Across
- 6. was the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Midwestern cities between 1910 and 1930 for jobs and to escape racism.
- 9. like Jane Addams’ Hull House, were community centers in poor urban neighborhoods that provided social services, education, and support to immigrants and the working class.
- 10. is a policy in which a stronger nation takes control of weaker territories for economic, political, or military gain.
- 12. was a period from the 1890s to the 1920s when reformers worked to fix social, political, and economic problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
- 14. was the 1919 peace treaty that officially ended World War I, punishing Germany with territory losses, military limits, and reparations.
- 16. was a British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915, killing many civilians and increasing U.S. anger toward Germany before World War I.
Down
- 1. was an international organization created after World War I to help countries resolve disputes peacefully and prevent future wars.
- 2. was President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 proposal for a just peace after World War I, including ideas like self-determination and the creation of an international peace organization.
- 3. are payments made by a defeated country to compensate for damage and costs caused during a war.
- 4. was President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy of negotiating peacefully while using the threat of a strong military to influence other countries.
- 5. was a violent uprising in China (1899–1901) by a group known as the “Boxers” who aimed to expel foreign influence and missionaries.
- 7. was a conflict in 1898 between the United States and Spain, resulting in the U.S. gaining territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
- 8. was a secret message from Germany to Mexico in 1917, proposing an alliance against the United States; its discovery helped push the U.S. into World War I.
- 11. was a style of sensational and exaggerated reporting used to attract readers and influence public opinion, especially before the Spanish-American War.
- 13. is a man-made waterway in Central America, completed in 1914, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to shorten shipping routes.
- 14. was a type of fighting in World War I where soldiers lived and fought from long, dug-out trenches facing each other across “no man’s land.”
- 15. was a U.S. policy that called for equal trading rights in China and the protection of its territorial integrity.