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AHSGE Standard 6
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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/18/2012

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Imperialism
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The United States joined European nations in a conquest smaller, "uncivilized" nations and to gain access to their resources and markets. This was known as
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Hawaii
Definition
What territory was annexed by the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean in 1898?
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Spanish-American War
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What war did the U.S. become involved in 1898?
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yellow journalism
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What name was given to the sesationalistic journalism that served as a majoe cause of the Spanish- American War?
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Rough Riders
Definition
What group of volunteers did T. Roosevelt lead in the famous charge at the Battle of San Juan Hill?
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Philippines
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What group pf islands in the south Pacific did the U.S. gain control over as a reult of the defeat of the Spanish?
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Panama Canal
Definition
President Roosevelt led the movment to build what canal in Central America?
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Roosevelt Corollary
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What addendum to the Monroe Doctrine was made by Roosevelt justifiying American intervention in the South American nations in trouble?
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Dollar Diplomacy
Definition
How did Taft's foreign diplomacy differ from Roosevelt's?
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Imperalism, Militarism, Nationalism, Alliances
Definition
What were the long term causes of the first World War?
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The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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What was the immediate cause of WWI?
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Sonking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note
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Why did the U.S. enter WWI?
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Tank and submarine
Definition
What types of technological innovations were used in WWI?
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Treaty of Versallies
Definition
What treaty ended the WWI?
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To expand your country
Definition
What was the purpose of imperialism
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trench warfare
Definition
What typre of fighting took place in World War I?
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British
Definition
Who came up with the idea if the tank?
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Submarine
Definition
What type of technological innovation did the Germans bring to WWI?
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Germany, Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Definition
Who were the Central Powers?
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espionage and sedition
Definition
What acts contributed to the Nativist hatred of immigrants especially during and after WWI?
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Women, African- Americans, Mexican Americans
Definition
NAme several groups of people who benefited from the diminish workforce during WWI.
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United States
Definition
Which Country refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles because the League of Nations was includded in it?
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League of Nations
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Name the orginization in which the nations if the world would join together to ensure security and peace for all members.
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
Which president supported the League of Nations?
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Republications
Definition
Which political party rejected the League of Nations?
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Red Scare
Definition
An intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas that gripped the U.S. during the 1920s.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition
Trial in which two immigrants were given an nfair trial due to their ethnic background and were eventually put to death.
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Red Summer
Definition
Name given to the summer 1919 in which race riots erupted in about 25 cities nationwide.
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
By 1922, this organization's membership had grown to about 100,000 and by 1924 to 4 million.
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Great Migration
Definition
Migration of blacks from the South to the North for jobs.
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Quota
Definition
A number limit set up by laws to limit annual immigration.
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Asian immigration
Definition
This type of immigration was banned altogether in the 1920s.
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Cars, planes, home appliances
Definition
List several technological innoivations in the 1920s.
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
African American literary awakening of the 1920s was known as...?
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Zora Neale Hurston
Definition
African-American author of "Their Eyes were Watching God."
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Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes
Definition
List three leading poets/writers of the Harlem Renaissance
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Jazz
Definition
This type of music grew out of African American music in the south, especially ragtime and blues.
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Jazz Age
Definition
The 1920s referred to as what type of age?
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Speakeasies
Definition
Illegal bars that flourished during prohibition.
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Scopes Trial
Definition
Case over the teaching the theory if evolution in the classroom.
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