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Quiz 3
US History With Mr. C
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ADL-CIO | The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) |
| Samuel Gompers | A Labor Union Leader |
| Mother Jones | Prominent Labor and Community Organizer, Industrial Workers of the World |
| Pullman Strike | Nationwide Railroad Strike, Summer 1894 |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | A fire in a Shirtwaist factory in 1911 |
| The Great Migration, 1916-1930 | A Migration of 6 Million African Americans from the south. |
| YMCA/YWCA | Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association. Founded 6 June 1844 |
| Assimilation | people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family |
| Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 | Excluded Chinese Immigrants from getting into the USA. |
| Scott Joplin | African American composer and Pianist |
| James Naismith | Invented the Sport of Basketball |
| Vaudeville | Theatrical Genre of Song, dance and funny |
| Spoils System | A practice of giving gov jobs to people you like who are not necessarily qualified. |
| Progressive Era | A time of Reform in the US 1890s-1920s |
| William Howard Taft | 27th President of the USA |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the USA |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the USA |
| Warren G. Harding | 29th President of the USA |
| Calvin Coolidge | 30th President of the USA |
| Herbert Hoover | 31st President of the USA |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32 President of the USA |
| Alice Paul | American Suffragist and Women's Rights Activist. |
| Ida B. Wells | African American Suffragist |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | American Civil Rights Activist, Author, Historian, Sociologists. |
| Booker T. Washington | African American Educator, Orator and Adviser to the Presidents of the USA |
| George Washington Carver | Scientist, Inventor and Educator. |
| Imperialism | A policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world |
| Spanish and American War | was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, |
| Admiral Dewey | Was an admiral of the United States Navy who won the Battle of Manila |
| Roosevelt Corolly | a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country. |
| Causes of WW1 M.A.N.I.A | Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination. |
| Trench Warfare | Is a form of Land Warfare Using occupied enemy lines. |
| General Pershing | Black Jack. General in WW1 |
| RMS Lusitania | Passenger Ship sunk in WW1 |
| Fourteen Points | was a statement given on the 8th of January, 1918 by United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause. |
| Treaty of Versailles | was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, |
| Flapper | Bold young woman in 1920s |
| Jazz Age | A time in the 1920s when Jazz music and Dance became popular. |
| Harlem Renaissance | was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. |
| The Great Depression | Was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. |
| New Deal | he New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. |
| Dust Bowl | was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s |
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