Unit 1
A war where citizens of a country fight against each other.
What is a Civil War?
A country area with farms and cattle and an area with huge buildings, large population, and many factories.
What is the difference between a Rural and an Urban area?
2 conditions in the meatpacking Industry that Sinclair exposed.
1. what is dirty work areas
2. What is Foreign materials (like rats and poisons) in meat.
A type of news reporting that heightens, distorts, and manipulates the facts in order to have a desired effect on the reader.
The name of the famous photographer who published photos of tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis ?
The amendment that gave citizenship to all Americans, including African Americans.
What is the 14th amendment?
The main reason many Americans move from the rural to urban areas.
The belief that American had the right to move west and occupy the lands in the west.
The event triggered the start of the Spanish-American War?
What is the The explosion of the USS Maine?
Language used to manipulate the public in a political issue.
What is propaganda?
This accomplished the freedom of slaves in the south.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A country from the Old Wave of Migration and a country from the New Wave of Immigration.
What is
Old Wave: Germany, Ireland, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Norway, and Sweden.
New Wave: Russia, Poland, Austria, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Japan, China, and Mexico
The result of the contact between the Americans and the Native Indians.
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
What is the immediate cause of World War 1?
Unsanitary conditions
Long hours
Low wages
No breaks
What is Working condition for women and children during the Progressive era?
This says that blacks and whites could not be together in public but both groups will receive equal facilities.
A type of housing did most Immigrants live in when they first arrived in america.
The country the US purchase Alaska from, for $________, on March 30th, _________.
What is Russia ?
$7.2 million
March 30, 1867
The 4 things that cause lots of tensions in Europe before WW1 started?
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
The age did children start working during the Progressive Era.
What is the number 6?
Other 2 amendments passed during the Reconstruction Era with guarantees of.
13th - freedom from slavery
15th - right to vote
Author of “The Jungle” and what is it about.
What is the meatpacking industry?
War fought between Spain and the United States to give Cuba independence.
The event that prompted the United States to enter World War 1?
What is German submarine warfare?
The south wanted slavery to continue but the north wanted it to end.
What is the reason the US have the Civil War?