https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9 Vocal Definitions en-us 2016-10-26 23:05:51 UTC 2025-11-24 13:35:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hearts.png hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133494825 Imperialism is a system where a powerful nation controls and exploits one or more colonies. World War I the world’s largest, richest and most dominant imperial power was Great Britain. 1914 nearly all colonial disputes between Germany and Britain had been solved. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133494825 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495042 Protectorate is a state that is controlled and protected by another. Many colonies and territories of the losing side of WWI became League of Nations protectorates as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.]]> 2016-10-26 23:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495042 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495082 The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century. They comprised people from Germanic Tribes who migrated to the island from continental Europe, they adopted some aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and language.]]> 2016-10-26 23:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495082 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495173 In 1898, a letter was written by a Spanish Ambassador to the US, that was intercepted by a Cuban Agent and leaked to the newspapers, creating that Yellow Journalism. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495173 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495193 Sphere of Influence in 1910, established in China, that people were guaranteed specific trading privileges to each nation within its respective sphere.]]> 2016-10-26 23:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495193 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495215 The Boxer Rebellion was taken place in 1900, China attacked foreign embassies, two hundred men were killed and many countries intervened and sent troops to shut down the rebellion. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495215 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495242 The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 1900's. It was to give all nations equal rights when trading with China]]> 2016-10-26 23:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495242 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495264 The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States in 1904. Threw the corollary it ended that it had little to do with relations between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it did serve as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.]]> 2016-10-26 23:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495264 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495287 Guerrilla was a type of warfare fought by irregulars against orthodox military and police forces. In 1814 the Spanish and Portuguese irregulars helped get the French away from the Iberian Peninsula. They used military tactics including ambushes, raids, and hit-and-run tactics. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495287 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495303 The "Muckrakers" name given to US journalists and writers who exposed corruption in politics and business in the early 20th century. The term was first used by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. One of these journalists or "muckrakers" was Upton Sinclair, who published The Jungle in 1905 to expose labor abuses in the meat packing industry. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495303 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495322 The direct primary was a state reform measure by which voters themselves had the power to choose which political candidates would run for office. In 1905 LaFollette believed the direct primary would bring a larger number of ordinary people into politics, thereby making the country more democratic.]]> 2016-10-26 23:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495322 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495345 Initiative is a process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. The first state to adopt the initiative was South Dakota in 1898.]]> 2016-10-26 23:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495345 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495406 A Referendum is a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. Australian voters were asked in October 1916, and again in December 1917, to vote on the issue of conscription. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495406 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495426 Recall is a procedure that allows citizens to remove and replace a public official before the end of a term of office.  The recall of a state official is by an election. In the progressive era a recall of a public officer was added to the Nevada Constitution in 1912. By circulating a petition and qualifying for the ballot, voters can remove any elected official except a United States Senator or Representative in Congress. Between 1993 and 2004, 108 notices of recall were filed with the secretary of state.

]]> 2016-10-26 23:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495426 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495511 Arbitration is a process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator in order to resolve a dispute. Austria and Hungary in 1923 made an agreement to peace in Central Europe 


]]> 2016-10-26 23:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495511 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495522 Upton Sinclair is a American writer who wrote "The Jungle" in 1906 to expose the harsh working conditions in the meat-packing industry.  His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.]]> 2016-10-26 23:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495522 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495535 Income tax is tax that is imposed on individuals that varies with the profits of the taxpayer. Income tax grew much during World War 1. In 1913, forms of taxation were becoming unfeasible. Many tariffs had restrict global trade. So with Income tax it provided monetary support for the Government to operate with.]]> 2016-10-26 23:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495535 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495547 The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that established the central banking system of the United States, and which created the U.S. dollar in 1913.]]> 2016-10-26 23:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495547 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495585 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in other words NAACP.  Starting in 1909,  it was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racism.]]> 2016-10-26 23:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495585 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495644 Militarism symbolized a rise in military expenditure, an increase in military and naval forces, more to influence the military men upon the policies of the civilian government. Militarism was one of the main causes of the First World War. When the First World War was fought, it was to be fought by all powers because they had made the military plan to be cooperative.]]> 2016-10-26 23:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495644 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495661 Nationalism is a form of patriotism and loyalty to one’s country, which in 1914 the Slavic nationalism believed that Europe should have their own nation, had inspired the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo an event that led directly to the outbreak of World War I.]]> 2016-10-26 23:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495661 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495668 During World War 1, Propaganda was any type of material used in hopes of influencing a community’s thoughts and viewpoints towards one subject. Many different types of propaganda were used in World War I successfully since people only received the information that the government wanted them to know. It twisted the truth and allowed for governmental control of people’s thoughts and viewpoints towards the war. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495668 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495681 Zimmermann Telegram was an communication issued from the German Foreign Office in 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.]]> 2016-10-26 23:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495681 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495696 Established in 1917, during World War I, to organize the purchase of warsupplies. The War Industries Board had encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products.]]> 2016-10-26 23:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495696 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495728 The Espionage Act, passed in 1917, it provided penalties of 20 years imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for those convicted of interfering with military recruitment, basically making it a crime for any person that conveys information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces with promoting the success of the country’s enemies. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495728 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495760 The U.S Congress passed the Selective Service Act on May 18, 1917, giving the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers which also appeared to be a few weeks after entering the First World War. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495760 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495775 During 1918, the British celebrated the agreement of a armistice that meant the end of the war against the Germans. Many soldiers believed the Armistice was only a temporary measure and that the war would soon go on but peace was granted. ]]> 2016-10-26 23:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495775 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495811 Signed on June 28, 1919 was the peace treaties, which at the end of World War I it had ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.]]> 2016-10-26 23:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495811 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495839 On January 8, 1918, a outline of the statement of principles for world peace was established. It was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I by President Woodrow Wilson.]]> 2016-10-26 23:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495839 hero703a https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495846 In the early 1950's, Communists gave a threat hysteria that had ranged to actions that had a enduring effect on U.S. government and all of society. Federal employees were studied to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government known as the Red Scare.]]> 2016-10-26 23:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hero703a/8hq1ynj32ac9/wish/133495846