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| Allies | During World War I, Russia, France, Great Britain, and later the US |
| Annex | Join or attach |
| Arsenal | Place where weapons are made or stored |
| At the Paris Peace Conference, how did President Wilson’s program fro peace fare? | The only country that agreed to the peace was France |
| Cartel | loosely joined association of business that make the same product. |
| Central powers | In World War I, German and Austria Hungary |
| Compare and contrast the economies and population of North and South prior to the Civil War. | The North was becoming more urban and the population more than twice the size of South. The north is still more industries the south. The south was becoming larger and more diverse with immigrants. |
| Confederate States of America | Seven seceding south states formed in 1861. |
| Deflation | Drop in prices |
| Describe Johnson’s postwar proposal for reconstruction. | It pardon southern who swore allegiance to the union. It permitted each state to hold constitutional convention without Lincolns 10% allegiance requirement. States were required to void secession, abolish slavery, and ratify the thirteen amendments. States could hold election and resume participation in the union. |
| Due to the discovery of ____the US broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. | U-boats (submarines) |
| Explain how the notion of imperialism affected the beginnings of World War I. | We could only expand our economic markets by expanding and dominating others |
| Fifteenth amendment | Ratified in 1870 guarantee African Americans voting rights. |
| Fourteen points | President Wilson’s proposal in 1918 for a postwar European peace |
| Fourteenth amendment | Ratified in 1868 Guaranteed citizens equal protection of the law. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Compromise of 1850 a law ordering all citizens of the U.S. To assist in returning slaves. |
| German submarines were aiming to attack ships carrying what items? | Weapons (arms) and ammunition |
| Great white fleet | A force of United States Navy ships that undertook a world cruise in 1907 |
| Horizontal consolidation | Process of bring together many firms that are in the same business to form large business. |
| How did Americans view German submarine warfare? | Uncivilized and barbaric |
| How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect slavery in the new territories? | It let people chose if they wanted slaves in the territories. To help keep building railroads. |
| How did the war’s end affect those directly involved in the war? | They were disillusioned by the realities of war |
| How did the World War I generals act on the battle field due to the use of modern weaponry? | They gave the order to attack because they didn’t know what to do |
| In 1860 where were the largest cities in the nation located? | In the North |
| List the provisions of the Compromise of 1850. | Congress would admit California as a free state. People of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide for they weather slavery would be legal. Congress would abolish the sale of enslaved people in Washington D.C. slavery itself would remain legal in Washington D.C. the fugitive slave law would be ordered. |
| Mass production | Manufacturing of goods in great amount. |
| Militarization | Policy of aggressively building up a nation’s armed forces in preparation of war |
| Mobilization | The readying of troops for war |
| Monroe doctrine | Declaration by President Monroe in 1823 that the United States would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Western Hemisphere |
| Most Americans opposed the central Powers because of Germany’s | They did not like the Kaiser because he was an autocrat and they saw Germany as cruel and cold blooded |
| Nationalism | Conversion to government ownership |
| Open door policy | American approach to China around 1900 favoring open trade relations between China and other nations |
| Popular Sovereignty | Policy letting the people in a territory weather slaves would be allowed there. |
| Populist | Supporter of the Populist Party, formed in 1892 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| Prejudice | An unreasonable favor over another group |
| Racism | Belief that differences in character or intelligence are due to one’s race and that asserts the superiority of one race over another or others |
| Reconstruction | Restoring the southern states to the union. |
| Roosevelt corollary | The extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which Roosevelt said that the right of the United States was to intervene in Latin American nations |
| Self determination | Power to make decisions about one’s own future |
| Social Darwinism | Natural selection. |
| Socialism | An economic and political philosophy that favors public control of property and income |
| Sphere of influence | Are of economic and political control exerted by one nation over another nation or other nations |
| Sussex pledge | Pledge by the German government in 1916 that its submarines would warn ships before attacking |
| Transcontinental Railroad Railway extending from coast to coast | Railway extending from coast to coast |
| The grange | Organization formed to help farmers cooperate economically and politically |
| Transcontinental railroad | Railway extending from coast to coast |
| Trust | A group of separate companies placed under the control of a single managing board |
| U boat | A German submarine |
| Union | The United States as a national unit |
| Versailles treaty | 1919 treaty that ended World War I |
| vertical consolidation | Process of get control of many different bisness that make up all phases of products development. |
| What did supporters of the Preparedness Movement advocate? | Supporting Britain and promoting patriotism |
| What did the Fugitive Slave Act specify? | Deny a jury trial to escaped slaves. |
| What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act give Kansas voters the right to do? | This allowed voters to decide weather they wanted to become a free or slave state. |
| What is the key difference between the North and the South? | The telegraph |
| What was Germany made to do as a result of the terms of the peace treaty? | Break up Czechoslovakia |
| What was the violent action Bosnia that triggered World War I? | The Archduke was assassinated |
| What was Wilson’s goal for the League of Nations? | International security and stability |
| When did President Wilson urge Congress to declare war on Germany? | August 4, 1914 |
| Who were the main supporters of the Republican Party? | Antislavery democrats, Wigs and free soldiers in the north. |
| Why did John Brown attack the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry? | He wanted to give the weapons to enslaved people. He had the dream for an uprising to punish slaveholders back and lead the U.S. in moral renewal. |
| Why did Southern States secede following the election of 1860? | Because they had no chance because the government controlled the government. Dec 20, 1860. |
| Why was much of Europe drawn into World War I? | Most were first or second generation immigrants from Europe |
| Why were submarine attacks successful? | They gave no warning |
| Yellow journalism | Type of newspaper coverage that emphasized sensational stories |
| Zimmerman telegram | 1917 note by German diplomat proposing an alliance with Mexico |
| Why did secessionists believe they had the right to leave the Union> | The southern states seceded because the republicans controlled the federal government. |
| What happened to the Democratic Party in the election of 1860? | They split so that they could vote for their own candidates. |
| The fourteen and fifteen amendment gave the African Americans the rights | Of citizenship equal protection under the law and suffrage. |
| Sharecropping | System of farming a farmer farms some portion of a planer’s land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment. |
| Tenant farming | Farmer rents land to farm from a planer. |
| Describe Lincoln’s postwar proposal for reconstruction | The plan was forgiving the south by offering a pardon. Deny pardon to all confederate military and government officials and southern who killed African American war pensioners. It permitted each state to hold constitutional conventions only after 10% of voter in the state had sworn allegiance to the union. State could then hold election and they resume full participation in the union. |
| In what was reconstruction a failure? | Left lasting bitterness among whites. The rebuilding of the south industry was slow while reconstruction was going on. Did not address groups such as farms, regulation of railroads, workers seeking safer conditions. |
| In what ways was reconstruction a success? | Republicans were able to rebuild the union and to help repair the war torn south. Reconstruction simulated the economic growth in the south and created new wealth in the North. |
| How did the compromise of 1877 help democrats? | They could regain the control of south politics. |
| Critics of powerful industrialists referred to them as. | robber barons |
| Economists call periods of boom and bust. | business cycle |
| As Americans moved into the territory west of the river | they pushed the Indians off their land |
| Why did many land agreements fall apart between settlers and natives | many had been signed without the Indians consent |
| The massacre at wounded knee result in the death of whom | Sitting Bull |
| What was the violent action Bosnia that triggered World War I? | the killing of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife |
| Why did the Indian rights movement occur? | because of American broken promises and treaties |
| What was the Dawes act | gave separate plots of land to each Native American family headed by a male |
| How did the white reformers believe Indians should be delta with? | break the Indians traditions |
| What happened at Sand Creek Colorado in 1864 | an Indian massacre of men, women, and children |
| Why did the farmers favor inflation | they got more money for their crops |
| Why did the bankers support deflation | they could make more money |
| Briefly describe the argument of Alfred T. | They believed that the white race was superior and the Indian nation should be conquered because it was less superior. |
| Describe Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy? | He was a peacemaker |
| For what reasons did Americans side with the Cuban rebels against Spain? | The US newspapers said that the sugar plantations in Cuba would be destroyed; the newspapers told the public what was going on an put pressure on the government |
| How did John D. Rockefeller gain control of the oil industry? | He undersold his competitors |
| How did Latin Americans relate to the U.S. action? To the Panama Canal? | It made for bad feelings |
| How did the 1895 dispute between the United | Britain and Venezuela had a dispute over ownership of a piece of territory between Venezuela and British Guiana. The US demanded that Britain acknowledge the Monroe Doctrine and arbitrate. Britain said that it did not have to acknowledge the Monroe Doctrine and arbitrate (but they did). |
| Imperialism | Policy by a stronger nation to create an empire by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally |
| Jingoism | A feeling of intense national pride and a desire for an aggressive foreign policy |
| List the gains that the U.S. attained from treaty with Spain | The US got the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines (residents were not citizens but protected by US) |
| President Taft was known for a foreign policy based on? | Dollar diplomacy |
| The first action of the Spain American War took place where? | In Havana, Cuba; the USS Maine was blown up and 250 soldiers were killed |
| What is the Rossevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine? | We wanted peace, but if people threatened us, we would fight |
| What was the Monroe Doctrine? | Opposed efforts by any outside power to control a nation |
| Why did American business leaders favor expansionism? | They thought that the economic problems of the US could be solved. Investments in other countries gave them political influence |
| Why did President Roosevelt threaten to use the U.S. Navy | The French were behind a revolt in Panama; Roosevelt got angry and said that Panama was independent. We had a 10 mile strip of land through Panama to build the canal and we were going to protect our land |
| How did the US get control of the land to build it? | When a French company that owned it got sick with yellow fever, the US bought the rights to built and therefore the land. |
| Why was the Panama Canal built? | To make global shipping faster and to move the Navy through quicker |
| How did World War I generals act on the battle field due to the use of modern weaponry? | they attacked when they should have retreated; therefore, many men died |
| Why did William Jennings Bryan lose the electron of 1896? | Taft said that he would carry on Roosevelt's plans and the people like Roosevelt |
| Describe the greenback party’s economic platform. | to create paper money |
| What was the purpose of the southern Homestead Act of 1866? | to offer free land to settlers to populate the area |
