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Question 1

Suffrage

Answer 1

Full momentum early 1900s. Carrie Chapman Catt leadership - protests, parades, action from Congress

Question 2

Prohibition

Answer 2

Women heavily involved. Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League. 1919; 18th amendment passed.

Question 3

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 3

African-American leader, founded Niagara Movement 1905. Fought job discrimination. 1908; lynching threatened in Springfield => Jane Addams and John Dewey founded the NAACP.

Question 4

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Answer 4

Founded by Jane Addams, John Dewey, and W.E.B. DuBois in 1909. Racial equality through the courts. Still goes through today.

Question 5

1920s

Answer 5

Rural to urban society. Boom times for farmers starting to end.

Question 6

First successful flight.

Answer 6

December 17, 1903 by Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Question 7

Events up to Spanish-American War

Answer 7

1895; Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule. Opportunity for US expansionists.

Question 8

Spanish-American War

Answer 8

1898, Spain sunk the Maine, getting the US involved. May 1, 1898 first battle. Rough Riders. 5000 people died mostly because of yellow fever.

Question 9

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 9

Started 1904. US thought Japanese might invaded US territory in the Philippines. Roosevelt got them to sign the Treaty of Portsmouth in August 1905.

Question 10

Panama Canal

Answer 10

Panama gained independence in 1903; Roosevelt acquired route for canal.

Question 11

Monroe doctrine

Answer 11

Roosevelt strengthened it; only US could intervene in Latin America

Question 12

start of Great War

Answer 12

June 28, 1914; Serbian assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Engulfed by mid-August.

Question 13

Alliances during WWI

Answer 13

Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire vs. Great Britain, France, Russia, US, and Belgium. Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway were neutral.

Question 14

US in Great War

Answer 14

August 1914; US neutral, but supported Allies. Anti-German sentiment.

Question 15

Lusitania

Answer 15

May 1915; German U-boat attacked with no warning.

Question 16

US war declaration

Answer 16

1917; Germany U-boats after US cargo ships, called Mexico to attack US.

Question 17

US during war

Answer 17

Required all men 21-31, then 18 to 45, to register. Women and African-Americans took over the jobs while they were overseas.

Question 18

Germany attacked

Answer 18

Summer: moved through France until Marne River on Sept 5th, 1914. Trenches built, stalemate.

Question 19

US soldiers arrive in 1917

Answer 19

arrived in France in summer. Commander General John J. Pershing.

Question 20

Events in German favor

Answer 20

Austro-Hungarian army through Italy’s defenses => British and France move troops. Early 1918; Bolshevik wing signed treaty with Germany. 500,000 German troops moved to western front.

Question 21

Russian Revolution

Answer 21

Started 1917. Early 1918, Bolshevik wing of Communist Party took control of government.

Question 22

Germans pushed back mid-July

Answer 22

Final assault; September, Allies captured St. Mihiel railroad. Cut supply line on November 7, 1918. November 11, German signed armistice.

Question 23

Nations from collapse of Russian Empire

Answer 23

Finland, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania

Question 24

Nations from Austro-Hungarian Empire

Answer 24

Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia