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| The United States joined European nations in a race to conquest smaller, "uncivilized" nations and to gain access to their resources and markets. This was known as _________ |
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| What territory was annexed by the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean in 1898? |
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| What war did the U.S. become involved in 1898? |
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| What name was given to the sensational journalism that served as a major cause of the Spanish-American War? |
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| What group of volunteers did T. Roosevelt lead in the famous charge at the Battle of San Juan Hill? |
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| What group of islanders in the south Pacific did the U.S. gain control over as a result of the defeat of the Spanish? |
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| President Roosevelt led the movement to build what canal in Central America? |
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| What addendum to the Monroe Doctrine was made by Roosevelt justifying American intervention in the South America nations in trouble? |
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| How did Tafts foreign diplomacy differ from Roosevelts? |
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| What were the long term causes of the first World War? |
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| Imperialism, Militarism, Nationalism, Alliances |
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| What was the immediate cause of WW1? |
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| The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
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| Why did the U.S. enter WW1? |
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| Sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note |
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| What types of technological innovations were used in WW1? |
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| What was the purpose of imperialism? |
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| What type of fighting took place in World War 1? |
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| Who came up with the idea of the tank? |
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| What type of technological innovation did the Germans bring to WW1? |
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| Who were the Central Powers? |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
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| Who were the allied powers? |
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| France, Britain, U.S. Russia, Italy |
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| What acts contributed to the Nativist hatred of immigrants especially during and after WW1? |
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| Name several groups of people who benifited from the diminished workforce during WW1. |
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| Women, African-Americans, Mexican Americans |
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| Which country refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles because the League of nations was included in it? |
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| Name the organiztion in which the nations of the world would join together to ensure security and peace for all members. |
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| Which president supported the League of Nations? |
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| Which political party rejected the League of Nations? |
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| An intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas that gripped the u.s. during the 1920s. |
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| Trial in which two immigrants were given an unfair trial due to their ethnic background and were eventually put to death. |
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| Name given to the summer in 1919 in which race riots erypted in about 25 cities nationwide. |
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| By 1922, this organizations membership had grown to about 100,000 and by 1924 to 4 million. |
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| Migration of blacks from the south to the North for jobs. |
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| A number limit set up by laws to limit annual immigration. |
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| This type of immigration was banned altogether in the 1920s. |
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| List several technological innovations in the 1920s. |
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| Cars, planes, home appliances |
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| African American literary awakening of the 1920s was known as....? |
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| African American author of "Their Eyes were Watching God." |
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| List three leading poets/writers of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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| Claude McKay,Countee Cullen,Langston Hughes |
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| This type of music grew out of African American music in the south, especially ragtime and blues. |
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| The 1920s ferred to as what type of age. |
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| Illegal bars that flourished during prohibition. |
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| Case over the teaching the theory of evolution in the classroom. |
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