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160 acres to heads of household, 21 years old and up as long as they worked the land successfully for 5 years
Homestead Act
The spark that lit the fire for World War 1 was the assassination of ?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
First real movie star
Charlie Chaplin
This act broke up tribal land and fertile allotments were given to settlers or for government use and infertile allotments to natives
Dawes Act
Name the Triple Entente
Great Britain, France, Russia
What union was led by Samuel Gompers and advocated for wage increases and shorter work weeks
American Federation of Labor
What is the belief of spreading American ideals and culture called?
Moral Diplomacy
The cavalry led by Theodore Roosevelt during the war were called
Rough Riders
What union was led by Terence Powderly and advocated for an 8 hour work day and equal pay for work
Knights of Labor
Last straw the led to the Spanish American War
The sinking of the Maine
Which president annexed Hawaii?
William McKinley
What allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law
Referendum
What was the new type of fighting that called for long tunnels to be dug separated by barbed wire and “no mans land”
Trench Warfare
Name one of the two men who used Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst or Joseph Pulitzer
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union argued that alcohol
What document made Germany pay the war debt, give up land, and lose colonies
Treaty of Versailles
Act said that one cannot publish any disloyal criticism of the US government.
Sedition Act
What case allowed the 1st Amendment right to be taken away if they put people in clear danger?
Schenck vs USA
Attorney for Tennessee during the Scopes Monkey Trial
William Jennings Bryan
What date did the fighting of WWI end?
November 11, 1918
Name of the trail on the Great Plains where most cattle traveled making their journey to the slaughterhouses of Chicago
Chisolm Trail
What year did the United States enter WWI
1917
At the start of WWI, what military rejected Adolf Hitler
Austria
Who is the famous Tennessee 'sharpshooter’ who captured 132 Germans and was given the Congressional Medal of Honor
Alvin York
Why did the US urbanize during the late 1800s
Machinery on farms completely eliminated the need for farmers and land was no longer available