Taylor's SS: Chs 1-6 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Armistice Day | The day World War 1 ended, on November 11, 1918 |
Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's peace plan - it included free trade, freedom of the seas, arms (weapons) reduction, forming of a league of nations |
self-determination | to determine your own fate by voting |
Treaty of Versailles | a peace treaty signed in France after World War 1 |
League of Nations | nations would work together to bring peace |
isolationism | to stay out of the world's problems, and mind your own business |
influenza | a disease that killed 20 million people in 1918, commonly called the flu |
pandemic | a disease that spreads over many nations |
temperance | moderation of alcohol |
prohibition | outlawing all alcohol; the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
dry | a state in which it is against the law to buy or sell liquor |
bootleggers | people who sold liquor illegally |
speakeasies | illegal bar where liquor was sold |
teetotaler | a person who does no drink alcohol, and agrees with prohibition |
suffrage | the right to vote |
suffragists | someone who fights for the right to vote |
19th Amendment | women get the right to vote |
Susan B. Anthony | woman suffragist; her face is on a dollar coin; started fighting for equal rights at a young age |
Alice Paul | woman suffragist; organized motorcar to Washington D.C. with a petition 18,000 feet long (half-million signatures) |
Carrie Chapman Catt | woman suffragist; head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association |
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