Unit 4

What political party splits over corruption?

What were pro-spoils system supporters called?

What were reform supporters called?

What act makes it so government jobs are based on actual merit rather than political favoritism (spoils system)?

What act was meant to stop trusts and monopolies (originally against labor unions)?

What political party was formed by a group of farmers?

What was their list of principles called?

What are these principles a part of? (Initiative, recall, coinage of silver, progressive income tax, 8 hour work days, restriction of immigration, and government control over railroads and telephones)

Who did populists and democrats support in the 1896 election? Who did republicans support?

What belief dictates that christians had a personal duty to improve the lives of the poor?

What is a house that allowed immigrants and the poor to receive financial, educational, medical, and recreational assistance?

Name a famous settlement house that was ran by Jane Addams

Name an important leader for women’s suffrage

Name the amendment that granted women the rights to vote by preventing voter discrimination on the basis of sex (ratified 1920)

Who led the first airplane flight?

What is Imperialism?

Why were nations motivated to imperialize?

Who wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?

What state is bought from Russia (called “Seward’s Folly”; gold and oil were discovered here)

What country does the U.S. fight with in order to help Cuba achieve their independence?

What is the proper term for exaggerated news headlines?

What American battleship was attacked by Spain at Havana, Cuba?

What amendment promised to not annex Cuba?

Who organized the Rough Riders, the first volunteer cavalry regiment?

Name the battle in which the Rough Riders and the Buffalo Soldiers attacked Spanish positions near the port of Santiago (that’s me :) )

Name the treaty that granted Cuba their independence

Who finds a solution for yellow fever?

What did the U.S. force Cuba to add to their constitution, turning them into a protectorate of the U.S.?

What group opposed war against Philippines?

Who leads an insurrection against the Americans?

Who writes a poem about the Americans and Philippines? What’s it called?

Who helped set up the Filipino government?

What is a sphere of influence?

Name the policy that wanted to keep China’s trade open to all countries

Name the rebellion that wanted to eliminate foreign influence but was shut down by imperialist powers

What treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War?

What is the name of the agreement that promised to end Asian segregation in San Francisco if Japan promised to halt emigration to U.S.?

What canal did the U.S. want access to (so they tried to come to an agreement with Colombia)?

What happens as a result of Colombia’s rejection to the offer made by the U.S.?

What was added that made sure Latin America paid off any debts owed to Europe?

What plan did Taft make to make sure to prevent economic instability in Latin America by lending money to Latin America?

What belief did Woodrow Wilson had when it comes to the U.S. and how they should treat the world? (U.S. has religious duty to improve the world)

What word describes people that wanted to use the government to solve issues that came about due to urbanization and industrialization?

What word describes journalists who expose corruption?

Name a famous muckraker who exposed the meat packing industry through his book, The Jungle

Name a famous muckraker who wrote How the Other Half Lives, a book that focused on the conditions in tenements

Name a famous muckraker who exposed the Standard Oil company

Name a famous muckraker who exposed conditions for children who worked in the industry

Name a famous muckraker who wrote an article titled The Right to Work, which focuses on the plight of coal miners

Name a famous muckraker who went undercover to investigate conditions in mental asylums (also wrote Ten Days in a Mad-House)

What are these 4 things a part of? (Greater democracy and less corruption, efficiency, regulation of business, and social justice)

What amendment allows for direct election of senators by popular vote?

What term describes the studying of a worker’s movements to improve their performance?

What is a famous example of scientific management?

Who came up with the Wisconsin Idea to increase education, regulation in the railroad industry and a worker’s comp?

What movement was meant to improve the lives of the poor?

What set of laws made it illegal to send obscene things by mail?

What amendment passed prohibition, a ban on alcohol?

What case limited the working hours of women?

Where was an alliance of white populists and black republicans made in N.C in 1896?

What causes African Americans to mass migrate to the North? (Great Migration)

What black woman documented cases of lynching in her newspaper titled Free Speech?

Name the black man that believed in approaching racism in a non-confrontational way

Name the person who wanted to produce a group of intellectuals to challenge segregation

What movement was founded by W.E.B. DuBous (which later becomes the NAACP)?

What type of war uses up all of your resources to ensure your victory? (often has those resources be targeted by the enemy)

What type of war uses up a partial amount of resources? (opposite of a Total War)

What type of war occurs internally, with people fighting over the leadership of a nation?

What type of war is meant to destroy authority in a country?

What type of war has an uneven playing field where one side is much weaker than the other?

Name the dictator who modernized Mexico at the cost of sovereignty and the unhappiness of his people

Name the person who leads a revolution against Porfirio Diaz, one who wanted political reform rather than economic reform

Name the person who led many rebels in southern Mexico (one who wanted land reforms)

Name the person who joins Zapata in going against Venustiano Carranza (famously sexist)

Name the person whose death marked the end of the Mexican Revolution

What is the name of the new constitution that was adopted by Mexico after Carranza took power?

What article on the Constitution of 1917 separated church and state?

What term was used to describe women who joined the men at the frontlines of the Mexican Revolution?

What term means the ability that a president has to use his position in power to influence the nation

What is the name of Roosevelt’s views on progressivism? (his plan was composed of 3 C’s: Corporations, consumers and conservation)

Which of the 3 C’s coincides with Roosevelt’s belief that monopolies should be regulated to prevent abuse from them?

Name the politician who was famous for fighting political machines and sided with coal miners rather than the mine owners during the 1902 Coal Strike

Which of the 3 C’s coincides with Roosevelt’s creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act (which created the FDA)?

Which of the 3 C’s coincides with Roosevelt’s creation of many national parks and the Division of Forestry?

Name the politician who ran for presidency in 1908 (Roosevelt’s Vice President)

Name the amendment that created income tax

Who creates the Bull Moose/Progressive Party?

Who creates the Federal Reserve to regulate money? (12 federal bank branches)

Who created the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prevent monopolies?

What act strengthens government regulation?

Who invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for a dinner?

How long did WWI last? What was the interval of time it lasted?

What are the 4 main causes of WWI?

Who were the Central Powers?

Who were the Allies?

Who’s assassination triggered the start of WWI via the alliance system?

What is a Blank Check?

What’s the name of the plan Germany had to try and knock out France so they could focus on Russia?

Where was the Russian army defeated by the German army?

What are german blimps called?

What were german submarines referred to as?

What device combined tractors and battleships and was used as a weapon of war?

What did the U.S. initially do to respond to the war?

What causes Americans to be angry?

What’s the name of the British ocean liner that was sank by the Germans (carried some American passengers)?

What pledge does Germany agree to in order for them to abandon submarine warfare

Name the battle in which Germany wanted to kill as many French soldiers as possible

Name the battle in which the British blocked German ports, causing them to slowly starve

Name the British army offensive (bloodiest battle in British history)

Who led a successful defense against Britain, which later results in the founding of the nation of Turkey?

Name the mass genocide of Armenians as a result of a fear the Ottomans had that the Armenins would support Russia in the war

What was Canada classified as?

Name the battle that was successfully executed by the Canadians

Who from Latin America joins the Allies as a result of u-boat attacks?

Why does the U.S. enter WWI?

What’s the name of the telegram that Germany sent to Mexico that was intercepted?

What act creates the military draft?

What system involves sending merchant ships in a tight formarion to combat the German U-boats?

What term refers to government media that is meant to increase public support?

What committee used propaganda to convince Americans to support the war?

What acts made it illegal to interfere with the war efforts or saying anything to disapprove of the governmenr?

Name the person who led protests to pass 19th Amendment

What does Shenck v. U.S. establish?

Who leads the Bolshevik Revolution, causing Russia to leave WWI and turning into the first communist state, The Soviet Union?

Who won the Russian Civil War? (communism vs. non-communism)

Who leads the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) to aid France against Germany’s last major offensive?

When do Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end WWI? (Meuse Argonne Offensive)

What are these a part of? (No more secret treaties, freedom of the seas, reduction of armaments, and an establishment of a League of Nations)

What treaty ended WWI? (Germany has to pay reparations and their army forces are heavily restricted)

Who opposes Wilson’s idea of joining the League of Nations?

What illness causes a pandemic in the spring of 1918, killing 22 million around the world?

What’s the name of the famous strike that involved the Massachussetts governor firing the cops that were on strike?

What refers to the fear that Americans had in terms of a communist revolution in America?

What refers to the deportation of foreigners due to suspicion that they might be communist radicals?

What’s the name of the head of the FBI who kept records on potential radicals?

What refers to America’s decision to stay out of international affairs (an extreme version of neutrality)?