Passing the Alabama High School Graduation Exam in Social Studies.

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