Unit 5 Take Home Exam Essays

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Isabella Branham
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Unit 5 Take Home Exam Identifications:

“Muckrakers” is a phrase coined by President Teddy Roosevelt to refer to the writers who specialized in tales about the schemes in politics and industry. Magazines grow in popularity thanks to the muckraking of Ida Tarbell.
They were important to the movement because through their pieces, they were able to bring about reform

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amendment enabled the direct election of senators.
It is important because it allowed the people of each state to choose who would represent their state in the U.S. Senate instead of state legislators choosing who would represent their state and it also provides a way for the states to fill a senate seat that became vacant in the middle of a term.

The
Zimmerman Note was a telegram from German Foreign Minister to German Ambassador in
Mexico that was intercepted by British agents. The message proposed alliance between Germany and Mexico and promised if war broke out between Germany and the U.S., Germany would support Mexico in recovering lost territory in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. This was important since it pushed the US resolve closer to going to war with Germany and her allies in WWI. The
Lusitania sinking thereafter was last straw for the United States

During the
Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks overthrew Czarist regime in Russia. Russian troops attempted to push through German defense lines into France return home to oppose revolution
◦Russia would be taken over by the Communists shortly after the Great War ends

Yellow journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers; popularized in the late nineteenth century by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph
Hearst.

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