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What is the Selective Service Act / Conscription?
Drafted men for the War, increased troops fighting overseas
What was a common goal of the Labor movement and Progressive movement?
Regulate big business
What was the purpose of Liberty Bonds?
To finance the war
What was the purpose of the Washington Naval Conference?
To prevent future wars by limiting naval production
What contributed to women’s suffrage and the 19th amendment?
Women filling the jobs during WWI
What was the Act called that tried to ban Chinese immigrants like Wong Chin Foo from the U.S?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Why were Sacco and Vanzetti discriminated against politically?
They were both Anarchists, and Italian Immigrants, and Nativism. They threatened the American way of life.
What was the Supreme Court case that limited our civil liberties and freedom of speech during times of war?
Schenck vs. US/Espionage and Seditions Acts
What was the plan where American bankers loaned 200 million dollars to Germany so that they could pay reparations to Britain and France for World War I?
The Dawes Plan
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes were apart of what African American movement, and what was the effect of the movement?
The Harlem Renaissance, brought Black Culture and literature to the world.
Who did Jane Addams “Hull House” or settlement houses help the most?
European Immigrants, because the were on the Eastern Border of America. (Hull House was close to Ellis Island).
Which Labor Union strategy saw workers working together to advocate for their rights?
Collective Bargaining
What were the roles of women and African Americans during WWI?
Women and Af. Ams both worked in the factory jobs left by soldiers
Af. Ams served in segregated units, women served in non-combat roles.
The event of discriminating against immigrants and Communists is known as what?
The Red Scare
Who believed in Black Separatism?
Marcus Garvey
What were the TWO causes of the U.S joining WWI?
Zimmerman Telegram and sinking of Lusitania
How did the public react to the Haymarket riot and Homestead strike?
Decrease in Support / membership of labor unions
How were German Americans treated during WWI?
Treated as a national security threat, nativism
Besides the explosion of the U.S.S Maine, what also contributed to the Spanish American War?
Yellow Journalism and Sensationalized Headlines / Stories
Who believed in building up the vocational skills for African Americans?
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Tarbells book “Standard Oil” exposed what?
Robber Barons getting richer and workers suffering financially
What were the motivations for Imperialism?
Access to raw materials/ markets and spreading western culture with the "White Man's Burden"
Did the U.S sign the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations?
Why?
No
Did not want to be pulled into foreign Conflicts.
Practice Isolationism
What group of people would most likely be Anti-flapper?
Fundamentalists
What did Alfred Thayer Mahan believe was necessary in his book “Influence of Sea Power” ?
Strong Navy for the U.S, to also open up U.S. growing markets.