7.1.3 The Progressive Ideal

Question 1

What did the 18th Amendment do?

Answer 1

It banned alcohol.

Question 2

What was the Blight of Industrialization?

Answer 2

Poor conditions from rapid growth.

Question 3

Who ran in the Election of 1912?

Answer 3

Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson ran.

Question 4

What was New Freedom?

Answer 4

Wilson’s reforms for business and banking.

Question 5

What was the Progressive Era?

Answer 5

A time of social and political change.

Question 6

What were Muckrakers?

Answer 6

Journalists exposing corruption.

Question 7

What did the Pure Food and Drug Act do?

Answer 7

Ensured food safety with a 1906 law.

Question 8

What did Ida Tarbell do?

Answer 8

Exposed Standard Oil’s corruption.

Question 9

What is Progressivism?

Answer 9

A movement for change and reform.

Question 10

What is Industrialization?

Answer 10

Economic growth changing cities.

Question 11

What did Jacob Riis write about?

Answer 11

Poor living conditions.

Question 12

What did Upton Sinclair write?

Answer 12

Wrote The Jungle about meatpacking.

Question 13

What did the 16th Amendment do?

Answer 13

It created an income tax.

Question 14

What did the Meat Inspection Act do?

Answer 14

Made meat production safer.

Question 15

What is Urbanization?

Answer 15

The growth of cities.

Question 16

What is Migration?

Answer 16

Moving for better opportunities.

Question 17

What was the Bull Moose Party?

Answer 17

Roosevelt’s third-party run.

Question 18

What did the 19th Amendment do?

Answer 18

Gave women the right to vote.

Question 19

What is Laissez-Faire Economics?

Answer 19

Hands-off government in business.

Question 20

What did Lincoln Steffens write about?

Answer 20

Political corruption.

Question 21

What did the 17th Amendment do?

Answer 21

Allowed direct election of senators.

Question 22

What was the Populist Movement?

“Farmers Fight Back with the People’s Voice.”

Answer 22

Farmers and workers demanding reform.

Question 23

What is an Alliance?

Answer 23

An agreement between nations to help each other.

Question 24

What was the American Division?

Answer 24

The public was split on joining WWI.

Question 25

What was Wilson’s Stance on WWI?

Answer 25

Neutral at first, but joined due to Germany.

Question 26

What is a War Economy?

Answer 26

The U.S. changed its economy to support the war.

Question 27

What are Reparations? ## Footnote "You pay for it!"

Answer 27

Payments made by Germany for war damages.

Question 28

What is Article 231? ## Footnote "It was your fault"

Answer 28

It blamed Germany for WWI.

Question 29

What is Militarism?

Answer 29

Building up strong armies.

Question 30

What are the Fourteen Points?

Answer 30

Wilson’s peace plan after WWI.

Question 31

What was the Meuse-Argonne Campaign?

Answer 31

A major U.S. battle in WWI.

Question 32

Who was General John J. Pershing?

Answer 32

U.S. Army leader in WWI.

Question 33

What was the Second Battle of the Marne?

Answer 33

A battle that pushed Germans back, marking a turning point.

Question 34

What are Liberty Bonds?

Answer 34

People lent money to the U.S. for war.

Question 35

What was the Convoy System? ## Footnote Picture a group of ships surrounded by navy destroyers, moving together like a pack of animals protecting their young from predators.

Answer 35

Warships protected supply ships.

Question 36

What was the Civil War in Russia?

Answer 36

Fighting after the Russian Revolution.

Question 37

What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Answer 37

Russia left WWI. ## Footnote "Brest-Litovsk, Russia lost, Germany won at heavy cost!"

Question 38

What was the Bolshevik Revolution? ## Footnote Bye Bye Tsar, Hello Communism"

Answer 38

A 1917 uprising leading to communist rule.

Question 39

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

Answer 39

Germany tried to ally with Mexico.

Question 40

What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?

Answer 40

Germany attacked ships without warning.

Question 41

What is Neutrality?

Answer 41

Not picking sides in war.

Question 42

What is Nationalism?

Answer 42

Strong loyalty to one’s country.

Question 43

What was the Triple Entente?

Answer 43

An alliance of Britain, France, and Russia.

Question 44

What is Imperialism?

Answer 44

Expanding into new lands.

Question 45

What was the Triple Alliance?

Answer 45

An alliance of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.