Texas 11th Grade US History EOC review UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Texas 11th Grade US History EOC
Texas 11th Grade US History EOC review
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Alexis de Tocqueville - CORRECT ANSWER- Frenchman who wrote Democracy in
America, in which he explored the uniqueness of American character and its sources ["selfinvention"]
Andrew Carnegie - CORRECT ANSWER-...
Texas 11th Grade US History EOC review
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Alexis de Tocqueville - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Frenchman who wrote Democracy in
America, in which he explored the uniqueness of American character and its sources ["self-
invention"]
Andrew Carnegie - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A Scottish-born American industrialist and
philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company
dominated the American steel industry.
John D. Rockefeller - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An American industrialist and
philanthropist, in 1870, Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he
retired in the late 1890s. Often forced rival companies to sell out by drastically lowering his
own prices. At one point he controlled 90% of the oil business. He became the world's richest
man and first U.S. dollar billionaire.
Thomas Edison - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- American inventor best known for inventing the
electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
William Jennings Bryan - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- United States lawyer and politician
who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a
Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
Upton Sinclair - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- muckraker who shocked the nation when he
published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry
in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.
Jane Addams - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House
Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of
Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom., the founder of Hull House, which
provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
, W.E.B. Dubois - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard,
encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP
in 1910
Theodore Roosevelt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1858-1919. 26th President. Leader of
Rough Riders. Increased size of Navy, "Great White Fleet". Added Roosevelt Corollary to
Monroe Doctrine. "Big Stick" policy. Received Nobel Peace Prize for mediation of end of
Russo-Japanese war. Later arbitrated split of Morocco between Germany and France.
Woodrow Wilson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ..., 28th president of the United States, known
for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton
Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of
Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S.
ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
Susan B. Anthony - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (1820-1906) An early leader of the women's
suffrage (right to vote) movement, co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in
1869.
Alfred Thayer Mahan - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- US Admiral who encouraged the US to
strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Sanford B. Dole - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1894 wealthy, plantation owner and politician
who was named President of New Republic of Hawaii. He asked US to annex Hawaii.
John J. Pershing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- an American general who led troops against
"Pancho" Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of
the longest lasting battles- 47 days in World War I. He was the commander of the American
Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.
Henry Cabot Lodge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations
Warren G. Harding - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- U. S. president who called for a return to
normalcy following WWI, his administration was involved in many scandals (including the
Tea Pot Dome Scandal).
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