Unit 2 Review The US on the Brink of Change: Progressivism, Imperialism, and WWI

Unit 2 Review

The US on the Brink of Change:Progressivism, Imperialism, and

WWI

Directions:• Each team will get an opportunity to

answer a question (completely random)• If you get it correct your team will get 5

points, however if you get it wrong you will lose 2 points and….

• The question would move to the next group, and so on until it returns to the original group (same rules apply with the points)

• Each group is allowed 2 passes

Practice

• What event is being held on Friday, March 13th?

• March Madness

Innovation

• Technological change when factories and machines replaced hand tools and small shops.

• Industrial Revolution

Imperialism

• Secretary of State who urged Congress to purchase Alaska from Russia.

• Seward

Reform

• Small factories that have poor working conditions.

• Sweatshops

Imperialism

• Belief it was America’s duty to spread democracy & culture to the world’s inferior peoples.

• White Man’s Burden

WWI

• Development of a nations armed forces and supplies to be more powerful than a potential enemy .

• Militarism

WWI Abroad

• Man whose assassination sparked WWI.

• Franz Ferdinand

Imperialism

• Isthmus acquired for quick passage between Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

• Panama

WWI @ Home

• Change from peacetime to wartime production necessary for victory in war.

• Mobilization

Reform

• Crowded, rundown apartment houses in cities.

• Tenements

Reform

• The right to vote for women.– Ex- Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul

made the greates contribution to this

• suffrage

WWI• Tactical method used to assure our

troops and supplies safely crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

• Convoy

Imperialism

• Sensational news with lurid headlines designed to sell papers and influence public opinion.

• Yellow Journalism

WWI Abroad

• German plan to attack Paris through Belgium and reunite to fight Russia.

• Schlieffen Plan

Innovation

• Immigrant who started one of America’s largest steel companies

• Andrew Carnegie

Reform• Woman who worked to educate

and train immigrants in community centers such as the Hull House.

• Jane Adams

WWI @ Home

• Planned effort to shape peoples ideas and opinions about the war.

• Propaganda

Innovation

• Complete control of a product or service in order to maximize profits.

• Monopoly

Reform• Illegal use of political power for

personal gain

• Graft

Imperialism

• This nation rejected our initial offers to purchase land for a canal, so we instigated a revolt against them.

• Colombia

Reform

• Author of The Jungle a book that exposed poor conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry.

• Upton Sinclair

WWI

• Two alliance systems in Europe prior to the outbreak of WWI.

• Triple Alliance & Triple Entente

Imperialism

• Increasing US investment in foreign nations to gain influence in foreign policy

• Dollar Diplomacy

WWI Abroad

• Money Germany owed to Allies for damages done during war.

• Reparations

WWI @ Home

• Official position taken by the US during the early years of WWI.

• Neutrality

Reform

• Journalists who exposed corruption in industry and politics

• Muckrakers

Imperialism

• President who promoted Dollar Diplomacy.

• Taft

Reform

• Constitutional amendment that granted women suffrage.

• 19th Amendment

WWI Abroad

• Treaty that ended Russo-German hostilities.

• Brest-Litovsk Treaty

Imperialism

• Areas of one country whose resources and control are claimed by another.

• Spheres of influence

Imperialism

• Agreement for free trade in China

• Open Door Policy

WWI

• Treaty that brought an (unfair) end to WWI

• Treaty of Versailles

Innovation

• Organizations of workers formed to get higher pay and better working conditions.

• Labor unions

WWI @ Home

• Laws used to silence anti-war pacifists and newspaper editors

• Espionage and Sedition Acts

WWI @ Home

• Mass movement of African Americans to northern cities in search of factory work during WWI.

• Great Migration

Imperialism

• Spanish General whose reconcentration campaign starved 1000s of Cubans.

• Butcher Weyler

WWI Abroad

• Two most harmful technological advances of WWI.

• U-Boat and Machine Gun

Reform

• Process to remove an unpopular official from office.

• Recall

WWI Abroad

• Means by which Britain was able to bottle up the German navy and prevent US goods from reaching the Central Powers.

• Blockade

Imperialism

• Struggle to balance interests with ability, to be needed yet hated in foreign nations

• Paradox of Power

Reform

• Movement to restrict consumption of alcoholic beverages.

• Prohibition/ Temperance

Industrialization

• He controlled 90% of all oil refineries in the US.

• John D. Rockefeller

Imperialism

• This journalist, who exploited events in Cuba just to sell more papers his rival, now has a famous prize named for him.

• Joseph Pulitzer

WWI @ Home

• Presidential plan for world peace following WWI

• 14 Points

Imperialism

• Three territories gained at the end of the Spanish-American War.

• Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

Reform

• Industrial leaders who made their profits at the expense of their workers, competition, and the environment.

• Robber barons

Imperialism

• Secretary of State who opened trade with China and encouraged equal access for all nations.

• John Hay

WWI @ Home

• Series of laws passed to draft young men into the armed forces.

• Selective Service Acts

Reform

• City organizations that controlled politics, often through corrupt means.

• Political Machines

WWI Abroad

• Commander who led the AEF into Europe.

• John J “Blackjack” Pershing

Imperialism

• Commander who took out Spanish fleet in Philippines at start of Span-Amer War

• Dewey

WWI @ Home

• Attempt to persuade Mexico to declare war on the US.

• Zimmerman Note

WWI @ Home

• Element that killed the most American people during WWI.

• Influenza

Reform

• Opportunity for voters to introduce legislation.

• Initiative

WWI Abroad

• Only major naval battle of WWI– Fought in the North Sea

• Jutland

Imperialism

• Extreme nationalist feelings that encourage aggressive foreign policies.

• Jingoism

Imperialism

• Addition to the Monroe Doctrine that declared the US to have “police powers” over events in Latin America.

• Roosevelt Corollary

WWI Abroad

• World’s first international political organization.

• League of Nations

Reform

• Environmental movement to protect our natural resources.

• Conservation

Imperialism

• Spanish ambassador who called Pres McKinley a coward.

• DeLome (Letter)

WWI @ Home

• Foreign policy advocated by rejecting the Treaty of Versailles.

• Isolation

Imperialism

• Addition of new territory to an existing country

• Annexation

WWI Abroad

• Who, by country, were the Big 4?

• France, Great Britain, Italy, US

WWI

• Nickname for US foot soldiers in WWI.

• Doughboy.

Imperialism

• When nations or groups have the authority to govern themselves and make decisions about their future.

• Self-determination.

WWI

• First nation to institute a communist government.

• Russia

Imperialism

• Teddy’s volunteer cavalry who helped capture Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish American war.

• Rough Riders

WWI

• Triple Alliance nation that switched its allegiance to the Allied powers at the outbreak of war.

• Italy

Imperialism

• Site of the first battle of the Spanish-American War.

• Philippines

Reform

• When voters cast ballots to decide upon party nominees in upcoming elections.

• Direct Primary / Primary Elections

WWI @ home

• Method used to pay for 2/3rds of the war costs

• Liberty Bonds

Imperialism

• US promise not to occupy Cuba following Spanish-American War.

• Teller Amendment

Reform

• This amendment banned the manufacture, sale, or possession of alcoholic beverages.

• 18th Amendment

Imperialism

• Island nation where US investors overthrew the Queen and asked for annexation.

• Hawaii

Reform

• She worked to eliminate children’s labor, women’s labor and sweatshop conditions.

• Florence Kelley

WWI

• Final battle fought in WWI, in which Allies pushed through last line of GRM defenses.

• Argonne Forest

Imperialism

• One of our first imperial acquisitions, it was an unoccupied island in the middle of the Pacific.

• Midway

Unit 2

• What I need to do in order to pass tomorrows test.

• Study!