Black in America
What are two reasons Black Americans moved to Northern cities during WW1?
The KKK, Jim Crow laws, and city jobs
What caused so many Irish people to leave their country?
Potato famine
Why did many immigrants vote for political machines?
Political machines got them citizenship, jobs, support, and connections
Which major Asian country did the US gain in the Spanish American War?
The Philippines
Who killed Archduke Ferdinand?
Serbian nationalists who wanted Bosnia to leave Austria-Hungary
What region of Africa were most slaves taken from?
West Africa
What was the first ethnic group to be banned from US immigration?
Chinese
What is the definition of graft?
When someone illegally uses their position, especially politically, for personal profit
What is the only territory gained by the US from the Spanish American War that we still own?
Puerto Rico
Why did Italy join the Allied Powers instead of the Central Powers?
They were promised Austro-Hungarian land.
Name one president involved in the War on Drugs.
Nixon, Reagan, or Clinton
What was the first major non-white group to come to the Americas?
What is the name of the person at the top of a political machine?
City boss
Who are buffalo soldiers?
All Black US military units of the Spanish American War
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
An intercepted message from Germany saying they would help Mexico take California back from the US if they helped win the war
What is the name of the film that popularized the KKK around WW1?
Birth of a Nation
By World War I, how much of the US population was foreign-born?
1/3
Which city was the political machine Tammany Hall in?
NYC
Why did the Spanish American War cause the US to want the Panama Canal?
They now had territory in Asia and the Caribbean, that were separated by the American continents
What are 3 reasons the US joined WW1?
Zimmerman Telegram, ties to Britain and France, Germans sinking merchant ships, the Lusitania cruise ship, rise of communist Russia
What is the difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?
Black codes tried to make Black Americans criminals for the 13th amendment loophole, while Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation.
Besides potato famine, what is one of the main reasons immigrants came to the US?
Religious persecution, bad economies
What are two city services political machines provided?
Firefighting, sewage treatment, policing, and water
Who led the Rough Riders of the Spanish American War?
Teddy Roosevelt
What country did the Ottoman Empire become?
Turkey