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Period 7 APUSH Rev
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What was the USS Maine incident? Define and give approximate date. | The USS ___ battleship exploded in Havana Harbor — blamed on Spain by yellow journalists. "Remember the ___!" rallied public support for war with Spain. Sparked the ___ ___-___ War. Occurred 1898. |
| What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire? Define and give approximate date. | 146 workers — mostly immigrant women — died when a garment ___ caught ___ with exits locked. Shocked the public & led to major labor reforms, ___ codes & workplace safety regulations. Occurred 1911. |
| What was the Bull Moose Party? Define and give approximate date. | TR's Progressive ___, formed after he split with ___ Taft. Ran on New Nationalism — stronger antitrust laws, banking reform & social welfare. Split the Republican vote, allowing Wilson to win. 1912. |
| What was Wilson's Moral Diplomacy? Define and give approximate date. | ___ rejected Dollar ___. Pledged to support only democratic governments & denied special support to foreign investors. Opposed imperialism in Latin America. Applied ___ standards to foreign policy. c. 1913. |
| What was the Lusitania sinking? Define and give approximate date. | A British ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat, killing 1,198 including 128 Americans. Outraged US public. Germany issued the Sussex Pledge — promising to warn ships — but later broke it. Occurred 1915. |
| What was the Zimmermann Telegram? Define and give approximate date. | Germany secretly offered Mexico its lost territory if it allied against the US. Intercepted by Britain and revealed to America. Combined with resumed U-boat attacks, pushed US to declare war. Sent 1917. |
| What was Wilson's 14 Points? Define and give approximate date. | ___'s idealistic post-WWI peace plan: end secret treaties, freedom of seas, self-determination & a League of Nations. European Allies largely ignored it at the Paris Peace Conference. Proposed 1918. |
| What was the League of Nations? Define and give approximate date. | International peacekeeping body proposed by ___ as part of his 14 Points. US Senate rejected it — fearing foreign entanglements. Henry Cabot Lodge led opposition. US never joined. Created 1919. |
| What were the Palmer Raids & Red Scare? Define and give approximate date. | Fear of Bolshevism sparked hysteria. AG ___ raided leftist organizations & deported thousands of immigrants. Sacco-Vanzetti trial reflected anti-radical paranoia gripping postwar America. Occurred 1919-1920. |
| What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? Define and give approximate date. | Multinational pledge to outlaw war except in self-defense. Signed by 62 nations. Had no enforcement mechanism — proved useless. Failed to prevent WWII aggression. Signed 1928. |
| What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation? Define and give approximate date. | Hoover's agency that loaned federal money to banks, railroads & businesses to prevent collapse during the Depression. Criticized as "trickle-down" relief — helped corporations, not individuals. Created 1932. |
| What was the Supreme Court Packing scandal? Define and give approximate date. | FDR proposed adding one new justice for every sitting justice over 70 — up to 6 new seats. Designed to overcome ___ opposition to New Deal laws. Congress rejected it as a dangerous power grab. 1937. |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | Teddy Roosevelt said you should speak softly and carry a "_________," in regard to foreign affairs. | Big Stick |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | Taft's foreign policy was called: _________ _________. | Dollar Diplomacy |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" showed the horrid conditions in this industry: _________. | Meat-Packing |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | _________ ran under the campaign slogan "He kept us out of war." | Wilson |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The American soldiers were called this in WWI: _________. | AEF / ___ Expeditionary Force / Doughboys |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | _________ was the Republican senator who led the Reservationists in opposition to Wilson. | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | During the _________ _________, poets like Langston Hughes and jazz musicians like Duke Ellington gained popularity. | Harlem Renaissance |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | During the _________ _________, 2 anarchist Italian immigrants were convicted on flimsy evidence, showing anti-immigrant & anti-radical sentiment. | Sacco-Vanzetti Trial |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The _________ scandal involved the unscrupulous leasing of oil fields by a member of Harding's cabinet. | Teapot Dome |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | Borrowing money to purchase stocks during the 1920s was called: "_________ _________ _________." | Buying on Margin |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | This John Steinbeck novel was about the effects of the Dust Bowl: _________. | Grapes of Wrath |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The US Supreme Court ruled this New Deal program that involved cutting farm production unconstitutional: _________. | AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | FDR conducted these radio addresses to restore confidence in the American people: "_________ _________." | Fireside Chats |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | This New Deal Program created dams that would help provide hydroelectric power in the South: _________. | TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The "_________ _________" was signed in 1941 between FDR & Churchill. | Atlantic Charter |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The _________ Acts made it illegal for Americans to sell arms or make loans to any countries at war. | Neutrality |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The 1942 Battle of _________ began the Allied offensive in the Pacific. | Midway |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | This Supreme Court case challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066: _________. | Korematsu v. US |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | This president authorized the drop of the atomic bomb on Japan: _________. | Truman |
| FILL IN THE BLANK | The _________ _________ was the term for the large-scale exodus of Southern Blacks to factories in the North & West during both WWI & WWII. | Great Migration |
| TRUE or FALSE: Yellow Journalists warned against the US getting involved in a foreign war. | False — ___ ___ like Hearst & Pulitzer did the opposite — they sensationalized Spanish atrocities in Cuba and actively inflamed public opinion to push the US toward war with Spain. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Andrew Carnegie & Eugene Debs were Anti-Imperialists. | True — ___ opposed imperialism as incompatible with American democratic values. ___ opposed it on socialist grounds, arguing it exploited both foreign workers and American soldiers. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Theodore Roosevelt was a conservationist. | True — TR set aside over 230 million acres of public land, created 5 national parks & 18 national monuments, and established the US Forest Service — the most conservation-minded president in history. |
| TRUE or FALSE: President Taft busted more trusts than Teddy Roosevelt. | True — ___ actually filed 90 antitrust suits in 4 years vs. TR's 44 in 7 years. But TR got the credit — and the reputation — as the great "trust buster." |
| TRUE or FALSE: Wilson was characterized by most as a pragmatist. | False — ___ was widely seen as a moralistic idealist — guided by principle and religious conviction rather than practical compromise. His refusal to negotiate with Senate Republicans over the League of Nations illustrated this. |
| TRUE or FALSE: The US joined WWI in direct response to the sinking of the Lusitania. | False — The ___ sank in 1915 but the US didn't enter WWI until 1917 — two years later. The immediate triggers were the Zimmermann Telegram and Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Freedom of speech was limited during WWI. | True — The Espionage Act (1917) & Sedition Act (1918) criminalized anti-war ___. Schenck v. US upheld these limits under the "clear and present danger" doctrine. Hundreds were imprisoned. |
| TRUE or FALSE: The US refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. | True — The Senate, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, rejected the ___ twice. Opponents feared the League of Nations would drag the US into future wars without congressional approval. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Immigration was restricted after WWI. | True — The Emergency Quota Act (1921) & ___ Act (1924) severely cut ___ — slashing quotas for southern & eastern Europeans and banning Japanese ___ entirely. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Women achieved suffrage during WWI. | False — The 19th Amendment granting ___ the right to vote was ratified in 1920 — after WWI ended. ___'s wartime contributions built momentum for the amendment's passage. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden" warned against imperialism. | False — ___'s poem celebrated ___ as a noble duty of ___ Europeans to "civilize" and rule non-___ peoples. It was used to justify American expansion into the Philippines after 1898. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Teddy Roosevelt made his own additions to the Monroe Doctrine. | True — The ___ Corollary (1904) extended the ___ ___ by asserting the US right to intervene in Latin American nations that failed to maintain order — essentially making the US a hemispheric police officer. |
| TRUE or FALSE: The Triangle Fire led to labor reforms. | True — The ___ Shirtwaist ___ (1911) shocked the nation and led directly to new laws on factory safety, ___ exits, working hours & child ___ — especially in New York, which became a model for other states. |
| TRUE or FALSE: During WWI, America benefited economically from trade while claiming neutrality. | True — Before entering the war, the US sold massive quantities of food, weapons & supplies to the Allies. American banks also loaned billions to Britain & France, making ___ increasingly profitable — and entangling. |
| TRUE or FALSE: George Creel led the organization that oversaw rationing during WWI. | False — ___ led the Committee on Public Information (CPI) — a propaganda agency. ___ and war production were managed by the War Industries Board under Bernard Baruch. |
| TRUE or FALSE: WWI helped secure the passage of BOTH the 18th & 19th amendments. | True — Wartime temperance campaigns & grain conservation pushed the 18th Amendment (Prohibition, 1919). Women's crucial wartime contributions in factories & nursing ___ ___ the 19th Amendment (suffrage, 1920). |
| TRUE or FALSE: Prohibition led to decreased crime rates. | False — ___ (1920-1933) dramatically increased ___. Bootlegging, speakeasies & organized ___ flourished. Gangsters like Al Capone became powerful. Murder and corruption ___ rose sharply. |
| TRUE or FALSE: Hoover did nothing to try to combat the Depression, committed to laissez-faire. | False — ___ took unprecedented steps — creating the RFC, funding public works & signing Smoot-Hawley. But he opposed direct federal relief to individuals, which made his efforts inadequate to the scale of the crisis. |
| TRUE or FALSE: The Kellogg-Briand Pact involved a pledge to no longer use war as an instrument of foreign policy. | True — Signed in 1928 by 62 nations, the ___ renounced war as a tool of national ___. It had no enforcement mechanism and proved completely ineffective at preventing WWII. |
| TRUE or FALSE: FDR greatly expanded the power & scope of the federal government. | True — The New Deal created dozens of ___ agencies, established Social Security, regulated banks & securities, employed millions, and fundamentally transformed the relationship between citizens and the ___ ___. |
| TRUE or FALSE: FDR's foreign policy was generally popular in Latin America. | True — FDR's Good Neighbor ___ renounced US military intervention in ___ ___, withdrew troops from Haiti & eased control in Cuba & Panama — earning far more goodwill than the Roosevelt Corollary had. |
| TRUE or FALSE: The D-Day landings occurred on the coast of Germany. | False — D-Day (June 6, 1944) took place on the beaches of Normandy, France — not ___. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and opened the crucial Western Front in Nazi-occupied Europe. |
| TRUE or FALSE: WWII increased the amount of income tax collected from Americans. | True — ___ transformed the ___ tax from one paid only by the wealthy into a mass tax. Withholding was introduced, millions of new taxpayers were added & tax revenues soared to fund the war effort. |
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