Download US History Unit 7

US History Unit 7
Vocabulary
1. Extractive Economies
2. Alfred T. Mahan
3. Social Darwinism
4. Queen Liliokalani
5. Jose Marti
6. William Randolph Hearst
7. Yellow Press
8. George Dewey
9. Rough Riders
10. Treaty of Paris
11. William Howard Taft
12. spheres of influence
13. Boxer Rebellion
14. Open Door Policy
15. Russo-Japanese War
16. “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
17. Platt amendment
18. “big stick” diplomacy
19. Panama canal
20. Roosevelt Corollary
21. “dollar” diplomacy
22. “moral” diplomacy
23. Alsace-Lorraine
24. Francis Ferdinand
25. Kaiser William II
26. Western Front
27. contraband
28. U-Boats
29. Lusitania
30. Zimmerman note
31. Selective Service Act
32. conscientious objectors
33. Espionage Act
34. Great Migration
35. Vladimir Lenin
36. League of Nations
37. reparations
38. inflation
39. Warren G. Harding
40. creditor nation
41. Henry Ford
42. assembly lines
43. bull market
44. buying on margin
45. Herbert Hoover
46. Teapot Dome Scandal
47. Dawes Plan
48. Scopes Trial
49. Eighteenth Amendment
50. flapper
Questions
1. What factors influenced Americans to play a more active role in the world? (456)
2. Why did Americans object to Spanish actions in Cuba? (462)
3. Why did hostilities erupt in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War?
(469)
4. What were Roosevelt’s most important foreign policy initiatives in Latin
America? (477)
5. What was “moral diplomacy” (479)
6. How did nationalism and militarism both work to push Europe toward war? (488)
7. Why did both sides embrace trench warfare as a strategy to win the war? (490)
8. What German actions led the United States to enter World War I (495)
9. How did the United States ready its military, economic, and people for war? (498)
10. How did the war provide new opportunities for women, African Americans, and
Mexican Americans? (503)
11. How did American involvement help the Allies win World War I? (508)
12. Why did Wilson believe that a “peace without victory” would help avoid future
wars? (510)
13. How did the decisions at the Paris Peace Conference violate the Fourteen Points?
(511)
14. How did the economic-situation after the war lead to labor unrest? (517)
15. How did the rise of communism in the Soviet Union contribute to the Red Scare?
(518)