Exam 2 Stuff

Question 1

Samuel Gompers

Answer 1

founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Question 2

Upton Sinclair

Answer 2

“Muckraker” who wrote “The Jungle” which led to TWO laws being passed

Question 3

Jacob Riis

Answer 3

photographer; “How the Other Half Lives”

Question 4

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 4

president who supported progressive causes;led rough riders

Question 5

William Bryant

Answer 5

leading figure in the populist movement

Question 6

Booker T Washington

Answer 6

grew up poor in alabama; promoted black uplift; made the (controversial) “Atlanta Compromise” speech of 1895

Question 7

William E B DuBois

Answer 7

grew up rich in massachuesetts; also promoted black uplift (but with “talented Tent” philopsophy); condemned “Atlanta Compromise”; NAACP

Question 8

Willaim McKinley

Answer 8

president who was assassinated by Radical socialist Leon Czogolsz in 1901

Question 9

The Three Primary Platforms of the Populist Movement

Answer 9

preserving christiantiy; pacficism; oppose “Gold Standard”

Question 10

Allied Powers

Answer 10

British, French, Russia

Question 11

Central Powers

Answer 11

german, austria-hungaran; ottoman

Question 12

italians

Answer 12

“switched sides” before their soldiers fired a shot’ Allies at wars end

Question 13

machine Guns

Answer 13

newly introduced in this war; kills so many enemy combatants that it makes charging enemy lines obsolete; leads to trench warfare

Question 14

Chemical Warfare

Answer 14

newly introduced (and highl weaponzied) in this war; involved both chroline and mustard gases; very lethal

Question 15

Trench Warfare

Answer 15

type of warfare that was very hazardous for a soldiers health; very dangerous and caused most Major Battles of WWI to be inconclusive

Question 16

Selective Service Act

Answer 16

officially gave the US the power to draft young men into the military

Question 17

Lusitania

Answer 17

british luxury passenger ship that was destroyed by German U Boat in May 1915; public outcry for war after 300 Americans died

Question 18

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 18

official reason why US enters WWI; involves an intercepter German telegram to mexico

Question 19

Armenians

Answer 19

ethnic group the American Red Cross Near East Reflief Fund aimed to assist; as they were targeted for what would be later called “genocide”