proving the Vietnam war was unwinnable

Robbers hired to rob the Watergate Hotel

Religious group that sought to bring religion back to politics

Soviet Union policy of openness

Leader of the Soviet Union who put in the Glasnost Policy

Black preacher that ran for President

First Iraq (Gulf) War:  Hussein was pushed back.