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This general led the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I.
John J. Pershing
They were Progressive Era journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices in business, government, and urban life.
Who were the muckrakers?
The political party Theodore Roosevelt ran under during the presidential election of 1912.
What was the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)?
This British passenger ship was sunk by German unrestricted submarine warfare in 1915, killing over 1,200 people, including Americans.
What was the Lusitania?
Approximately this percentage of the American population was infected during the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.
What was about 25–30 percent?
This 1906 law resulted directly from public outrage sparked by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle.**
What was the Meat Inspection Act?
(Accept: Pure Food and Drug Act)
Theodore Roosevelt’s top conservation concern focused on saving these natural resources from overuse and destruction.
What were forests (natural resources)?
This foreign policy, associated with President William Howard Taft, encouraged Wall Street bankers to invest surplus dollars in regions of strategic interest to the United States.
What was Dollar Diplomacy?
This 1916 German promise, made after an attack on a French passenger ferry, temporarily limited unrestricted submarine warfare to avoid provoking the United States.
What was the Sussex Pledge?
It intensified competition for jobs and housing in northern cities, contributing to major race riots such as those in Chicago and St. Louis.
What was a result of the Great Migration?
This Progressive Era president is considered the true “trustbuster,” filing nearly twice as many antitrust lawsuits as the next closest president.
Who was William Howard Taft?
This 1908 Supreme Court case upheld protective labor laws for women, citing differences in physical structure and social roles.
What was Muller v. Oregon?
These three Progressive Era reforms expanded direct democracy by allowing citizens to propose laws, vote on laws directly, and remove elected officials.
What are the initiative, referendum, and recall?
What was the result of Schenck v. United States (1919)?
It allowed the federal government to limit free speech when it posed a “clear and present danger,” especially during wartime.
While British soldiers were called “Tommies,” American soldiers in World War I were known by this nickname.
Who were the Doughboys? Yankees?
This investigative journalist exposed the corrupt practices of Standard Oil and was part of a broader group of reform-minded writers.
Who was Ida Tarbell, a muckraker?
It was Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program that focused on consumer protection, control of corporations, and conservation of natural resources.
What was the Square Deal?
In one word, this best summarizes Woodrow Wilson’s approach to politics and reform.
What is “moralistic”? Or "Idealistic"
It was the largest American military offensive of World War I, involving over one million U.S. soldiers against German forces in 1918.
What was the Meuse-Argonne Offensive?
They were the two factions of Senate Republicans who opposed U.S. entry into the League of Nations—one group rejecting it entirely and the other demanding reservations.
Who were the Irreconcilables and the Reservationists?
His national speaking tour to secure support for the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations ended abruptly after a severe stroke.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
These constitutional amendments expanded federal power and democracy by establishing an income tax, direct election of senators, Prohibition, and women’s suffrage.
What were the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments?
This slogan defined Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 reelection campaign and emphasized his effort to keep the United States out of World War I.
What was “He Kept Us Out of War”?
They were the four major World powers that dominated negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference and shaped the Treaty of Versailles.
Who were the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy?
What was a defining feature of the New Ku Klux Klan?
It expanded its targets beyond African Americans to include Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and others, while operating openly as a national political force in the 1920s.