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WWI
A Splendid Little War
Law & Reform
Women
100
Policy by which one country controls the economy and the politics of another country.
What is imperialism?
100
What were the MAIN causes of WWI?
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism?
100
The year that the Spanish American War started and ended.
What is 1898?
100
election in which voters choose their party candidates.
What is a primary?
100
A person who worked for women's right to vote.
Who is a suffragist?
200
A group of corporations run together as one large company.
What is a trust?
200
Year that Russia signed a separate peace treaty with Germany.
What is 1918?
200
Commander-in-Chief during the Spanish American War.
Who is William McKinley?
200
Way for voters to remove an elected official from office.
What is a recall?
200
This gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
300
America was trading with Britain and France and selling them weapons.
What is the reason that Germany attacked neutral American ships?
300
The Spanish American war started when this ship got blown up in Havana Harbor in Cuba
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
300
Elected officials giving government jobs to their friends, family and political supporters, whether or not they can do the job?
What is the spoils system?
300
New earned opportunities for women in the early 1900s.
What are entrance into the professions, the ability to get a higher education and leadership roles in reform movements.
400
A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials.
What is a beauracracy?
400
Treaty that ended WWI, it was never joined by the United States.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
This future president was a Rough Rider who led the charge up San Juan Hill.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
This law made it illegal for businesses to eliminate competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
Amendment that women fought for to prohibit the sale of alcohol.
What is the eighteenth amendment?
500
Compensation in money or materials made by a defeated nation.
What is reparations?
500
Factories were no longer making weapons.
What is the reason that people lost jobs at the end of the war?
500
What the U.S. got at the end of the war.
What are Guam, the Phillipines and Puerto Rico?
500
This law created the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the railroad companies.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
President when the 19th Amendment was passed, he opposed women's suffrage.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?