Jeopardy

People Vocabulary Chapters

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Chapter 10 Misc.

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Leader in the battle against lynching.

Who was Ida B. Wells?

The author of The Jungle, which exposed the horrors of the meat-

packing industry.

Who was Upton Sinclair?

The leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Who was Frances Willard?

The social scientist who believed that a larger role by gov’t would improve the social environment.

Who was Lester Ward?

The lawyer who argued for a shorter workday for women.

Who was Louis Brandeis?

The growth of cities.

What is urbanization?

A New York apartment building with substandard conditions.

What is a tenement?

An effort to improve the human race by controlling breeding.

What is eugenics?

Allowed citizens to introduce a bill into the legislature and

required members to take a vote on it.

What is an initiative?

An economic theory advocating collective or social ownership of

factories, mines, and other businesses.

What is socialism?

The reason why most immigrants arriving in the US

after 1880 settled in cities.

What is jobs?

The amendment that helped women win the right to vote.

What is the 19th amendment?

The amendment that dealt with the direct election of senators.

What is the 17th amendment?

These would drive small businesses out of business by

lowering prices.

What are trusts?

This person felt that trusts should be dismantled by a strong federal

gov’t.

Who was Woodrow Wilson?

This country dealt the allies a hard blow when it withdrew from

WWI in early 1918.

What is Russia?

The group nicknamed Triple Entente during WWI.

Who were Britain, France, and Russia?

This caused US and German relations to deteriorate in 1915.

What is the attack on the Lusitania?

A tool by which business, labor, gov’t, and American opinion

were molded to fight.

What is propaganda?

The neutral country which Germany stormed through that caused Britain to declare war.

What is Belgium?

This city changed it’s form of gov’t after a hurricane. It used to be slow-moving with a large city council. It changed to a smaller more centralized gov’t which appointed 5 commissioners to

clean things up quickly.

What is Galveston, Texas?

The Zimmermann Telegram.

What is the telegram sent to the German ambassador of Mexico from Arthur Zimmermann of

Germany asking them to attack the United States in exchange for

the land that the US stole after the war. The British intercepted it

and the US declard war?

Laws requiring racial segregation.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Chronic wrongdoing gave the US the right to exercise

international police powers in the Western Hemisphere. Changed

the initial intention of the Monroe Doctorine.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

Compare and contrast Dollar Diplomacy and Big Stick Policy.

Big Stick Policy: don’t brag about American power…be so

strong others will just bow down. Ex: Panama Canal

Dollar Diplomacy: A milder approach to expansion and

interference in foreign gov’t. It substituted dollars for bullets.

Final Jeopardy

Explain why you agree or disagree with the following

statement: Problems of cities after 1850 can be traced directly

to unlimited immigration.

Disagree; Reasons: Business practices, including low wages and long hours, prevented people from

improving their surroundings. A lack or shortage of schools kepts them from improving their chances. The

influx of cheap labor from the farms complicated the problem.