Unit 7: Important Concepts

Question 1

Austrian Ballot

Answer 1

Secret Ballot: No one knows how a citizen voted

Question 2

Initiative

Answer 2

Voting publicly to petition state government to consider bills wanted by people

Question 3

Square Deal

Answer 3

Control of the corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States’ natural resources.

Question 4

Conservation

Answer 4

Movement in America to begin preserving natural resources and stop the rapid destruction of these resources and land.

Question 5

Guerrilla Warfare

Answer 5

a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes

Question 6

“Remember the Maine!”

Answer 6

Yellow Journalism placing blame on Spanish for the explosion of the Maine

Question 7

Conscription

Answer 7

subjected all white males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five to military service

Question 8

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (U-Boats)

Answer 8

Germany declared Unrestricted Submarine Warfare because they couldn’t distinguish certainly enough from merchant and armed vessels.

Question 9

Yellow Journalism

Answer 9

journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

Question 10

Recall

Answer 10

Voters have the right to remove elected representatives from office

Question 11

Referendum

Answer 11

Gave voters the right to decide if a proposed state law should be passed

Question 12

Trust Busting

Answer 12

TR defined the Sherman Anti-trust act to have good trusts and bad trusts. Bigness is not Badness. Opportunity for mass production savings, but not monopoly.

Question 13

New Nationalism

Answer 13

TR progressive political policy. government protection of human welfare and property rights

Question 14

Spheres of Influence

Answer 14

In international affairs, the territory where a powerful state exercises the dominant control over weaker states or territories

Question 15

Jingoism

Answer 15

is aggressive, nationalistic and patriotic expansion.

Question 16

Direct Primary

Answer 16

Choice of who runs for office to voters, rather than political bosses.

Question 17

National Forest

Answer 17

protect the landscape for continued and responsible lumbering.

Question 18

New Freedom

Answer 18

Woodrow Wilson domestic policy emphasized business competition and small government. It sought to reign in federal authority, release individual energy, and restore competition. free economy

Question 19

Big-Stick Diplomacy

Answer 19

The policy held by Teddy Roosevelt in foreign affairs. The readiness to use military force if necessary. intimidating countries without harming them.

Question 20

Imperialism

Answer 20

the rapid expansion of pretty much all of the powerful countries. they all wanted to break off pieces of other places.

Question 21

“Normalcy”

Answer 21

the promise of Harding, president after WW1, to return to how life was before. that would have been cool if it weren’t for the whole WW2 thing…

Question 22

Self-Determination

Answer 22

essentially, if your country is committed to basic human rights and cooperation with other nations, you will essentially be left alone.

Question 23

Collective Security

Answer 23

an agreement between many countries to help and protect each other.