chapter 21

Question 1

wright brothers 1st flight

Answer 1

1903

Question 2

Ford model t

Answer 2

1908

Question 3

sinking of titanic

Answer 3

1912

Question 4

panamal canal done

Answer 4

1914

Question 5

perfected the first American automobile

Answer 5

Henry Ford

Question 6

Henry Ford was known for the _______ to mass produce cars

Answer 6

assembly line

Question 7

1st successful airplane flight in kitty hawk NC, 1903

Answer 7

Orville and Wilbur wright

Question 8

invented the wireless telegraph in 1896

Answer 8

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 9

largest luxury ocean liner of the time; struck by an iceberg and sunk in 1912

Answer 9

titanic

Question 10

what spurred industry in the early 1900s

Answer 10

electricity and the internal combustion

Question 11

applies to machines that operate and regulate themselves

Answer 11

automation

Question 12

who suddenly became president after mckinleys assassination

Answer 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 13

youngest man to become president

Answer 13

Theodore roosevelt

Question 14

fighting bob, because of his fight for good government

Answer 14

Robert la follette

Question 15

what era is considered to have begun with Roosevelt’s presidency

Answer 15

the progressive era

Question 16

most important businesses broken up by the supreme court were standard oil co. and the American Tobacco co.

Answer 16

know it

Question 17

facilitated antitrust cases in federal court

Answer 17

expedition act

Question 18

Roosevelt was known as the ____________ for breaking up large trusts that he believed were harmful to Americans

Answer 18

trust buster

Question 19

laws that regulated businesses during Roosevelt’s admin

Answer 19

dept. of commerce and labor

Question 20

went on strike for shorter work days and increase in pay

Answer 20

United mine workers

Question 21

caused by a sharp drop in stock prices on wall street during Roosevelt’s admin

Answer 21

panic of 1902

Question 22

wrote shame of the cities to condemn corrupt city politics

Answer 22

Lincoln Steffens

Question 23

history of standard oil companies attacking practices followed by big businesses

Answer 23

ida tarbell

Question 24

author of the jungle, exposing the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry

Answer 24

Upton Sinclair

Question 25

granted the power to inspect shipped meat

Answer 25

meat inspection act

Question 26

Congress passed the _________ as a result to prevent the manufacture and sale of contaminated food and drugs

Answer 26

pure food and drugs act

Question 27

journalists who focused on all the problems and issues in society

Answer 27

muckrakers

Question 28

what did Theodore Roosevelt work to promote because of his love for the outdoors

Answer 28

conservation

Question 29

who assisted roosevelt in promoting conservation

Answer 29

Gifford pinchot

Question 30

roosevelt added about 150 mil. acres to the ___________

Answer 30

national forest reserve

Question 31

granted the US the right to build and police a canal through central America

Answer 31

hay pauncefote treaty

Question 32

30miles wide site for the route of the Panama canal

Answer 32

isthmus of panama

Question 33

what was the other option considered for a canal route

Answer 33

Nicaragua

Question 34

roosevelt granted the ________ diplomatic recognition

Answer 34

republic of panama

Question 35

granted a 10mile wide zone thru Panama

Answer 35

hay bunau varilla treaty

Question 36

appointed chief sanitary officer in the Panama canal zone

Answer 36

William gorgas

Question 37

army engineer who was in chare of the Panama canal

Answer 37

George Washington goethals

Question 38

Panama canal opened for use

Answer 38

1914

Question 39

what was Roosevelt's foreign policy

Answer 39

speak softly and carry a big stick

Question 40

America interviewed in financial issues in _____________

Answer 40

venezuela and Dominican Republic

Question 41

expanded interpretation of the Monroe doctrine

Answer 41

Roosevelt corollary

Question 42

large areas of china's coast whose economic affairs and foreign trade were controlled by other world powers

Answer 42

spheres of influence

Question 43

Roosevelt asked European powers to not use ____ as a colony

Answer 43

china

Question 44

forbade europe or interfere with the rights of Asia

Answer 44

open door policy

Question 45

anti western uprising in china causing America to send troops to protect their citizens

Answer 45

boxer rebellion

Question 46

japan declared war on Russia for expanding into Korea and Manchuria and Japan won

Answer 46

russo-japanese war

Question 47

Roosevelt won the ___________ for negotiating a peace treaty between russia and Japan (1905)

Answer 47

nobel peace treaty

Question 48

japanese students in San francisco school system was being discriminated against

Answer 48

gentlemen's agreement

Question 49

Japanese govt. agreed to withhold passports from Japanese laborers seeking to come to the US

Answer 49

gentlemen's agreement

Question 50

Roosevelt sent a new naval fleet around the world to show America's military might

Answer 50

great white fleet

Question 51

Roosevelt chose not to run for a third term, he supported whom to be next president

Answer 51

william Howard Taft

Question 52

who was the largest president ever to serve

Answer 52

William Howard Taft

Question 53

what two new states were admitted to the Union in 1912

Answer 53

new Mexico and Arizona

Question 54

strengthened the power of the ICC

Answer 54

mann-elkins act

Question 55

declaration by supreme court that they would only prosecute trusts that used "unreasonable business practices"

Answer 55

rule of reason

Question 56

making allies through finances and trade instead of threats or force

Answer 56

dollar diplomacy

Question 57

the republican party would split into the conservative and ____________ party

Answer 57

progressive

Question 58

_____ led progressive party _____ led conservative party

Answer 58

roosevelt taft

Question 59

progressives split the republican vote allowing democrat _______ to win

Answer 59

Woodrow Wilson

Question 60

who was the only man in history to serve 1st as president and then as chief justice of the US

Answer 60

Taft

Question 61

1st major tariff revision since the civil war; one of the most significant tariff acts in American history

Answer 61

underwood-simmons act

Question 62

created the federal income tax in 1913

Answer 62

16th amendment

Question 63

divided the nation into 12 banking districts with a ______ in each district

Answer 63

federal reserve bank

Question 64

% of deposits that member banks are required to hold on reserve

Answer 64

reserve requirements

Question 65

rate of interest that they charge member banks that borrow money from fed. res. banks

Answer 65

discount rates

Question 66

investigated businesses engaged in interstate commerce to detect unfair trade practices

Answer 66

federal trade commission

Question 67

declared certain business practices illegal

Answer 67

Clayton antitrust act

Question 68

same men serving on the board of directors for several different companies

Answer 68

interlocking directorate

Question 69

a corporation whose business held stock in other corporations

Answer 69

holding company

Question 70

the US paid ________ 3milion for a perpetual option to build a canal through their land

Answer 70

Nicaragua

Question 71

the US purchased the _________ in 1920 for 25million

Answer 71

danish west indies

Question 72

they were used as a naval base to protect the Panama canal

Answer 72

virgin islands

Question 73

Mexico's dictator __________ was threatening American businesses in Mexico

Answer 73

victoriano huerta

Question 74

huerta fled Mexico after ________ took control of the government

Answer 74

venustiano Carranza

Question 75

carranza's former ally ______________ attacked American civilians in Texas

Answer 75

Pancho villa

Question 76

who was sent to capture pancho villa

Answer 76

John j Pershing

Question 77

one of the most powerful positions of the federal govt.

Answer 77

speaker of the house

Question 78

income tax

Answer 78

16th amendment

Question 79

changed the method of electing senators

Answer 79

17th amendment

Question 80

national prohibition of alcohol

Answer 80

18th amendment

Question 81

woman's right to vote

Answer 81

19th amendment

Question 82

a % of voters who can vote to pass a law without waiting for the legislature

Answer 82

initiative

Question 83

a proposed law is referred to the voters

Answer 83

referendum

Question 84

an official may be removed from office before his term expired

Answer 84

recall

Question 85

registered voters decide by ballot which candidate will run against the opposing party candidate

Answer 85

primary election