Midterm Review Game RULES Two TeamsTeam with most

Midterm Review Game

RULES • Two Teams-Team with most points wins • Question posed to a team. No Talking. No discussing (violations means team loses a point). • All members of team that has the floor stand up who think they know the answer. • Member of opposing team gets to decide who answers

RULES CONTINUED • In deciding who gets to answer, make sure there is no ambiguity in who you want. • Answering team: DO NOT ANSWER UNTIL I CALL ON YOU. • If you answer correctly your team gets 1 point. If you answer incorrectly your team loses 1 point. If nobody answers, your team loses 1 point • If your team answers wrong, the question automatically goes to the other team for 2 points if answered correctly with no penalty for wrong answers. Stand up if you think you know it. No discussing no talking. Previous team gets to choose who answers. • No ½ points are given. Correct and wrong answers will be at my discretion solely.

• Who was the most influential person of the settlement house movement and founded Chicago’s Hull House? • Jane Addams

• What “muckraker”wrote The History of Standard Oil (1904) and revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices & called for the break-up of large monopolies? • Ida Tarbell

• Who were the “muckrakers”? • journalists who exposed problems like poverty, corruption, monopolization

• What was the name of Upton Sinclair’s book that revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses & led to gov’t regulation of food industries ? • The Jungle

• What court case ruling said that it was ok to segregate as long as races had equal access to equal facilities? (separate but equal) • Plessy v. Ferguson

• Southern states passed segregation laws known as _______ laws to separate black and white people in public and private facilities. It was called this because of a popular old minstrel song. • Jim Crow Laws

• What “Association” did W. E. B. Du. Bois help found that filed lawsuits to fight segregation and voting laws? • NAACP ( Dubois called for immediate integration of African Americans)

• ________ was a Cuban journalist in exile in New York organized 2 nd Revolution in guerrilla style, destroying property including sugar plantations. • Jose Marti

• U. S. journalists printed exaggerated accounts of Weyler’s brutality. Ex: Poisoned water wells, and children being thrown to sharks in a style of sensational writing known as _____. • Yellow Journalism (Ex: You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war)

• What battleship did President Mc. Kinley order to go to Cuba to bring home American citizens and protect American property, but it (the ship) blew up in the Havana harbor-260 men were killed. • U. S. S. Maine

• The Spanish-American War (“the splendid little war”) was the most popular war since the American Revolution and lasted only 113 days, with 5, 500 deaths (only 379 died in battle). It ended in what treaty? • Treaty of Paris of 1898

• TR helped organize Panamanian rebellion against Colombia and sent U. S. warships in order to convince Colombia to allow him to build what? • The Panama Canal

• 1900 Cuba wrote constitution and America insisted it add the ______ Amendment – Cuba cannot make treaties to limit independence or allow any country to control any part of it – U. S. reserved right to intervene – Cuba could not go into debt that was unrepayable – U. S. could buy land for naval stations – Platt Amendment

• In February 1899 Emilio Aguinaldo led a revolt in the Philippine Islands against the U. S. What was the response of U. S. soldiers to his guerrilla tactics? • Forced Filipinos to live in designated zones where poor sanitation, disease and starvation killed thousands.

• TR (“speak softly and carry a big stick”) warned that disorder in Latin America might force the U. S. to the exercise of international police power and protect its economic interest in what came to be known as…? • Roosevelt Corollary

• What British sea cruise liner was sunk by a German U-boat and sparked outrage by America and her allies before American entrance into WWI? • Lusitania

• What, according to most historians were the main causes of WWI? • Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliances

• What military alliance during WWI consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire? • Central Powers

• The _______ was intercepted and decoded by the British which revealed a suggestion of a secret alliance between Germany and Mexico? • The Zimmerman Note

• What was America’s foreign policy before WWI and WWII? • Isolationism (Neutrality)

• Who was assassinated in Bosnia to trigger WWI? • Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• What was Woodrow Wilson’s plan to create a lasting peace in Europe that he proposed in Versailles that involved all countries’ right to self-determination? • “Fourteen Points”

• What Treaty ended WWI? • Treaty of Versailles

• What were the 18 th, 19 th, and 21 st Amendments to the constitution? • 18 th Prohibition, 19 th Women opportunity to vote, 21 st repealed Prohibition

• The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay war reparations, which had a devastating effect on Germany’s economy. However, what outraged most nationalist Germans was the clause that forced Germany to take full responsibility for WWI called…? • War-guilt clause

• Communism was perceived by many Americans to be a threat to American life. Communist parties formed in America during the 1920’s and struck fear after dozens of bombs were mailed to government and business leaders. What was this known as? • The Red Scare

• What reasons did U. S. Senators give for opposing the U. S. involvement in the League of Nations? • It would drag the U. S. into European conflicts

• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ere charged and convicted of what? • Robbery and murder (they were executed and it sparked riots and protests around the world)

• What were some of the causes of the Great Depression of the 1930’s? • Overproduction & under-consumption, disparity in wealth, over-speculation in stock market, buying stocks on margin (also European dependence on American investment led to World-wide Depression

• Louis Armstrong (Jazz Musician) and Langston Hughes (poet/author) were both part of an important art/cultural movement for African. Americans in the 1920 s? What was the movement called? • The Harlem Renaissance

• What media forum did FDR use to speak directly to the American people about national policy? • Radio in the “fireside chats”

• WPA, CCC, FDIC, SEC, TVA, were all part of FDRs three-part economic program of relief, recovery, and reform called what? • The New Deal

• FDR declared a national bank holiday along with 15 other major laws in a few short months in coming into office called …? • The First Hundred Days

• Who was FDR’s women’s and minorities’ rights activist wife? • Eleanor Roosevelt

• What were the shantytown’s nicknamed during the Great Depression? • “Hoovervilles”

• What was FDR’s plan to reform the Supreme Court by expanding the number of justices from 9 to 15, (to tip the balance in favor of friendly “New Deal” judges) but was voted down in Congress? • Court-packing plan