passing the alabama high school graduation exam in social studies
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Passing the Alabama High
School Graduation Exam in Social Studies
Week Seven
List Three Communication Inventions of the 19th
Century.The Telephone
The Radio
The Transatlantic Cable
Define Textile.
Cloth
Anything Woven
What three Industries are Important to
Birmingham, Alabama?Coal
SteelIron
Define Monopoly or A Trust.
Only one supplier of a good or service
No Competition
Who founded the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Who is the founder of U. S. Steele?
Define Social Darwinism.
The idea that only the strongest people are
meant to rule
What was the “Gospel of Wealth”?
People with wealth had a responsibility to use it
for the betterment of the poor.
Horatio Alger
Who was the author of the “Rags to Riches”
Story?
What was Horatio Alger’s philosophy of
Wealth?People gain wealth
through hard work and diligence--not social
status.
Pertaining to the Country
Define Rural.
Anything pertaining to the City
Define Urban.
In general, Americans believed that
Immigrants worked for
___________________ wages. lower
Writers and Authors who exposed Corruption and Abuses of Big Business
Explain Muckrakers.
Who wrote The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
What was Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle about?
Exposed the miserable working conditions and the dangerous quality of
meat in Chicago meat packing plants
Who wrote The History of Standard
Oil?
Ida Tarbell
Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
W. E. B. DuBois and an organization of black and
white intellectuals.
NAACP
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama?
A former slave, Booker T. Washington
What was the Tuskegee Institute?A school for Blacks
which provided training in the industrial and
agricultural fields
A Black Scientist at Tuskegee Institute who was famous for agricultural experimentation with peanuts, soybeans and
cotton.
Who was George Washington Carver?
Explain Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Services for the two races could be separate
as long as they were offered equally.
What President established a National
Park System?
President Theodore Roosevelt
What Political Party did Theodore
Roosevelt found?
Bull Moose Party
In what War did Theodore Roosevelt
fight?
The Spanish-American War
What was the name given to Theodore
Roosevelt’s volunteers who fought in the
Spanish-American War?
The Rough Riders
Who developed the Assembly Line?
Henry Ford
For what is Henry Ford most remembered?
The Assembly Line
Building Cars Faster
Food
The Buffalo provided the American Indians with
_________, ________, and ____________.
ClothingShelter
Name Two Inventions that helped develop the
West.
The Steel Plow
Barbed Wire
Explain “Open Range”.
There were no Fences
Cows Roamed FreelyBranding Determined
Ownership
Explain “The Grange”.
A Farmer’s Union
Explain the 16th Amendment.
Provided for an Income Tax
Explain the 17th Amendment.
State Legislatures no longer Elected Senators
Senators to be elected by
the People
Custer and his men were killed at the Battle of
___________________
The Battle of Little Bighorn
Mobile, Alabama is known for being
_________________.
A Shipping Center for Industry
