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- t or f: Uncivilized nations are any nation that is not industrialized
- Whose death was the trigger point for the war?A. Theodore RooseveltB. Franz FerdinandC.ZimmermanD. Abraham Lincoln
- t or f: the RMS knew it would be sunk if it was sailed
- A typical American WWI soldier was called a
- What transforms the Danish West Indies into the American Virgin Islands?
- What invited Mexico to join the German's side of the war with the promise of retunign land that was taken by the US
- _________________ nations were indistrialized, first world nations
- Who believed it was the job of civilized nations to watch over the uncivilized nations?A) Franz FerdinandB) Marshal FochC) Theodore RooseveltD) Friedrich Wilhelm II
- What did the German U-boats sink of 5/7/1915
- Which statement best describes a consequence of Reconstruction policies during the 1870s?Reconstruction-era policies successfully restored the economy in the South and gave African Americans new opportunities.Reconstruction-era policies often failed to protect African Americans from racial violence and safeguard their political rights.Reconstruction-era policies created ironclad laws that prohibited legal segregation, although illegal segregation often occurred.Reconstruction-era policies failed to establish any civil rights legislation, which would not be written until the 1960s.
- Wilson wants one thing in payment for sending his young troops in to die. What is it?
- The idea of the Panama Canal was to make a water passage between the Atlantic and the ________
- What was the Declaration of Independence? Why was it written? Who wrote it? What were some of the arguments in it for breaking away from Britain? What were the 3 rights all people should have declared in it? What did it hope to achieve? Where did Jefferson get his inspiration for some of the ideas expressed in the Declaration?
- Which of the following is exemplified in the image above?
- what advantages did the united states had in the mexican american war.
- Tension between the Texans and the government of Mexico was due to ____________ (map of Mexico)
- Which was the first state to cede (to break away) from the Union?
- Says that slaves are not free until they have the right to vote
- The Supreme Court ruling on the civil rights cases of 1883 led to the passage of legal protections for African Americans.led to unfair contracts between tenant farmers and landowners.opened the door for legal segregation and discrimination in the US.gave African Americans a legal basis for suing private businesses.
- One unintended effect of emancipation and Reconstruction on Southern society wasthe improved bond between the races.the prohibition of Jim Crow laws.the rising tensions between the races.the end of the sharecropping system.