| A | B |
|---|
| temperance | avoidance of alcohol |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Gave women the right to vote |
| NAACP | a civil rights organization that supports economic and educational equality for African Americans. |
| grandfather clause | allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction |
| National Urban League | an organization that aided many African Americans moving from the South by helping them find jobs and housing in northern cities. |
| Square Deal | the interests of businesspeople, laborers, and consumers should be balanced for the public good. |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of contaminated food and drugs. |
| Sixteenth Amendment | Allows the federal government to collect income tax |
| Federal Reserve Act | law that created the modern banking system |
| Federal Trade Commission | a federal agency that had the power to investigate and punish unfair trade practices |
| imperialism | building an empire by founding colonies or conquering other nations. |
| isolationism | A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs |
| Seward's Folly | Purchase of Alaska |
| Boxers | A Chinese secret society that blamed the country's ills on foreigners, especially missionaries, and rose in rebellion in 1899-1900 |
| Open Door Policy | A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. |
| Yellow Journalism | Writing that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers |
| Panama Canal | a ship waterway 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914) |
| nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country |
| militarism | the aggressive strengthening of armed forces |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | heir to the throne of Austria Hungary; assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb.; sparked WWI |
| Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US |
| trench warfare | A strategy in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
| stalemate | A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
| Uboats | German submarines used in World War I |
| Lusitania | American boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI |
| Sussex | Passenger-liner sunk in March 1916 by Germany. This led Wilson to break diplomatic relations with Germany if they did not comply with his commands. |
| Zimmerman Note | Message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico |
| Committees For Public Information | published posters, pamphlets and gave short speeches delivered in movie theaters and churches. |
| Selective Service Act | Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft |
| Liberty Bonds | sold to American people to raise money for the war efforts |
