War and Peace
Name two reasons why the U.S. entered WWI
What are unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegram, and the sinking of the Lusitania?
Alaska was purchased from this country by Secretary of State William Seward for 7.2 million dollars in 1867
What is Russia?
The Eighteenth amendment banned this substance, it was later reappealed by the Twenty-First amendment
What is alcohol?
This term was used to describe investigative journalists who exposed the horrors of society and the government
What is muckraker?
A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The first battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The U.S. government overthrew Queen Liliuokalani in order to appease plantation owners growing this crop
What is sugar?
This amendment granted women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
An alliance between multiple companies to control the market
What is a trust?
This president delivered his Fourteen Point address, outlining his plan for peace following WWI
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Name of the Union blockade of the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
War, gang violence and extreme poverty are all examples of this
What are push factors?
This law allowed citizens to vote (and bypass poll tests and taxes) if their ancestors could vote before 1867
What is the grandfather clause?
A factory where workers are employed for very low wages in terrible conditions
What is a sweatshop?
This Black activist campaigned to make lynching a federal crime
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Name four countries in the Triple Entente
What are France, UK, Russia, US
Other acceptable answers: Japan, Belgium, Greece, Serbia, Italy
Name three groups that would be considered "New Immigrants"
Irish, Italian, Eastern Europeans, Chinese
(Other permissible answers: Catholics and Jews)
This landmark Supreme Court case upheld segregation as constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Surrounding an enemy city or fort, cutting off supplies and reinforcements, forcing them to surrender
What is siege warfare?
This widely disliked Southerner became president after his predecessor was assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This document sent by a Spanish ambassador caused outrage leading to the Spanish American War
What is the De Lome letter?
Congress passed an act in 1856 allowing citizens to take over islands in order to acquire this substance
What is guano?
Two freedoms guaranteed in the Fourteenth amendment?
What are birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law?
The factors of production
What are land labor and capital?
His election marked the official end of Reconstruction
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?