U.S. History Mid-Term

A quota system is a system that admits as many immigrants from various countries that want to emigrate.

According to the Selective Service Act, men were NOT require to register for the draft.

Speakeasies were meeting places where people could receive treatment for alcoholism.

Name given to a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture.

This poet wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints?

This term refers to the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means?

Name given to on of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920's?

Name given to the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions?

In his book A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway criticized the glorification of war.

Fundamentalism is a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true.

This term refers to an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase?

This term refers to the large-scale migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in the early 20th century?

De jure segregation refers to separation by law.

According to the Roosevelt Corollary, the United States claimed the right to protect its economic interests my means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations.

Under the leadership of this secretary of the NAACP, the organization fought for legislation to protect African-American rights?

Name given to an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property?

The Open door Notes were messages sent by Secretary John Jay to Germany, Great Britain, France and Russia that permitted the United States to trade in China.

She became the highest paid black artist in the world

This term refers to a devotion to the interests and culture of one's own nation?

A double standard is a set of principles that grants the same standard of freedom to women as it does to men.

This term refers to opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries?

Name given to a rebellion in which members of a Chinese secret society sought to free their country from Western influence

Name the U.S. policy of using the nation's economic power to exert influence over other countries?

Name given to the protection of merchant ships from U-boats by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships?

Prohibition refers to the Eighteenth Amendment which permitted the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

He was a jazz pianist and composer who led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club?

He made the first solo flight across the Atlantic?

The Central Powers were made up of France, Great Britain, and the United States.

Marcus Garvey believed that African Americans should build a separate society.

Nativism refers to favoring the interests of foreign born people over native-born people.

The War Guilt Clause was a provision in the Treaty of Versailles by which Austria-Hungry acknowledged that it alone was responsible for World War I.

The Platt Amendment gave the United States the Right to intervene in the affairs of Cuba.

An Anarchist opposes all forms of government.

De facto segregation refers to segregation by law.

The Espionage and Sedition Acts permitted individuals to speak out against the American Government.

This one-time son of a slave appeared in Othello and his performance was widely acclaimed?

Name given to military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified trenches rather than put them on an open battlefield?

He coined the term "Jazz Age?"

Name given to a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power?

The rough riders were a voluntary cavalry regiment that served in World War I.

She wrote folktales about black life in a small Florida town?

Name given to a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the United States entered World War I.

Bootlegger was a name given to a person who smuggled beverages into the United States during Prohibition.

Name the author who wrote "A Farewell to Arms."

This term refers to the compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war?

Name given to the principles making up President Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace during World War I?

Which Nobel prize winner wrote Babbitt? This novel ridiculed Americans for their conformity and materialism?

Name the 1925 court case in which biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.

Which artist produced colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York

Propaganda is an open form of communication that is not designed to influence people's thoughts and actions.