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100

This president proclaimed that the purpose of the battleship Maine’s visit to Cuba was to protect and evacuate American citizens from the island.  

Who was McKinley? 

100

Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines became possessions of the United States under the provisions of this Treaty with Spain. 

What was the Treaty of Paris? 

100

This plan describe's the rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union.

What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

100

In this age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was political patronage.

What was the Gilded Age?

200

He displayed the disgusting working conditions of the meat packing industry

Upton Sinclair

200

This was Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference.

What was the League of Nations? 

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200

The purpose of these laws was to ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.

What are the black codes? 

200

Widespread anti-Chinese agitation in the West led to the passage of this act.

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? 

300

He promoted black economic self-help and development of skills in agriculture and the industrial trades, but did not challenge segregation directly.

Who was Booker T. Washington? 

300

This proposal included a reduction of armaments, the principle of national self-determination for subject peoples, and an international organization to guarantee collective security. (time period: WWI)

What are Wilson's Fourteen Points? 

300

This amendment guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves. 

What is the 14th? 

300

This elected official who caused widespread corruption was finally brought to a halt by the journalists’ exposés of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast. 

Boss Tweed

400

He demanded complete equality for African Americans and believed an intellectually gifted talented tenth of the black community should be given full and immediate access to mainstream American life.

Who was W.E.B. DuBois? 

400

This was essentially an argument to promote free trade and competition throughout all of China. 

What was the Open Door policy?

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400

They believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, “conquered provinces” that had to seek readmission on whatever economic and political terms Congress demanded.

Who are the Congressional Radical Republicans?

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400

This case upholding “separate but equal” public facilities in effect legalized the system of unequal representation between the races. 

What was Plessy v. Ferguson

500

Which country do we go to war with after the Spanish-American War? What president led the charge?

Phillipines & Roosevelt

500

This secret agreement that President Theodore Roosevelt worked out with the Japanese in 1907-1908 caused Japan to halt the flow of laborers to America in return for the repeal of a racist school decree by the San Francisco School Board.

What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement?

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500

Why was Johnson impeached?


Johnson's dismissal of this Secretary of War contrary to the Tenure of Office Act

500

This earlier political organization of the 1850s reflected Nativist and anti-immigrant attitudes. 

What was the Know Nothing party? 

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