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History 1302 Exam
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37
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Undergraduate 2
11/17/2011

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16th Ammendment
Definition
Congress has power to lay taxes on income
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17th Ammendment
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Direct Election fo Senators
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18th Ammendment
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Abolition of Liquor
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19th Ammendment
Definition
Womans Suffrage
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20th Ammendment
Definition
Determines when a president will be innorgurated
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Election of 1912
Definition
The most important election in the birth of the 1900's
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
Democrat president
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Theodore Rosevelt
Definition
Bull Moose/Progressive
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William Howard Taft
Definition
Republican
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Eugene Debs
Definition
Socialist
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Arch Duke Ferdinad
Definition
Assasinated in 1914, casue of World War 1
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Allies
Definition
United Kingdom, United States, France, Japan, Italy
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Central Powers
Definition
Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire
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Pancho Villa
Definition
Mexican rebel that led many attacks on Arizona, Texas, etc
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John J. Pershing
Definition
General in World war 1, leader of the American Expiditionary Force
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Louis D. Brandeis
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First Jew to hold a seat in supreme court
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Great Migration
Definition
Huge numbers of blacks moved their homes heading for better job opportunities that did not exist
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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
Telegram sent by Germany to Mexico and intercepted by the United Kingdom stating that Mexico should engage battle with America and their lost land would be reimbursed
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America Enters WW1
Definition
After German U-Boats sank ships housing Americans even after they previously stated the would cease unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917
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Russian Revolution
Definition
Consists of two major events during: The February Revolution that removed Tsar Nicholas from power and the Bolshevik Revolution (October Revolution) which overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union
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Espionage Act
Definition

Passed in June 1917, provided penalties of 20 years imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for those convicted of interfering with military recruitment. The law also authorized the Postmaster General to remove treasonable or seditious material from the mail

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U Boats
Definition
German war submarine used primarily during WW1, responsible for sinking many ships, primary reason America entered the war
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Lusitania
Definition
Ship sank in 1917 by German U Boat, killing almost 2000 people on board, and 159 of them were Americans
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Propaganda War
Definition
War of the printing press, thousands of banners, posters, and flyers where released in America to get citizens fired up about the war and eager to help
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14 Points
Definition
Formulation of a peace program presented by Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War 1, used to reach Central Power members
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League of Nations
Definition
One of Woodrow Wilsons 14 points, created in order to stop war, increase peace, enforce trade cooperation, enforce treaties, and disarment
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Spanish Flu
Definition
Mysterious virus new to the world that was responsible for killing more people than those who lost their lives in WWl
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Red Scare
Definition
fear of communism spreading in America
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Treaty fo Versallies
Definition
Treaty signed following the end of WWI
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15th Ammendment
Definition
Abolishment of Liquour
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The Volstead Act
Definition
Act of Congress, implemented the 18th Ammendment
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Marucs Garvey

 

Definition
Jamaican black rights activist
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Reteurn to Normalcy
Definition
Warren G Harding's slogan during his campaign for presidency
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Second KKK
Definition
The return of one of the most influential groups, over 4million members at one point
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