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What was the name of the strike that resulted in the death of the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Riot
100
Why were farmers poor in the west during the 19th century?
overproduction, high prices for equipment
100
What is an early example of imperialism?
Seward's Folly Perry's seizure of Japanese trade Acquisition of the Mexican Cession
100
What did Upton Sinclair write and what were the results?
The Jungle - Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act
100
What is the name of the man who killed the Archduke of Austria-Hungary?
Gavrilo Princip
200
Who killed President James Garfield?
Charles Guiteau
200
Who wrote "A Century of Dishonor?"
Helen Hunt Jackson
200
What is white man's burden?
it is the white man's responsibility to "clean" and teach minority groups in the USA.
200
Why did Wilson win the Election of 1912?
Republicans split the vote between Taft and TR
200
What are two causes of American entrance into WWI?
Sinking of the Lusitania Breaking of the Sussex Pledge Zimmerman Note
300
What is "yellow peril?"
fear and/or hate of Asian minorities in the USA
300
What was one effect of the Mexican Cession?
Increased tension over slavery
300
Who wrote "The Influence of Sea Power?"
Alfred Mahan
300
Who did Taft fire to anger Republicans?
Gifford Pinchot
300
Who does Wilson reluctantly support after Victoriano Huerta's regime falls in Mexico?
Venustiano Carranza
400
What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?
Union Pacific RR hired themselves to work on western RR and charged inflated rates, with the full knowledge of US Congressmen
400
What are two items on Populists' agenda?
nationalizing railroads, telegraph and telephone graduated income tax unlimited coinage of silver
400
What are two provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
Cuba is independent. US pays Spain $20 million for western lands.
400
Name 3 provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
Security Treaty Disarmament of Axis Powers Germany had to accept blame and pay reparations League of Nations
400
What is the name of the ship that was sunk after the Lusitania in 1915 but before the Sussex in 1916?
Arabic
500
What was the name of the law President Arthur enacted to rid the nation of the spoils system?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
500
What was the name of the Populists before they became the Populists?
Farmer's Alliance
500
What is the name of the addition to the Treaty of Paris (1898) that dictated Cuba's relationship to the USA?
Platt Amendment
500
Name the four men present at the Paris Conference.
Wilson, Orlando, George, Clemenceau
500
Who was the leader of the propaganda campaign during WWI?
George Creel