American Imperialism
This conflict saw the U.S. seize control of the territories of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.
What was the Spanish-American War?
This annual sporting event, first played in 1903, decides the champion of Major League Baseball.
What is the World Series?
The sinking of this British passenger ship is often thought of as a major contributing factor to the U.S. joining World War One.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
What is the Ford Model-T?
This is Mr. Schlesselman's first name.
What is "Conner?"
This armed conflict saw the U.S. gain control over the modern states of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.
What was the Mexican-American War?
This septuple homicide in Prohibition-era Chicago was sparked by Al Capone's attempt to exert control over the city's criminal underworld.
What was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
This U.S. President preached a policy of non-involvement and neutrality for Americans in the early years of World War One.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This major financial disaster spelled the end for the Roaring 20's and signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
These are the Jordans and colorway that are on Mr. Schlesselman's feet right now.
What are Jordan 1 "Bred"?
This overseas conflict was the first that the United States involved itself in after the American Revolution.
What were the Barbary Wars?
This Black Liberation organization, founded in 1919, sought to bring about racial justice in America by instigating socialist revolution.
What was the African Blood Brotherhood?
This organization, founded at the suggestion of the United States, sought to avoid further global conflict by encouraging diplomacy and cooperation after WWI.
What was the League of Nations?
This U.S. Treasury Secretary popularized cutting taxes for the wealthy as a means of generating more revenue for the federal government.
Who was Andrew Mellon?
This is the name of Mr. Schlesselman's fiancé.
What is Ryan Burkhardt?
This U.S. general ordered the killing of all male Philipinos over the age of ten and the depopulating of the Philippines into what he called, "A howling wilderness."
Who was Jacob H. Smith?
This African American boxer was the first to break the color barrier in a major American sport.
Who was Jack Johnson?
These early American feminists sought to gain women the right to vote.
Who were suffragists?/What was the Votes for Women Movement?
This famed Black scholar was referred to as the "Dean of the Harlem Renaissance."
Who was Alain Locke?
This is the age that Mr. Schlesselman just turned in April of this year.
What is 26?
This law guaranteed the United States ownership over Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba as well as the right to interfere in Cuban political and economic affairs.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This film's racist plot premise contributed to the rebirth and revitalization of the Ku Klux Klan.
What is Birth of a Nation?
At this battle, the U.S. Marine Corps successfully held off a much larger German force by utilizing long-range combat during World War One.
What was the Battle of Belleau Wood?
This famed Harlem Renaissance figure used a mixture of cultural anthropology, film, and writing to expose instances of racial injustice in the early 20th century.
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
This is the religious organization with which Mr. Schlesselman is an ordained minister.
What is the Satanic Temple?