Immigration
The tall brick apartment buildings that immigrants were often crowded into, in cities
What is a tenement?
The kind of life that President Theodore Roosevelt believed in, which required exercise outdoors
What is "the strenuous life?"
Year that W. E. B. DuBois formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What is 1909?
Two of the MAIN causes of World War I
What are (name two of these) Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
The term for a person who is fleeing something in their home country, like violence or poverty
What is a refugee?
John Muir took Theodore Roosevelt to Yosemite, to influence him to care more about this particular issue
What is conservation?
The __ Amendment to the Constitution guarantees women the right to vote.
What is 19th?
Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian revolutionary, triggered the beginning of the war when he assassinated the heir to this empire
What is Austria-Hungary?
The process by which new immigrants were supposed to blend into American culture, giving up their native language or ways of dressing or behaving
What is assimilation?
A name for someone, like a president, who helps to pass laws forcing big monopolies to break up into smaller companies
What is a "trust-buster?"
This maternal figure became a famous progressive reformer who helped to secure labor protections for children and other workers.
Who was Mother Jones?
The communication from Germany to Mexico, intercepted by the British, was refered to as this
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
The place in the New York City harbor where immigrants would first arrive, when they came to the East Coast
What is Ellis Island?
This racist movie, one of the nation's first full length feature films, was screened at the White House by Woodrow Wilson in 1915
What is "The Birth of a Nation?"
This industry, in which many workers faced terrible injuries and which also endangered the people who consumed its products, was one that Upton Sinclair wrote books about, to alert the public
What is the meatpacking industry?
Year that the United States entered the war
What is 1917?
The attitude that some Americans have that people born in this country are superior to people who immigrated here
What is nativism?
Woodrow Wilson won reelection to the presidency in 1916 with this slogan
What is "He kept us out of war?"
What term is used to describe workers who are forced to accept extremely low pay and who have few rights?
What is "wage slave?"
What were the United Kingdom, France, and Russia?