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History Alive! Chapter 23 Study Guide

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Study Guide for Chapter 23 The Course and Conduct of World War I Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Selective Service Act American Expeditionary Force 369th Regiment convoy system Meuse-Argonne Offensive Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions. 1. How did the United States recruit and train the thousands of soldiers needed to make a difference in the war? 2. What role did General Pershing insist the American forces play in the war? Why? 3. Explain how new methods of warfare and new weapons resulted from specific needs on the battlefield. 4. Analyze why the Meuse-Argonne Offensive marked a turning point in the war.

APUSH CH 14 Western expansion and market economy

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Westward Expansion, Pioneers Development of American Character and Culture TLO: American and National Identity Westward Expansion -Manifest Destiny - Annexation of Texas -Mexican-American War (Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty) Government Role Gov helped facilitate western expansion thru funding of infrastructure that connected unsettled west to the eastern side of the country -American System (although it didn?t actually do it, state governments eventually did the job of creating better infrastructure (roads etc) that the american system was partially intended for) Opportunity! The opportunities provided by the west produced incentives for more westward migration Livestock farming thrived thanks to bluegrass Fur trapping was rewarding for the first few decades

Chapter 21 outline out of many

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Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era (1900-1917) American Communities Lillian Wald was a girl with a good upbringing who moved to NY to become a nurse Wald and Mary Brewster worked as visiting nurses Professional care at home for 10 to 25 cents, info on health care, sanitation, and disease prevention 1895 ? philanthropist Jacob Smith donated house on Henry Street Settlement @ Lower East Side Henry Street Settlement became example for new kind of reform community based on college level women Unlike other moral reformers, they lived alongside the poor and worked from the inside Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Florence Kelly Henry Street Settlement survived by donations from wealthy NYers

APUSH CH.31 TEST

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CHAPTER 31 American Life in the ?Roaring Twenties,? 1919-1929 IV. SINGLE-ANSWER MULTIPLE CHOICE. Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 1. The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by a. the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities. b. the strict enforcement of prohibition laws. c. evolutionary science?s challenge to the biblical story of the Creation. d. the public?s association of labor violence with its fear of revolution. e. the threat created by the Communist Revolution in Russia. 2. Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except a. denounce ?radical? foreign ideas. b. condemn ?un-American? life-styles. c. enter a decade of economic difficulties.

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1. Alexander Hamilton?s economic program was designed primarily to (A) prepare the United States for war in the event Britain failed to vacate its posts in the Northwest (B) provide a platform for the fledgling Federalist Party?s 1792 campaign (C) establish the financial stability and credit of the new government (D) ensure northern dominance over the southern states in order to abolish slavery (E) win broad political support for his own candidacy for the presidency in 1792 2. The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of ?separate spheres? for the sexes encouraged all of the following EXCEPT (A) acceptance of a woman as the intellectual equal of a man (B) idealization of the ?lady? (C) designation of the home as the appropriate place for a woman
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