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100
This epidemic swept the world in 1918, killing more people than WWI.
What is the Spanish Influenza
100
This theory of physics, formulated by Max Planck, suggests matter can be in two places at once.
What is Quantum?
100
This school of art attempted to depict the real lives of people in New York and other cities.
What is Ashcan?
100
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed terrible working conditions in Chicago meat-packing plants.
What is The Jungle?
100
This Native American athlete broke many records at the 1912 Olympic Games.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
200
The sinking of this British ship influenced the US to enter WWI.
What is the Lusitania?
200
The brothers who invented the airplane used to build these.
What are bicycles?
200
This cartoon introduced the world to Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
What is Steamboat Willie?
200
The 16th Amendment introduced this tax.
What is Income tax?
200
This pilot made a famous crossing of the Atlantic in an airplane in 1927.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
300
The US helped Panama gain their independence from Colombia in exchange for this.
What is the Panama Canal Zone?
300
Einstein's theory that included the idea that time passed at different speeds for different observers.
What is Relativity?
300
This film was the first full-length blockbuster to use synchronized sound.
What is The Jazz Singer?
300
The 18th amendment began this era in American history.
What is Prohibition?
300
This poet captured the horrors of WWI, but died just days before the war ended.
Who is Wilfred Owen?
400
American corporations had this general use the American military to protect their business interests in foreign countries.
Who is Smedley Butler?
400
This scientist invented the liquid fueled rocket.
Who is Robert Goddard?
400
This musical work by Gershwin was the start of Symphonic Jazz.
What is Rhapsody in Blue?
400
This blockbuster 1915 film depicted the KKK as heroes.
What is Birth of a Nation?
400
This artist is famous for her large paintings of flowers.
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
500
This word means to add new land or territory to your own.
What is annex?
500
The opening of this oil well is considered the to mark the start of the Age of Petroleum.
What is Spindletop?
500
This play by Eugene O'Neill includes characters sharing their private thoughts with the audience.
What is Strange Interlude?
500
This book by Edith Wharton tried to show how proper American society was hiding a darkness beneath its surface.
What is The Age of Innocence?
500
This poet was the most famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
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