Unit 0
A Primary Source...
What is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time the event happened.
Industrial Revolution...
What is a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods?
In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence
What is the Spanish American War?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
A Historian is...
Who is a person who studies the past?
Urbanization
What is an increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand?
Bias is...
What is a preference or perspective that influences how history is recorded or interpreted.
Jane Addams...
Who is the mother of Social Work? Who is the Founder of Settlement House Movement? Who is the First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom? Who founded the Hull House?
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
What is nativism?
Last battle of World War One, Americans landed in France and stopped the german Army from taking Paris.
What is the Argonne Forest?
Evidence is...
What is information or material used to support historical claims or interpretations?
The telephone was invented by this person...
Era at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to reform America economically, socially, and politically
What is the Progressive Era?
Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous
What is No Man's Land?
What is a physical object made or used by humans that provides information about the past?
These are poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
What are tenements?
Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
Who are muckrakers?
A 1916 WWI (1914-1918) battle between German and British forces. Ending in a stalemate, the bitter three-month conflict is notable for the high number of casualties.
What is the Battle of the Somme?