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the American yamp
chapter 20-21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did progressive Democratics in the South seek to solve the problems of racial strife? | Legislating segregation |
| How did southern reformers seek to combat corruption? | Disenfranchising black voters |
| In the election of 1896, 130,000 black Louisianans voted. In 1900 the number was __________. | 5,320 |
| Which of the following definition best describes the work of muckrakers? | Investigative journalists |
| What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson? | Separate but equal |
| Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trust busters by attacking which monopoly in 1902? | Northern Securities |
| Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? | Unsafe working conditions |
| Who advocated racial accommodationism? | Booker T. Washington |
| Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel? | The goal of saving society as well as souls |
| W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because, DuBois believed that Washington ______. | Was not bold enough |
| All of the following statements regarding the National Women's Party are true EXCEPT | Advocated violent resistance to sexism |
| All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT: | Al Smith |
| Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work? | Jacob Riis |
| Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation? | John Miur |
| Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true? | poke out against militarism Created an influential settlement home in Chicago Favored cooperation between the rich and the poor |
| causes of U.S. entry into war | Sinking of RML Lusitania The Zimmerman Telegraph |
| Which of the following issues most concerned American diplomats prior to World War I? | Expanding transatlantic trade |
| Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT | Destroyers |
| What was the particular spark that ignited World War I? | Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie |
| Where did Germany first invade? | Russia |
| What was the Zimmerman Telegram? | A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War if they would side with Germany in WW1 |
| How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. DuBois respond to the war? | Supporter the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions |
| Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT | Commissioned officers |
| Why did the Russian army disintegrate? | The German invasion of 1916 killed several key commanders in the Russian army |
| What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht? | The Germans launched five failed major attacks |
| What disease proved most deadly during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I? | Influenza |
| Why did the League of Nations fail? | The United States did not join it |
| What was the result of the King-Crane commission? | Discovery that most inhabitants of the Middle East favored an independent state free of European control |
| How did the United States respond to the Bolshevik Revolution? | Opposed the Revolution and sent American troops, who remained in Russia until 1920 |
| What was the Red Summer of 1919? | Racial Violence in twenty-five American Cities |
| In 1915, the Germans sink the British passenger ship ______________ off the coast of Ireland. | Lusitania |
| In April 1917, the __________, headed by journalist George Creel, was formed with the purpose of shaping public opinion about the war. | Committee on Public Information |
| _____________ were substandard multi-family dwelling in the urban core, usually old and occupied by the poor. | tenements |
| The president during World War I was ___________? | Woodrow Wilson |
| _____________ wrote the book, History of the Standard Oil Company. credited with hastening the breakup of Standard Oil, which came about, when the Supreme Court found them to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. | Ida Tarbell |
| wrote the book "Principles of Scientific Management", which laid down the fundamental principles of large-scale manufacturing through assembly-line factories. He emphasized gaining maximum efficiency from both machine and worker. | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| What 2 groups of immigrants were against the U.S. | Irish and German |
| ___________________ was the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. | Eugenics |
| _____________________ ran for President as the Socialist Nominee in 1912 & 1920 and both times got over 900,000 votes | Eugene V. Debs |
| was the novel that portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of meat packing industries but most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry. | The Jungle |
| The Zimmerman Telegram was a ______________? | a coded message from Germany sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States |
| The law intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment was__________? | Espionage Act of 1917 |
| __________________ raised his workers' wages to $5 a day twice the average wage at that time. | Henry Ford |
| In order to raise troops, Congress passed the __________ Act in May 1917 which required all males between 17 and 45 to register for national service. | the Selective Service Act |
| The United States declared war on Germany on __________. | April 2, 1917 |
| _________________was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States from the 1890s to 1920s. | The Progressive Era |
| ___________________ banned foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
| causes of Great War | Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism |
| nativism / "hyphenated Americans" | favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people |
| American Protective League | "Hate the Hun", nativist groups would take out prejudices on "disloyal" minorities |
| war bonds (= liberty bonds) | Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war. |
| 14 Points | President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars. Establish the League of Nations It was an enlightened statement of war his and peace terms |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty particularly known for its harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I. |
| Great Migration | Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs to escape Southern Poverty |
| strikes of 1919 | women's walk out Club women fought for women's rights to be in politics |
| race riots of 1919 | Fueled by back Americans demands for equality and with Americans desire to maintain the status quo It resulted in massive bloodshed with thousands of injuries, hundredth of deaths and a vast destruction of public and private property across the nation |
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