American State of Mind
You Can't Handle the Rights
From Sea to Shining Sea
Words of War
The Eras Tour
Living in America
In $ We Trust
We the People
200
This 19th-century belief held that the United States had a God-given duty to expand westward to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are collectively known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
In 1898, the United States annexed this Pacific island kingdom after overthrowing Queen Liliʻuokalani.
What is Hawaii?
200
The belief that the U.S. should avoid entanglement in foreign alliances or wars.
What is Isolationism?
200
This reform era (roughly 1890–1920) aimed to make government more efficient and society more just.
What was the Progressive Era?
200
Between 1880 and 1920, millions arrived from Europe and Asia in this massive population movement.
What is immigration?
200
Workers formed these organizations to bargain collectively for better wages and conditions.
What are unions?
200
Known for “trust-busting” and his “Square Deal,” this energetic president also mediated the 1902 Coal Strike.
5X BONUS: What was the name of his volunteer brigade that went to fight in the Spanish American War?
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The Rough Riders
400
This 19th & early 20th Century American belief argued that it was the duty of “civilized” nations to bring culture to “lesser” peoples.
5X BONUS: Who wrote the poem that this belief was formed from?
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
BONUS: Who is Rudyard Kipling?
400
This Reconstruction-era amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law and defined citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Completed in 1914, this engineering marvel connected the Atlantic and Pacific and symbolized U.S. global power.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
A nation’s use of military force or coercion to achieve foreign-policy goals.
2X BONUS: What did Teddy Roosevelt call this style of global power?
What is hard power?
BONUS: Big Stick Policy
400
This late 1800's era was marked by rapid industrial growth, economic inequality, and political corruption.
5X BONUS: What famous American Author coined the "shiny" name for this Era?
What was the Gilded Age?
BONUS: Mark Twain
400
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
5X BONUS: The name for these laws were based on what form of racist 19th Century entertainment?
What were Jim Crow laws?
BONUS: Minstrel Shows
400
A company that completely dominates an industry, limiting competition, is called this.
What is a monopoly?
400
This oil tycoon built Standard Oil into a monopoly before antitrust laws broke it apart.
3X BONUS: This person pioneered an early form of corporate legal structure called this.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
BONUS: Trust
600
This 1800s and early 1900's belief held that Native Americans and those living in conquered territories need to have their cultures erased and replaced with "Anglo-Saxon" principles.
What is Assimilation?
600
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal,” legalizing segregation.
5X BONUS: What was the name of the only Supreme Court Justice to dissent in this case?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
BONUS: Who is John Marshall Harlan?
600
A brutal conflict (1899-1902) followed when the U.S. refused to grant independence to this former Spanish colony.
What was the Philippine-American War?
600
The use of diplomacy, culture, or economics rather than force to influence others.
3X BONUS: What did William Taft call this style of global power?
What is soft power?
BONUS: Dollar Diplomacy
600
Following the Spanish-American War, this era saw the United States expand its influence overseas, acquiring territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Imperial Era?
600
Upton Sinclair’s 1906 gut-turning novel about the meat-packing industry led to new food-safety laws.
What is The Jungle?
600
This 19th century business strategy, made famous by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, relied on the acquisition, through buyout or coercion, of other businesses in the same industry.
What is Horizontal Integration?
600
This photojournalist exposed tenement life in How the Other Half Lives.
Who was Jacob Riis?
800
This theory applied Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection to human society, justifying inequality and imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
800
Ratified in 1920, this amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
800
This war with a major European nation was waged after exaggerated public outrage against a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, starting after a US battleship was "mysteriously" sunk outside Havana.
3X BONUS: What was the name of the ship?
What was the Spanish-American War?
BONUS: The USS Maine
800
Sensationalized journalism during the late 1800s and early 1900's that exaggerated events to sell papers, ultimately leading to outrage that led to War.
5X BONUS: What was the name of the creepy cartoon character that this journalism was named for?
What is yellow journalism?
BONUS: The Yellow Kid
800
This Post Civil War Era saw former Confederate States divided into Military Districts while the Federal Government enforced newly earned rights for newly freed black Americans, leading to a rise in economic and political participation.
What is Reconstruction?
800
These political party organizations were traded favors for votes in growing cities, and were the focal point of reforms against corruption.
5X BONUS: Reforms against this system led to an "innovation" in voting called what.
What were political machines?
BONUS: What is the "Australian Ballot"
800
The Gilded Era saw the rise of this business strategy, which relies on acquiring all elements of a supply chain, from distribution, to sales, to manufacturing, in order to obtain perfect business efficiency.
What is Vertical Integration?
800
Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor and best friend; He Pioneered the use of American finance to promote US interests abroad.
2X BONUS: What custom "feature" needed to be installed in the White House to fit this persons size?
Who was William Howard Taft?
BONUS: Bathtubs
1000
This “hands-off” economic philosophy opposed government interference in business.
What is laissez-faire economics?
1000
These early-1900s Supreme Court rulings declared that people in U.S. territories did not automatically have full constitutional rights.
What were the Insular Cases? or What was Dorr v. US?
1000
This U.S. policy promoted the global expansion of American trade into China by dividing China up into zones with the cooperation of European Powers.
4X BONUS: This policy led to a Chinese rebellion known for its fighting style.
What was the Open Door Policy?
BONUS: Boxer Rebellion
1000
This attitude claimed that imperial powers should “protect” supposedly inferior peoples like a parent to a child.
4X BONUS: What important satire magazine was this cartoon published in?
What is paternalism?
1000
This Era in American history saw the end of post Civil War attempts to enforce rights in the South after the election and compromise of 1877, leading to the overthrow of many black politicians and the rise of racial violence and segregation.
3X BONUS: What violent and extremist organization regained power and popularity during this time?
What is Redemption?
BONUS: The KKK
1000
Investigative journalism during the Progressive Era that exposed corruption, unsafe working conditions, and social problems.
2X BONUS: Name one of the important journalists from this era.
10X Bonus: Name the most important investigative magazine during this era.
What is muckraking?
BONUS: Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis
BONUS: McClures Magazine
1000
Theodore Roosevelt used the Sherman Act to pursue this type of reform against giant corporations, breaking them into smaller companies that could be regulated.
3X BONUS: Name one contemporary Gas station that was once a part of Standard Oil.
What is anti-trust regulation?
BONUS: BP, Exxon Mobile, Chevron, Marathon
1000
This Black journalist and activist documented lynchings and fought for civil rights decades before the NAACP.
Who was Ida B. Wells?