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QOA SS Final study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bull Moose Party | Progressive ticket in the 1912 |
| Federal Trade Commission | Had the power to investigate companies |
| Florence Kelly | Campaigned against child labor |
| Carrie Nation | Well-known for entering saloons and destroying beer kegs and alcohol bottles |
| National Women Suffrage Association | Founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady stanton |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote |
| Federal Reserve Act | Gave the federal govt. the power to raise or lower the interest rate |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Marks the beginning of the women's rights movement |
| 18th Amendment | Made the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal |
| WCTU | Organization that supported Prohibition |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Known as a trustbuster |
| New Freedom | Wilsons's plan to break up large businesses and divide them into smaller companies to encourage competition |
| Alice Paul | Radical Suffragist |
| square deal | Teddy Roosevelt's plan to give all Americans an equal opportunity at success |
| Frances Willard | First President of the WCTU |
| The _____ referred to the U.S Navy | Great White Fleet |
| The ______ set up Puerto Rico as a U.S territory | Foraker Act |
| Under the command of Theodore Roosevelt, the first Volunteer Calvary became known as the ____ | Rough Riders |
| In order to try to stop the independence movement in Cuba, the Spanish set up a detention camp system called ____ | Reconcentration |
| Under the __, Cuba became a U.S proectorate | Platt Amendment |
| Taft supported buliding economics ties with Latin America through ____. | Dollar Diplomacy |
| Afr. Am soldiers who served in the 9th and the 10th Calvaries in the Spanish Am. War were known as ____. | Buffalo Soldiers |
| An isolationist would support ____, an idea that condemned imperialism. | Moral Diplomacy |
| The ___ was a resistance movement against western influence in China | Boxer Rebellion |
| A wartime act of cruelty and brulity | Atrocity |
| Extending a countrys national borders | Expansionism |
| A small piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land | Isthumus |
| To take over | Annex |
| An addition | Corollary |
| A nations whose independence is limited by a more powerful nation | Protectorate |
| An area where a nation has special trading privileges | spheres of influence |
| A stronger nation seeks to control a weaker nation politically and/ or economically | Imperialism |
| The belief in ethnic superiority | Racism |
| Having little to do in world affairs | Isolationism |
| Centeral powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| Archduke Franz Ferinand was assassinated by an _____ nationalist | Serbian |
| Black hand was a ____ organization because the violence to try to achieve their goal. | terrorist |
| ____ was the title given to the German emperor | Kaiser |
| one way the U.S raised money for world war 1 | liberty bonds |
| a person who tries to stir up war | Warmonger |
| an attempt by germany to get Mexicop to invade the U.S | Zimmerman Telegram |
| Led to an increase in Afr. Am and Mexican Am. popluations in the World War 1 era | Great Migration |
| Known as the "great education" in the World War 1 Era | U.S Army |
| Leader of the Russian Revoluton | Vladimir Lenin |
| Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace | Fourteen Points |
| Agreement that ended WW1 | Treaty of Versailles |
| Location of the western front | France |
| The leaders of Britain, France, the U.S and Italy | Big Four |
| He led the opposition against the WW1 treaty in the U.S | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Commanded the Am. Expeditionary Force | John J. Pershing |
| Afr. Am unit who won the French Croix de Guerre for their bravery | Harlem Hell Fighters |
| Thirty million people were killed because of a worldwide ___ epidemic in 1918-1919 | Influenza (flu) |
| Agreement that pulled Russia out of WW1 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| Most decorated U.S war hero of WW1 | Alvin York |
| Common form of enertainment in the 1920s | Radio |
| Involved Albert Fall leasing govt. owned land in California and wyoming | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| HArding called Am. to return to ___. | Normalcy |
| This method revolutionizedthe automobile industry | Mass assembly |
| A popular idea in the 1920s that meant getting rid of all weapons | Disarmament |
| Smuggled alcohol | Bootleggers |
| An agreement to outlaw war | Kellogg-Braind PAct |
| A rapid increase in stock and trading prices | Bull Market |
| Became president after Harding died | Calvin Coolidge |
| A term used to describe Harding's friends who had been appointed to govt. offices | Ohio Gang |
| Form of economy/govt. in the SOviet Union | Communism |
| Increased consumer dept | Installment buying |
| What best descibes Am. foreign policy after WW1 | isolationist |
| Most significant impact on MA. both economically and socially | the automobile |
| ___ is the birthplace of jazz music | New orleans LA |
| Popular fads in the 1920s | flag pole sitting, c5rossworld puzzles, dance marathons |
| the Ohio gang is associated with ___ presidency | Warren Harding's |
| Coolidge prosperity was a driect result of ___. | Pro-business intiatives |
| Buying alchol from ____ and going to speakeasies were two ways Am. got around the 18th Amendment | Bootleggers |
| Affordable automobiles allowed for people to live outside the city limits in ____. | Suburbs |
| The U.S entered into an ___, or a period of slow economic growth, after WW1 | Recession |
| ____ defied the traditional roles of women in society | Flappers |
| Ernest Hemmingway, an ____, chose to live abroad rather than the U.S after the end of WW1 | Expatriate |
| Sacco and Vanzetti openly admitted to being ___, or people who are opposed to organize govt. | Anarchists |
| AN ___ is controlled by management, not the workers | Company union |
| An ___ refers to an increase in stock prices and trading | Bull Market |
| The ____ stated that a citizen could not be denied rights because of his/her gender | Equal rights Amendment |
| During the 1920s, AM. began to buy on credit, also known as ___. | Installment Buying |
| Most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
| Famouse silent movie actor | Charlie Chaplin |
| AKA the monkey trial | The Scopes Trial |
| Author of a Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| The first "Talkie" (movie) | tHE JAZZ SINGER |
| Won the 1928 presidential election | Herbert Hoover |
| Author who characterized samll town Am. as narrow minded | Sinclair Lewis |
| A fear of the U.S falling to communism | The Red Scare |
| HArlem Renaissance writer who wrote essays, short stories, and novels | Zora Neale Hurston |
| President whose administration was tainted by corruption | Warren G. Harding |
| First women to swim across the English Channel | Gertrude Ederle |
| Became president after Harding died | Calvin Coolidge |
| First person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean | Charles Lindbergh |
| Most famous baseball player of the 1920s | Babe Ruth |
| Plane that travled over the Atlantic non-stop | Spirit od st. louis |
| Economic slump between 1929 and 1941 | Great Depression |
| Money paid to people regulary after retirement | pension |
| unable to pay depts | Bankrupt |
| Disaster that hit the Great plains during the 1930s | Dust Bowl |
| The day the stock market crahed in 1929 | Black Tuesday |
| Showed hardships of Dust Bowl farmers through photography | Dorothea Lange |
| Elected president because of his optimistic attitude in 1932 | FDR |
| When the unions negotiate with the management for a new contract for workers | Collective Bargaining |
| Author of The Grapes Of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| Stopping all work and refusing to leave until demands are met | Sit-down strike |
| Gve native AM gretaer control over their own affairs | Indian New Deal |
| Amount of money the govt. owes | National Dept |
| Nickname for the slums where the homeless lived | hoovervilles |
| FDR's radio speeches | Fireside CHats |
| When the govt. spends more money than it takes in | deficit spending |
| what event caused Hoover to lose virtually all public support | dismissing the bonus army |
| who would most likely be associated with the phrase, happy days are here again | FDR |
| what are some characteristics of hard times Am. faced during the Great Depression | High unemployment, decrease in birth rates, Am. belief in themselves was shaken |
| what are some ways the new deal changed the U.S govt. | the govt. hired thousands of people who were not civil servants, the govt. played a larger role in people's lives, the govt. began regulating industry and agriculture |
| LAst major attempt by the germans to slow down Allied forces | BAttle of Bulge |
| Turnign point that forced Germany to withdraw from North Africa | Battle of El Alamein |
| Turning point that began with the Battle of Sicily and led to the liberation of Rome | Invasion of Italy |
| Turning point in the Pacific where there U.S Navy destroyed four Japanese carriers | Battle of Midway |
| Storming of the French beaches on June 6, 1944 by Allied forces; also known as D-Day | Invasion of Normandy |
| Turing point on the Russian/Eastern front of the war | battle of stalingrad |
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