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1st Nine Weeks 2015
Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote in 1919 |
| The Western Front | Trenches that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border with France |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's plan for lasting peace and cooperation |
| Alice Paul | Suffragist who founded the National Women's Party |
| Lusitania | English passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat |
| Reparations | Payment for war damages |
| Progressives | Wanted to reform things like: child labor, worker's rights and consumer safety |
| League of Nations | A world organization formed after WWI to promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | 1914 law that outlawed monopolies |
| Casualty | Killed, wounded, or missing soldier |
| Allied Powers | Britain, France, and Russia |
| Temperance Movement | Created by women who thought men were spending too much time and money on alcohol |
| Self-determination | Right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Conscientious Objector | A person whose moral and religious views forbid the participation in war |
| Initiative | Right of citizens to present a new bill |
| Treaty of Versailles | This redrew the map of Europe and broke up the Ottoman Empire |
| Referendum | Process that allow citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature |
| Selective Service Act | Established a military draft in 1917 |
| Franz (Francis) Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated in 1914 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Senator who opposed ratification of the Treaty of Versailles |
| Recall | Process in which voters can remove elected officials from office before their terms end |
| Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt's plan for a fair and honest government to help working class people |
| Sedition Act | A 1917 law that gave postal authorities the power to ban treasonable or seditious material from the mail |
| Jane Addams | Established settlement houses in Chicago to help immigrants |
| Influenza | Caused a deadly epidemic in 1918, causing 20- 50 million deaths |
| Weapons used for the first time during WWI | Machine guns, artillery guns, poison gas, submarines, tanks, airplanes |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Head of NAWSA and used the political process to get women the right to vote |
| Jacob Riis | Wrote How the Other Half Lives which exposed poor living conditions in the city |
| U-boat | German submarine |
| W. H. Taft | President after T. Roosevelt who failed to keep Roosevelt's Progressive policies in place |
| Zimmerman Note | Telegram in which the German foreign minister proposed an alliance with Mexico against the U.S. |
| Warren G. Harding | Became president in 1920 promising a return to normalcy |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraker who took on John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil |
| Convoy | Group of ships that travel together for safety |
| General John Pershing | General who led American Forces in Europe |
| Margaret Sanger | Jailed for telling women about birth control |
| Central Powers | Germany and Austria-Hungary |
| 18th Amendment | Banned the selling, making, and transportation of alcoholic beverages |
| The Great Migration | Movement of 1.2 million African-Americans fro the South to the North |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | Site of a tragic fire which killed 156 people (mostly women)and helped to improve workplace safety |
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