America in the 1900s
This was responsible for about one-third of the US population in 1900
What is Immigration?
This man became America's 26th President.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
With only 3 months of formal schooling, this businessman went on to invent the motion picture camera, the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This passage took immense planning, science, and technology, and became invaluable to world exploration, travel, and trade.
What is the Panama Canal?
Roosevelt's Square Deal consisted of these goals or "3 Cs".
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What are Consumer protection, Corporate regulation, and Conservationism?
One of the 5 largest populated cities in 1990. This one was home to 3.4 million people.
What is New York City?
Roosevelt organized this calvary unit which fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
What is the Rough Riders?
Teacher of the deaf, this inventor was fascinated in the transmission of sound along wires. His invention truly changed the world.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This French diplomat led the building of the Suez Canal between Egypt and the Suez peninsula. Overconfident and unprepared, his mission to build the Panama Canal failed.
Who is De Lesseps?
DAILY DOUBLE
In 1912, this supposed unsinkable cruise ship did the unthinkable.
What is the Titanic?
Life expectancy for the average American in 1900.
What is 47 years?
Theodore Roosevelt promised this "deal" for every American.
What is The Square Deal?
Ford, Olds, General Motors, Chevrolet, Dodge, and Studebaker all produced this mode of transportation, the automobile. Otherwise known as...?
What are horseless carriages?
DAILY DOUBLE
The Panama Canal separates these 2 bodies of water.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean?
T. Roosevelts well known slogan.
What is, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
These two industries had explosive growth due to the manufacturing of automobiles.
What are oil and steel?
Roosevelt received this prestigious prize for negotiating a treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
On December 17, 1903, these brothers built the first flying machine in their bicycle shop.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This is the number of people who died in America's 10 years of working on the Panama Canal.
What is 5600?
Upton Sinclair's shocking novel that described unsanitary practices in the meat packing industry.
What is, "The Jungle".
The linotype machine and improved printing press greatly increased the growth and circulation of these.
What are newspapers and magazines?
A US foreign policy established by T.R. that let Latin American countries know that the US would intervene to maintain peace and stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This fellow won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1909 for invention which enabled the broadcast of voice and music.
Who is G. Marconi?
The P.C., known as a great engineering marvel, represented America's emergence as a world power. The cost was a total of how much $$$.
What is $375 million?
In 1907, this machine was developed to measure radioactivity.
What is, the Geiger counter?