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- England had a tradition of establishing a _________ in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct governement
- The ______ was a movement that began in Europe in the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could help improve society
- England operated under the economic system of _________, where a country's wealth and power is gained by controlling trade and building its supplies of gold and silver
- In 1689, Parliament proposed the __________ which stated that citizens had a number of rights that cannot be removed by a monarchy
- According to the ______, British colonists were banned from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
- the democratic ideas, practices, and values that form a truly free society are called
- At the end of the ______, France was forced to leave North America and England took control of Canada but was left with huge war debt
- Cheif________, of the Ottowa people, led confedration of Native Americans on multiple attacks against Ft. Detroit and other locations
- The __________ was the most powerful group of Native Americans, but they refused to sign any treaty with any foreign group
- Colonial delegates met in New York to discuss Benjamin Franklin's __________, which proposed a united colonial government
- The Great White Fleet was a squadron of battleships sent around the world in 1907-1909 byGrover Cleveland.Woodrow Wilson.William McKinley.Theodore Roosevelt.William Howard Taft.
- The "gentlemen's agreement" was anUnderstanding between Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan on the regulation of the trusts.Agreement between Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan over the formulation of foreign policy.Arrangement in which Japan agreed to end the emigration of Japanese laborers to the United States.Attempt on the part of Woodrow Wilson to teach Mexico to behave properly.Agreement between the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany on the territorial integrity of China.
- The 1918 Influenza PandemicBegan as an avian flu in Asia.Originated in China.Struck infants and the elderly particularly hard.Killed as many as 50 to 100 million people worldwide.Was kept out of the U.S. by stringent government health regulations.
- What tied the United States to the Allies even before it entered war in 1917?A pledge to support only democracies in wartime.An agreement with the British exchanging bases for destroyers.An alliance with the French guaranteeing French colonial possessions.Significant economic and cultural ties.Membership in the League of Nations.
- What was the main issue in the 1916 presidential elections?Progressive reform.The war in Europe.Corruption in the executive branch.The marital infidelity of Charles Evans Hughes.Philippine independence.
- The Fourteen Points wereThe Creel Committee's guidelines for censorship.David Lloyd George's plan for reconstructing the British Empire.Woodrow Wilson's statement of American war aims.Herbert Hoover's guidelines for conserving food.The Russian Bolsheviks' conditions for not revealing the secret treaties made prior to 1914.
- Which of the following is not true about the American economy during World War I?Prices and wages rose.Cigarette consumption more than tripled.Factory production increased by one-third.Agricultural prices more than doubledThe civilian work force contracted as Americans joined the armed forces.
- In response to the sinking of the Lusitania, the United StatesAnnounced its intention to go to war to defend its rights as a neutral country.Agreed to stop trading with any belligerent.Declared war on Germany.Cautioned Americans against traveling on British or French vessels.Demanded that Germany cease unrestricted submarine warfare.
- The Creel Committee on Public InformationWas established by Woodrow Wilson to ensure that the American people had access to the full truth about the war.Was a propaganda agency secretly sponsored by the German foreign ministry.Attempted to turn public opinion against immigrants by painting them as agents of foreign revolution.Worked to drum up support for the election of Republican presidential candidate George Creel.Used propaganda to spread the U.S. government's official version of the war.
- Which of the following descriptions best describes the American army when the United States entered World War I?It was staffed with recruits and draftees drawn only from young men with the highest IQs.It was woefully unprepared, with little combat experience and an aging officer corps.It was staffed mainly with green draftees.It was at its peak of fighting form after a year-long preparedness campaign.It was almost non-existent because of the pacifist tendencies of the Wilson Administration.