U.S. History: Heritage of Freedom Test 9
John J. Pershing
Appointed General by President Wilson to command American troops in France during WW I
James A. Garfield
Assassinated by Charles Guiteau
Austria
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand intiated the start of WW I
A. Mitchell Palmer
Attorney General who fought Communist subversion
Central
Austria Hungary belonged to the Powers during WW I
Socialism
Belief that all economic, political, and social life must be controlled by the state
Eddie Rickenbacker
Best known American ace of WW I
Rutherford B. Hayes
Best remembered for his attempt to reform civil service
Wilhelm II
Bold leader of Germany during WW I
Oklahoma
Boomers settled the in 1889
Lusitania
British Luxury liner that was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1915
Grover Cleveland
First Democrat to be elected after the Civil War
Calvin Coolidge
First Vice President to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis
KDKA
First commercial radio station to go on the air in the US
Richard E. Byrd
Flew over the North Pole
3rd Communist International
Formed in 1919 to promote worldwide Communist revolution
Billy Sunday
Former baseball player
Sigmund Freud
Formulated psychoanalysis
Oliver Hudson Kelly
Founded the Grange
Jane Addams
Founder of the Hull House
1920
Frist radion station KDKA go on air
Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty
Granted US a 10 mile wide zone through Isthmus of Panama for the building of a canal
Entente
Great Britain belonged to the triple before WW I
George Washington Carver
Greatest contributors to American agriculture
19th Amendment
Guaranteed women the right to vote
Materialism
Idea that everything can be explained in terms of matter
W. E. B. Du Bois
Influential Black American Harvard graduate helped found the NAACP
Model T
Introduced in 1908
George Westinghouse
Introduced the air brake in 1869
George Pullman
Invented the sleeping car
William Jennings Bryan
Lawyer who won the Scopes Monkey Trial
R.A. Torrey
Led Chicago Evangelization Society of Moody Bible Institute
Carl Shurz
The German immigrant and secretary of the interior who was a strong advocate of civil service reform
George Washington Goethals
United States army officer and engineer was appointed to take charge of building Panama Canal
1914
WWI begins
J. Gresham Machen
Was a professor at Princeton who fought modernism
J. P. Morgan
Wealthy American financier
November 11, 1918
When the Germans signed and armistice with the Allies
Foraker Act
Which act did Puerto Rico became an unorganized territory
Warren G. Harding
Won the election of 1920
1903
Wright brothers first flight
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wrote The Great Gatsby
Adam Smith
Wrote Wealth of Nations
Francis Bellamy
Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
1914
Year Panama Canal opened for use
John Dewey
advocated progressive education
Grover Cleveland
Only president to serve two non-consecutive terms
Versailles
Officially ended the Great War
Lyman Stewart
"God's Oilman"
Volstead Act
18th Amendment into effect
Sacco Vanzetti Case
Case came to national prominence as a result fo the Red Scare
George Dewey
Commander of the US Pacific fleet
Vladimir Lenin
Communist revolutionary came to power in Russia in 1917
Behaviorism
Considers a person's environment responsible for his behavior
National War Labor Board
Created to settle labor disputes during WW I
Germany
Dawes Plan attempt to help through difficult economic times
Teller Amendment
Declared that the US had no intentions of ruling Cuba after she had gained independence from Spain
Herbert Hoover
Directed the Food Administration
Walter Reed
Doctor that eliminated yellow fever form Cuba
Monroe Doctrine
Doctrine did the Roosevelt Corollary expand
League of Nations
Established after WW I to maintain peace
Budget and Accounting Act
Established the General Accounting Office
Friedrich Nietzsche
Father of Atheistic Existentialism
Federal
Federal Reserve Act created a central banking system under the authority of this government
Hatch Act
Made funds available to establish agricultural experiment stations
Sheldon Jackson
Missionary to Alaska in the late 1800
Sam Jones
Moody of the South
William Randolph Hearst
Most notably known for yellow journalism
Taft
New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to the Union during this administration
Pendleton Act
Passed by Congress in 1883 classified certain federal jobs
Guglielmo Marconi
Patented the wireless telegraph
Pragmtism
Philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results
Willam Z. Foster
Planned and led the violent steelworkers strike of 1919
William Mckinley
President at the time of Spanish American War
Calvin Coolidge
President during most of the Roaring Twenties
Progressive
Presidential administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson were in this nature
William Jennings Bryan
Prosecutor at the Scopes Monkey Trial
Underwood-Simmons Act
Provided for a direct tax on personal incomes
National Defense Act
Provided for an increase in the size of the regular army
17th Amendment
Provided for the direct election of senators by voters
Kellog Briand Pact
Renounced war as a means of settling international disputes
Warren G. Harding
Republican candidate who won the presidential election of 1920
William Mckinley
Republican president 1896
Selective Service Act
Required all men from age 21 through 30 to register with their local draft board
Theodore Roosevelt
Sent the Great White Fleet on its world tour in 1907
Alaska
State was the Klondike gold rush of the 1890
Mann Elkins Act
Strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission
Japan
Theodore Roosevelt negotiated Gentleman's Agreement to this country
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison's main competitor
Russia
Treaty of Brest Litovsk made peace between Germany