Unit 1-5 Review
Historical terms you need to know
American 'Empire'
America and WWI
Writing a Short Essay Question (SEQ)
100
President Thomas Jefferson aquired this in 1803, which is said to be the start of Manifest Destiny/ Westward Expansion.

Louisiana Purchase

100

Name of the U.S. president and the U.S. plan for peace following WWI.

President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

100

The term for expanding the U.S. territory beyond the Pacific Ocean.

New Manifest Destiny

100

Name of the President who brought the U.S. into WWI and created a plan following WWI.

President Woodrow Wilson

100

Number of paragraphs a SEQ should be

2

200

Name of the agreement which split the U.S. at the 36'30 parallel in 1820 and increased sectionalism

Missouri Compromise

200

Name for World War I until World War II (because you don't know a war is 1st in a series until there are multiple)

The Great War

200

The president known for adding Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico to the U.S.

President William McKinely

200

Germany was named the sole loser of World War I and made to pay war reparations to Allied Powers countries in this document.

Treaty of Versailles

200

What the first paragraph is always about

historical context

300

The numbers and definitions of the Civil Rights Amendments

13th - abolish slavery

14th - provide African Americans with citizenship

15th -allow African American men the right to vote

300

Name of the movement of African Americans from the South the the North during the Second Industrial Revolution and World War I

Great Migration

300

Name for the type of publications that were created to evoke (call up) feeling of fear in the public. This type of news reporting was first used during the Spanish-American War.

yellow journalism

300

Name of the intercepted document that revealed Germany wanted to form an alliance with Mexico and asked Mexico to invade the U.S.

Zimmerman Telegram

300

Historical context is always broken down into two parts. Write them down in the order you would write them on your exam.

Sentence Summary (who, what, where, when)

Immediate View (This is happening because...)

400

Name of the unfair British economic system for controlling American colonies' imports and exports

Mercantilism

400

During both the Spanish-American War and World War I, the U.S. decided to join the wars because a ship was sunk and American lives were lost. What were the names of each ship.

U.S.S. Maine (Spanish-American War)

Lusitania (WWI)

400

President Theodore Roosevelt added onto (? document) with (?? document), which allowed the U.S. to intervene in countries in the Western Hemisphere and act as a 'policeman'.

? = Monroe Doctrine

?? = Roosevelt Corollary

400

The #1 reason the League of Nations was a failure in sustaining world peace.

U.S. never joined it (never approved/ voted yes by Congress)

400

Which direction set of the SEQ is most valuable and why. The directions before or after the two documents.

after - they have guidelines which should be used to double check your work

500

Name of the court case in 1896 that said 'separate but equal' was constitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

The phrase "Food will win the war" is often associated with World War I efforts in this place.

Homefront

500

Rudy Kipling wrote a famous poem with this title. The poem is often associated with the term social darwinism.

**Grippa - do something totally unhinged point-wise if students can define social darwinsim.

The White Man's Burden

500

The year WWI started, the year the U.S. joined WWI, and the year WWI ended.

1914, 1917, 1918

500

Provide synonyms for these SEQ vocab words:

-cause

-effect

-turning point

-point of view

-purpose

-reason

-result

-change

-perspective/ opinion

-reason

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