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- 1Queen Liliuokalanihawaiian queen who tried to take the
peoples voting rights away and when the people revolted she stepped down - 2Stanford DoleBecame President after the queen stepped down
- 3William StewardSecretary of State; signed on March 30 1876 for Alaska land from Russia for 7.2 million
- 4William McKinley25th President; republican; gold prospector; mountain in Alaska given last name in his honor
- 5USS MaineShip that was shot down during German submarine warfare
- 6Theodore Rooseveltsupported the allied side during WW1; got volunteer's together to fight in war
- 7Treaty of Paris1898 - ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence
- 8Platt Amendmentseven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War
- 9Guantanamo BayUS Naval Base located in Cuba
- 10Emiliano Aguinaldofirst Filipino President; led his country to achieve independence after fighting off both the Spanish and the Americans
- 11Open Door Policypolicy of promoting equal opportunity for international trade and commerce
- 12Boxer Rebelliona Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence
- 13Central Powersconsisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria; and Italy who switched joining in 1915
- 14Allied Powersthe French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire; and Italy who switched moving in 1915
- 15Isolationisma policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries
- 16Woodrow Wilsonfamously known for his 14 points speech about what plans should be taken after the war
- 17Zimmerman TelegramGerman telegram to Mexico stating if they fought the US they would give them back the land the US took; British gave to US so we would declare war
- 18Lusitaniaa British passenger ocean liner; sunk by Germans during the submarine warfare
- 19Attritionthe action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure
- 20Selective Service Act"the Draft" ; authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people
- 21Defermentthe action or fact of putting something off to a later time; postponement
- 22Espionage Act20 years imprisonment / 10,000 dollar fine to convey false reports or statements that interfere with US
- 23Sedition Acttargeted political left leaders or anyone opposing the US entering the war; no disloyalty or abusive language towards gov.
- 24Fourteen PointsWoodrow Wilsons speech on what needs to be done after the war
- 25armisticea formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting; not necessarily the end of a war; may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace
- 26Treaty of Versaillesthe "Big Four" gathered on June 28 1919 to sign an agreement between the Central and Allied Powers to end WW1
- 27League of NationsWilsons 14th point; idea that majority rule will allow an attack on one to be an attack on all; an intergovernmental organisation
- 28prohibitiona nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
- 2918th Amendmentamendment to the constitution that established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the US by declaring that its illegal to production, transport, and sell alcohol
- 30suffrageright to vote is political elections
- 3119th Amendmentamendment to the constitution that guarantees all women the right to vote
- 32Sacco and Vanzettitwo Italian-Americans men convicted of robbery and murder; arguments against them were mostly disproven in court; the two men were known radicals; prejudiced from the judge and jury; final appeal was rejected; both sentenced to death
- 33Ku Klux Clanmembers waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders; the organizations primary goal was to reestablish the white supremacy
- 34Scopes Triala substitute high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school; said to be staged
- 35Great Migrationthe movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970
- 36Harlem Renaissancename given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place at the end of WW1; during this period it was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars
- 37Langston Hughesan American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri; he was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry
- 38Claude McKaya Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance
- 39Bessie Smithan American blues singer; nicknamed The Empress of the Blues; was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s
- 40Bluesa genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the "Deep South" of the US around the end of the 19th century; about the struggles; much slower; sad; one instrument
- 41Jazza genre of music that originated in African American communities in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century; more upbeat; more than one instrument
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