Reconstruction/Imperialism/ Span-Am War
The laws in the South that legalized segregation:
Jim Crow
The Gilded Age is also know as the __________-ization time period
industrialization
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Era
The pre-fix urban means:
"City" or relating to cities
The main type of warfare in WWI
trench
The year the Civil War ended:
1865
The definition of imperialism from our lesson:
The process of building an empire through conquering other countries or founding colonies
The richest man in American history, who made a monopoly in the oil industry:
Rockefeller
Name the three Presidents of Progressivism:
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
What event sparked the start of WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This type of news reporting makes up or exaggerates the truth to attract readers and sway opinions:
yellow journalism
This event sparked the start of the Spanish American war:
The explosion and sinking of the USS Maine
Thomas Edison is best known for inventing the:
The man who made automobiles accessible to the average American citizen:
lightbulb
Ford
This was the "gate to America" that most immigrants had to pass through in New York in the early 1900s:
Ellis Island
This country had to admit sole blame for WWI and was inflicted with reparations that it could never pay back
Germany
Speak softly, but carry a big stick
Explain the difference between annexation and conquest:
Annexation is the conquest/taking over of a place without violence
By 1913, this country was producing the majority of the world's manufacturing goods:
the US
This movement sought to end the consumption of alcohol:
temperance
The lesson said that America's most important contribution to WWI was:
Fresh and enthusiastic troops
The US made this major land purchase in 1867:
Alaska
volunteer cavalry
Who gave the industrialization time period the nickname the "Gilded Age"?
Mark Twain
Roosevelt took action after reading The Jungle, a book that outlined the terrible conditions in:
It outlined how terrible the conditions in meat-packing plants were, including rats in the ground meat
What acronym outlines the causes of ww1?
What does each letter stand for?
MAIN
Militarism
Alliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism
What major obstacle to Westward Expansion was solved by Carnegie's steel?
The two locations where the Spanish-American War was primarily fought:
Cuba and the Philippines
What is the idea that in business, it is "survival of the fittest" and some humans were just socially better than others?
social Darwinism
Consumerism is the idea that a person's happiness depends on:
buying material things
Two factors that contributed to Germany's defeat in WWI:
Austria-Hungary's collapse
German sailors revolting
tired from long trench warfare
This type of advertising tries to persuade you to buy a product by manipulating your emotions:
Aggressive Advertising
The 13th Amendment did this:
Abolished slavery
Name two labor issues from industrial labor:
child labor
unsafe conditions
no worker compensation or laws
women and minorities receiving low pay
Wilson won the Presidency because Roosevelt and Taft split the vote.
What party did Taft run for?
What party did Teddy run for?
Republican
Progressive/Bull Moose
On what date did WWI end? Full date needed.
11/11/1918
Name three territories that the US gained as a result of the Spanish-American War:
Name three reasons that the US was sympathetic towards the Cubans prior to the Spanish-American War:
The Cuban struggle for freedom was like our struggle against the British
Cuba was geographically close to the US
The media played up the drama of what was going on (Yellow Journalism)
Cuban citizens were being sent to concentration camps
Also acceptable:
American business interests
Name three things from our lesson that encouraged Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny
Homestead Act
California Gold Rush
also acceptable:
transcontinental RR
the American Dream
Name three of the issues of city living that happened as a result of urbanization:
crime
sanitation
fire
poor living conditions
Name three things that happened as a result of WWI:
Harsh punishments were inflicted on the German people, leading to long-term resentment
The Treaty of Versailles failed to create lasting peace
Russia established a communist country
Ottoman Empire fell apart
US economy boomed
US gov and military got stronger
US became more isolationist
League of Nations was formed but US didn't join it
Challenge: Each member of your team must produce two different sets of notes to receive the 900 points. Partial points will be awarded for one set of notes each.
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