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A banker who quickly moved in to take control of the bankrupt railroads and consolidate them.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
100
An act that provided 160 acres of land to anybody who would develop it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
100
1869 amendment that forbids any state to deny blacks the right to vote because of race
What is the fifteenth amendment?
100
Sent from Germany to Mexico proposing that Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany.In return, Germany would give back Tex, NM, Arizona etc to Mexico at the end of the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
100
In 1900, the US had emerged as the leading industrial power in the world with these three countries as its largest rivals
What are Great Britain, France and Germany?
200
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
Required railroads to be "reasonable and just." It set up the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first federal regulatory agency.
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
200
Raised the tax on foreign products to a peacetime high of over 48% in 1890.
What is McKinley Tariff?
200
A small party in 1865 who supported black suffrage, the abolition of slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy during the war and after.
What are Radical Republicans?
200
White republican southerners who cooperated with and served in Reconstruction governments;were usually considered traitors to their states
What are scalawags?
300
Secretary of State for Woodrow Wilson
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
passed after the United States entered WWI om 1917, imposed sentences of up to twenty years on anyone found guilty of aiding the enemy, obstructing recruitment of soldiers, or encouraging disloyalty.
What is the Espionage Act?
300
Legislation that severely restricted Cuba's sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
What is Platt Amendment?
300
The Progressive Party, under Theodore Roosevelt, was also known as this party
What is the Bull Moose Party?
300
Common form of farming for freed slaves in the South; not very much different than slavery.
What is sharecropping?
400
The leader of the American Railroad Union who directed railroad workers not to handle any trains with Pullman cars.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
400
A potent and racist anti-chinese movement organized to protest "cheap" Chinese labor and to demand a halt to Chinese immigration.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations
What are the fourteen points?
400
Statement of principles initiated by the United States for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity
What is Open Door Policy?
400
Extreme patriotism; favoring an aggressive, warlike foreign policy.
What is Jingoism?
500
The most famous settlement house was the Hull House in Chicago which was started by this person.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
An act created in 1881 which set up the Civil Service Commission and created a system by which applicants for classified federal jobs would be selected on how high they scored on an exam
What is Pendleton Act?
500
1916 Law according territorial status to the Philippines and promising independence as soon as a "stable government" could be established.
What is the Jones Act?
500
Term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by guaranteeing loans to foreign countries.
What is dollar diplomacy?
500
The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
What is the Russian Revolution?
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