Westward Expansion
What are sooners?
People that arrived to Oklahoma early
What is Nativism?
Favoritism toward Native born citizens
What was prohibition?
sale, making, transporting alcohol is illegal
What event got the ball rolling for WW1?
Assassination of Ferdinand
What are Reparations?
War debts that must be paid
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
Group that used violence and terror to keep African Americans from exercising their rights
Who assassinated Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What is the Homestead Act?
Gave land to U.S. citizens and required them to live there for 10 years
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Invention of new machines
1) What business leader had a monopoly in the oil industry?
2) Who created a assembly line that makes cars?
1) John D. Rockefeller
2) Henry Ford
When did WW1 start and end?
1914-1918
1) What is the Zimmerman Note?
2) How did it play out?
1) German note to Mexico to invade the US
2) GB intercepted it
What is segregation?
Forced separate facilities for both white and black Americans
Who invented the plane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
What are boarding schools?
Schools that tried to assimilate Native Americans
What is laissez-faire?
Hands off economy/little to no govt control
1) Who invented the light bulb?
2) Who invented the telephone?
1) Thomas Edison
2) Alexander Graham Bell
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
Germany's war plan to take Paris
What three ships were sunk by German U-Boats
Lusitania
Sussex
Arabic
What two things did the Women's Temperance Movement push for?
1) Women's rights
2) Prohibition
What is Reconstruction?
Process of reuniting the South with the North after the Civil War
What led to the decline of the pony express?
1) Railroads
2) Telegraph
2) What is the immigration station in San Francisco?
1) Ellis Island
2) Angel Island
What are muckrackers?
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and govt
What are the four causes of WW1?
Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
New alliances
What two ways did the govt raise money for the war?
1) Taxes
2) bonds
What do the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments have in common?
All push for rights for African Americans
What is Imperialism?
Building an empire by having colonies
What is the trail of tears?
Forced Natives to walk to the Indian Territory, killing 4,000 people
What Amendment made it so the people elect senators?
17th
What is the 18th and 21st Amendments?
18th: Started Prohibition
21st: Repealed the 18th
Who was in the Triple Entente?
France
Britain
Russia
1) What was the fourteen points?
2) What treaty officially ended WW1?
2) Treaty of Versailles
1) What was the need for political bosses?
2) What is an example of fraud in the Gilded Age?
1) Growth of cities
2) Casting fake names/Bribe
What is Nationalism?
Devotion to your country
1) What is an Initiative
2) What is a referendum?
1) Bill organized by the people
2) A vote on the initiative
1) What President was shot and continued to talk?
2) What President ALLEGELLY got stuck in a bathtub?
1) Teddy
2) Taft
Who are the three progressive presidents?
Teddy
Taft
Wilson
Who was in the Central Power?
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
What four things did the Treaty of Versailles require Germany to do?
1) Give land back to France
2) Pay reparations
3) Take blame for starting the war
4) Shrink military
How did Benjamin Franklin feel when he discovered electricty?
Shocked
What two ways did WW1 affect AMerica?
1) strengthened military
2) Accelerated racial and gender equality