Chapter 18
The two brothers that made the first airplane and the place they tested out this plane.
What are Wilbur and Orville Wright and Kittyhawk, North Carolina.
It was after this President was killed that Congress decided to reform how people got government jobs.
Who was James Garfield?
When one country takes over another country economically and politically.
What is Imperialism?
System that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military.
What is civil service?
3 types of groups that faced discrimination.
Japanese immigrants and religious minorities, and Hispanic immigrants.
This was a striker's union formed in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded by Samuel Gompers and only admitted skilled workers.
What is AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
This man, a governor from Wisconsin, was opposed to political bosses and set up committees of experts to deal with solving this problem.
Who was Robert La Follette?
Leader of the US during World War I
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
Two sports invented .
Baseball and basketball.
Why did diseases spread so quickly in tenements?
Because people lived in close proximity to each other, had little access to bathrooms/running water, and had poor sanitation.
Because Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote in 1912, this man became President.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Tracked, armored fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities first used by the British in World War I
What are tanks?
the process of being returned to your home country.
What is being deported.
Two famous books by Realist writer Mark Twain.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is an anarchist?
In 1907 this was reached between Japan and President Roosevelt. It allowed for Japanese women to join their husbands who were already in the U.S.
What was a "Gentlemen's Agreement."
This country failed to join the League of Nations and the entire world suffered as a result of their absence.
What is the United States?
A piece of paperwork granting someone the sole right to something.
What is a Patent
Name of poor uneducated Farmer from Tennesee during WW1.
Who is Alvin York.
_________ created the first mass-circulation newspaper. His type of sensational writing was called ________ and his/her newspaper was called _____________.
What is Joseph Pulitzer, Yellow Journalism, and the New York World?
Four western states that granted women the right to vote in local elections prior to women gaining the right to vote at the national level.
What were Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho?
This kind of battle tactic almost directly resulted in a stalemate. And one effect.
What is trench warfare and trench foot.
A process were peace talks can begin and fighting halts.
What is armistice.
Russian leader during WW1
Vladimir Lenin