1. Passing the Alabama High School Graduation Exam in Social Studies

2. Week Seven

3. List Three Communication Inventions of the 19th Century. The Telephone  The Radio The Transatlantic Cable

4. Define Textile. Cloth  Anything Woven

5. What three Industries are Important to Birmingham, Alabama? Coal  Steel Iron

6. Define Monopoly or A Trust. Only one supplier of a good or service  No Competition

7. Who founded the Standard Oil Company? John D. Rockefeller 

8. Andrew Carnegie  Who is the founder of U. S. Steele?

9. Define Social Darwinism. The idea that only the strongest people are meant to rule 

10. What was the “Gospel of Wealth”? People with wealth had a responsibility to use it for the betterment of the poor. 

11. Horatio Alger  Who was the author of the “Rags to Riches” Story?

12. What was Horatio Alger’s philosophy of Wealth? People gain wealth through hard work and diligence--not social status. 

13.  Pertaining to the Country Define Rural.

14.  Anything pertaining to the City Define Urban.

15. In general, Americans believed that Immigrants worked for ___________________ wages.  lower

16.  Writers and Authors who exposed Corruption and Abuses of Big Business Explain Muckrakers.

17. Who wrote The Jungle. Upton Sinclair 

18. What was Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle about? Exposed the miserable working conditions and the dangerous quality of meat in Chicago meat packing plants 

19. Who wrote The History of Standard Oil? Ida Tarbell 

20. Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?  W. E. B. DuBois and an organization of black and white intellectuals. NAACP

21. Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?  A former slave, Booker T. Washington

22. What was the Tuskegee Institute? A school for Blacks which provided training in the industrial and agricultural fields 

23. A Black Scientist at Tuskegee Institute who was famous for agricultural experimentation with peanuts, soybeans and cotton.  Who was George Washington Carver?

24. Explain Plessy vs. Ferguson. Services for the two races could be separate as long as they were offered equally. 

25. What President established a National Park System? President Theodore Roosevelt 

26. What Political Party did Theodore Roosevelt found? Bull Moose Party 

27. In what War did Theodore Roosevelt fight? The Spanish-American War 

28. What was the name given to Theodore Roosevelt’s volunteers who fought in the Spanish-American War?  The Rough Riders

29. Who developed the Assembly Line?  Henry Ford

30.  For what is Henry Ford most remembered? The Assembly Line Building Cars Faster

31. Food The Buffalo provided the American Indians with _________, ________, and ____________. Clothing Shelter 

32. Name Two Inventions that helped develop the West.  The Steel Plow Barbed Wire

33. Explain “Open Range”. There were no Fences  Cows Roamed Freely Branding Determined Ownership

34.  Explain “The Grange”. A Farmer’s Union

35. Explain the 16th Amendment. Provided for an Income Tax 

36. Explain the 17th Amendment. State Legislatures no longer Elected Senators  Senators to be elected by the People

37. Custer and his men were killed at the Battle of ___________________ The Battle of Little Bighorn 

38. Mobile, Alabama is known for being _________________. A Shipping Center for Industry 