U.S. HISTORY HIGH SCHOOL EOC Exam
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monopoly - ANSWER A market in which there are many buyers but only
one seller.
Taft-Hartley Act - ANSWER 1. outlawed "closed shops and required union
leaders to sign loyalty oath 2. required 80 day cooling off period before strike
unions - ANSWER An association of workers, formed to bargain for better
working conditions and higher wages.
Mexican-American War - ANSWER (1846-1848) The war between the United
States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican
territory.
flapper - ANSWER Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a
radical fashion
,Roaring Twenties - ANSWER the decade of the 1920's which got this
nickname because of the times prosperity and excitement
urbanization - ANSWER An increase in the percentage and in the number
of people living in urban settlements.
United Nations - ANSWER An international organization formed after
WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
League of Nations - ANSWER A world organization established in 1920 to
promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by
President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League.
Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.
Wilmot Priviso - ANSWER 1846 - stated that no territory gained from
Mexico would allow slavery. Never became a federal law, but was endorsed by most
of the legislatures of the free states Symbolized the issue of slavery in the
territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act - ANSWER 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as
states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or
slave state through popular sovereignty.
Election of 1860 - ANSWER Presidential Election that ended with Abraham
Lincoln as President, the Southern states began to secede forming the Confederate
States of America with Jefferson Davis as their President.
Missouri Compromise - ANSWER Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a
slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of
latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
, Bleeding Kansas - ANSWER A sequence of violent events involving
abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska
Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South,
making civil war imminent.
John Brown's Raid - ANSWER 1859. Harpers Ferry - attempt by white
abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing US Arsenal at
Harpers Ferry in Virginia. defeated by detachment of US marines led by Robert E.
Lee. Within 36 hours most of Browns men were either killed or captured.
Gilded Age - ANSWER ..., A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain
to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the
ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the
U.S. and the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the
time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the
government.
Progressive Era - ANSWER Period of reform from 1890s-1920s. Opposed
waste and corruption while focusing on the general rights of the individual.
Pushed for social justice, general equality, and public safety. Significant in this
movement included trust-busting, Sherman Anti-trust Act, President Theodore
Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat
Inspection Act of 1906.`
Jane Addams - ANSWER 1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House
Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president
of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Jacob Riis - ANSWER A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who
pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where
immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in
1890.
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Update 2025 top rate A+
monopoly - ANSWER A market in which there are many buyers but only
one seller.
Taft-Hartley Act - ANSWER 1. outlawed "closed shops and required union
leaders to sign loyalty oath 2. required 80 day cooling off period before strike
unions - ANSWER An association of workers, formed to bargain for better
working conditions and higher wages.
Mexican-American War - ANSWER (1846-1848) The war between the United
States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican
territory.
flapper - ANSWER Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a
radical fashion
,Roaring Twenties - ANSWER the decade of the 1920's which got this
nickname because of the times prosperity and excitement
urbanization - ANSWER An increase in the percentage and in the number
of people living in urban settlements.
United Nations - ANSWER An international organization formed after
WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
League of Nations - ANSWER A world organization established in 1920 to
promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by
President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League.
Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.
Wilmot Priviso - ANSWER 1846 - stated that no territory gained from
Mexico would allow slavery. Never became a federal law, but was endorsed by most
of the legislatures of the free states Symbolized the issue of slavery in the
territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act - ANSWER 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as
states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or
slave state through popular sovereignty.
Election of 1860 - ANSWER Presidential Election that ended with Abraham
Lincoln as President, the Southern states began to secede forming the Confederate
States of America with Jefferson Davis as their President.
Missouri Compromise - ANSWER Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a
slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of
latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
, Bleeding Kansas - ANSWER A sequence of violent events involving
abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska
Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South,
making civil war imminent.
John Brown's Raid - ANSWER 1859. Harpers Ferry - attempt by white
abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing US Arsenal at
Harpers Ferry in Virginia. defeated by detachment of US marines led by Robert E.
Lee. Within 36 hours most of Browns men were either killed or captured.
Gilded Age - ANSWER ..., A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain
to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the
ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the
U.S. and the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the
time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the
government.
Progressive Era - ANSWER Period of reform from 1890s-1920s. Opposed
waste and corruption while focusing on the general rights of the individual.
Pushed for social justice, general equality, and public safety. Significant in this
movement included trust-busting, Sherman Anti-trust Act, President Theodore
Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat
Inspection Act of 1906.`
Jane Addams - ANSWER 1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House
Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president
of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Jacob Riis - ANSWER A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who
pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where
immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in
1890.
