Passing the Alabama High School Graduation Exam in Social Studies

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