UShist EXAM REVIEW 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Capitalism | economic system - based on private ownership, free markets and competition |
Bessemer Process | Invention used to convert iron to steel |
Urbanization | growth of cities |
Political Machine | Illegal gang that influences votes |
Socialism | Economic system where major industries are owned by government |
Susan B. Anthony | President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association |
Woodrow Wilson | Former President of Princeton University-won election of 1912 because Republican vote was split |
William McKinley | Assassinated; Teddy Roosevelt became president in his place |
Robert LaFollette | Governor and Senator from Wisconsin - "laboratory for Democracy" |
18th Amendment | Prohibition; alcohol illegal |
Pure Food and Drug Act | Banned sale of impure foods and medicine |
Muckrakers | journalists who helped fuel public demand for reform |
Trusts | Unfair for business to gain control forming trusts |
Meat Inspection Act | protected people against unsafe meat |
William Seward | leader arranged for purchase of Alaska |
Queen Liliuokalani | Limited the power of American planters in Hawaii |
Emilio Aguinaldo | Fought against colonial rule in the Philippines |
Poncho Villa | led raid into New Mexico |
Zimmerman Telegram | Agreement that would have allied Germany and Mexico |
American Expeditionary Force | American fighting force during WWI |
Selective Service Act | Draft for men ages 18-30 during WWI |
Great Migration | Mass movement of African Americans to Northern cities during WWI |
Eddie Rickenbacker | American : Ace of Aces |
Gavrilo Princip | Assassinated Franz Ferdinand: part of the cause of WWI |
Franz Ferdinand | heir of Austria-Hungary that was assasinated |
John J Pershing | General of the American Expeditionary Force |
Sacco and Vanzetti | Known anarchists sentenced to execution based on circumstantial evidence |
Fundamental | belief that every word of the Bible is literally true - against teaching of evolution |
Expatriate | Person who by choice lives outside his home country |
Harlem Renaissance | African American cultural movement |
Evolution | Scientific theory explaining diversity of life |
Lost Generation | Pessimistic American Author who wrote of the despair of WWI |
Langston Hughes | Most famous poet of Harlem Renaissance |
Sinclair Lewis | Member of Lost Generation - he wrote Babbitt |
Warren Harding | "Return to Normalcy" President - scandal while in office |
Charles Lindberg | 1st person to fly across Atlantic |
John Scopes | Teacher - got into trouble for teaching evolution |
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