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holt-am nation-sem 1
holt-am nation-sem 1 review=ch 1-11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Incident between colonist and British soldiers that led to the deaths of five colonists | Boston Massacre |
| Resulted in a weak government unable to handle economic problems | Articles of Confederation |
| Many settlers took this route to the western territory | Oregon Trail |
| process by which Congress can remove a president from office | impeachment |
| his troops led the siege on an old mission church that was the stronghold of the Texas resistance known as the Alamo | Santa Anna |
| Lincoln's speech at the 1963 cemetery dedication of a battlefield in Pennsylvania | Gettysburg Address |
| network to help escaped slaves move northwards to freedom | underground railroad |
| the Emancipation Proclamation banned this practice | slavery |
| President of the Confederacy during the Civil War | Jefferson Davis |
| man who killed President Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| Went to California in search of gold | Forty-niners |
| Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War | Robert E Lee |
| all powers not specifically granted to the federal government nor denied to the states | reserved powers |
| president of the United States during the Civil War | Abraham Lincoln |
| one of the richest silver veins located in Carson River Valley | Comstock Lode |
| African American soldiers in the West | Buffalo Soldiers |
| George Armstrong Custer led his troops to destruction at this battle | Battle of Little Big Horn |
| women, children and men worked long hours | ranch life |
| purchased Alaska(Person) | William H. Seward |
| Crude with few comforts | mining camps |
| Mercury to extract silver from ore | patio process |
| cattle that can travel long distances on little water | Texas Longhorns |
| ended because of overgrazing, barbed wire and bad weather | cattle boom |
| marked the end of the Indian wars on the Great Plains | Wounded Knee Massacre |
| leaders of political party machines | party bosses |
| crossed picket lines to stop a strike | strike breakers |
| uses dots and dashes to communicate | telegraph |
| spending money to show off wealth | conspicuous consumption |
| process to make steel cheaper and faster | Bessemer |
| Jane Addams settlement house | Hull House |
| the belief that corruption lurked below the surface of society | gilded age |
| skyscrapers and mass transit led to an expansion of ___ | urban growth |
| new stores in the 1800's that sold many types of products | department stores |
| buildings where large numbers of people lived in unsanitary conditions | tenements |
| urban reform movement that addressed social problems | Progressive |
| some of the reforms worked on by this movement included low wages, long hours, child labor and unsafe working conditions | progressive issues |
| woman who became famous with her work for the poor | Jane Addams |
| reform minded journalists | Muckrakers |
| founded to further racial justice | NAACP |
| many reformers viewed this as the root to all social problems | alcohol |
| brought the need for reform into the public eye | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
| seeing the need to conservation TR called on Congress to establish | national parks |
| protected consumers from food industry abuses | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| granted women full voting rights | 19th Amendment |
| Teddy Roosevelt's efforts to regulate corporations | trust-busting |
| the first movie to tell a story | The Great Train Robbery |
| was declared to protect US investments in Cuba,due to public pressure and to help Cuba overthrow Spanish Rule | Spanish American War |
| annexation of this region was due to renewed interest overseas, it's strategic location | Hawaii |
| was made possible in part because the US immediately recognized Panama as an independent nation/increased US interests in Latin America | Panama Canal |
| gave US control of all Spanish colonies in the Pacific and Cuba it's freedom | Treaty ending the Spanish American War |
| stated that China would remain open to all nations | Open Door policy |
| was fueled by new overseas markets for domestic goods | Quest for Empire |
| Us gains Spain's overseas holdings and Cuba gains independence | after effects of the Spanish American War |
| glorification of armed strength | militarism |
| heart of Wilson's 14 points | League of Nations |
| US senators who rejected the Treaty of Versailles | Irreconcilables |
| area of battle zone separating trenches | No Mans land |
| safe transportation of US soldiers and goods to Europe by ship | convoy system |
| outlawed opposition to the draft | Espionage and Sedition Acts |
| movement of African Americans north to fill in wartime jobs | Great Migration |
| American were encouraged to support the war by the ___ | Committee on Public Information |
| form of the flu that killed over 20 million world wide | Great Influenza Epidemic |
| characterized by dangerously unsanitary conditions | trench warfare |
| new invention of WWI | tanks |
| disease caused by having your feet exposed to water for extended period of time | trench foot |
| year that WWI started in Europe | 1914 |
| year US entered WWI | 1917 |
| after WWI Germany faced this economic problem due to the overprinting of money to pay off debts | inflation |
| first nation to attack another during WWI | Germany |
| the side the US joined in the war (WWI) | Allies |
| the side that won the war (WWI) | Allied Powers |
| unrestricted submarine warfare, the sinking of merchant and passenger ships and the Zimmerman note, from Germany to Mexico, asking them to invade the US were all __ | US causes for entry to WWI |
| his death was the spark that started WWI | Archduke Ferdinand |
| signed on November 11, 1918 | Armistice |
| average citizens filled in while they were striking | Boston Police Strike |
| Americans fear of Communism after WWI | Red Scare |
| showed the revival of hostility toward ethnic groups in the 1920's | revival of the KKK |
| his administration was full of conflict over scandals | Warren Harding |
| their trial showed the depth of the red scare in the US | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| during this US conducted raids, thought that communism was everywhere, and believed that a worker's revolution had arrived | Red Scare |
| rose after WWI because of cancellations of war contracts, decreased production and large numbers of people returning to home | unemployment |
| granted to Native Americans in 1924 as recognition of their support during WWI | citizenship |
| designed to limit the entry of all immigrants | Immigration Act of 1924 |
| was drawn to the US by the promise of jobs (ethnic group) | Mexican immigrants |
| involved the leasing of federal oil reserves | Teapot Dome scandal |
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