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AH Chapter 18-19Test
American History By Anna Johnson
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progressivism | A movement that wanted to achieve political and social reform |
| Secret Ballot | A voting system that was more private. |
| Direct Primamries | Nominating a party's candidate by popular vote. |
| Iniatiative | A process in which the voters initiate legislation by making petitions that will make a change. |
| Referendum | Allowing voters to vote about whether a law should be passed or not. |
| Recall | A voters right to vote to take someone out of office. |
| Trust-Busting | Breaking up business monopolies |
| 16th amandment | Made income tax |
| 17th amendment | direct election of US senators |
| 18th amendment | prohibition |
| 19th amendment | women suffrage |
| Prohibition | The banning of selling and consuming alcoholic beverages. |
| Muckrakers | People who exposed abuse and corruption in businesses and more. |
| Square deal | Roosevelt's belief that everyone should be equal. |
| Hepburn Act | Made railroads have to set rates. |
| Central Powers | Germany and Austria |
| Allies | France, Britain and russia |
| Victoriano Huerta | Military Leader that murdered president of mexico |
| William Jennings Bryan | A secretary of state that had no experience and had no knowledge of international affairs |
| Pancho Villa | sought ot raise his popularity by becoming a chief enemy of the american "gringos" |
| John J. pershing | An american general sent to mexico with 11,000 troops to take care of the bandit business. |
| lusitania | After a warning Germany shot and sunk this ship. |
| Sussex Pledge | wilson's way of quieting the seas for a while |
| Unrestricted Submarine War | Germans replied to Wilson's "peace without victory" with this |
| Selective Service | All men from 18-45 required to register for the draft in 1918 |
| Dough boy | a soldier's special ballads about the war and anthem of american soldiers |
| Zimmerman Telegraph | This brought the Americans into the war. |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's objectives to the end of the war and what should happen |
| Armistice | The mark of the Great War being over |
| Big Four | US's Wilson, France's Clemenceau, Italy's Orlando and Britain's George. a group called |
| league of nations | a general association of nations for the granting independence of regular countries |
| "war guilt" clause | Germany was forced to sign this even though they were not in any of the negociations |
| Repartions | Germany had to pay for everything and US felt bad so they gave Germany a blank check for this |
| events in order 1 | Austria declares war on serbia |
| events in order 2 | Germany declares war on france |
| events in order 3 | Great Britain declares war on Germany |
| events in order 4 | Russia declares war on Austria |
| Events that sparked WWI | Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
| 2 Provisions that Germany was not okay with but they had to agree to | Treaty of Versailles and War-Guilt clause |
| how was Great Britain brought into the war? | Germany invaded England |
| President Wilson's action that he reprensented | He just wanted peace and nothing else his colleagues disagreed |
| Frances Clemenceau's action that he reprensented | he said he was behind Wilson but all he really wanted was revenge against Germany |
| Italy's Orlando's action that he represented | he just wanted his country to get a lot of money for being a big part in the war when in actuality his country did nothing |
| Britain's George's action that he represented | He just wanted his country to stay in control of the seas |
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