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Unit 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sixteenth Amendment | Constitutional revision in 1913 that authorized a federal income tax |
| Seventeenth Amendment | Constitutional change in 1913 that established the direct popular election of U.S senators |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Constitutional revision, adopted in 1919, that prohibited the production and sale of alcohol in the United States |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Constitutional revision that in 1920 established women citizens' right to vote |
| Espionage Act | Law whose vague prohibition against obstructing the nation's war effort was used to crush dissent and criticism during World War 1 |
| Sedition Act of 1918 | Broad law restricting criticism of America's involvement in World War 1 or the American government, flag, military, taxes, or officials |
| Selective Service Act of 1917 | The law establishing the military draft for World War 1 |
| National Origins Act of 1924 | 1924 Law sharply restricting immigration on the basis of immigrants' national origins and discriminating against southern and eastern Europeans and Asians |
| muckraking | Journalism exposing economic, social, and political evils, so named by Theodore Roosevelt for its "raking the muck" of American society |
| initiative | Procedure by which citizens can introduce a subject for legislation, usually through a petition signed by a specific number of votes |
| recall | The process of removing an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote |
| referendum | Submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct popular vote for approval or rejection |
| prohibition | A ban on the production, transportation, and sale of liquor, achieved temporarily through state laws and the eighteenth amendment |
| yellow press | A deliberately sensational journalism of scandal and exposure designed to attract an urban mass audience and increase advertising revenues |
| self-determination | The right of a people or a nation to decide its own political allegiance or form of government without external influence |
| Bolshevik | Member of the Communist movement in Russia that established the Soviet government after the 1917 Russian Revolution |
| Red Scare | Post-World War 1 ant-Bolshevik hysteria in the United States directed against labor activists, radical dissenters, and some ethnic groups |
| Harlem Renaissance | new African American cultural awareness that flourished in literature, art, and music in the 1920s |
| multinational corporations | firms with direct investments, branches, factories, and offices in a number of countries |
| oligopoly | an industry, such as steel making or automobile manufacturing, that is controlled by a few large companies |
| Great Migration | The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, spurred especially by new job opportunities during World War 1 and the 1920s |
| welfare capitalism | paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management responsibility for employee well-being |
| William McKinley | 1897–1901 (Republican) |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1901–1909 (Republican) |
| William Howard Taft | 1909–1913 (Republican) |
| Woodrow Wilson | 1913–1921 (Democrat) |
| Warren G. Harding | 1921–1923 (Republican) |
| What did the intellectuals challenge during the Progressive Era? | |
| Which state was the nation’s “laboratory of democracy” at the turn of the century? | |
| What arguments did suffragettes put forward on behalf of women’s right to vote in northern states in the early twentieth century? | |
| What was the Mann Act of 1910? | |
| Why did Republicans nominate Theodore Roosevelt as William McKinley’s running mate? | |
| Why did progressives in the Republican Party abandon William Howard Taft in 1912? | |
| Describe William Howard Taft as Theodore Roosevelt’s successor. | |
| What posed the biggest threat to the Panama Canal construction project? | |
| •Why did Americans during the 1860s and 1870s not favor external expansion? | |
| •Why did many American businessmen favor expansion overseas? | |
| •Why did President William McKinley have little enthusiasm for war? | |
| Summarizes the Teller Amendment of 1898. | |
| How many American troops died in the capture of Manila in spring 1898? | |
| Out of the 2,900 American lives lost in the conquest of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, how many died from combat? | |
| •Describe the United States Supreme Court ruling in the insular cases. | |
| Why was genuine neutrality difficult to achieve for the United States during World War I? | |
| Why did German U-boats not follow international maritime law at the time? | |
| What did most observers from all countries agree on in August 1914? | |
| How many Americans evaded the draft by refusing to register or by not responding when called during WWI? | |
| During World War I, what did U.S. senators do in response to the complaints of white soldiers refusing to serve under a black officer? | |
| What was a new innovation crucial for growing sales of consumer goods in the 1920s? | |
| What was exceptional about Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic in 1927? | |
| Why did the prices for farm products fall so precipitously in 1920? | |
| In 1926, Congress moved the tax rate on income of $1 million from 66% to what? | |
| Out of twenty Latin American nations, how many were free of any kind of U.S. management or intervention in 1924? |
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